anaheim-gazette 1938-07-28

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. HOLD YOUR HATS! Get out your spectacles, your dictionary, and your law books! With that November ballot less than four months in the future, there isn't a minute to lose if you're going to be in a position to understand the parade of initiative proposals destined to stare up at you from the ballot. There's a proposal intended to make doctors write all their prescriptions in English; another to label all doctors as "unskillful" who have not performed at least fifty major operations. There's a squadron of tax acts and an assortment of pension ideas. There's a measure to create a home for perennial drinkers, and plans to change innumerable functions of government. And to top it all, there's the Garrison Bond Bill, whose complicated provisions make possible a further flood of public borrowing—borrowing not regulated by even the rudimentary safeguards now in effect. That some peculiar laws win official approval in such a miscellany of legislative cure-alls is not to be wondered at. Perhaps it was some such circumstance as this that made church-going in South Carolina illegal without a gun; that decreed tail-lights for dogs in certain states; that ordained a sixth appearance at a young lady's door as an official proposal of marriage under Maryland statutes. There seems to be no choice. We hereby dedicate a portion of our time between now and election eve to a study of this year's crop of ballot boners, a study that's bound to uncover a few peculiar breeds in the doghouse of pet proposals. REVISED ESTIMATE— WASHINGTON — With leading and spending bringing the government's daily outgo to $400,000, President Roosevelt week issued a revision of his January budget estimate for fife 1939. Prime facts in his reversion, which resembled the original as most movies resemble novels from which they are adapted, were: Estimated Revenue decrease by bad business: January $5,947,437,000; now $5,000,270,000. Estimated Expenditures increased by lending and spending: January $6,869,043,000; now $8,915,157,000. Estimated Net Deficit: January $949,606,000; now $3,984,887,600. Estimated Public Debt next J: January $38,528,200,000; now $40,650,000,000. COMPETITION CONTEMPLATED— WASHINGTON — Economists agree that a major cause of pression II was the failure of private industry to undertake public priming when the government down. Utility officers explain their estimated dam of $3,000,000 in capital expenditures grounds that they and the investing public are too scared by government's power policy to more money into the business. Efforts to end this stalemm reached a peak last month before congress passed the levy spend bill which contained a vision for bidding PWA to bu... Miscellany of legislative cure-alls is not to be wondered at. Perhaps it was some such circumstance as this that made church-going in South Carolina illegal without a gun; that decreed tail-lights for dogs in certain states; that ordained a sixth appearance at a young lady's door as an official proposal of marriage under Maryland statutes. There seems to be no choice. We hereby dedicate a portion of our time between now and election eve to a study of this year's crop of ballot boners, a study that's bound to uncover a few peculiar breeds in the doghouse of pet proposals. SALES-LADY AND QUEEN! With the passing of dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, America says a final good-bye to one of its favorite personalities. As first sales-lady of the Balkans, Queen Marie was adept at making friends and selling bonds, a dual role she played to perfection. In that gilded era of American munificence when most Americans were ready and willing to finance rails in Brazil, streets in Siam or waterworks in Bucharest, Queen Marie lent her charm to the American penchant for buying the world. Today that era is past. America no longer adds to her collection of international odds and ends, railways, oil wells, roads, factories, all bought and paid for by American capital. And with the passing of that era has passed also its most talented ambassador, an ambassador whose personality left an impression perhaps more lasting than the improvements her bonds bought. Gay, colorful, talented, Queen Marie gave to a coming-of-age America a glance at international sophistication. Primarily a sales-lady, she brought to her profession the grace and dignity of a queen. In a world dominated by the roaring bravado of the world's new rulers, the quiet charm of one who gave to ruling the authority of age and inheritance will be sorely missed. The FARMERS CORNER by RALPH H-TAYLOR Executive Secretary Agricultural Council of California Every doctor w/o administers habit-forming drugs to help a patient over a period of crisis recognizes that he must exercise the greatest possible prudence and discretion to avert disastrous consequences. And public relief officials are beginning to learn by tragic, disheartening experience that economics opiates are equally dangerous. As a consequence, the number of strikes has doubled and trebled and tax bills have catapulted to new highs. And as a further consequence, WPA workers have organized their own union—the Workers Alliance of America, with 1300 locals in 46 states—and have laid seige to the government, demanding wage increases. "The question of wage increases for 0-600,000 WPA workers with both feet." And to give force to his mands, Lasser warns that his union has 400,000 dues-paying members and 400,000 more who do pay dues now, but who doubt will if some government agency can be induced to part with money. Already successful in securing pay-increases for WPA workers 13 