anaheim-gazette 1938-01-27

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. SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS $1.00 MRS HENRY KUCHEL THEODORE B. KUCHEL Editors and Publishers Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Anaheim, California, under the Act of March 8, 1879. COUNTY OFFICIALS This being an election year the season seems to be open on all elective officials. One can hear almost anything via the grapevine. To smart people, most of this goes in one ear and out of the other. To enemies of an attacked officer it is a sauce to be spread around where it will do the most good (or harm as the case may be). This sort of thing in many places is considered good politics. Call it by another name and few people would admit to ever having stooped so low. When charges are brought before the grand jury, however, they must be more than politics and only an effort to cast aspersions at an political opponent. Fact and malicious fancy are far from being one and the same thing. N. E. West, fifth district supervisor, seems to be caught in the backwash of his own efforts. He now must go before the court on the issue of his right to retain office. That we have one of the best groups of county officials is shown by the records through many years of operation. Tactics creating turmoil, agitation and discontent can only result in loss to the taxpayer. Efficiency in county government, which the record proves we have, is the best guaranty for the man who pays the bills. Let us hold fast and keep our trust where it should be. A THIRD TERM The American Institute of Public Opinion has just announced that the recession has brought about a marked decline in popular sentiment for a third term. In December, 1936, immediately following Mr. Roosevelt's overwhelming re-election, only 31 per cent favored a third term. By July, 1937, the percentage had risen to 37. Today it stands at... A THIRD TERM The American Institute of Public Opinion has just announced that the recession has brought about a marked decline in popular sentiment for a third term. In December, 1936, immediately following Mr. Roosevelt's overwhelming re-election, only 31 per cent favored a third term. By July, 1937, the percentage had risen to 37. Today it stands at 33, and the only group of citizens found to favor it are the unemployed. Southern California’s Conquest of Drought One of the five pumping plants on the Metropolitan Aqueduct which will lift water over the mountain barriers that lie between the Colorado River and Southern California’s coastal plain. (Note: The Colorado River was discovered a hundred years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, and has been known at various times as the River of Good Guidance, the Firebrand River, the River of Martyrs, and the Red River—El Rio Colorado. Until the government built Boulder Dam, the roaring summer floods of the Colorado threatened many times to revert the name to the River of Martyrs. It was a river of extremes varying in the quantity of water it carried from 2,000 to 200,000 cubic feet per second. This is the fifth of a series of articles about the Colorado River Aqueduct.) The Federal Government checked to the combined areas of the New England states. There were few roads, and these were planks laid on the sand, across this unecharted desert. The mountains and plains are completely barren of green vegetation. There are no streams, and animal life is limited to the rattlesnake, the chuckawalla, and a few venture some jack rabbits. When this pioneering job was started there were no communication systems—survey parties were out of touch with civilization for weeks at a time. Automobiles carried the equipment as far as they could be pushed, then it was transferred to pack trains, and finally when the burrows couldn’t scale the cliffs, the men took up the load. HOW GRAND JURY WAS DELAYED The grand jury was scheduled to meet again on Wednesday of this week. Since this column is written before that time it is impossible to comment on any action they may have taken. The regular news columns will carry such news as is available. The county seat was full of rumors as to what the grand jury was about to do. It was expected to act on Monday of last week but presumably postponed its action to hear what the supervisor from the Fifth district had to say at the appearance he asked the privilege of making before the jury that day. The grand jury members were quite surprised to find that this supervisor came before them to make charges which he already had stated in a newspaper article he released that same morning. They didn’t know it but when they finally got out of their afternoon session with him they found it all spread on the front pages. They had understood that all matters presented to the grand jury were secret. The story is that the expected action of the jury on that day was delayed by the appearance of the supervisor, with some suspicion that was his purpose, he perhaps having gotten wind of the rumors going around. At any rate, the jurors thought they should call in the three county officials attacked on Monday, and hear their side of the story. So Tuesday was given up to that hearing, and then the jury adjourned until Wednesday of this