anaheim-gazette 1935-05-30

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. WE BOW IN REVERENCE Once more we are called upon to revere the dead. This, the one day in which the public lives in the past, brings memories to the Old Soldier who 70 years ago participated in the termination of a strife that tore this country asunder. We bow our heads in respect to those who have answered taps and we stand straight and salute the fast thinning ranks of those who so materially aided this country to remain in tact and take its place among the nations of the world. It is their day and our duty to carry on for them. It is said that thousands of soldiers have gone through a war without knowing what it was really about. But that's nothing to be ashamed of as a lot of the generals and statesmen probably didn't know, either. A LOT OF MONEY The sum of $4,800,000,000 appropriated recently by Congress to be expended for government projects to create employment and end the depression is so big it cannot be forgotten. It must be a factor in every prophecy as to whether we will be prosperous or despondent two years hence, and it must be considered in all prophecies of what may happen politically in the next few years. All good Americans hope that the big appropriation will revive prosperity. If it doesn't, then it will be just too bad for all of us. Just how big this appropriation actually is staggers the imagination. For instance, the National Industrial Conference Board in a comparison made recently declared that the sum represents: first, about 17 per cent of all wages and salaries earned in the United States; Second, about 68 per cent of the value of all the products of all our 6,000,000 farms; third, about twice as much as all dividends paid, and fourth, about 94 per cent of all factor in every prophecy as to whether we will be prosperous or despondent two years hence, and it must be considered in all prophecies of what may happen politically in the next few years. All good Americans hope that the big appropriation will revive prosperity. If it doesn't, then it will be just too bad for all of us. Just how big this appropriation actually is staggers the imagination. For instance, the National Industrial Conference Board in a comparison made recently declared that the sum represents: first, about 17 per cent of all wages and salaries earned in the United States; Second, about 68 per cent of the value of all the products of all our 6,000,000 farms; third, about twice as much as all dividends paid, and fourth, about 94 per cent of all interest paid. Last but not least the Board estimates that the big sum would buy 7,360,000 automobiles at present f.o.b. factory prices, and it would take the industry two years and eight months to produce that many at the rate of the production held in 1934. Well, at any rate, it is a lot of money. Of the part which goes out to a lot of the workers, we are willing to bet that the automobile industry will get its share, and the filling stations, too. Yes, it is a lot of money for Congress to appropriate and for the administration to spend. Generosity on the part of Congress, you say—wait a minute! It isn't Congress's money or anybody's money yet. It is going to be borrowed. And when it is paid back Congress will not pay, and neither will the administration. The people will foot the bill. We are trying to surfeit ourselves with our own generosity, so to speak. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Congress is taking the money from one of our pockets and putting it in another—or at least taking it out of one of our pockets and putting it some place. Dust storms, they say, have come upon us because durng the war we turned under the sod of thousands of acres that nature intended to be used for grazing lands. But remember we did it to make the world safe for democracy. ON CRITICISM "Feel free to criticize" was one of the statements of the Chief Executive in his radio talk not long ago. Evidently some people have been following this custom. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce in its meeting in Washington seems to have felt free to criticise if we are to accept newspaper reports, and yet so far as can be learned there was no answering word of comfort from the White House. In his address to AAA Southern farm delegates who came to Washington the middle of May the President is reported to have stated that high and mighty men had sought to mislead the country by lying about the AAA farm program. Criticism of the farm program evidently doesn't always go so good. It may be that some of these high and mighty men have prevaricated about the government's farm program. We are not sure that we are able to understand just what the program is and are therefore not qualified to pass on all the statements about it. But anybody who drove through the Middle West in the hot summer of 1933 and smelled the burning pig meat will be hard to disabuse mentally of some of the AAA criticism anyhow. John and Tom and Jerry went out into the country to obtain employment