anaheim-gazette 1935-08-01

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. CAUSE AND CORRECTION We don't know how much has been said or written about stopping, or at least, preventing automobile accidents and how much is up to the driver of a motor vehicle, but, we do know that there are ways and means of preventing a goodly portion of it around Anaheim. Anaheim streets are generally very well protected with stop signs and these stop signs are obeyed, as near as we know, and again we say BUT. There is one corner in Anaheim, perhaps the most used of the entire city and yet it is without protection. It has "free" way for motorists from both ways. It is the corner of Center and Los Angeles. If you follow the motor accidents of the city you'll find a large number of the smashes occur at this corner and most of them are disputed rights of way. Who is to decide the right of way of this corner, which will some of these days become known as "death corner"? If there is a life sacrificed then perhaps some action would be taken, and it has been purely, shall we say lucky, that someone has not recently been gathered in by the grim reaper at this corner, where tourists glide through town without respect to local traffic on Center street. Instead of waiting until someone is seriously hurt, why not place stop signs on Los Angeles street and eliminate the possibility of such an event? It may sound rather selfish to stop the through traffic for the local traffic, but one will find that local drivers are, as a rule, far more considerate of tourists than the reverse. PRICE COMPETITION AND HOME PATRONAGE We have heard much in the past few weeks about business conditions in Anaheim. We have had an abundance of plans PRICE COMPETITION AND HOME PATRONAGE We have heard much in the past few weeks about business conditions in Anaheim. We have had an abundance of plans suggested as to how a newspaper might assist the merchants in regaining that which they believed lost because of price conditions elsewhere and the rapid modes of transportation. As for being "lost" we wonder if it is not just lying dormant and awaiting the opportunity that is being passed to others in larger localities. We wonder if the merchants themselves cannot wake up to the fact that they must GO AFTER that which rightfully belongs to them PROVIDING they meet the situation, and further providing THEY SHOW THE BUYING PUBLIC THAT THEY WANT IT. This MUST be done in a legitimate manner, it cannot be accomplished with schemes. A scheme might be perfectly legitimate and honest, yet it savors of subterfuge. EDUCATION is what is needed. The merchants here should, we believe, educate the buying public that it can buy in Anaheim with a greater degree of safety and surety than elsewhere, that the merchandise purchased here IS ALWAYS A BARGAIN BECAUSE OF VALUE and that after all VALUE is what controls price. It would be very fitting to establish in the minds of those in the Anaheim shopping area that buying in Anaheim also has its features that depend almost entirely upon home patronage. The healthy condition of merchants in any community is reflected right back to the supporters of that community. During the past few years the government has killed off many crops, right or wrong we care not, but the thought was that if the market were not glutted then the farmer would get a better price for his product, BUT, if the buying public would not buy then the glutting of the market mattered little. If a person living in the Anaheim district buys elsewhere, then everyone including such person is victimized by the so-called "hard times". The merchant cannot buy something he does not need just to have it on hand and as a consequence the manufacturer has to dispose of the finished product before buying more raw materials... AND A MANUFACTURER CANNOT MANUFACTURE A STANDARD ARTICLE AND SELL IT CONSISTENTLY BELOW COST. He must sacrifice something either in quality or workmanship and hence the purchased article is not a bargain, merely a means toward attracting the unwary buyer. On the other hand, the local merchant cannot handle that type of merchandise and face his neighbors, at least his commercial venture will be short-lived. Hence we have the cycle which means through buying from your home merchant conditions will improve for all. By the same token, a merchant cannot crawl into a shell and expect the prospective purchaser to look him up and hand him business on a golden platter. He must go after it and with no let up. One merchant stated that he believed times were WASHINGTON, D.C. Who remembers the spat when inflation was comforter talk? Newspaper reader remember a syndicated articles of which gave elusion; that inflation, w able, the only question how it would be brought fect. This bugaboo of "sound financiers produced funds heads on the newspaper country last week where Borah announced an move for the two big measures before Congress the Frazier-Lemke bill would create three billion notes to refinance fa gages, and the Patman l b which would create two hundred million dollars money. While the Administra tion be able, in view of the impatience of