anaheim-gazette 1935-07-25

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE FENRY 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. A NEW AND BETTER GAZETTE A newspaper's business is to get itself read, and, just as you are more interested in a speaker who articulates distinctly, so exactly will you be more interested in a newspaper that articulates distinctly and clearly—typographically. So— It is with pleasure and a degree of pride that the Anaheim Gazette today presents a new type in our news columns, known in the vernacular of the trade as a new "dress." There has been a lot of talk and a lot of arguments in print in recent years about legibility and readability of printing types. Many publishers have spent thousands of dollars on new body type and new headletters in order to improve their medium of expression. Time was when we thought the average reader cared little about typographical refinements—the whys and wherefores of one letter "reading better" than another. When reading became irksome, or next to impossible for some, the blame fell on the eyes or the glasses used—or the lack of them. Print was taken as a matter of course, and nothing was ever done about it. Now it is different. Experts in design of letters got busy and told us what was the matter with our old type, and showed us how improved design would work out to our advantage and that of our readers. Associations of optometrists throughout the country have been among the agitators for improved design. Several attempts have been made in the line of improved letter design lately, until today we have Linotype Excelsior, considered by many to be the most legible and easiest read of all newspaper type. We thought so—and hence, our new "dress." Linotype Excelsior is the result of years of experience in designing exceptionally readable plain types. It has deep, generously proportioned counters (white space between lines of the letters) and no extreme variation in thick and thin Several attempts have been made in the line of improved letter design lately, until today we have Linotype Excelsior, considered by many to be the most legible and easiest read of all newspaper type. We thought so—and hence, our new "dress." Linotype Excelsior is the result of years of experience in designing exceptionally readable plain types. It has deep, generously proportioned counters (white space between lines of the letters) and no extreme variation in thick and thin strokes. Each word is instantly grasped by the reader, because Excelsior letters "flow" into one another—the characters are well fitted, and the distribution of white space is so uniform within and around each character that the letters readily group into words and provide maximum reading ease. The valuable subtleties of character visibility, evolved in studying hundreds of existing faces, have been incorporated into Excelsior letter design. Excelsior capitols are sturdy and well proportioned in relation to the lower case. Excelsior has no "period" or manneristic elements in its design to handicap reading ease. It is scientifically designed, modern, plain type, extremely readable, and exceedingly useful for periodical and book work. THE BAR ASSOCIATIONS One of the encouraging signs of the summer season is the tendency of our state bar associations, whenever they assemble, to take resolutive action in favor of the maintenance of the American constitutional government. The resolution of the Pennsylvania Bar Association with a reaffirmation of the right of state government was a very healthful sign. No less stimulating to real Americans was the address made recently by Albert Ritchie, former governor of Maryland, serving as toastmaster at the annual banquet of the bar association of the old Free State. Governor Ritchie is quoted as stating, by way of introducing the subject: "The experimental period is about over now. We are face to face with the fact that in all likelihood there will be an ultimate breakdown in our form of government unless from now on we meet our national problems within, and not without, those American principles and institutions prescribed by the Constitution. "Forces are now developing in this country which profess to think that the American system is not worth saving; that it has outlived its usefulness; that it cannot meet the new problems of that new day and so it should be scrapped. I am not one of these. I believe that such a system of government is worth saving, and that it has within itself that which can meet the problems of this or any other day." The governor very wisely pointed out that our national success has been due to the free and individualistic spirit of our people and he continued that in order to prevent pundering of public resources and private citizens it is not necessary to destroy the good in corporate life as well as the