week. JURY HAS SOME LATITUDE In matters pertaining to the removal of an official from office the grand jury has considerable discretion left to it by law. They are supposed to move for the removal of an official on grounds of misconduct, but are given considerable latitude in deciding what constitutes that offense. As explained in this column last week two courses are opened to the jury undertaking such removal—they can return an indictment or an accusation. The former results in a criminal action, the latter in a civil action, both tried be- times as the River of Good Guidance, the Firebrand River, the River of Martyrs, and the Red River—El Rio Colorado. Until the government built Boulder Dam, the roaring summer floods of the Colorado threatened many times to revert the name to the River of Martyrs. It was a river of extremes varying in the quantity of water it carried from 2,000 to 200,000 cubic feet per second. This is the fifth of a series of articles about the Colorado River Aqueduct. The Federal Government checked the flood menace on the Colorado River by the construction of the giant Boulder Dam, creating a man-made lake 110 miles long in which the floods are caught and held, later to be released in a constant flow downstream. Not only checking the floods, this reservoir acts as a vast desilting basin, taking the red silt out of the water and giving the lake the clear, sky blue color of a mountain stream. Believing that this dam would be built, the problem facing the City of Los Angeles in 1923 was that of transporting part of this water clear across the state of California —300 miles—to the Coastal Basin. After a personal reconnaissance in October of that year, Chief Engineer Mulholland set under way the most comprehensive topographic survey ever to be undertaken in this country by any agency other than the Federal Government. At that time most of the desert regions between the Coastal Basin and the Colorado River were unmapped. Because there was no well defined belt, clearly better than any other, to which surveys for an aqueduct route could be limited, it was necessary to make a general topographic survey of the entire area. This survey required seven years to complete and covered 25,000 square miles—approximately equal in size this unearthed desert. The mountains and plains are completely barren of green vegetation. There are no streams, and animal life is limited to the rattlesnake, the chuckawalla, and a few venturesome jack rabbits. When this pioneering job was started there were no communication systems—survey parties were out of touch with civilization for weeks at a time. Automobiles carried the equipment as far as they could be pushed, then it was transferred to pack trains, and finally when the burros couldn't scale the cliffs, the men took up the load and carried it on their backs as they made their way hand over hand. Shriveling all other hardships was the terrific desert heat that blanched the area from the first of May until the first of November. Death Valley is in this region, and its heats are common to the rest of the territory. Official temperatures of 120 degrees are common, and temperatures of 130 degrees have been recorded—these of course are shade temperatures. Out in the sun where the bronzed instrumentmen and rodmen worked, the thermometer reaches heights unknown and unbelievable to the layman. Living in fly-camps, without benefit of air-conditioning, the dark after sunset meant little when the temperature at midnight was over 100 degrees and when water was 110 degrees "cold" after standing fourteen hours in steel tank cars parked on sun-baked sidings. Up and down the Colorado River these parties ranged from Utah-Arizona line to the Mexican boundary, a distance of 300 miles, and west from these extremes in a vast triangle whose sides converged on the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Inside the boundaries of this giant triangle, the engineers ran an even 100 different lines for possible aqueduct routes from the river to the sea. (To be continued) NO THEY AREN'T CROOKS In spite of many attempts to make it appear otherwise, Orange county really is pretty well governed. One of the real facts about it is that county officials work pretty well in harmony. The first real note of discord came the past year with the change in complexion of the board of supervisors. Since then numerous monkey wrenches have been tossed into the machinery, though the tossers thereof have tried to make it appear that they were repairing a series of bad breaks. But notwithstanding these handicaps, there has been remarkably little difficulty as between officers. The auditor and the district attorney have had their differences, and occasionally some even less noticeable discord notes have been sounded, but or ANOTHER SIT-DOWN PUBLIC OPINION CRACY IN COUNTRY IT IS SOMETHING ELSE IS TRIED." ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY WATCHTOWER A Compilation of Observation and Comment by and for the Weekly Newspapers of the County: Newport Beach News Garden Grove News Westminster Gazette Coastline Dispatch Buena Park News Yorba Linda Star Courier Anaheim Gazette Seal Beach Post Star Tustin News Brea Progress AND JURY LAYED and jury was scheduled again on Wednesday of Since this column is before that time it is imposted comment on any acmay have taken. The news columns will carry unprejudiced person can follow the routine transaction of county business around the court house and feel that any of the officials are the blackguards they are sometimes painted. Occasionally one of them may pull a boner, but on the whole there is very little to criticise. Without question the county's Walnut Growers Meet In County Walnut growers of southern California will meet in Santa Ana February 11, 10:00 o'clock, to discuss several vital problems confronting the industry, according to announcement from Farm Advisor Harold E. Wahlberg. The institute is held under the auspices of the edible nut department of the farm bureau and the agricultural extension service. The program as arranged for this year is well rounded, said Wahlberg, covering walnut pests, walnut soil fertility, orchard management, and walnut marketing. In addition to these features, state and national agricultural policies will be discussed by E. C. Kimball, vice-president of the California Farm bureau federation. J. A. Smiley, chairman of the state department, says that such a program as this is well worth the time of any walnut grower and urges a large attendance by Orange county growers. Speakers scheduled for the institute are A. M. Boyce, W. R. Schoonover, O. L. Braucher, W. E. Goodspeed, Carlyle Thorpe, and H. S. Strathman, assuring a program of high quality and interest to the industry. Los Angeles County Rents Prison Farm "Honor" farms for qualified prisoners now overcrowding the county jail, Wayside Ranch, near Castaic, is being leased by the county through its board of supervisors at $12,000 a year for five years, with an option to purchase it at $178,000. The 2400 acres of the ranch are to be used for agricultural assignment, and the number of "honor" inmates depends upon the amount of money available to provide accommodations and adequate guard. The FAL Executive Counc Editor's Note: This is fourth in a series of articles Ralph H. Taylor, veteran representative of California rice farm cooperatives, dealing in farm labor problem. America, during 1937, thurdrunkenly down the highway labor disorders and class war. Strike losses reached the gering total of five billion lars. Shootings, knifings, club and beatings were daily enrences. There was flagrant defiance constituted authority—a road leads only to anarchy and dism. Millions of American wives—incited by radical leaders blackjacked into submission on strike and ended their debt and despair. Thousands of employers, factories shut-down, their kets lost to competitors, close books of 1937 with strikes piled high on top of the of depression. And today, America stands the threshold of a new deprived with radical agitators—many them not even American city—fanning the fires of hate discord and striving desperately tighten their stranglehold American industry. Their objective, they assert, is to genize agriculture. With culture in their grip—with roads and ships, factories business already at their mercy they will have their dream labor dictatorship. That, at is their goal. And many are enough to admit it. The fight of California UND JURY AYED und jury was scheduled again on Wednesday of Since this column is before that time it is important to comment on any acation may have taken. The news columns will carry as is available. County seat was full of what the grand jury to do. It was expected Monday of last week but postponed its action that the supervisor from district had to say at the time he asked the privilege going before the jury that Und jury members were prised to find that this came before them to argues which he already in a newspaper article detected that same morning. Don't know it but when they got out of their afteroon with him they found head on the front pages. Understood that all matter intended to the grand jury et. Und jury is that the expected the jury on that day was by the appearance of the with some suspicion this purpose, he perhaps written wind of the rumors found. At any rate, the ought they should call in county officials attacked by, and hear their side of So Tuesday was given at hearing, and then the turned until Wednesday week. CANDIDATE STUFF With the first month of the year nearly at an end, the election year talk has begun to increase somewhat in volume. As time goes on the symphony chorus of "I want a county office" will get louder and louder. So far it really is but a whisper. A good deal of interest centers in the Fifth supervisorial district where the official life of Supervisor West is gradually drawing to a close. Opinion in that district seems to be that he will not run again and that he would be badly beaten if he did. The talk is he will try to run for congress on an independent ticket, hoping that the republican effort to beat Sheppard will give him a chance to slip through. Four candidates are mentioned as practically sure to appear in the primary race in the Fifth district. Carl Hankey of San Juan Capistrano, Dan Mulherron of San Clemente, Dr. Houston of Costa "Honor" farms for qualified prisoners now overcrowding the county jail, Wayside Ranch, near Castaic, is being leased by the county through