southern states, the relieved union now wants a $10 per month wage increase in District 11, comprising Kansas, Missouri, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia and parts Texas. It is an amazing picture — amazing commentary on how the United States has drifted from sound standards. With every added to the relief rolls and even pay-increase granted, the relief union gains in political power and in its capacity to add more money to the relief rolls. Meanwhile, new refugees continue to pour into California at rate of more than 10,000 per month—120,000 per year—and the pressure for bigger relief payments and bigger pensions increases in direct ratio. California taxpayers may weed the recent warning sounds by the Kern county board of supervisors. Said the board, informal protest to the federal government: "The continued migration tens of thousands of indigent unemployed and unemployables from other states to California is creating social and economic problems that threaten the very foundations of our state." Then, training its guns on the Farm Security administration, the Kern county board declares "These people are encouraged migrate to and remain in the state of California by aid extended them by the Farm Security Administration, pending such time as they become eligible under California law for public assistance." Every doctor w.o administers habit-forming drugs to help a patient over a period of crisis recognizes that he must exercise the greatest possible prudence and discretion to avert disastrous consequences. And public relief officials are beginning to learn by tragic, heartening experience that economics opiate are equally dangerous. Serious as the narcotic problem may be, dole-addiction is far more dangerous to the welfare of California and the nation today than dope-addiction was at its worst. Thoughtful Californians, anxious to avert complete breakdowns of fundamental standards, have much to ponder, for there are danger signals on every hand. Twice, within recent weeks, strikers, who quit their jobs voluntarily—and whose jobs were open, if they desired them—have staged sit-down strikes in headquarters of the State Relief administration in an effort to force compliance with their demands for relief payments. In both instances, Relief Administrator Harold L. Pomeroy has stood firm, serving notice on the strikers that no state dole can be paid to those who refuse to take available employment. But the fact remains that in scores of other cases men who refused to work have been supported on relief rolls at the expense of taxpayers already over-hurried with caring for the needy and unemployed. Federal relief agencies, in repeated instances, have financed strikes and encouraged workers to quit their jobs by paying strikers from the public treasury. As a consequence, the number of strikes has doubled and trebled and tax bills have catapulted to new highs. And as a further consequence, WPA workers have organized their own union—the Workers Alliance of America, with 1300 locals in 46 states—and have laid seige to the government, demanding wage increases. "The question of wage increases for 2,600,000 low-paid WPA-workers," declares David Lasser, socialist organizer-president of the alliance, "is a major issue in the primary campaigns and the November elections. Our organization is in the political campaigns foot in the door, too! "WHY WASH MY FACE???" Says Johnny— "It only gets dirty again." And you begin to think there's something in Johnny's argument when week after week you have to go through the same old tiring business of the weekly wash. But you don't have to keep doing it—you can use our Rough Dry, flat work beautifully ironed, and wearing apparel washed, starched if necessary, and dried. 40 pieces $1.00, must be two small to one large in the flat work, and at least 6 pieces of wearing apparel. 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DETITION EMPLATED— WASHINGTON — Economists that a major cause of De-n II was the failure of pri-industry to undertake pumping when the government cut Utility officers explain estimated dam of $3,000,000,-capital expenditures on its that they and the investi-public are too scared by the moment's power policy to put money into the business. Itts to end this stalemate and a peak last month just congress passed the lend-bill which contained a pro-forbidding PWA to build both feet. TO GREAT THING" TROY, New York — Seeing a motorist drive smack into a road construction project near Troy, a WPA foreman bawled: "What have you got above your eyebrows?" Above the eyebrows was the skimpy-heaired pate of Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who later chuckled: "It's a great thing to be deflated. I found out I wasn't such a big any more power plahts in competition with private companies. This provision was removed by White House request, but Senate Majority Leader Barkley announced that "the president does not contemplate any further such competition "unless and until such municipality as may apply for such allocation has in good faith made an offer to purchase the existing private plant." Just what this broad promise meant became apparent last week as PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes ogered 21 municipalities a total of $9,527,995 to build plants of their own, though they are already served by private utilities. To receive these beneficiaries, the 21 municipalities, said Ickes, must "make 'reasonable efforts in good faith' to purchase the facilities with which the applicants would be in competition." Asked who would be the judge of such efforts, Public Works Administrator Ickes declared: "I don't know of anyone better qualified