Members'gress to cry out and lea ington, to forestall this ary move at this time, for the people of this C ponder this issue. Congress has been in the past few years. It w few votes in the Senate Patman bill was preven being passed over the H veto. And the Adm has been having a hectic ting members of the Hou their names off the petit Speaker's desk to b Frazier-Lemke bill up' f Were this bill brought up House it would likewise. As this is written tha is within eight nines o quared 213 in the Heges sman Lemke says those who have been per take their names off He must sacrifice something either in quality or workmanship and hence the purchased article is not a bargain, merely a means toward attracting the unwary buyer. On the other hand, the local merchant cannot handle that type of merchandise and face his neighbors, at least his commercial venture will be short-lived. Hence we have the cycle which means through buying from your home merchant conditions will improve for all. By the same token, a merchant cannot crawl into a shell and expect the prospective purchaser to look him up and hand him business on a golden platter. He must go after it and with no let up. One merchant stated that he believed times were normal now and that we have had abnormal times; which leads many to believe that instead of normal, conditions are subnormal. "The merchants have had it so easy that they are at a loss to know what to do," he said and finished by saying that he WAS GOING TO GO AFTER BUSINESS AND GET IT and we believe with such determination he will. Again the golden rule applies. A little cooperation between the merchants of Anaheim and the purchasing public will soon lend a fadecut to the so-called depression. IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES In this distribution of our national wealth it might be well to stop for a moment and try to determine who gets it in the first place anyhow. Just what is the proportion between working capital and wages anyhow? According to James L. Donnelly, executive vice president of the Illinois Manufacturers Association, as reported by the Manufacturers News, in the year 1933, which certainly was near the bottom of the depression, the workers' portion of the national income was 63 per cent. At the same time, it is to be remembered, the profits of corporations had practically disappeared. In summarizing Mr. Donnelly's statement the News continues: "Real wages of all workers (wages related to the cost of living) rose 16 per cent in the seven years from 1922 to 1929, and average purchasing power rose 44 per cent. Back in the good old days of 1850, the workers' share of the national income was only 36 per cent. In the fourteen years from 1918 to 1932, the average business return per dollar of service or sales was less than 2½ cents; only about four cents if we eliminate the worse years, 1921, 1931 and 1932. Eighty per cent of the manufacturers in Illinois, and probably in the whole country, employ fewer than 100 workers each, and few have cash working capital greater than ten per cent of their annual payrolls." So there must have been something to the prosperity in these good old days catalogued as in the certainly rose in that cost of living. Let it cent and purchasing such a tough time for jungle days before R. No wonder some of them at the good old Cool hitting. SCHOOL DAYS By DWIG YOUR ARGUMENT'S ALL RIGHT SO FAR'S IT GOES, ONLY IT DON'T GO FAR ENOUGH. THAT ALL'S THE MATTER WITH YOUR ARGUMENT. TAKE MY MAY FRINSTANCE: I ADMIT SHE'LL BUY CATTAILS FOR TO PUT ON THE WHAT NOT ONCE, BUT ONCE ONLY. BUT SHE SCOURS PANS. EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR WITH RUSHES. YOU GOT TO GIVE 'EM WHAT THEY NEED. RUSHES FOR ME— ANIMAL, I DUTHER SELL SOMETHING PURTY ONCE THAN SOMETHING UGLY A MILLION TIMES. FURTHERMORE, IF I WAS INTRESTED IN KEEPIN' THE DISH PANS CLEAR, WHY, I'D GO DOWN TO THE FOUNDRY AND GET A WHEELBARROW OF MOULDIN' DIRT AND SELL THAT. IT'S DETERN RUSHES AND DONT GRIT YOUR NERVES SO! IN THE MARTS OF TRADE CHAPTER Thirty minutes after time Captain Alan white linenes bad his face dark with beard, stepped out and shouldered his mob of sweating gangplank of the Lung, moored to his dock. Beneath him his strong young gray eyes sharp at Trangganu steel, re mood. A three-day left his nerves on famous Gaskell tened for instant erupation. Sir Guy, hard-boiled the Kin Lung, stood a woman passenger came up the compass. "She tells me," she whirling on his you've been senses every since you've Gaskell ignored protests of the ladies. He barked at Sir don't like my behalf aboard ship — you a new boy. In fact would." Sir Guy laughed pretty fair under man beneath the L Alan Gaskell. "You wouldn't I could!" Sir Guy neared men say that The weak ones s China Seas—but like you stay on fiercely at Gaskel. WASHINGTON WEEKLY REVIEW Special to ANAHEIM GAZETTE WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 1—Who remembers the spring 1933 when inflation was common parlor talk? Newspaper readers may remember a syndicated series of articles of which gave this conclusion: that inflation, was inevitable, the only question was just how it would be brought