anaheim-gazette 1935-05-16

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. THE WEEKLY AND PUBLICITY The parasite who is a paid publicity hound, seems to have a rather odd perspective of the status of a newspaper published weekly instead of daily . . . that all a weekly is interested in is "filling up its columns with most anything." That might be true in a very small number of cases but the weekly newspaper of today has a very definite place in the scheme of publications and gradually these parasites are becoming acquanited with that fact. Week in and week out the Gazette receives political propaganda pet scheme publicity, reasons why this or that is what everyone should believe and it has come to the point that not only do these "hounds" demand space but as well they be given editorial comment. Well, just for fun we're going to give them this editorial comment. Here's our advice: Take the amount of money expended in absolutely wasted postage and rent a hall somewhere; take the money used for paper and mimeographing and use it for the purchase of bread and butter; use the same telephone you have and call up all those that you know have missed a meal or two and invite them to a bread and butter luncheon—then you'll have accomplished a very useful mission in life. As it is there is perhaps employment in each town for one man—the one who has the job of cleaning up the alley where we try to keep all this "filler" piled in a big box labeled "waste paper only." Anything that is such a wonderful boon to humanity is worthy of an advertising schedule . . . and this supplemented with explanatory publicity is always welcome on the editor's desk. CRITICISM FROM WITHIN THE RANKS CRITICISM FROM WITHIN THE RANKS One of the most interesting developments of the political situation today can be envisioned in the number of prominent Democrats who are criticizing the policies of our national administration. Indeed they seem to have grabbed the limelight from the Republicans who are perhaps content to permit the family quarrel to go ahead in its own way. One of the latest of those to raise his voice against New Deal policies is Bainbridge Colby who was Secretary of State in the cabinet of Woodrow Wilson, speaking before a national group of newspapermen. Charging that much of the legislation now proposed would reduce the American farmer to serfdom, cut down the citizen's rights of recourse to the courts, who will get interpretations from the bureaucrats, and that many proposed New Deal measures are "in flagrant violation of the Constitution," Mr. Colby said: "The political party founded by Thomas Jefferson, and elected on a platform which proclaimed the liberties of which I speak, has converted the American Republic into a socialist state and enveloped it in a mesh of tyrannical and bureaucratic rule which has no counterpart save among the peoples of Europe, now sunk under the autocratic sway of unresisted dictatorship." "As a Democrat," he went on, "I would venture to remind the heady and nonchalant innovators of the moment, who are officiating as instruments of the Democratic Party, and usurping its name, that the government of the United States was established to get rid of arbitrary, discretionary executive power. "That we have economic problems in common with all the world cannot be denied. Their solution, however, is not beyond our ability or our resources. The fact that incapacity has failed should not discourage us. In capacity is not the exclusive approach to our problems." Sharply criticizing "the heady and nonchalant innovators" who have usurped the name of the Democratic Party, Mr. Colby declared: "Such Democrats do not intend to abandon the foundations of liberty and just government. Nor will they at the behest of anyone, or under the pressure of a needlessly, and I sometimes think a wantonly, prolonged depression renounce the birthright of democratic government and turn back to the most discredited models of government known to history." WASHINGTON WEEKLY REVIEW Special to ANAHEIM GAZETTE WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15. Nine of the Civilian Conservation Corps Camps assigned to the Soil Erosion Service for use in the national campaign against soil erosion by wind and limitation on loans by the land bank commissioner and permits him to lend to prospective farmers up to 75% of the appraised value of property. Regardless of the fact that the Sen- WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15. Nine of the Civilian Conservation Corps Camps assigned to the Soil Erosion Service for use in the national campaign against soil erosion by wind and rain are to be located in California. There will be one each in San Bernardino, Orange, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Eldorado, Solano and Sonoma Counties, and two in Santa Cruz County. According