anaheim-gazette 1937-09-16

ANAHEIM GAZETTE Established 1870 Orange County's Oldest Newspaper HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher 1887-1935 The Anaheim Gazette has been owned and edited by the same family since 1875. Published every Thursday at 259 East Center Street, Anaheim, Calif. MRS. HENRY KUCHEL — THEODORE B. KUCHEL Editors and Publishers In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the writing of the Constitution of the United States tomorrow, The Gazette believes that the proclamation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt is worthy of reproduction. The Constitution is the basis of our government. Sturdy, yet flexible, it has served this nation 150 years. It is a document so alive that it will continue to be modern and serviceable to this nation many times 150 years. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Constitution of the United States was signed on September 17, 1787, and had by June 21, 1788, been ratified by the necessary number of States and, WHEREAS George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States on April 30, 1789. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, hereby designate the period from September 17, 1937, to April 30, 1939, as one of commemoration of the one hundred and fiftyth anniversary of the signing and the ratification of the Constitution and of the inauguration of the first President under the Constitution. In commemorating this period we shall affirm our debt to those who ordained and established the Constitution "in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." We shall recognize that the Constitution is an enduring as one of commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing and the ratification of the Constitution and of the inauguration of the first President under the Constitution. In commemorating this period we shall affirm our debt to those who ordained and established the Constitution "in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." We shall recognize that the Constitution is an enduring instrument fit for the governing of a far-flung population of more than one hundred and thirty million, engaged in diverse and varied pursuits, even as it was fit for the governing of a small agrarian Nation of less than four million. It is therefore appropriate that in the period herein set apart we shall think afresh of the founding of our Government under the Constitution, how it has served us in the past and how in the days to come its principles will guide the Nation ever forward. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this fourth day of July, in the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. By the President: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. CORDELL HULL, Secretary of State. WHEN JOHN BARLEYCORN DRIVES— John Barleycorn causes a high percentage of our 38,000 annual traffic deaths. A report from the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows a condition that exists in many states. California experienced 2,838 traffic deaths last year. Of these about 21 per cent involved drivers and pedestrians who were known to have been drinking. It is reasonable to assume that liquor was a factor in a much greater proportion, as it is often impossible to legally prove mild intoxication. No lethal weapon ever invented by man is more potentially deadly than a mixture of alcohol and gasoline. Medical tests have proven that as little as two or three ounces of liquor will seriously impair a driver's reflexes—even though he may appear to be sober in all respects—and at the same time give him an influx of Dutch courage that results in inexcusable recklessness. By the same token, drinking pedestrians, their senses of caution dimmed, unknowingly take the chances that breed death and injury. There is no excuse for a driver taking the wheel of his car after drinking. Here is a case where the law must be adamant, and must be exerted ruthlessly, impartially and immediately. It is a notorious fact that in many communities, prosecuting and police officials are lax about the drinker at the wheel, and are only too willing to reduce a charge of drunken driving to the less important charge of recklessness, ule is set up in the law which calls for contributions from the employee in percentages of the salaries, varying with the employee's age, but averaging about percent. The supervisors are the compelled to budget and raise a taxation enough to add to the fund a flat three and one-quarter percent of the payroll of the employees belonging. The county all must stand the cost of administration, which would be in charge of a board of which the county treasurer is ex-officio one member; the second is named by the employees and the third by the board. The trouble with the scheme from a pension standpoint is that it offers too little in comparison with the vastly beneficial plans of the Townsend scheme and other At best an employee could draw but about $25 a month after he had served until he was 76 years old. And what's a more pittance like that when are going to get $25 every Monday morning or something like that? SUPERVISORS UNCONGENIAL It has been many years since Orange county had a board of supervisors which had such a hard working as a unit. Always before there has been at least solid majority which could ahead and do what it thought should. At present there is a majority which can be dependent on... Part of the time two members stick together pretty well and at other times the board made up of five different units, pulling in different directions, though at present one of them pulling very little at all. There have been many peculiar results from this situation, but it's latest one is the rumor that Ward Smith of the Fourth district Orange and Olive, is weary of job and may not seek re-election