into effect. This bugaboo of "sound money" financiers produced few scare heads on the newspapers of the country last week when Senator Borah announced an organized move for the two big inflationary measures before Congress, namely the Frazier-Lemke bill, which would create three billion dollars in notes to refinance farm mortgages, and the Patman bonus bill, which would create two billion six hundred million dollars in new money. While the Administration may be able, in view of the extreme impatience of Members of Congress to cry out and leave Washington, to forestall this inflationary move at this time, it is well for the people of this Country to ponder this issue. Congress has been inflationary the past few years. It was only a few votes in the Senate that the Patman bill was prevented from being passed over the President's veto. And the Administration has been having a hectic time getting members of the House to take their names off the petition on the Speaker's desk to bring the Frazier-Lemke bill up for a vote. Were this bill brought up in either house it would likewise pass. As this is written the petition is within eight months of the required 218 in the Hague, and Congressman Lemke says that with those who have been persuaded to take their names off by party foods and services, we have inflation. He then gently shows us how the bankers have given us just such expansion and made us think it was quite all right. A man borrows a few thousand dollars from a bank. Instead of giving him the money the bank places this to his deposit. The bank has thus increased the Nation's credit money by that amount. The horrible example is the total of fifty five billion dollars in bank deposits on the books in 1929 when there were only four billion nine hundred million dollars in real currency. This pyramid, Mr. Flynn says, was what we called prosperity. It has really disappeared into thin air. Some inflationists contend that the sound money school wishes to denounce in credit or synthetic money of the back check variety, and is unalterable opposed to any money. To illustrate this contention they recall that financial epheles, seriously considered demonizing gold at the time when the Klondyke gold rush was at its bright, and great discoveries were also being made in South Africa, fearing "It would become too plentiful and too cheap, and God save us from cheap money, even gold." Some inflationists are simply for more money. Others contend for Government ownership of the banking system, whereby credit can be controlled. But the strong move has been simply for the insurance of new currency. To date the President has successfully opposed outright inflation. There were those who commented both on his recent message chiefly from the angle of seeking to avoid currency or credit inflation as the dangerous alternative for taking care of the state government's excess. Editor Gazette: You wanted to know something about my early coming to Anaheim. Here is some of it: After having spent 2 years in Texas on the Colorado river in a number of high class pursuits, ranging from herding sheep to a position in the Driscol Hotel in Austin as 3rd assistant cook, I landed in Anaheim via side door pullman in July, 1885, just 50 years ago. My first night I spent as a guest in Lewis's livery stable. I got a job working for Capt. Barr. That is when I began to read the Gazette. Mr. Edwin Barry owned 26 acres east of town. The last 10 acres of which, located Center and East streets (now the Sandiland place) he had just bought, telling me he didn't know, but he might have paid too much for it—$6230 an acre. My father owned an embroidery factory in Sachsen, Germany and being the only child, he wanted me home to run his business. He had sent me a box of embroidery to Austin, Tex., which was forwarded to me in Anaheim, the proceeds of which I used for fare back home in February, 1886. After being there about 10 days, slitting in the office one day looking out into the orchard on 4 feet of snow. I shut my eyes and I could see green alfalfa, orange trees and old Baldy in the distance. That settled me. A year and a half after, found me on my way back to America but owing to a doubt, in me about military duty I didn't go over a German port, but went via Antwerp, Belgium, from where I was courted over Bull England, and by rail to Leeds and Glasgow, where I missed the steamer by an hour and had to lay over there for a And the Administration has been having a hectic time getting members of the House to take their names off the petition on the Speaker's desk to bring the Frazier-Lemke bill up for a vote. Were this bill brought up in either house it would likewise pass. As this is written the petition within eight months of the required 213 in the House, and Congressman Lemke says that with those who have been persuaded to take their names off by party whips, the number would be 221. It is not unreasonable then to expect that the inflationary sentiment will grow rather than diminish in the future. Well, what is inflation? That is a hard question. Senator McAdoo former Secretary of the Treasury under Wilson, who startled the hard