anaheim-gazette 1935-04-18

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. ENGLAND "IN THE BLACK" When it comes to balancing budgets, and pointing the way out of depressions we must hand the prize to Great Britain. She is just as skillful in turning red to black on the books at home as she is in making black look like white at diplomatic conferences. Last year Great Britain had a treasury surplus of 31,000,000 pounds. This year, with the breaks against her, including some unsatisfactory financial transactions with Germany, and with a little larger tax collection than the year before, she still shows a surplus of seven and a half million pounds. The Boston Transcript very properly points out that this surplus just represents what John Bull owes us on account for repudiated debt obligations, but even if he had paid, and then broken even at home it would have been a pretty good financial record for 1934. If you don't believe it just look at our balance sheet. The noteworthy fact, of course, is that Great Britain has accomplished this feat under adverse conditions in a very unsettled Europe without the aid of New Deals, Brain Trusts or independent movements. She has stuck to time-tried methods and has found them effective. The Transcript does well to mention this "determined avoidance of extravagant projects of governmental expenditures and experiment" and adds that "from this latter conservatism the United States could learn a useful lesson" and continues: "Britain has been doing serious, sober work along well-established lines and on tried and tested principles, without any elaborate New Deal and certainly without giving ear to the outpourings of demagogues. American orators of this type, who pretend omniscience, seem to be recognized in Great Britain for just what they are; namely, men of ignorance." Now, right off to cases. Soil erosion there's no use of recommending revamp your rainy during the next do it, and I know farming to many family and the hatching to me. No man has a rite changes that will clothes from you and right or no with it — not it. Now, that's compton from your admitting that, stantly in min Britain has been doing serious, sober work along well-established lines and on tried and tested principles, without any elaborate New Deal and certainly without giving ear to the outpourings of demagogues. American orators of this type, who pretend omniscience, seem to be recognized in Great Britain for just what they are; namely, men of ignorance. We don't know who the wise, efficient "Mr. Britling" is who has brought about this budget balancing. But we do know one thing. If the League of Nations were a baseball league and we could get in for a few days and trade Tugwell, Wallace, Richberg and Hopkins to England for Britling, we could afford to throw in a catcher's mask and a first baseman's glove. The trouble of course is that John Bull is a lot better trader than Uncle Sam. He would probably succeed in giving us George Bernard Shaw for the Brooklyn Bridge. The modern automobile covers more ground than a horse but unfortunately it doesn't have as much sense as a horse—neither do a lot of automobile drivers for that matter. WE WILL STAY OUT There is of course no wonder that little if any favorite comment was elicited by M. Litvinoff's purported suggestion to Captain Anthony Eden, during their conference at Moscow, that the United States be invited to join in a five-power pact guaranteeing peace in the Orient. Uncle Sam, at this time, is entirely too wise to join any pacts which are apt to result in war rather than peace. We will join no entangling agreement either in the Orient or in Europe. Litvinoff's purpose is easy to understand. He is afraid that some time his nation will go to war with Japan over China. He claims that Japan wants to dominate China and Japan claims, with equal justice, that Russia would like to Sovietize China and make it a red state. If Uncle Sam should be hamstrung and placed in a Far East "peace" pact then it might be comparatively easy to make Japan the "aggressor" in any war which started and put Uncle Sam on the position of defending Soviet interests in the Far East. This would be doubly handy to the Reds because, in the case of war, Russia could then withdraw her best forces to face Poland and Germany, if necessary, and depend on Uncle Sam to furnish most of the forces in the Orient. If Litvinoff had any sense of humor he would "laugh himself to death" in making any "agreement" suggestion after the way the Soviet-American conference turned out in Washington. It will be remembered that Mr. Litvinoff was there and that in return for American recognition we were promised billions in Russian trade and the repayment of some very stale debts. In good faith, we recognized the Soviet government. But not a dollar has appeared on the debts and our trade with Russia has declined rather than increased. After that experience Mr. Litvinoff must at least have smiled behind his hand in making another suggestion for a pact with America. But having played rings around our diplomats once he may think he can do it again. It