as farm hands. John and Tom took jobs but Jerry returned to the city. He was afraid they would plow under every third farm hand. HARKING BACK Nothing recalls the wide difference between the popular ideals for youth in this third farm hand. John and Tom and Jerry went out into the country to obtain employment as farm hands. John and Tom took jobs but Jerry returned to the city. He was afraid they would plow under every third farm hand. HARKING BACK Nothing recalls the wide difference between the popular ideals for youth in this generation and the last than the newspaper announcement that a little island in the Charles River near South Natick, Mass., is being cleaned up in memory of Horatio Alger, Jr., the juvenile author of bygone days who is supposed to have been very found of the place. Few children of this era, except some of those who do their book-shopping in the five and ten, have ever heard of the Horatio Alger, Jr., who wrote so many inspiring books for their fathers. A modern sophisticated generation of youth reading Alger's books would laugh at their stereotyped plots, their moralizing and their characters which seemed to be turned out more or less in machine made fashion. But times have changed in more than literary ideals, and some of the changes have not been fortunate. In Alger's stories the poor but ambitious youth usually started as a bootblack or errand boy helped to support his mother and turned out to be the president of a railroad or big steel corporation, advancing by working hard and saving his money. To work hard and save one's money is no longer fashionable. We expect the modern youth to go through college learning to denounce the railroad and steel company, to spend his money in riotous living and then get himself supported by the governmental relief which is paid for by those who have been foolish enough to work hard and save their money. No wonder the literary disciples of Heywood Broun, if any, may be expected to make fun of Horatio Alger, Jr. He was one of the Old Dealers. According to the newspapers, Europeans may sue to force Uncle Sam to pay in gold. Without going into the merits of that question, why doesn't Uncle Sam sue Europe to pay us in gold or something, anyhow. Our office boy says he would save his money for a rainy day but he is afraid we will run into one of those seven year droughts and he will then be too old to enjoy spending the money. ANAHEIM GAZETTE SCHOOL DAYS By DWIG GOSH, I DON'T SEE WHY WE CAN'T BELL BOTTLES OF 'EM-JIS THE SAME AS GAS ONLY, THEY DON'T COST NUTHIN—AM! YOU COULD FEED 'EM AM THEIR LAST FOREVER. YES AND WE COULD RAISE 'EM, SAME AS RABBITS! HAVE REGLAR BUG HOUSES, LIKE BEE HIVES, AND — SN! WE COULD GIT RICH! COLD LIGHT WASHINGTON SNAP-SHOTS LETTERS WASHINGTON SNAP-SHOTS More and more Washington is beginning to take note of Maryland's comparatively young Senator, a courageous fighter on the Senate floor who learned how to fight as a machine gunner in the World War. A Democrat who refuses to be submerged by modern trends which makes Congress a mouthpiece for the Administration, Senator Tydings this session has been found time and again speaking boldly without regard to politics. Climaxing this move toward a position of leadership, Tydings introduced recently a resolution requesting President Roosevelt to call an international conference in Washington to consider a "common sense" cure for the world depression. The "four horsemen" of the World War—war debts, depreciated currency, armaments and trade embargoes—are "still riding throughout Christendom," Tydings said, and the only leader who can down them is "General Common Sense." Only 45 years old, tall and keen, Tydings in debate crackles out words like one of the machine guns he used to handle after he enlisted in the World War on the day war was declared and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel with citations for gallantry. There is strong evidence that the Administration is making a determined effort to repulse the radicals, left-wingers, and motley brigade of theorists in general who have attached themselves to the New Deal. It is not surprising that these panacea peddlers invaded Washington with the advent of the New Deal. The Administration's first moves encouraged the conclusion that it would serve as pilot for labor unions, inflationists, Government-ownedorship advocates, and various reforms in the "more abundant life" category. Proof that the President is taking less advice from the reformers appeared in his order establishing wage scales for the work-relief program. There is noth- ing about these wages to encourage regular work "on the Government." Tremendous pressure was exercised to have Mr. Roosevelt order work-relief wages that ranged close to the scale of "prevailing wages" in private employment. He totally ignored the pressure gang. There was no official reference to this point, but it is common knowledge around Washington that the scale for unskilled labor was set low enough to enable farmers to meet or exceed the pay on work-relief