to Congressman Sam L. Collins the two camps which will carry on this work in the 19th Congressional District are to be new camps created under the expanded CCC program and are not now in existence. About one-fourth of the anti-erosion camps will be located in the seven plains states most severely hit by the great dust storms. The remainder will be distributed throughout the country in areas where soil impoverishment due to the erosive action of rain water is a major problem. After weeks of delay the House very suddenly, and with little debate, passed a bill in aid of farmers which will materially liberalize loans of the Farm Credit Administration. The progress of this bill has been watched with interest by California mutual water companies, as it carries an amendment to existing law which will permit these companies to borrow funds from the Farm Credit Administration for the construction and financing of physical facilities. It further provides for a reduction in interest on loans by Federal land banks from 4½ to 3½ per cent for the next fiscal year, and 4 per cent for the two years following. The bills amends the emergency farm mortgage act of 1933; the Federal farm loan act, the agricultural marketing act and the farm credit act of 1933. It lifts the $600,000,000 limitation on loans by the land bank commissioner and permits him to lend to prospective farmers up to 75% of the appraised value of property. Regardless of the fact that the Senate has expressed itself as being in favor of the extension of the NRA for only ten months, informed circles are of the opinion that when this measure is finally sent to the President it will be in substantially the form he wants, and may provide for the full two years' extension favored by the Administration. It is quite obvious that Senate Democrats decided to put through the short term simplified measure because it was the only practical way of getting a Senate vote on the NRA measure in reasonably short time. And with NRA officially expiring on June 16, haste is a major consideration. The House, however, is prepared to pass the full NRA revision bill, and after that, when the "horse-trading" in conference begins, the differences between the two bills will be resolved with the President more than likely very well satisfied with the final outcome. Senate Administration leaders, backed by a Justice Department assertion of its constitutionality, are pressing for quick Committee approval of the President's social security program. Legal opinions measuring the security bill—with its old age pension and unemployment insurance taxes—by standards set in the Supreme Court's invalidation of the railway retirement act have gone to both White House and the Capitol. In the meantime interest in the Supreme Court's decision on the validity of the Frazier-Lemke farm bankruptcy act is intensified following another ruling by a Federal District judge that the law is unconstitutional. OBSERVATIONS HONI SOIT QUI MAL'Y PENSE Now that the great fleet's in, what if Japan would send her warships over here to play in our front yard. TURNING NIGHT INTO DAY If the government goes in for domestic electricity in all probability the juice will be so cheap and plentiful that the housewife will forget to turn off the switch. HEY, EDDIE, FETCH THE BEEFSTEAK Two senators the other day talked so long and loud about the current tidings of the day that one of them got so mad that he wanted to go out in the alley and fight. NOBODY'S BUSINESS The way they are planning to spend those billions, the taxpayer's nestegg might turn out to be a door knob. KEEPING WOLF FROM DOOR The way salaries of high corporation officials have been raised the past two years it makes a fella on the firing line really believe there is a Santa Claus. CALL IT A DAY Lots of people believe that in picking up so many fellows who were thumbing their way up the road, the president contacted so much engine trouble in getting to the crest of the hill, that he ought to let the ole bus coast the rest of the way into his private garage. THE WETS HAVE IT Al and Herbert sat in social conference the other day and there were two cocktails on the table — and Al drank both of them. HASN'T GOT MUCH AUTHORITY 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, Anaheim, March 5, 1881. The Board of Directors of the Anaheim Water Company met in regular weekly session. Present a full board. The minutes of the meeting held on February 26th were read and approved. In answer to a question, Commissioner Haight said that he had received no notification from the commissioner of the Cajon company in regard to the flume which it was rumored the latter company was having rebuilt. The following bills were ordered paid: H. Knapke, Bill No. 80, $84.25; A. Guy Smith & Co., Bill No. 307, $8.92; Mrs. C. Yokum, Bill No. 