its board of supervisors at $12,000 a year for five years, with an option to purchase it at $178,000. The 2400 acres of the ranch are to be used for agricultural assignment, and the number of "honor" inmates depends upon the amount of money available to provide accommodations and adequate guard. Mesa and Lloyd Claire of Newport Beach are listed as the contestants to date, with some observers believing Houston will not be in the race. In the Second district, where John Mitchell's term expires with the latest report being he insists he will not run again, Willis Warner of Huntington Beach is the sole "mention" of importance up to date. In the Fourth District the situation with reference to Willard Smith is practically unknown, except that if he runs he will have opposition. The mess which Chief of Police Howard of Santa Ana got into over the lottery tickets is regarded as eliminating him from the sheriff's race, whether he is guilty or not. This makes Logan Jackson's chance much brighter as Howard really was the most important contender. James L. Davis is scheduled to run against Homer Ames for superior judge. Both are democrats. Elmer Guy, who ran for district attorney four years ago right up to the last minute before the primary election, has been early on the fishing grounds this year, trying to sound out the depth of the others. He has not reported whether he struck bottom. Harold McCabe, present deputy in the d. a. office, is supposed to be about to become a candidate for his boss' job. More later—plenty more. THE ANSWER is part of the message! TELEPHONING is personal communication. It is only to be compared with going there yourself. When you telephone to someone, you can talk things over, and the answer is part of the message. Long Distance gets things done. Why not use it today? Why not use it now? Just Call BUSINESS OFFICE 217 N. LEMON ST., ANAHEIM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TELEPHONE COMPANY Anaheim 2101 The FARMERS CORNER by RALPH H. TAYLOR Executive Secretary Agricultural Council of California Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles by Ralph H. Taylor, veteran representative of California major farm cooperatives, dealing with farm labor problem. America, during 1937, thundered takenly down the highway of or disorders and class warfare. Strike losses reached the staging total of five billion dollars. Shootings, knifings, clubbings and beatings were daily occurrences. There was flagrant defiance of instituted authority—a road that is only to anarchy and despotism. Millions of American workers occupied by radical leaders, or jackaded into submission—it on strike and ended the year debt and despair. Numerousands of employers, their stories shut-down, their marriages lost to competitors, closed the doors of 1937 with strike debts and high on top of the debts depression. And today, America stands on threshold of a new depression, a radical agitators—many of whom not even American citizens running the fires of hate and blood and striving desperately toaken their stranglehold on American industry. Their final objective, they assert, is to "orze" agriculture. With agriculture in their grip—with railroads and ships, factories and business already at their mercy—will have their dream of a or dictatorship. That, at least, their goal. And many are frank enough to admit it. Of Alien Harry Bridges, or one of his satellites—and with farm workers compelled to pay tribute to the boss of the "union hiring hall" to secure employment—the seeds of revolt will have been sown in America. Labor czars, under those conditions, with complete domination of the nation's food supply, would be ready to call their general strike—ready to set up their labor dictatorship! But America wants no dictatorship, whether it be by capital or labor, and most Americans recognize that dictatorship—no matter by what name it may be called—is the road to ruin. Labor dictatorships preceded fascism in Italy and Germany. The Russian soviet, too, was supposed to be "government for the masses." But dictatorships, soviet or fascist, are all alike in one respect. They are profitable only to the dictators! American workers—farm workers and city workers alike—should give heed to the experience of workers in other nations which have gone the way of the class struggle. Here are some simple, dollars-and-cents facts that workers as well as employers should read and consider: In Russia, the average annual income of workers is $552. In Italy, it is $239. In Germany, $718. And in the United States, despite all the spurious preachments of the disciples of fascism and communism, the average annual income of the worker is $1,275! Those significant figures on how the worker fares under the various forms of dictatorship, as compared to his pay in America under a democracy, are vouched for by the International Labor office. And they deserve most careful consideration by every farm worker, every sincere member of organized labor. America needs to discriminate between an honest labor movement, fighting to protect labor's rights, and a dishonest labor hysteria, incited by foes of both workers and employers. It needs to ask: "Whither are we drifting?" 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