projects. Organized minorities received a sharp slap from the President in his personally-delivered message vetoing the Patman Bonus Bill. He said: "Today the credit of the United States is safe. But it cannot ultimately be safe if we engage in a policy of yielding to each and all of the groups that are able to enforce upon the Congress claims for special consideration. To do so is to abandon the principle of Government by and for the American people and to put in its place Government by and for political coercion by minorities. Additional highlights of the President's bonus veto message: "This proposal, I submit, violates the entire principle of veterans' benefits so carefully formulated at the time of the war and also the entire principle of the adjusted certificate settlement of 1924...to resort to the kind of financial practice provided in this bill would not improve the conditions necessary to expand these industries in which we have the greatest unemployment...I hold the able bodied citizen, because he wore a uniform during the World War...To meet a claim of one group by this deceptively easy method of payment will raise similar demands for the payment of claims of other groups...A Government, like an individual, must ultimately meet legitimate obligations out of the production of wealth by the labor of human beings applied to the resources of nature." LETTERS FROM THE PUBLIC Oakland, May 25, 1930 Your editorial of May 23 on "French Money to Lend Russia but Not to Pay Debts" is based on an almost universal misunderstanding of the difference between money and wealth, that leads all these crazy uneconomic schemes. Do you imagine France will send "money" (paper francs or gold) into Russia? No, they will buy French railroad goods on credit, and the "money" part will all be internal to France. That is exactly the way our war "debts" were created. We did not send "money" to Europe; the allies got credit to buy American goods—food clothes, munitions. These goods were destroyed in the process of ending their slaughter. We could not be really repaid except by return of similar goods. That is impossible, both physically and politically—we are not equit to distribute such wealth socially. The small payments that were made were actually borrowed from us; my opinion is that the "debts" are fictitious that they represent our share of ending the war. Why be a sucker and hope for an impossibility that would in fact harm us? N.E.BRERETON. OBSERVATIONS THAT HAYWIRE When the chairman of the R.F.C. said, since they are spending billions he didn't see why they should not pay the bonus, although he is quoted as saying he would not get excited about its immediate payment; and believe it or not that threw the boys on Capitol hill into financial beehive-jeeebees. BEWARE! LOOK OUT! A fiery citizen from a southern state comes out with a refedy for the economic ills which he calls the share-the-wealth plan. That's hot communism with a red lantern hanging on it. WHAT OTHER THINK Bill Allen White says the ideal newspaper is one "which tells the truth." Nerts, Bill. A newspaper that would tell the truth would be boycotted and run out of town so fast it would make a streamlined express look like a lunch stand.—Philadelphia Dispatch. During the first 124 years of this government it cost the United States to run the government $24,521,845,000, including four wars. The amount authorized by Congress during the past two years totals $24,206,538,000.—H. L. Walt in Centralla, Kansas, Journal. At a recent entertainment one of the numbers on the program was "No, No, a Thousand Times No." When the orchestra played the number all the bankers thought it was the national anthem and stood up.—Kingman Journal. They say that women have always been suspicious of men from the time of Eve. They say that every time Adam went out in the woods for a day or two, when he came back, Eve would always count his ribs.—Phillipsburg News. "Share Our Wealth" clubs are being formed over the country, most of them organized by individuals with no wealth to share, and consequently no risk—Arkansas City Traveler. Bird chasers get forty cents an hour in a campaign to drive starlings out of Washington. Imagine what it would cost to rid the Capitol of cuckoos!—Philadelphia Inquirer. Nearly half of the American Rhodes scholars at Oxford — thirty-eight of eight-hour — have formed a new society "to study political and economic trends in the United States and to see if it is possible to work for socialism within either of the old parties." What will Hainilton Fish make of that?—Springfield Republican. We can't of course, know what is in Congressman Fish's mind, but since college socialism seems to be as infectious as the itch, we presume Mr. Fish hopes that when these thirty-eight crackpots get their diplomas or what ever it is they get, and start home again, the boats will not be running in his direction. The bar room is not exactly an appropriate place for men to discuss the extravagant habits of their wives, but a lot of them do.