bad. “If we surrender the old to the new spirit,” he concluded, “then this will mean the defeat of the American theory of democracy; it will mean that the American government will be autocratic instead of free.” As a general rule American lawyers have been advised to... The governor very wisely pointed out that our national success has been due to the free and individualistic spirit of our people and he continued that in order to prevent pundering of public resources and private citizens it is not necessary to destroy the good in corporate life as well as the bad. “If we surrender the old to the new spirit,” he concluded, “then this will mean the defeat of the American theory of democracy; it will mean that the American government will be autocratic instead of free.” As a general rule American lawyers have been educated in an atmosphere of upholding American constitutional government. They can well lead the way in calling for the preservation of the constitutional principles of our government, and it is to be hoped that more wise counsel will flow from the state bar associations as they come into session. It is said that the Federal Relief work will give 500,000 women in the program the status of men. They have it now—all except cewing tobacco. Our office boy says that he told his best girl she ought to be in pictures but what he really meant was in the pictures in the old plush-covered family album. A man in Scotland has been convicted 368 times of violating the law, and the last time he got thirty days for heaving a rock through a window. Some of these days he will get to be an habitual criminal, if he isn’t careful. It is said the government wants to give the farmer the buying power he had in the pre-war period, from 1909 to 1914. But that won’t be near enough. In those days he didn’t have to buy automobiles or gasoline and radios were not even dreamed of. A Senate committee has rejected a move to have Huey Long ejected from the august and honored body. We suspect that since the administration has adopted a “share-the-wealth” plan, Huey is “sitting pretty.” The Shedd Aquarium at Chicago has received an interesting supply from Hawaii of what are termed “peppy” fish. Most fish we know are peppy, especially when they start out in the evening to make a night of it. SCHOOL DAYS. By DWIG ALL I ASK OF YOU IS JUST SIMPLY TO SAY YES OR NO— DID HE OR DID HE NOT; DID YOUR FATHER EVER EAT TWELVE APPLE PIES AT ONCE, AT A PICNIC, ON A BET AND THEN DANCE A JIG? YOU KNOW DURN WELL HE DIDN'T WHY? BECAUSE, FOR THE GOOD AND SPECIFIC REASON THAT HE COULDN'T! AND YOU KNOW HE COULDN'T! YOU MAME ME SICK — TOAST IT ON BOTH SIDES? YOU HEARD WHAT I SAID! DID I SAY ANY THING ABOUT ANYBODY EATIN ANYTHING? I SIMPLY ASKED IN PLAIN ENGLISH LANGUAGE, IF YOUR FATHER COULD HOLLER SO LOUD YOU CAN HEAR HIM A MILE AND A HALF? AND UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD HE'S HOLLERIN'? JUST ANSWER IF HE CAN DO IT. THAS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO. CAN HE OR CAN HE NOT? BOTH SIDES. WANT A HUHK O' THIS GINGERBREAD? YOU KNOW DURN WELL HE CANT! OBSERVATION PAUL When a son special said the revered dead and the trying to find something. G.O.P. was known time; but it was sleeping. And started talking constitution that gave the alarm Lincoln at once the enemy and BLOCKING A senator from started a filibuster came up for air 12 hours. There listeners in the believed had he 24 hours he will place all to him no doubt wusleep and start er to keep the IN TIME When a favorite fight game lose man up a tree prize — but m guys on the ins velvet. YOU SAID BRO A man steps principles of the must be perpetual is to endure. HEY, WATSU SPY THE FARMER'S CORNER By RALPH H. TAYLOR Executive Secretary Agricultural Council of California Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of articles by Ralph H. Taylor, farm leader and recognized authority on publics of state government, analyzing the work of the 1935 State Legislature as it affects both the farmer and the general public. About mid-September, when bills become laws, California farmers will fall heir to a bumper crop. New farm legislation, dealing with problems of virtually every branch of the industry—measures bolster protection for commodities, to facilitate the clean-up of plant pests and livestock diseases, broaden markets, strengthen prices and cope with the multiplicity of other hazards in modern day agriculture. Virtually all of the new legislation, however, has a single objective—better balance sheets and stabilized, healthy farming industry! Perhaps the three major farm bills of the 1935 session—both in point of controversy and in importance to the farmer—were the so-called Triple A bill, the new orate Act and the hotly-contested Dairy Control Act. After theoke of battle cleared away, disfactory legislation was enacted in each