306, $79.16; A. Langerberger, Bill No. 308, $2.30. Total $174.63. A communication from County Clerk Potts was read stating that the Board of Supervisors had fixed the rate at which this company is authorized to sell water at 50 cents per hour for each head. The communication was ordered on file. M. A. Mendelson addressed the Board on behalf of property owners on Broadway, asking the consent of the Board to the removal of the ditch which traverses the middle of that street, to the side of the street. Action upon the request was postponed until a future meeting. The secretary reported the transfer by R. W. Scott of two shares to William Kelly. Also that E. Crowe had redeemed the 5 shares surrendered by him last July. The following resolution offered by Mr. Zeyn was adopted: Resolved: That the water sold on the date be delivered at the rate of two hours for $1 in the daytime, that is say between the hours of 4 a.m. and 8 p.m., and that the rate of 4 hours for $1 in the night time, that is to say from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. said rates to continue in force until further action on the Board. The receipts of the meeting were follows: Sale of water, $202.50; Back assessments, $92.00; Interest on assessment, $6.02; advertisement, 50 cents; for certificates, $2.00. Total $303.02. Which amount was turned over by the Treasurer at the close of the meeting. The meeting then adjourned united Wednesday, March 9 at 3 p.m. R. Melrose, Secretary WHAT OTHER THINK "CLASS LEGISLATION" It is said that the basis of President Roosevelt's veto of the Patman bonus bill will be that it is "class legislation." Objection to "class legislation" is a new wrinkle at Washington. What is the AAA? Legislation for invested their savings in the utility companies, whose securities are today clared by the laws of New York State to be legal investments for saving banks and life insurance companies Adirondack Herald. WHAT OTHERS THINK THE WETS HAVE IT Al and Herbert sat in social conference the other day and there were two cocktails on the table — and Al drank both of them. HASNT GOT MUCH AUTHORITY Raising the price of silver to 71 cents in order to boost the prices of commodities, is a good deal like rubbing the medicine bottle on your tummy to cure the pain inside. PICKING UP THE LOST END OF THE THREAD If the United States, together with England, Mexico and China would stabilize silver on a parity with gold, prices of commodities would pick up overnight. SMALL BORE A vindictive member of a high hall of national legislation has been severely criticizing men high in the counsels of the country with vehement denunciation. Another member picked up the thread and gave the filibustering verbal castigation. He drew the spotlight. He then polished off his remarks by saying the fault finding man was a tom-tit. He then said a tomtit, a small perching bird, tries to emulate the woodpecker. The titmouse files into a forest and pecks away at a giant oak and then sits by and expects the great tree to fall over. THREE STRIKES AND OUT A fiery committee member, who opposes the old age pension, who evidently doesn't believe in amendments rose up and said that the Townsend plan had been changed three times, which he reiterated, "merely goes to prove what most of us said when the first plan was proposed — that it is absolutely unworkable." OFF AGAIN, ON AGAIN A fellow rises up in the back of the hall and chirps that many of the experiments of the New Dealers are just about as lasting as a Hollywood marriage. HERE'S YOUR HAT! WHAT'S YOUR HURRY Many of the folks believe that congress had better pitch in and get through before the world series begin. ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS "CLASS LEGISLATION" It is said that the basis of President Roosevelt's veto of the Patman bonus bill will be that it is "class legislation." Objection to "class legislation" is a new wrinkle at Washington. What is the AAA? Legislation for the farm producing class at the expense of the consumer. What is the NRA? Legislation at the expense of the employer and the consumer for the benefit of the employee. What is the RFC? Legislation at the expense of the taxpayers in general for the benefit of banks, railroads and debt-laden industries. What is the work-relief bill? Legislation at the expense of those who have and produce for the benefit of those who have not and cannot produce. What is the mortgage moratorium? Legislation for the benefit of the debtor at the expense of the creditor. There ought to be a better argument against the Patman bill than "class legislation." Payment of the bonus at least settles an outstanding national obligation.—Fullerton News-Tribune. Generally we are skeptical in insanity as a defense for crime, but not so in the case of the Bogue youth who stole a saxophone.