to judge what is fair and reasonable than the administrator of public works." Asked if he anticipated trouble from the private utilities, Ickes said: "I never anticipate trouble, especially when I know it is coming." "GREAT THING" TROY, New York — Seeing a motorist drive smack into a road construction project near Troy, a WPA foreman bawled: "What have you got above your eyebrows?" Above the eyebrows was the skimmy-heaired pate of Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who later chuckled: "It's a great thing to be deflated. I found out I wasn't such a big any more power plahts in competition with private companies. This provision was removed by White House request, but Senate Majority Leader Barkley announced that "the president does not contemplate any further such competition "unless and until such municipality as may apply for such allocation has in good faith made an offer to purchase the existing private plant." Just what this broad promise meant became apparent last week as PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes ogered 21 municipalities a total of $9,527,995 to build plants of their own, though they are already served by private utilities. To receive these beneficiaries, the 21 municipalities, said Ickes, must "make 'reasonable efforts in good faith' to purchase the facilities with which the applicants would be in competition." Asked who would be the judge of such efforts, Public Works Administrator Ickes declared: "I don't know of anyone better qualified to judge what is fair and reasonable than the administrator of public works." Asked if he anticipated trouble from the private utilities, Ickes said: "I never anticipate trouble, especially when I know it is coming." "GREAT THING" TROY, New York — Seeing a motorist drive smack into a road construction project near Troy, a WPA foreman bawled: "What have you got above your eyebrows?" Above the eyebrows was the skimmy-heaired pate of Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who later chuckled: "It's a great thing to be deflated. I found out I wasn't such a big any more power plahts in competition with private companies. This provision was removed by White House request, but Senate Majority Leader Barkley announced that "the president does not contemplate any further such competition "unless and until such municipality as may apply for such allocation has in good faith made an offer to purchase the existing private plant." Just what this broad promise meant became apparent last week as PWA Administrator Harold L. Ickes ogered 21 municipalities a total of $9,527,995 to build plants of their own, though they are already served by private utilities. To receive these beneficiaries, the 21 municipalities, said Ickes, must "make 'reasonable efforts in good faith' to purchase the facilities with which the applicants would be in competition." Asked who would be the judge of such efforts, Public Works Administrator Ickes declared: "I don't know of anyone better qualified to judge what is fair and reasonable than the administrator of public works." Asked if he anticipated trouble from the private utilities, Ickes said: "I never anticipate trouble, especially when I know it is coming." HOPPER WAVE— WASHINGTON — Westward from Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois to Washington, Oregon and California; northward from Texas to the Dakotas last week swept waves of grasshoppers, damaging crops. In New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle, probable crop damage was estimated at $30,000,-000; in the Dakotas, the visitation was worst. Iowa was not so badly off, because spring rains had killed the eggs deposited in the ground by last year's females. Fighting the "hoppers were WPA, CCC, state highway crews, and the farmers. The U. S. bureau of entomology and plant quarantine already has spent $2,500,000, and provided gratis 188,700 tons of deadly delicacy beloved by grasshoppers, a mixture of bran and sodium arsenite. The bureau will ship enough more to spread 40,000,00 acres with polson bait by season's end. So that the grasshoppers will take readily to the fare, it is mixed with sawdust and water or molasses, flung over infested fields from buckets, or spread from barrels by them. Aside from extending for two more years the International Wheat Agreement (drawn up in 1933 to limit wheat production and export), the 25 delegates from 16 nations did nothing. Conference experts figured that the world harvest, excluding the Soviet union, China and Manchu-kuo would total 4,205,000,00 bushels—216,000,00 bushels above all time record set in 1928. Especially ominous was the prospect for the U.S. Once a major wheat exporter (200,000,00 bushels), the U.S. last year sold only 100,000,-000 bushels abroad. This year, unless foreign countries store part of their crops, the U.S. will have an exportable surplus of 250,000,-000 bushels. Last week Secretary Wallace hinted his department might subsidize wheat exports. TO HELSINGFORS— TOKYO, Japan — Of Italy, England and Finland 1936 meeting of the Int'l Olympic committee, Japan 1940 Olympic Games all Tokyo to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the founding empire. Repeatedly pointing rumors that it might be games because of the event in China, the Japanese eminent voted $5,000,000 to Olympic Village. But lhe minister of public suddenly announced Japandal explained: "...celliation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to the cellation is due to this stalemate and a peak last month just congress passed the lend-bill which contained a pro-forbidding PWA to build both feet. TO give force to his de-Lasser warns that his un-440 thousand dues-paying