instance. Of major importance to the California dairy industry also was the enactment of the "oleo bill," imposing a tax of 10 cents per pound all butter substitutes manufactured from foreign fats and oils. Battles royal developed on every side over livestock legislation at this year's lawmaking carnival, out of the contests came sound, painful legislation, with few ex- country in clean dairy herds. Another link is the campaign to eradicate tuberculosis, the Legislature also threw new safeguards around the use of tuberculin to halt the "plugging" of cattle—a frequent practice by unscrupulous operators to prevent reaction to the tuberculion test. Other important farm bills enacted include the following: An act prohibiting the artificial coloring of sausage meats or casings. A measure requiring inspection of slaughterhouses which manufacture cat and dog foods to prevent the use of diseased meats. A bill to permit the formation of eradication districts to clean up olive knot, sponsored by Tulare County farmers. Legislation to expedite a cleanup of fig diseases in the San Joaquin Valley, mainly by the elimination of Capri fig trees which serve as a source of re-infection to commercial trees. An act compelling purchasers of grain and wool to pay the farmer the salvage value of the bags. Buyers, however, will probably adjust their quoted prices as an offset. A bill aimed at chicken thieves, requiring the buyers of poultry to keep records giving the name and address of the seller. A measure increasing the penalty for stealing avocados. An act requiring users of second-hand containers to eliminate all old markings, labels, brands, etc. This measure is resigned to prevent the misuse of boxes and other containers carrying the identifying marks of standard brands. (Next: “Trends Toward Centralization of Government”) WHAT OTHER THINK UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS The United States News, delving into statistics, comes up with this count: Public acts passed by Congress since 1789—24,016. Acts or parts put a crimp in the argument that the Supreme Court in that period—59. These facts put a crimp in the argument that the Supreme Court is a menace, and that its powers ought to be curbed. Congress, of course, has always been well supplied with constitutional lawyers who have frequently prevented the enactment of laws in a form known in advance to be contrary to the Constitution. But there has also been a large amount of experimental legislation on which there was a division to get even was to buy the paper and run it six months.—E. E. Kelley in Topeka Capital. The sooner we all learn that manna comes from heaven alone, and that man since Adam must live from the sweat of his brow, the quicker we shall all settle back into our proper sphere, and get along about our own business.—The Better Way. NO TROUBLE TO CHANGE News from Hollywood is that gentlemen no longer prefer blondes, but have switched to redheads. But it's practically as easy for a girl to be a readhead as a blonde. — Albuquerque, N. M., Journal. Of major importance to the California dairy industry also was the enactment of the "oleo bill," imposing a tax of 10 cents per pound all butter substitutes manufactured from foreign fats and oils. Battles royal developed on every side over livestock legislation at this year's lawmaking carnival, out of the contests came sound, helpful legislation, with few exceptions. Typical of these fights was the drive to force the State Department of Agriculture to permit all licensed veterinarians to receive bovine tuberculosis tests. In detail determination of the issue, however, the Legislature voted to continue the policy of permitting the tests to be made only by veterinarians specially approved for work by the department—powered to revoke permits as a leaguard against abuses. Another clash developed over bills designed to require the state to make free Bang's disease tests. It was the general consensus of opinion, however, that such clean-up campaign would break down without thorough-going preliminary work and it was finally needed to continue on a voluntary basis, with the Department of Agriculture working out satisfactory clean-up methods with the inmers affected. It was further need that the department must give the right to check the source livestock replacements to make such an eradication campaign effective. Paving the way for completion California's bovine tuberculosis education campaign, farm groups preceded in securing an approportion of $175,000 in the general get bill to carry on the work run by the federal government. California, incidentally, is rapidly proaching a point where it will link among the top states in the HALF A LEAGUE, BACKWARDS Late news: Mussalini rebuffs the League of Nations. Dear, dear! The capacity of the League for rebuffalion is infinite. The epitaph of the League should be rewritten out of celebrated words: "Half a League, half a League, backwards."