—Hopkins, Mo., Journal. didn't see why they should not pay the bonus, although he is quoted as saying he would not get excited about its immediate payment; and believe it or not that threw the boys on Capitol hill into financial heebe-jeebees. BEWARE! LOOK OUT! A fiery citizen from a southern state comes out with a remedy for the economic ills which he calls the share-the-wealth plan. That's hot communism with a red lantern hanging on it. TAKING IT ON THE CHIN A man is innocent until proven guilty, but when they issued an order that all holding companies liquidate within five years, the honest and legitimate corporations got an awful jolt; but they will weather the storm. COAXING PROSPERITY FROM THAT CORNER If they have a state lottery mebble there will be a dice game on every lot and a roulette wheel in every garage. STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE When they get the state lottery to working they should make some provision to keep the bootleggers from horning in on the gravy through bogus tickets. TAIL GOES WITH THE HIDE If it should come to pass that they start a state lottery they should provide for checkers to contact the shell game guys, and the three card monte men who would spring up like mushrooms in a dampened corn field. COME AND GET IT If it so happens that the state lottery gets going good, the lure of the lucre would attract the gold digging bozos. They would breeze around looking for the unwary and guillable gents who wish to get rich quick. Then the slickers would unload upon them oil and mining certificates which would make dandy wall paper for the woodshed. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29. The unravelling of many of the knotty problems confronting the Administration in its public works program goes forward slowly. Only the CCC camps have actually received an allocation. The Administration is taking precautions not to rush into operation until the rules and regulations by which the program is to be executed are determined. Here are some of the things already established by the President: (1) Administrative machinery for handling applications and giving out information—the Advisory Allotment Committee of 23 members, and a work progress division with the President heading all three sections; (2) work wage scales ranging from $19 for unskilled labor in the south to $94 for technical professional workers in the north. Work is divided into four types—unskilled, intermediate, skilled and professional; (3) settlement of the question as to whether those workers paid out of the fund should be from relief rolls. The President has decreed that at least 90% of those on each project shall come from the relief lists. This is to leave room for employment of managers and other trained personnel who have not had to ask for relief. The American Federation of Labor has protested the wage schedules as a whole. Under the present set-up the range of wages payable on California projects is as follows: Unskilled work—$40 to $55 monthly; Intermediate work—$45 to $65; Skilled work—$55 to $85; Professional and technical work—$61 to $94—determined according to the population of the largest municipality in each county. Representative Sam L. Collins of California, in a recent statement, raised the question as to the fairness of the organizations, and that under this ruling these people apparently will be passed over, although they are in urgent need of work. The Progressives in the Senate to the contrary regarding how the NRA has persecuted "the little fellow" and proven an instrument of advantage for the so-called trusts, a long list of small enterprises from various branches of American business took their turn before the House Ways and Means Committee last week in behalf of NRA. In a word they testified the NRA had made it possible for them to continue in business; that without it they would be trodden under by their more powerful competitors. They asked for a two year extension of the NRA as against the nine month provision in the resolution which passed the Senate. The Christian Science Monitor gives in substance this resume of the stage as it is now set for the national campaign next year: Progressives, as led by the Wisconsin group, will stay by Roosevelt. The fact that Wisconsin got a hundred million dollars from the public works fund is thrown into the same paragraph. The President did the unusual thing of leaving the allocation of this vast fund to the entire discretion of Governor Phil LaFollette, who intends to build the fund up to $205,000,000 through city and county contributions. Mayor LaGuardia rallies all Progressives to the liberal banner, and declares their responsibility in 1936 will be greater than in any previous election. Mayor LaGuardia made these remarks at a celebration in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, observing the first year of the Progressive party in Wisconsin. The Republicans at that so-called "grass roots" conference scheduled for June 10 and 11 at Springfield, Illinois, THE FARMER'S CORNER By RALPH H. TAYLOR