money people by voting for the bonus, recalled at the time an interesting incident. While Secretary of the Treasury a measure came up which bankers vehemently protested as inflationary. Senator McAdoo told them to each his separate way and in due time come back with the definition of what is inflation. None of them returned. Economist John I. Flynn, who deplores inflation and who admits there are many kinds of inflation, such as credit, gold, currency or commodity inflation, gives it this general definition: When we are creating more money income than that which is produced in the process of making these good old days of 1922 to 1929 which have now been catalogued as in the "house and buggy era." Real wages certainly rose in that Old Deal period in comparison with the cost of living. Let it be repeated. Real wages rose 161½ per cent and purchasing power 44 per cent. Evidently it wasn't such a tough time for the wage earner, even if it was in the jungle days before Prof. Tugwell started cutting the grass. No wonder some of the college professors have been shooting at the good old Coolidge year of 1926 as something worth hitting. Others contend for Government ownership of the banking system, whereby credit can be controlled. But the strong move has been simply for the issuance of new currency. To date the President has successfully opposed outright inflation. There were those who commented him on his recent tax message chiefly from the angle of seeking to avoid currency or credit inflation as the dangerous alternative for taking care of the huge governmental expenditures attendant to the recovery and relief program. And we have but three paths from which to choose: Continuing to borrow, resorting to taxation, or outright inflation of the currency. The inadequate thing about the President's tax policy is that whatever Congress approves in the way of additional levies, they will not begin to make up the differences between the total amount raised and current Federal expenditures. Borrowing has almost reached the tolerable limit. To what extent then will inflation be used? Only the developments in the next several months can answer that, but a well-based prediction made by Hymn's worth studying. He predicts the Administration will try to prevent "printing press money" through the Federal Reserve System. Under the pending bill to increase Federal control over the banking system the Administration will have the power to effect a monetary policy. From there the Treasury can issue bonds bearing little or no interest, sell them to the Federal Reserve System, which can pay for them with reserve currency under existing law to the limit of maintaining a 400% gold base for such currency. Right now the Reserve banks could issue eight billion dollars in such currency. Thus the Government could and may extend the currency without seeming to do so. A year and a half after, found me on my way back to America but ewing to a doubt, in me about military duty I didn't go over a German port, but went via Antwerp, Belgium, from where I was courted over Bulls England, and by rail to Leeds and Glasgow, where I missed the steamer by an hour and had to lay over there for a week for the next steamer, going to New York, Galveston and Austin, Texas. Arrived in Anaheim the 2nd time in 1889, where I lived with Capt. Barr again. While with him he got a telegram from John Kuebler of Bradshaw, Nebr., telling him, a cyclone had slightly dislocated the hotel and kind of mixed up the upper and lower story, and to come. John was the hotel manager for Mr. Barr. He told me to take care of things while he was going to Nebyska for a couple of weeks. He didn't come back for two years and a half. Since then I have spent part of my time in Anaheim, part of it on the Gila river, near Florence Arizona, some of it in the Ozark Mountains, near the Missouri line in Arkansas, some of it in Fort Scott, Kansas, and 10 months in Newilano, La. Generally speaking the home-rule issues resolved its pay by the first government close; while the consolidated went into battle one lethigh of "economy" their standards. Crusaders also gave their campaign agitation moves, to the too much centralization upon pqn pqn. Since 1923 I am beim, where I am the interest of the passed along my Beebe says that I to be a hundred yr making preparation to get acquainted generation of Anas You GUS As a postscript w Gazette has been I wreever I want prospecting in An grass got real shaw was no object, because the Gazette came same. I think this is as any to express me to you. Aside from stantial interesting of the Gazette of year and 25 year are worth the price And as long as they makes no difference "CHINA SEAS" CHAPTER ONE Thirty minutes before sailing time Captain Alan Gaskell, his white linenes badly mussed and his face dark with a stubble of beard, stepped out of a richshaw and shouldered his way through a mob of sweating coolies to the gangplank of the steamer Kim Lung, moored to her Hong Kong dock. Beneath his pith helmet his strong young face, with its gray eyes sharp as a blade of Trangganu steel, reflected his sour mood. A three-day hangover had left his nerves