—London Express. The Beloit Call reports a man, aggravated by an item in the paper, who went to a lawyer to see what could be done about it. The lawyer was a good honest lawyer. He told the man the way NO TROUBLE TO CHANGE News from Hollywood is that gentlemen no longer prefer blondes, but have switched to redheads. But it's practically as easy for a girl to be a headread as a blonde. — Albuquerque, N. M., Journal. Some listeners complained that they couldn't hear Gen. Hugh Johnson's radio speech the other night because of static. A few months ago you couldn't hear the static for the General.—El Dorado, Kansas, Times. "Can you tell me the difference between Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt?" asked a blonde stenographer. "I could," said I, "but I see a conundrum coming; so, by way of expediting matters, I am letting you supply the right answer. "Well, Woodrow Wilson," said the B. S., "was a professor surrounded by politicians. Franklin D. Roosevelt is a politician surrounded by professors."—Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch. NOT HARD TO TAKE Soak the rich is picking up quite a bit. But one of the planks is to take a large slice out of inheritance taxes. If some one leaves you a million dollars be prepared to give 25 per cent to help prop up the national debt. ALL FOR ONE, AND ONE FOR ALL The new slogan "soak the rich" sounds like easy money; but if you put on your speeches and look closely you will see that most all the big concerns are made up by millions of small stockholders. WHO'S WHO The movies play on names, when riages. If the record she retains name when it gets there other details a certain man the reporter said and the baby as while the old man as good as could do. LOCKING STATE HORSE IS After the kidnain contact and get cops burn up a gasoline running. THERE IS A S Anyway the new lavish spending make a lot of people pression. KILLING GOOSE If this soak them and they put exlarge incomes to fellow the chances fly away to parts. SCR Kidnappers will long as ransom money paying is victim is compound This must be safe money is paid tha quit the game. ONE HAND WAIT You can talk about get black in the green with envy outfits would steptain's office and taxes, Uncle Sam his budget and dit OBSERVATIONS PAUL REVERES When a son of a high-up official said the republican party was dead and the Grass Rooters were trying to find the body he started something. True enough the G.O.P. was knocked out the last time; but it was not dead—only sleeping. And when some folks started talking about changing the constitution the Grass Rooters gave the alarm and the party of Lincoln at once got busy to rout the enemy and the dreamers. BLOCKING TRAFFIC A senator from a Southern state started a filibuster when the NRA came up for air and he talked for 12 hours. There were only a dozen listeners in their seats, and it is believed had he windjammed for 24 hours he would have had the place all to himself. In that event no doubt would have fallen asleep and started to snore in order to keep the floor. IN THE BAG When a favorite in the prize fight game loses the decision to a man up a tree it looks like a good prize — but no fight — to the guys on the inside looking out for the velvet. YOU SAID SOMETHING, BROTHER A man steps up to say that the principles of the republican party must be perpetuated if this nation is to endure. HEY, WATSON, FETCH THE SPYGLASS WASHINGTON, D. C., July 22. Laying aside for the time being the Guey coal bill, the House Ways and Means Committee, having once before taken a crack at the "tax the wealth" program, of Roosevelt, is now again working against time to get the measure out in shape for consideration. Perhaps most significant of the trend on this legislation, which embodies four points, is the serious consideration of substituting an excess profit tax for the graduated tax of 10 to 17% dependent on the size of the Corporation. It would be a tax on bigness. The excess profits tax would not be that. A corporation which earned 15 to 20% would pay a higher rate than one which earned 6 or 8%, which would be within the spirit of the graduated income tax program the Government has pursued for the past several years. In proposing just such a tax Senator Tom Connally of Texas suggested it be enacted similar to the excess profit tax of 1921, which netted $350,000,000 a year. His proposal would exempt all small corporations with incomes up to $3,000 and prots up to 8%. On the next 20% profit, however, a tax of 20% would be imposed, and on the next 20% a tax of 40%. Large corporations have begun a campaign against the President's proposal of a graduated corporation income tax, and are calling upon their stockholders to protest this