anaheim-gazette 1938-08-04

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. CAPTAIN MATTIS IN COMMAND This newspaper heartily pays tribute to John M. Mattis, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Mattis of South Palm street, for his contingious and successful rise in the field of aeronautics. Jack Mattis is an Anaheim boy, educated in our local schools, and later graduated from the University of Southern California. Thereafter, he graduated from the Naval Training station at Pensacola, Florida, and was for a time a reserve officer of the American navy, stationed in San Diego. From there, he was taken into the flying service of one of the great international air travel concerns where he guided its big silver sky-birds thousands upon thousands of miles over Mexico, Central America, and South America. This week, "Baby," the concern's many tonned clipper ship was scheduled to blaze a trail from Florida through Los Angeles and up the coast to Alaska. Jack Mattis was placed in command. This city may well be proud of her native sons. And Jack's newest accomplishment stamps him as a future leader in aviation . . . an airman of unusual experience . . . and a local boy of whom we are more than proud. THE THREE "MUSTS" OF TRAFFIC SAFETY Better law enforcement, plus better driver education, plus better highways, constitute the key to automobile accident prevention, according to the experts. And none of the three ingredients can be left out of this "safety stew" if we are to get results. Better law enforcement doesn't mean tough policemen, politics in the flurry over a change in flood control plans, which normally were put through on Saturday and which mean that funds and work are withdrawn from other flood control projects and concentrated on the Santa Ana river. Nobody can say, but someone who watched the fireworks would deride if there might not be more to it than met the eye of the casual observer. Supervisor Mitchell helped pave the proposition through. Since the Santa Ana river is the principal flood menace to his district, the concentration of work on the stream can't do him any harm. Supervisor Smith can smile w THE THREE "MUSTS" OF TRAFFIC SAFETY Better law enforcement, plus better driver education, plus better highways, constitute the key to automobile accident prevention, according to the experts. And none of the three ingredients can be left out of this "safety stew" if we are to get results. Better law enforcement doesn't mean tough policemen, and traffic judges who decree the maximum punishment on every possible occasion. It does mean modernized traffic codes, "fixless" tickets, a higher calibre of motor policemen in many instances, and judges and prosecutors who do their duty without fear or favor. It means a type of law enforcement whose principal purpose is not punishment, but accident prevention: Often some sound advice will do more to curb a reckless or thoughtless driver, than a fine. Better driver education requires the scientific approach. Drivers must be appealed to on every possible occasion, by the written and spoken word. Messages must be simple, vivid and memorable. The great majority of drivers involved in accidents can be made into safe car operators. In the case of the small percentage which is congenitally reckless, revocation of licenses seems to be the only cure. Better highway construction is where the engineer comes in. When you build a road on which it is impossible to have a major accident, you've solved the traffic problem so far as that road is concerned. And modern planning makes it possible to come remarkably close to that ideal, through the use of under and over passes, traffic lane separation, and approaches which do not permit cars traveling in opposite directions to meet. The highway of the future will not only be faster than that of today, but immeasurably safer. Accident prevention involves the long pull. It can't be achieved overnight. But properly directed and continuous campaigns, over a period of time, will turn the trick. ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY WATCHTOWER A Compilation of Observation and Comment by and for the Weekly Newspapers of the County: Huntington Beach News Newport Beach News Garden Grove News La Habra Star Westminster Gazette Brea Progress South Coast News Buena Park News Yorba Linda Star Costa Mesa Globe Anaheim Gazetta Neal Beach Post Placentia Courier Tustin News Coastline Dispatch BUDGET FIGURES INDICATE TAX BOOST Orange county taxpayers can expect some increase in county taxes and the tax rate for next year, but the boost will not be employees. The only increases of consequence, and which can hardly be wiped out by other reductions the board will make, are those in the welfare and road departments. The former will require about $300,000 more than for After considerable thought a figuring he got up a tax bill for which made it possible to write the bill, two