is reported that British, French and Italian diplomats are now flirting diplomatically with Soviet Russia. It is to be hoped for their own sakes that they knew what they are doing. A Soviet agreement with a will be remembered that Mr. Litvinoff was there and that in return for American recognition we were promised billions in Russian trade and the repayment of some very stale debts. In good faith, we recognized the Soviet government. But not a dollar has appeared on the debts and our trade with Russia has declined rather than increased. After that experience Mr. Litvinoff must at least have smiled behind his hand in making another suggestion for a pact with America. But having played rings around our diplomats once he may think he can do it again. It is reported that British, French and Italian diplomats are now flirting diplomatically with Soviet Russia. It is to be hoped for their own sakes that they knew what they are doing. A Soviet agreement with a capitalist nation is worth about as much as an ice cube in an arctic blizzard. Planting trees in a region where trees won't grow isn't any more illogical than plowing under grain and then hoping to increase the export of grain. THE AIRPLANE HELPS THE FARMER Generally when we read about airplanes it is in reference to these ships as they are related to military strategy or the carrying of passengers or the mails. But planes are very useful to agriculture, too. An air express has been put into service by the United States as an aid to our Department of Agriculture in fighting the Oriental fruit moth and other parasites. Writing of this important service in the current issue of the National Republic, H. W. Allen, entomologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, says in part: “If it were not for the assistance rendered by numerous parasitic wasps and flies which prey on other insects, the pests of the country would be even more difficult to control than they are at the present time. One of the activities of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine of the United States Department of Agriculture, is the colonization of these parasites in areas in which they are needed, and offer promise of value in insect control. “These beneficial insects must reach their destination in vigorous active condition. Under normal temperatures that exist during the summer, when these shipments must be made, these short-lived parasites confined in small cages become very active, soon exhaust their limit stock of energy, and are than unable to establish themselves in the new location. When cooled down to forty to sixty degrees, however, they become inactive and in this condition they can be kept for many days without seriously impairing their vitality. If shipped under such reduced temperatures they can be delivered in excellent condition in orchards hundreds of miles from the rearing station. “Certain species of parasites useful in the destruction of the oriental fruit moth have for many years been shipped from the” Moorestofn, Ningming sections in and as far south railway express weight. This cooled down to weather for satisfactory to all points of such shipment is still used for fifty hour run. “In the 18th mentions of similar codling moth practically all hours in transmitters of the icing in transport arrange for a This is the tenth and last article of this series and I believe that we have gotten well enough acquainted to "talk turkey" a bit. What do you think? I'm not a stiff-collared expert out to jam a lot of stuff down your neck. I work for a living just like you do, and always have. I've spent a lot more time talking things over while I leaned against a purring caterpillar than I have while sitting in a swivel chair. What do you thing of the idea that you and I talk this proposition through as man to man? Now, right off the bat, let's get down to cases. Soil erosion isn't going to put you in the poorhouse tomorrow, and there's no use of me sitting here and recommending that you completely revamp your ranch from stem to stern during the next year, because you won't do it, and I know you won't. You're farming to make a living for your family and the banker, and it keeps you scratching to meet taxes and interest. No man has a right to tell you to make changes that will mean taking food or clothes from your own flesh and blood, and right or no they wouldn't get away with it — not talking to an American. Now, that's coming clean on the situation from your point of view. But, admitting that, and keeping it constantly in mind, I still honestly and phases of soil erosion control in these articles. We have felt that the general public was not sufficiently aware of the true facts to insure their reading purely technical discussions of the subject. We do believe that once the American people are informed regarding the danger of further neglect, they will demand and secure specific knowledge edge to aid them in combatting this menace of the soil. The United States Soil Erosion Service is ready and anxious to assist in this regard. We have demonstrational projects designed to show you actual