point in the President's program. A period of uncertainty is ahead of the authority delegated to President by which he is permitted to enter into such fiefs. Congressman Sam L. Collins California has been one of the most active members of his organization in the fight against tariff policies, which he declared present a constant menace to California specialty crops by threat of removal of existingiffs which protect them from cheaply grown, foreign imports. A supreme court decision this challenge will be of far restraint effect in view of the fact that the reciprocal treaties have offered a loophole through which difficult senatorial ratification acts in foreign policy can be avoided. Incidentally the recent action the House in passing amendment to strengthen the Government Tennessee Valley Authority put a crimp in Comptroller General McCarl and any Presidential actions which he might have been The House refused to give power to audit and thus constrain large measure the Authorities expenditures: ... Western Senators recently met and agreed offer legislation which would make mandatory the purchase newly mined silver until Government reserves of silver reach on fourth of the entire reserve, until the price reaches $1.23 ounce. This is the first action silver since Senator Thomas tried to place a silver rider on public works bills. YOU SAID SOMETHING, BROTHER A man steps up to say that the principles of the republican party must be perpetuated if this nation is to endure. HEY, WATSON, FETCH THE SPYGLASS This kidnapping racket opens up some funny angles. If the victim is returned unharmed and the ransom money is recovered, what kind of a crime has been committed? WIFEY GETS SOFT PEDAL They have dug up an old English law which says a wife is merely a chattel of the husband. When the wife assists the husband in committing a crime she is under his dominance. — Is she an accessory? ECONOMIC YARD STICK Some of the swivelfel men and women have plans for raising the prices of the commodities to boost business, but yet and still they are artificial. Getting down to brass tacks the old rule of supply and demand is the best and only way out. HOISTING YOURSELF BY OWN BOOTSTRAPS Some men high up incline to the fallacy that by going deeper and deeper into debt that the country will get out of debt. That plan is contrary to all laws of equation, and if continued will lead to bankruptcy. AND STILL GRASS GROWS ON SOME OF THE STREETS Many members in Congress shot off their mouths about this and that but very few hit any bulls eyes, and its s' funny they will all be up for re-election in 36. WHO'S WHO — AND HOW! The movies put a funny twist on names, when it comes to marriages. If the bride has a good record she retains her maiden name when it gets into print. And there the other day the stork visited a certain movie home, and the reporter said Miss So and So and the baby are doing nicely, while the old man is sitting along A period of uncertainty is ahead of business and agriculture as the result of the recent decision by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston declaring the AAA unconstitutional. The period of uncertainty will last until the U.S. Supreme Court takes up this case and hands down a final decision. That may be next winter, or next spring, three years after the passage of the act. In fact there is going to be a constant reverberation of court clashes from now on. At the same time the AAA decision came out of Boston the Country heard from New Orleans, where a Circuit Court of Appeals says the Tennessee Valley Authority, the government set-up which supplies that part of the country with power and light, is Constitutional. A similar court in Cincinnati condemned the PWA low cost housing program in a condemnation suit. Leading industrialists have declared they intend to ignore the recently enacted Wagner Labor Relations Act, and bring it to an immediate court test. The confusion is multiplied by the present precedent of the Circuit Courts of Appels assuming the right to say which acts are Constitutional and which are not, rather than leaving this up to the Supreme Court. In the magazine "Nation's Business" an article will appear in the August number showing how, under the recently enacted declaratory judgment law, a constitutional case can be tested before the Supreme Court within six months, thus avoiding all this confusion and delay. Of particular interest to California agriculturalists is the renewal of the fight by opponents of the Administration's reciprocal tariff law. Precipitated by the new Soviet trade agreement, criticism crystallized in the Senate with the introduction by Senator McGarran of Nevada of an power to audit and thus commit in large measure the Authorities expenditures... Western Senators recently met and agreed offer legislation which would make mandatory