memboth feet. ANAHEIM GAZETTE "GREAT THING" TROY, New York — Seeing a motorist drive smack into a road construction project near Troy, a WPA foreman bawled: "What have you got above your eyebrows?" Above the eyebrows was the skimpy-haired pate of Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, who later chuckled: "It's a great thing to be deflated. I found out I wasn't such a big shot." WHEAT SCARE— WASHINGTON — Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace last week fixed wheat loans for the 1938 crop and the acreage allotment for next year (55,000,000 acres, compared with about 80,-000,000 actually seeded this year). Figured on the present farm parity price of wheat, the loans will average about 60c a bushel at the farm. The 1938 crop estimated at 967,000,000 bushels will be the second largest on record, and Commodity Credit Corp. has set aside $100,000,000 for the loans. Purpose of the loans is to let farmers keep their wheat off the market until they can get a better price. Secretary Wallace chose the minimum rate permitted by the 1938 AAA. If the price of wheat falls below the 60c fixed figure, the government must hold the wheat until the price rises, spend $100,000,000 or more to store the surplus while foreign producers have the world market to themselves by selling at the prevailing price. To insure the U.S. a "fair share" of the world wheat business, Secretary Wallace would like the world's farmers to store their surplus wheat this year. U.S. representative at the International Wheat Conference in London last week was Albert Gain Black, chief of the U.S. bureau of agricultural economics. Well-qualified to expound the ever-normal granary plan to the London delegates, Economist Black nevertheless failed to convince "I DON'T KNOW" PORTLAND, Maine — "I don't know any more than you do. I have never heard him mention it. He has never even hinted it." So last week said Franklin Delano Roosevelt's well-schooled, 83-year-old mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, queried in Portland about her son's attitude toward a third time as president. STAGGERING SUM— LONDON — Britain's house of commons last week reluctantly but unanimously gave final approval to Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon's staggering budgetary decision to spend on the army, navy and royal air force $1,750,000,000 in a single year. In a voice shaking with emotion Sir John told the house: "Make no mistake—if we do not succeed and come a European free-for-ear of entomology and plant quarantine already has spent $2,500,000, and provided gratis 188,700 tons of deadly delicacy beloved by grasshoppers, a mixture of bran and sodium arsenite. The bureau will ship enough more to spread 40,000,000 acres with poison bait by season's end. 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We speak as if our civilization was securely based, but there have been other civilizations than ours. Tutankhamen was forgotten until he was dug up. It is very possible that the things protesting our civilization are more tender than they are sometimes thought." TO HELSINGFORS— TOKYO, Japan — Outbidding Italy, England and Finland at the 1938 meeting of the International Olympic committee, Japan had the 1940 Olympic Games allocated to Tokyo to celebrate the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the empire. Repeatedly pooh-poohing rumors that it might abandon the games because of the "incident" in China, the Japanese government voted $5,000,000 to build an Olympic Village. But last week the minister of public welfare suddenly announced Japan's withdrawal, explained: "... Cancellation is due to the fact that it is absolutely necessary for Japan to obtain the objective of the Sino-Japanese incident by national mobilization of materials and spirits." Belgium's Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, president of the International Olympic committee, promptly announced that the 1940 Olympics would therefore be awarded to Helsingfors, the Finnish city whose bid had been outvoted at the committee meeting in 1936. Peace-loving Finland has never been host to the Olympics, was last week planning a modest program in keeping with the ideals of international amity. The winter Olympics, scheduled to be held at Sapporo in northern Japan, will probably be offered to Oslo. Indiana Reunion to be Held on July 31 Indiana semi-annual basket picnic and reunion will be held Sunday, July 31, at Sycamore Park, Los Angeles. County registers will enable friends to find each other and coffee furnished free to those buying souvenir badges. A good lively program will be given at 1:00 o'clock, including music and short addresses. With Rightest arms in possession and countryside had been ruthlessly pillaged, bombed and destroyed; the country's economic life had been ruined; important nations had aligned against each of three-fourths of all Spain, with Rightest armies steadily advancing, most observers believed last week that Franco was headed for a final victory. But in a war full of surprises, and with the retreating Leftist soldiers contesting every square mile, few could predict that victory would be soon. RAISE FRIERS on FED CO the original feed for friers used by large, successful frier plants and 10,000 poultrymen. Fedco, the feed that makes more weight at less cost, better feathering and raises a greater number of chicks. Recommended and used by more hatcheries in Southern California than any other feed. Fedco, the Original One Feed for All Ages. Fifteen years the same formula. Our new book 20 Years Raising Broilers and Friers is free to you. Ask your dealer. 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