Executive Secretary Agricultural Council of California Substantial savings in crop mortgage costs, due to eliminations and reductions in filing and recording fees on crop and livestock loans. New safeguards for the dairy industry, eliminating many of the more serious bad trade practices which have taken heavy toll from the dairyman.... And a greatly broadened and strengthened standardization code to guarantee the quality and market stability of the state's commodities. Such are some of the benefits which will accrue to California agriculture as a result of legislation sponsored by the various state-wide farm organizations and enacted by the 1935 State Legislature. Savings and increased farm income amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars will be pocketed by the farming industry as by-products of the new legislation and it is probable that every farmer in the State will share, either directly or indirectly, in the advantages of the program. The Legislature passed seven bills, sponsored by Senator Bradford C. Crittenden of Stockton and several associates, striking at the recording fee racket and eliminating unnecessary costs to farm borrowers. The measures—Senate Bills 741, 742, 743, 748, 749, 750 and 751—eliminate many filling and recording costs on both crop and livestock loans and reduce other incidental loan charges. As least twelve important dairy bills passed both houses of the Legislature and now await the Governor's signature, with S. B. 1102, by Senator Sanborn Young of Los Gatos—the long-fought and much-discussed dairy con- support of all interested groups. It provides for minimum prices to producers on market milk and also sets up the machinery for eliminating many bad trade practices. Similarly, A. B. 1135, also awaiting executive approval to become law, provides for market control of manufactured dairy products. Other important bills to the dairymah include the celebrated "oleo bill"—A.B. 578, by Assemblyman Frazier, placing a 10-cent per pound tax on all butter substitutes, except when they are made from domestic fats and oils, and S. B. 171, by Senator Perry, permitting creameries to sell back manufactured products (especially cream) to their farm patrons without meeting market grade requirements. Also enacted, and now pending before the Governor, are Assembly Bills 492, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497, 498, and 897, by Assemblyman Thorp, amending various sections of the general dairy law in the interest of uniformity and better classification. Ten major standardization bills were adopted, with celery coming under the fruit and vegetable standardization act for the first time. The standardization bills and the crops they affect are as follows: S. B. 1087, olives; A. B. 92, lettuce; A. B. 462, walnuts; A. B. 463, persimmons; A. B. 482, asparagus; A. B. 524, gravenstein apples; A. B. 974, cherries; A. B. 1244, avocados; A. B. 1381, celery; A. B. 918, dates. Still another important farm bill which won legislative approval was S. B. 96, by Senator Garrison, transferring administration and enforcement of the feedstuffs law from the State De- 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, April 2, 1881. The Board of directors of the Anaheim Water Company met in regular session. Present a full board. The minutes of the meeting on March 19 were read and approved. The zanjero was instructed to hire the necessary men and have the connecting flume put in thorough repair. Warrants were ordered drawn in payment of the following bills: H. Knapke, Bill 316, $63.75; H. Knapke, Bill 317, $18.50; Salaries of Officers, bill 315, $80.00; Mrs. C. Yocum, bill 314, $79.16. Total, $241.41. The application of Erwin Barr for permission to take up the ten shares of stock surrendered by Mrs. M. L. Jones in 1879 was granted, petitioner to pay back assessments and interest thereon. The application of Erwin Barr for permission to transfer four shares of his stock from Lot 8 Anaheim Ex. to Lot 4 Anaheim Ex. was granted. The secretary reported the transfer of ten shares of stock from G. W. Rogers to F. W. Tyler. The application of P. W. Bras for permission to redeem his shares and give his work in payment therefor, redeemable within a few months, was granted. Mr. Henry Rogers stated, through the Secretary, that he brought $3.00 worth of water last year; that he was not notified of the sale adopted by the Board requiring purchasers of water to use the same before the first of the year; that he has never received the water which he purchased, and that he now desires the Board to instruct the zanjero to deliver the $3.00 worth of water to him. The zanjero was instructed to deliver the water to Mr. Rogers, if it was a fact that he had failed to notify him of the rule of the Board. The receipts for the meeting were: Sale of water on March 26, $35.50; Sale of water on April 2, $46.00 back assessment, $15.50; interest, $1.12; certificates, $1.00; Total $98.62. Which amount was turned over to the Treasurer at the close of the meeting. R. Melrose, Secretary.