the purchase newly mined silver until Government reserves of silver reach one-fourth of the entire reserve, until the price reaches $1.29 ounce. This is the first action silver since Senator Thomas tried to place a silver rider on public works bill... President Roosevelt has issued authorization for the spending of $400,000,000 for the public works fund for highway work. It is estimated that a quarter of a million workers will be employed directly or in direct Half of this will go for grazing elimination... The da press will soon feature the settler up of the agency to administer it Social Security program, finally agreed upon by the House and Senate conferees, and which will soon have the President's signature... While the House Intimate Commerce Committee reported out the controversies Pettingill long and short haul bances are estimated as remission for final consideration this session. The purpose of the bill is to help railroads meet water competition by allowing them to charge less for a long haul than for a shorter one over the same route in the same direction... Roosevelt has asked that the motor bus truck regulation bill be passed ed the Senate. It is believed that measure will afford definite relief to the railroads... Sirgilar to the public works art project, which paid 3,742 artists over a million dollars in salaries for a national wide program winter before last Harry Hopkins says that several thousand artists will be given jobs at $75 to $94 a month under white collar division... They has been much concern in Congress over religious persecution in Mexico, and 250 members has signed a petition urging the United States to take steps to show disapproval. President Roosevelt in response, authorized the statutement to the effect that the United States "believes in freedom of religious worship not only in the United States but also in all other Nations". Final Congressional approval has been given to this measure providing for the appointment of two additional judges of the District Court of the United States. WHO'S WHO — AND HOW! The movies put a funny twist on names, when it comes to marriages. If the bride has a good record she retains her maiden name when it gets into print. And there the other day the stork visited a certain movie home, and the reporter said Miss So and So and the baby are doing nicely, while the old man is getting along as good as could be expected. LOCKING STABLE AFTER HORSE IS STOLEN After the kidnappers make the contact and get the money the cops burn up a heck of a lot of gasoline running down hot tips. THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS Anyway the new deals with the lavish spending of public funds make a lot of people forget the depression. KILLING GOOSE THAT LAYS GOLDEN EGG If this soak the rich idea grows and they put excessive taxes on large incomes to help the little fellow the chances are wealth will fly away to parts unknown. SCRAM! Kidnappers will flourish so long as ransom money is paid, and paying money for return of the victim is compounding a felony. This must be stopped. If no money is paid the snatchers will quit the game. ONE HAND WASHING THE OTHER You can talk about it until you get black in the face or grow green with envey but if all the big outfits would step up to the captain's office and pay their just taxes, Uncle Sam could balance his budget and ditch the red ink. Town Hall, May 14, 1881 The stockholders of the Anaheim Water Company met in General Meeting, in puruance of the adjoinment of the meeting held on May 7, 1881. 1069 shares were represented, either by owners or holders of proxies. The total number of shares issued at this date is 1645. The minutes of the meeting held last week were read for the information of stockholders. It was moved by Mr. Haight that the Directors of the Anaheim Water Company have full power to build a ditch if necessary. The motion was seconded by Mr. Evey and carried unanimously. In response to a question by a stockholder in regard to the liability of this company to pay one-half the operating expenses of the Cajon ditch, the Secretary read the following letter: Los Angeles, California April 25, 1883 B. Dreyfus, Esq., and R. Melrose, Esq. Gentleman: Yours with enclosure (contract between Anaheim Water Company and Cajon irrigation Company came duly to hand. We have examined and considered effect of the contract and our opinion is that there is nothing formidable about it so far as your company is concerned. Certainly, you are not bound to keep up that Cajon ditch if you see fit to abandon it. Yours truly, (Signed) Glasseil V. Smith There being no further business before the meeting, it adjourned. R. Melrose, Secretary The Valencia crop in Spain is set at 17,000,000 half cases for 1935, it is reported. This is a decrease of about 3,000,000 half cases under last season.