on edge, and the famous Gaskell temper was primed for instant eruption. Sir Guy, hard-bitten owner of the Kin Lung, stood chatting with a woman passenger as Gaskell came up the companionway. "She tells me," snarled Sir Guy, whirling on his captain, "that you've been sensationally blotte every since you've been ashore—" Gaskell ignored the horrified protests of the lady gossiper. He barked at Sir Guy: "If you don't like my behavior ashore—or aboard ship — you can always get a new boy. In fact, I wish you would." Sir Guy laughed. He had a pretty fair understanding of the man beneath the brusque front of Alan Gaskell. "You wouldn't leave her if you could!" Sir Guy scoffed. "I've heard men say that for fifty years. The weak ones sneak out of the China Seas—but the bullheads like you stay on!" He glared fiercely at Gaskell, and arumply "No time!" snapped Gaskell. His jaws clamped angrily. "I've got to get the pride of your fleet under way." He went to the bridge, where Dawson and Kingston, the first and second officers, felt the biting edge of his temper. The third mate lay in Sepoy Hospital with a knife wound in his kidneys. His successor was a hunted, uncasy little man named Davids, whom Gaskell recognized as a disrated captain whose ship has been plundered by pirates. "No time to look for a man now," Gaskell grunted. "You'll have to do." After a few minutes Gaskell left the bridge and went down to his quarters. He was surprised to find the door of his bedroom locked. "Who's in there?" he shouted. "Just a minute, darling — I've been showering the dew drops off the body beautiful." The gay voice was feminine, very bright and very flippant. Gaskell's dark browns met in a straight line of anger. He waited stiffly until the door opened. The girl whom all the Archipelago knew as China Doll — or, with slightly more formality, as Miss Portland — smiled out at him tantalizingly. "What the devil are you doing abroad?" Gaskell greeted her. "Didn't we spend about seven hours saying goodbye, or whatever you call it?" China Dolls smile widened slyly. "I thought you could use all His mood softened as he accepted the bills she handed him with a reminiscent chuckle. "Now get going. We're pulling out in a few minutes." "Why are you so anxious to get me out of sight?" He was used to her passionate changes of mood, but the note of jealousy puzzled him. "Is she making the round trip?" "What are you mumbling about? That red-headed Russian princess who was abroad from Singapore—" "Just a minute, Dolly." The gray of Gaskell's eyes deepened and his voice was curt. "We're great pals—have a lot of fun together—but I don't remember making any vows to you. Nor do I recall asking for any—" "Don't get politic at me! When you talk with a high hat on I know you mean it — an dit sares me!" Her humility was swept away suddenly by fiery indignation. "Who do you think you are, anyway? If I had five cents worth of pride—" "I'm not standing in your way, if that's how you feel." The flame died down in her. He was so strong, so vital, so disapproving and aloof that her anger was burned away by her need of him. That's just the soup I'm in — I don't feel that way at all — you no-account dog!" With a tremulous laugh of surrender, she threw her arms around her neck. THE FARMER'S CORNER By RALPH H. TAYLOR Executive Secretary Agricultural Council of California Editor: Note—This is the sixth in a series of articles by Ralph H. Taylor, farm leader and recognized authority on problems of state government, reviewing the work of the 1935 State Legislature as it affects both the farmer and the general public. Is home-rule — California's traditional policy of local control of local government — headed for the discard? Viewing the unmistakable trend toward centralization of governmental powers in the State, as evidenced in repeated efforts to consolidate county and city functions with related state functions, that question becomes one of the most thought-provoking and controversial issues brought to focus by the 1935 State Legislature. Champions of home-rule, to be sure, won four of the five major skirmishes on the moot issue in the recent legislative session, but the advocates of State-rule, on the other hand, drove an entering wedge for their cause with a victory for the state automobile tax of $1.75 per $100, in lieu of the present local personal property tax. From the farmer's standpoint, the state auto tax, without the policy thus established may lay the basis for further raids on county and city revenue sources when State income needs replenishing. Generally speaking, the fight on a State political machine which would be almost unbeatable. And the proponents of greater centralization of government argued against this the fact that State control would increase efficiency, eliminate over-lapping local functions and benefit the tax payers. In the first round of the battle—and the 1935 session was undoubtedly only the preliminary test of strength—the results were as follows: 1. State highway unification program, designed to bring all county roads into the State system and abolish local highway construction—Defeated! A victory for the home-rule group, with the County Supervisors Association of California and the California State Automobile Association as outstanding members of this group. 