methods of control. While the corrective measures must rest with the tillers of the soil, the problem affects every living citizen of this country, because we all demand food, and soil erosion is a destroyer of food-producing land. A program of control must go on — there's no other way an informed, civilized people can face the future. Finally, in behalf of the United States Soil Erosion Service we wish to thank the Anaheim Gazette for its cooperation in presenting these articles to the public. We know that the reader of America often lose sight of the fact that every paper, whether a metropolitan daily or a small town weekly, has to guard its columns from the seeker of publicity for questionable projects and knowing this we commend the farming to make a living for your family and the banker, and it keeps you scratching to meet taxes and interest. No man has a right to tell you to make changes that will mean taking food or clothes from your own flesh and blood, and right or no they wouldn't get away with it — not talking to an American. Now, that's coming clean on the situation from your point of view. But, admitting that, and keeping it constantly in mind, I still honestly and sincerely believe that our nation's program to control soil erosion is the finest, most idealistic, and most necessary step that any nation ever took to insure its continued prosperity. It's unfortunate that a program of soil erosion control had to wait now before it was given national consideration — because it should have been started fifty years ago, and this nation would have added ten times the fifty years in her span of economic leadership had she done so. Japan has been practicing it for more years than that. The European countries have taken it for granted for three times fifty years, and there are countries in the world today where soil erosion control is not only advocated and recommended, but actively enforced by law. Other nations, knowing that their destiny as a nation depends upon their preservation of the soil, tell their farmers what they can plant, when they can plant, and where they can plant. The beans and bacon that the present program puts in the dinner pails of the workers today is a drop in the bucket. The food of America five hundred years from now will be inmeasurably greater or less because of what we do today. Call it relief if you prefer, but don't confuse it with a made job as an excuse for a dole. You are likely a farmer, or a rancher, looking at one-twelfth as much land? What will it be like? Look at sections of China where they actually dig by hand the roots of barley in order to have fuel to cook their rice. Where six people are forced to wrest their sustenance from a single acre by means and methods you and I would not care to discuss. Hunger is non-partisan. The desire for food is constant and compelling. Your descendants in the America of ten generations hence may be of another political belief; of other social class; and worship a different God — but the one positive thing we can say about them is that they too will know the desire for food, even as you and I. With our farms disappearing forever at the rate of more than two thousand a year, and with our population increasing more than a million a year, we are forced to conclude that the control of soil erosion is a patriotic duty. The man who saves an acre of soil for the America of the future is doing a patriotic act fully as noble and as glorious as the one who answers the call to arms in time of war. History has never known an invader as greedy, grasping, and as heartlessly destructive as this despoiler of land that we are discussing. There's another way of putting it. A hundred cattle grazing on a thousand acres wouldn't appear to be very many, would it? Let us say that some plant disease destroyed one hundred acres of that grass every year while the cattle were allowed increase by natural methods. At the end of nine years there would be the honey survivors of around a thousand cattle on ten trampled acres of grass. "Oh, but that would never happen," you protest. "The owner would sell most of them off for beef, or a major portion of them would die from starvation." Correct you are, but substitute human beings for the cattle and then solve the problem. It's Finally, in behalf of the United States Soil Erosion Service we wish to thank the Anaheim Gazette for its cooperation in presenting these articles to the public. We know that the reader of America often lose sight of the face that every paper, whether a metropolitan daily or a small town weekly, has to guard its columns from the seeker of publicity for questionable projects and knowing this we commend the Anaheim Gazette for its unselfish co-operation. In the interests of our nation's land and their readers. Moorestofn, N. J., station of the Department to many peach growing sections in the eastern United States, as far west as Arkansas and as far south as Georgia. These insects have been shipped by railway express in iced containers of about 150 pounds gross weight. This type of shipment has served to keep the insects cooled down to