next year. Smith did not have easy time of it three years ago and it is known there will be strong opposition to him now year. It is said he has about come to the conclusion that a hard fight for re-election, only to face another four-year struggle with an uncongenial board is hardly worth while. MITCHELL, NOT SMOKED OUT Attempts have been made smoke out John Mitchell, supervisor from the second district, the question of his next year. recklessness. By the same token, drinking pedestrians, their senses of caution dimmed, unknowingly take the chances that breed death and injury. There is no excuse for a driver taking the wheel of his car after drinking. Here is a case where the law must be adamant, and must be exerted ruthlessly, impartially and immediately. It is a notorious fact that in many communities, prosecuting and police officials are lax about the drinker at the wheel, and are only too willing to reduce a charge of drunken driving to the less important charge of recklessness, if a little "pull" is exerted. The sole consequence of such a policy is to make these drivers believe they can get away with it—and they repeat the offense at the first opportunity. Drunken driving can be handled by adequate laws, which impose fines, jail terms and license revocation on offenders, coupled with aggressive police and prosecution work. When a fifth of the traffic fatalities in a representative state are known to be the result of liquor, it's time to "crack" down. SECURITY AND FREEDOM— “If you look out on the world today, you will find that we really have a large measure of freedom. There is a place or two on this earth where economic security is more general and is government-guaranteed—but in those countries, there is no freedom. We want both. We want both security and freedom. But we want them both as the product of our own achieving. “We want security as a product of our own work. We want freedom as the result of our own vigilance. We want neither as a gift.”—George E. Sokolsky. A local man who is happy though married states that he has found the proper formula. He says, “She goes her way and I go hers.” Americans, because of the aerial bombardments, were warned to leave Shanghai. It is getting as dangerous to live there as it is to cross the street in an American city* ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY WATCHTOWER A Compilation of Observation and Comment by and for the Weekly Newspapers of the County: Orange Beach News Newport Beach News Westminster Gazette Buena Park News Anahaim Gazette Tustin News Garden Grove News Coastline Dispatch Yorba Linda Star Seal Beach Post Brea Progress EY EMPLOYES GET PENSION Many officials have just been appraised of a new law which the last "economy" legislation which if adopted in Orlando would put a new tax on the taxpayers. It would be the county a partner in an ethics' pension association, the supervisors compelled to do so. In order to get the action set up it requires that the majority of voters favor referendum election, or the supervisors adopt it by suffits vote. So far there has no move to do anything but, but the facts were not known until a copy of the scheme in brief calls for establishment of an association of the employees themselves, officers being eligible only upon notice at the beginning term of office. A sched-set up in the law which our contributions from the county, in percentages of their varying with the emage, but averaging about 4%. The supervisors are then needed to budget and raise by an enough to add to the flat three and one-quarter of the payroll of the emelonging. The county also and the cost of administra-which would be in charge of of which the county treasured district that the other candidate for the supervisorship will be Willis Warner of Huntington Beach. Warner has been active and more or less prominent on various boards and committees, but is a member of one of the two rivalrous factions in the Beach city. So far as the sheriff proposition is concerned, you can lay to it that there will be plenty of candidates—yes, we said, plenty. But no matter who is "mentioned" as a likely candidate, nor how many of them there are, when you get down to the real sentiments of the careful observers, they pretty generally agree that the next sheriff of Orange county will be none other than your old pal, Logan Jackson. MANY MONTHS TO LAY AN EGG Away last spring, early, some of the supervisors began to talk about "salary adjustments" for county employees. After a little the chairman of the board appointed a committee to go into the matter. N. E. West and John Mitchell were it. They started the generator right quick, but months have gone by with the job not yet finished. However, they have gotten to the place where the district attorney has a tentative schedule on which he is to draw up a new wage and salary ordinance. He expects to have it ready—after a while. Without doubt when the Since the days of the horse-drawn stage coaches, highway tractors always been interesting. Above are pictured various models of buses from the small jitney of 1911 to the Greyhound "Super-City today," hundreds of which are now operating over western highways throughout the nation. NEWSPAPER UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Copyright, 1934, PHILIP H. BACHRACH, President, Great Britain Rights Reserved QUESTIONS COLLEGE Physics, First Year History, Third Year NEWSPAPER UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Copyright, 1934, PHILIP H. BACHRACH, President, Great Britain Rights Reserved QUESTIONS COLLEGE Physics, First Year 1-In what form can all elements be obtained? English, Second Year 2-What is the traditional sentiment about a marriage ring? HIGH SCHOOL Mathematics, First Year 5-What is a standard cord of wood? Art, Second Year 6-Who painted "Washington Crossing the Delaware." ELEMTARY History, Second Grade 9-Who made the first flag? Arithmetic, Fourth Grade 10-Which is more, one-fourth or one-fifth? ANSWERS 1-Three, as solid, liquid and gaseous depending on the degree of heat and the pressure exerted on the element. 