2. Five-County Plan, providing for the consolidation of California's 53 counties into five units—Defeated! Another victory for the home-rule group. 3. Consolidation of county printing jobs under the State Printer, eliminating the home-town printer—Defeated! Victory for the home-rule group. 4. Establishment of a State Police, which would have clipped the wings of county sheriffs—Defeated! Still another victory for the home-rule advocates. 5. Creation of a state auto tax in lieu of the old local personal property tax; appropriating $15,000,000 in local revenues for state purposes—Successful! A victory for the State-rule group. WHAT OTHERS -- THINK -- STRIPPED BUT NOT STRAPPED The New Deal has been stripped naked of nearly everything it had except the four thousand eight hundred and eighty million dollars but that is not saying that it has been stripped naked. With that sum of money at command we think we could elect any one of a dozen South Carolinian "Tories" we know to the White House and a brand new Congress, too. If Julius Caesar had had one tenth that money he could have kept his legions in Rome and the Gauls and the Teutons would have crawled to him to eat out of his hand—Charleston, S. C., News and Courier. WOMAN DECLARES SPOUSE WILL WORK IF AID IS NOT RAISED Topfia, Kins —A woman called at the Shawnee County relief headquarters to complain about the amount of money and supplies given her family. "We just can't get along on what we're getting," she told a case worker. "My husband and I have talked it over and he said if we didn't get more, he was going out and try to find a job."—Associated Press. WOMAN SMOKERS Another proof of the helpful influence of women is the news that April production of cigarettes amounted to 10,200,000,000. — Lowell Mass. Leader. A GERTRUDIAN OBSERVATION From the farmer's standpoint, the state auto tax, without the policy thus established may lay the basis for further raids on county and city revenue sources when State income needs replenishing. Generally speaking, the fight on the home-rule versus state-rule issues resolved itself into a campaign by the first group to "keep government close to the people," while the consolidation advocates went into battle with the shibboleth of "economy" flying from their standards. The home-rule crusaders also gave emphasis in their campaign against consolidation moves, to the argument that too much centralization of power appealed or punished spring up in Since 1923 I am back in Anaheim, where I am now spending the interest of the millions I have passed along the road. Since Dr. Beebe says, that I am going to live to be a hundred years old, I am making preparations to get ready to get acquainted with the next generation of Anaheim. Yours, GUS SCHATE As a postscript will say, that the Gazette has been forwarded to me wherever I want. When I was prospecting in Arizona and the grass got real short and money was no object, because I had home, the Gazette came to me just the same. I think this is a befitting time as any to express my appreciation to you. Aside from the good substantial interesting reading matter of the Gazette of today, the 50 year and 25 year ago items alone are worth the price of the Gazette. And as long as that is a fact it makes no difference who says so. Two large nurseries for the propagation of citrus fruits to be planted on Nyasaland, South Africa, are being developed by the Department of Agriculture of Jamaica, it is announced. 4. Establishment of a State Police, which would have clipped the wings of county sheriffs—Defeated! Still another victory for the home-rule advocates. 6. Creation of a state auto tax in lieu of the old local personal property tax; appropriating $100,000 in local revenues for state purposes—Successful! A victory for the State-rule group. Even though defeated in the majority of instances, the State-rule group frequently threatened to break through and mustered such strength that the issue will undoubtedly take rank as one of the major questions in forthcoming political campaigns. And there is the further possibility of power in the State will go to the people with their issue, via initiative proposals. At any rate, it is an issue which should command the thoughtful attention of every voter. Whether rural or urban, for it raises many fundamental questions. A modified county-consolidation plan—peraging contiguous counties into one interest—might result in savings for example. But the Five-County Plan, or any similarly radical program would inevitably place rural California under the absolute domination of the cities. And there is still the further question: "What California county—even though it means a saving to the taxpayers—is willing to give up its name and sacrifice its identity?" (Next: "The Proposed Special session—and special Taxes.") "The policeman says you and your wife had some words," remarked a judge in Ponta City. "I had some sir," replied the husband, "but I didn't get a chance to use them."—Wichita Eagle.