a point of inactivity during the hot mid-summer weather for about fifty hours. The method has proved quite satisfactory in making shipments of beneficial insect parasites to all points east of the Mississippi River. The average mortality of such shipments has been well under five per cent. This method is still used for the shipment of parasites within the limits of a fifty hour run from the shipping point. "In the 1934 season the problem developed of making shipments of similar beneficial insect parasites for release against the coddling moth in apple orchards of the Western States. Since practically all of these shipments would be much more than fifty hours in transit by railway express the method of using iced containers of the type described above was not feasible without re-icing in transit. For several reasons it was found difficult to arrange for a satisfactory re-icing." HISTORY OF ANAHEIM Officially Recorded In Minutes of Anaheim Water Company, Which Are Copyrighted, 1932, by Anaheim Gazette, and Printed In Weekly Installments Anaheim, Jan. 22, 1881. The Board of Directors met in regular weekly session. Present Messrs. Zeyn, Korn and Melrose. Absent Dreyfus and Hartung. Mr. Zeyn was elected chairman pro tem. The minutes of the meeting held on January 15, were read and approved. The committee to settle accounts with Cajon Irrigation Company reported progress. Vice President Hartung entered and assumed the chair. Warrants were ordered drawn in payment of the following bills: F. J. Schmidt, Bill 290, $66.66; H. Knapke, Bill 291, $18.80; F. Hartung, Bill 292, $13.00. Total 148.46. John Neipp surrendered his certificate and asked that his shares be transferred to Claus Wilkens. Charles Hille surrendered his certificate and asked that his shares be transferred to Jurgen Seemann. Both the above requests were granted. H. Knapke was reelected zanjero for the ensuing year by a unanimous vote. The receipts for the meeting were: Error to balance 14th assessment $5.44; C. Hille, 14th assessment, $15.00; C. Hille, interest $3.30. Total $15.84. Which amount was paid over to the Treasurer at the close of the meeting. R. Melrose, Secretary. Anaheim, Jan. 29, 1881. The Board of Directors of the Anaheim Water company met in regular weekly session. Present Messrs. Korn, Zeyn and Melrose. Absent Messrs. Dreyfuss and Hartung. In the absence of the president, Mr. Zeyn was elected to the chair. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The following bills were ordered paid: Officers salaries, Bill 293, $80.00; Anaheim Gazette, Bill 294, $2.50; H. Knapke, Bill 295, $5.50; Town of Anaheim, Bill 296, $10.75. Total $98.75. A communication from Thomas H. Smith, Esq., was read and ordered on file. The meeting adjourned until Monday, Jan. 31, 1881. R. Melrose, Secretary. Anaheim, January 31, 1881. The Board of Directors met in special session. Present Messrs. Dreyfus, Korn, Hartung and Melrose. Absent Zeyn. A general discussion was had in regard to the business relations of this Company with the Cajon Co. after which the following resolution was adopted: Resolved: That a committee consisting of Mr. B. Dreyfus be appointed to take legal counsel as to whether there is a method of dissolving the partnership existing between the Anaheim Water Company and the Cajon Irrigation Company; and if said partnership cannot be dissolved, then ascertain whether this company is bound in law to pay one-half the expense of maintaining that part of the Cajon ditch west of the division gate. Adjourned. R. Melrose, Secretary. RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT-WRONG! One commentator says the new relief program "is more rightish than lefish." b behalf of the United erosion Service we wish to Anaheim Gazette for its copresenting these articles to We know that the readers often lose sight of the fact per, whether a metropolia small town weekly, has columns from the seekers for questionable projects, this we commend the gette for its unselfish cothe interests of our and their readers. Which amount was paid over to the Treasurer at the close of the meeting. R. Melrose, Secretary. Anaheim, Jan. 29, 1881. The Board of Directors of the Anaheim Water company met in regular weekly session. Present Messrs. Korn, Zeyn and Melrose. Absent Messrs. RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT-WRONG! One commentator says the new relief program "is more rightish than leftish." A more important consideration is whether it is more rightish than wrongish.—Boston Transcript. ALREADY SHARED An economist rises to say that the public must "share stock risks." Yet the public might protest that it has done its duty in this respect, willingly or otherwise.—Asheville, N. C. Times. ECTROLUX GAS RANGES We Are Showing the 1935 Models Orange County Distributor HARRY I. HORN LIQUID FUELS APPLIANCES Orange County Distributor the Highway Between Anaheim and Fullerton — Phones: Anaheim 4407, Fullerton 456-W S WATER HEATERS HEATING REASONS FOR NEW Air Cooled ELECTROLUX Gas REFRIGERATOR Now the Sales Leader in Southern California! 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