—Lincoln Co. News. The thought that it's less than sixty days till Christmas also brings up the fact that Santa Claus will not have to travel all the way from the North Pole this year—having taken up his residence in Washington, D. C.—Greenleaf, Kan., Sentmel. A law requiring nudists to go nude all the year 'round might have some interesting results.—Springfield Union. A man 105 years old has been found in Cleveland who has never been for an automobile ride, never spoken over a telephone or listened to a radio. Gradually the secrets of longevity are being revealed.—Springfield Union. All holding company legislation must be strongly entrenched with provisions to safeguard the billions of life sayings of the common people, who have invested their savings in the utility companies, whose securities are today clared by the laws of New York State to be legal investments for saving banks and life insurance companies Adirondack Herald. It is becoming increasingly hard to distinguish radio demagogues from comedians.—Buffalo Courler-Express. ARABIAN SPORTSMANSHIP An Arab tribe agrees to give the back if it may continue to raid town. It is pleasing to feel that sport sore where is not grossly commercial.—Monies Tribune. Our definition of a true optimist the Erie man who has already figured out how he is going to spend his $ each month when the Townsend pension bill goes through.—Erie Record. Now Bulgaria, Austria and Hungary in addition to Germany, are going increase their armaments. Russia making potential flares out of all boys. Which proves that only Ur Sam has a war spirit. He should down his armament to one musket or a canal boat. The government is pouring out lions in liquid gold in an effort to prune the industrial pump. Maybe the trouper is that there are not enough fellows left who want to work the handle at the pump is primed. A lot of cities now have a municipal automobile tax which they call a whim tax. A real wheel tax so fast as a few folks are concerned would be same as a head tax. It is said to be very difficult these days to hire a man to work as a hand. Maybe the farm hands are afraid of being plowed under. The Brain Trust several months ago repealed the law of supply and demand. It evidently has repealed the law gravitation, too. That must be made it so hard to keep your feet on the ground. "We'll be passing through A fellow rises up in the back of the hall and chirps that many of the experiments of the New Dealers are just about as lasting as a Hollywood marriage. HERE'S YOUR HAT! WHAT'S YOUR HURRY Many of the folks believe that congress had better pitch in and get through before the world series begin. ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS Now that the dust storms have come and gone it's doubtful if they will again kill hogs and throw the carcasses, into the river (in order to raise the price of those left) or plow up every third row of cotton. TO A MAN UP A TREE When that Tejunga man got peeved at his congressman because he didn't reforest the barren hillsides in his district, the criticizing constituent must have read of the government plan when they were going to plant a bunch of trees down south a mile wide and a hundred miles long in order to stop the erosion. SEPARATING WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF If you have been holding your ear to the ground you no doubt have been hearing of a number of men who are going to run for president, on various platforms of what-nots and folderol. Speaking of platforms it appears the last one was made of elastic timber. Anyway the principles of the republican party as handed down by George Washington and the Immortal Lincoln should be good enough for this country right now. BUT THE AMBULANCE GETS THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE Speaking of this and that, booze and gasoline can fill up the hospitals quicker than green apples or those triangle love affairs while yet still sex appeal won't get you to first base. "We'll be passing through your town in an hour, Jim— be ready and we'll pick you up..." A good stream, good tackle, good friends—and good accommodations! That's a successful holiday. You'll find "Long Distance" glad to help you line things up ahead. So organize now by telephone—check on final arrangements—and good fishing! SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TELEPHONE COMPANY 217 N. Lemon Telephone 2101 A HEIM from Water Company, Anaheim Gazette, infilments street. Action upon the postponed until a future reported the transfer of two shares to WilE. Crowe had redeemed a surrender by him last resolution offered by was adopted: That the water sold on this serviced at the rate of two in the daytime, that is to the hours of 4 a.m. and that the rate of 4 hours night time, that is to say to 4 a.m. said rates to conceil until further action by parts of the meeting were as water, $202.50; Back