2-That it signifies eternity because it has no beginning nor end. 3-Peyton C. March, chief of staff. 4-Groups of stars within certain artificial boundaries to which names have been given. Ten thousand piles, some 90 feet in length, are the foundations on which buildings of San Francisco's 1939 Exposition rest. Two huge concrete and steel airplane hangars, costing $800,000, have been completed on Treasure Island, site of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. LARGEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL IN AMERICA HELL, NOT RED OUT Impacts have been made to about John Mitchell, superfrom the second district, on question of his next year's nancy. Santa Ana writers reported him as having an sheriff's job, but they rise to their stories. John num. ever, from the Second disself come reports that when time rolls around John's will be found in the supervising again. He is said to stated he would not run again one of his constituents think, and that the talk about ning for sheriff is just some of that old time essence of also comes from the Second For your Picnic Save at PIONEER M. M. LUKASKY MASSAGE PARLOR Protect your Health — Save TIME — Save EXPENSE — See LUKASKY — My work is known the country over — Ask your friends about it — An ounce of preventive, is always worth a pound of cure — I say. Good Circulation of Blood is one of the first steps to Good Health. If you are not satisfied with your first Massage, Don't Pay for it. STRICTLY MASSAGE — Will see you by Appointment only — A Lady Attendant. Phone Anaheim 4002 N. Los Angeles St. Anaheim, California If O. Henry’s fictional “Gentle Grafters” suddenly came to life in twentieth-century America, they would undoubtedly forsake all the time-worn confidence games of by-gone eras as piker-rackets and blossom forth as the originators of bigger and better old-age pension schemes. But to get a hearing in California, they would need something exceedingly expansive and sumptuous—possibly a sure-fire retirement system for all Californians who have achieved voting age, or something of that order. Anything less, in view of the schemes already proposed for next year’s ballot, would probably fail to attract attention. One of the proposals suggested for the 1938 ballot, for example, has as its objective a $100 per month pension for every Californian over 45 years of age. This scheme, advanced by California Retirement Annuities, Inc., of Los Angeles, headed by a gentleman named James Furlonce, has reached the stage of securing an initiative title from the attorney general’s office. Furlonce says that his pension plan would be financed by a 2 per cent transactions tax. Then, there is the "$25 Every Monday Morning" plan, which popped up for hearing in the recent session of the state legislature. This, too, will be placed on the ballot if its sponsors can collect sufficient funds to circulate initiative petitions. Third—and most likely to qualify for submission to the voters—Any voter who recognizes that a $100 per month pension for every person over 45, if it were actually placed in operation, would mean intolerable tax burdens and economic slavery for every person under 45. The 2 per cent transactions tax, proposed as a means of financing the $100 plan for those over 45, would be a turnover tax on all commodities, pyramiding with each transaction and raising the cost of food products in addition to the present 3 per cent state sales tax. To farmers, as well as consumers, it would spell economic disaster, as it would build up price resistance which would break down the demand for commodities. The Margett scheme of using the state sales tax to defray the costs of his $100 pension for persons over 60 is no less impractical. In the first place, the revenues from the sales tax, great as they are, would only be sufficient to pay a small fraction of a $100 per month pension to California residents over 60. Where the balance of the money would come from is problematical. And in the second place, if the sales tax revenues were taken for old age pensions, it would rob the schools of their present major source of income and either force the levying of new taxes or the shut-down of the public school system. The chief danger to farmers, workers and business men—and citizens generally who still believe in industry and frugality as the UNIVERSITY RICA (ent Office) BACHRACH, President. its Reserved ONS AGE History, Third Year 3—What American general ranked next to General Pershing in the World War? Astronomy, Fourth Year 4—What are the constellations? HOOL History, Third Year 7—Name two great military commanders who led their armies across the Alps. Astronomy, Fourth Year 8—What is the moon commonly called when it is a thin crescent? ARY Geography, Sixth Grade 11—What textiles are made in Manchester, England? English, Eighth Grade 12—Name a few collective nouns. ERS 5—a pile 8 feet long, 4 feet wide and 4 feet high. 6—Emanuel Leutze. 7—Hannibal and Napoleon. 8—the "new moon," although when the moon is really new it is invisible. 9—Bettsy Ross. 10—One-fourth. 11—All kind of cotton goods. 12—Class, army, group. 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He is now busy at the task of raising the $30,000 fund necessary to circulate initiative petitions. The basic fault in all these grandiloquent schemes is that they are economically impossible ECONOMY without skimping! Savings that are painless...real travel comfort and service despite the record low costs...are the secret of the great popularity of the California. 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