assessment; Interest on assessments adement, 50 cents; four $2.00. Total $303.02. Amount was turned over to at the close of the meetting then adjourned until March 9 at 3 p.m. R. Melrose, Secretary. THINK savings in the utility commune securities are today delaws of New York State, investments for savings life insurance companies. ANAHEIM, Calif., May 16, 1935 WASHINGTON SNAP-SHOTS Figuring suddenly in the Washington picture is a new assertion of the State's Rights doctrine, booming up from the South and finding expression by Democratic Senators. Under the surface this issue has been stirring for some time with the constant prodding of Senators Byrd and Glass of Virginia. But the real climax came with the effort of Senators Wagner and Costigan to push through a Federal anti-lynching bill. To what extent this growing consciousness of state's rights will figure in consideration of pending legislation which would permit the Federal officials to encroach further upon local dominions is a matter of question. Many believe that the veteran war-horse, Senator Borah, is prepared to lead a vigorous fight against further invasions. If the sentiment grows to abide by constitutional limitations, the Wagner Labor Disputes bill to permit the government to control all local labor relations, extension of the N.I.R.A., the so-called Social Security bill and others will be affected. More and more Washington is taking on many of the characteristics of the war-days. A shortage of homes and office space for the new government employees is noticeable on all sides. Residential construction here is proceeding at a faster rate than at any time in years,and rents are moving upward. New Dealers recently employed complain that they can not find homes. With the enactment of the relief appropriation and the setting up of the new divisions to administer it, there was a new influx with one F Street building being pressed into service to receive job applications. A recent compilation by the Civil Service Commission show: 989 persons in the New Deal drawing good faith. Of wide significance is the survey made by the United States News, edited by David Lawrence, of editorial opinion on President Roosevelt's last radio address. The News said: "President Roosevelt's radio fireside talk, advocating continuance of New Deal policies, with additional legislation affecting business and banking, created a sharp division of opinion among the editors who commented, with sentiments divided in these proportions: "Business protest against restrictions imposed by the Federal Government is reflected in the majority comment." The New York Times said: "Of this much we may be sure; that, at some point, discovery of the fact that Washington is itself standing in the way of normal business recovery is bound to influence even the political point of view." This survey indicates that no longer is the country taking the attitude that "the Administration can do no wrong," but is weighing each move as to its effect upon the national welfare. A thinking electorate, rather than one blindly following, is a nation's most valuable resource. BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK If perchance they go in for games of chance that might be an alluring incentive for the coming of the slick gentry who would buttonhole the illman and the unwary from hickville, and tell tales of the Wonderland; and seeking a good man to distribute the money from a Spanish estate, provided the distributor would put up a cash guarantee of good faith. Electric Refrigerators See our New Atwater-Kent Refrigerators — $149.50 up savings in the utility compense securities are today dethe laws of New York State, investments for savings life insurance companies. Herald. coming increasingly hard to radio demagogues from Buffalo Courier-Express. MAN SPORTSMANSHIP tribe agrees to give the loot may continue to raid towns. to feel that sport somenot grossly commercial.—Des bune. ition of a true optimist is who has already figured is going to spend his $200 when the Townsend penes through.—Erie Record. garia, Austria and Huhgray, to Germany, are going to their armaments. Russia is essential flires out of all the ch proves that only Uncle war spirit. He should cut permament to one musket and at. government is pouring out millard gold in an effort to prime real pump. Maybe the trouble are not enough fellows ant to work the handle after is primed. cities now have a municipal tax which they call a wheel wheel tax so fas as a lot are concerned would be the head tax. d to be very difficult these a man to work as a farm be the farm hands are afraid owed under. Trust several months ago law of supply and demand. has repealed the law of too. That must be what hard to keep your feet on time in years and rents are moving upward. 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