receipts and stubs all at one time, from a local boy of whom we are more than proud. BUDGET FIGURES INDICATE TAX BOOST Orange county taxpayers can expect some increase in county taxes and the tax rate for next year, but the boost will not be nearly as much as that which had to be put on last year. And this is spite of considerable loss to county property through the flood. The preliminary budget estimates of all departments were submitted to the board of supervisors last week. The board did not want to release the figures for publication, but the reporters insisted, and managed to copy off the most important facts. The supervisors were afraid the taxpayers would get wrong ideas about it. The budget estimates are those turned in by the various officials and department heads. These are later taken up one by one by the board, and the tendency has been to peel them down considerably. Last year there was a 20-cent jump in the tax rate, following a cut of about 10 cents the year before. Most of the increase was made necessary by the vastly broadened state law regarding old age pensions. For next year almost every official and department head is asking for some increase in his budget. Most of these increases are small, and are accounted for by increased salaries for some employees. The only increases of consequence, and which can hardly be wiped out by other reductions the board will make, are those in the welfare and road departments. The former will require about $300,000 more than for the past year. Flood damage to roads and bridges causes the increase in the road department budget. Hearings will be held on the budget during this month. MIGHT BE POLITICS EVEN IN FLOOD CONTROL There may have been some Louis Beach SALUTE to the STATES AUG. 6-13 Spectacular! WATERSPORTS CIRCUS and HISTORICAL PAGEANT GAME OLD JACK-IN-THE-BOX in the flurry over a change in control plans, which flipped put through on Saturday which mean that all and work are withdrawn her flood control projects, centrated on the Santa Ana Nobody can say, but some watched the fireworks won’t there might not be more than met the eye of the caseriver. Advisor Mitchell helped put position through. Since the Ana river is the principal enace to his district, the operation of work on that can’t do him any harm. Advisor Smith can smile with gether and with carbon sheets in place. Expert operators can turn out a complete set in a little over a minute, as against at least five minutes the old way. On 65,000 tax bills that is no small saving. The system has various other advantages also, mostly too technical for newspaper explanation. But Lamb is justly proud of it, although it never has put a dime in his own pocket. STEPHENSON ASKS LESS INSTEAD OF MORE Unless your correspondent’s eyes deceived him, only one county official or department head turned in a budget estimate ask-week of his relief clients: fellows are not a lot of They are 3,000,000 Americans and they all have views. And, incidentally, I know pretty much what views are. At least 90% would vote for President velt if he were up for re—why not? SPOILED NEIGHBOR—WASHINGTON — Although the U.S. has always reserved the sole right to spank its Latin-American neighbors, since 1933 it has spared the rod in the interests of President Roosevelt’s “Good Neighbor” policy. Meanwhile, the Mexican government has seized without compensation oil lands, mines, ranches and farms belonging to citizens of the U.S. and foreign countries. After President Lazaro Cardenas seized great foreign oil properties this year, President Roosevelt explained for Mexico’s benefit that the Good Neighbor policy “can never be merely unilateral. It is bilateral and multilateral and... the fair dealing which it implies must be reciprocated.” But still, President Cardenas did nothing about paying for what he had grabbed. Franklin Roosevelt had just finished fishing in Mexico’s Pacific backyard last week when Secretary Hull sent Mexico a note about expropriation – without compensation. Not once in 1,400 well-chosen words did he mention oil wells, gold mines or vast ranches, but he began with a juicy preamble about the sympathy of aims existing between President Cardenas’ new deal for Mexico and President Roosevelt’s New Deal for the U.S. “The issue is not whether Mexico should pursue social and economic policies designed to improve the standard of living of its people. The issue is whether, in pursuing them, the property of American nationals may be taken by the Mexican government without making prompt payment of just one week of his relief clients: fellows are not a lot of They are 3,000,000 Americans and they all have views. And, incidentally, I know pretty much what views are. At least 90% would vote for President velt if he were up for re—why not?” OCCUPATION DAY—SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ernor Blanton Winship of Rio went to Ponce last week 100,000 visitors to help cate the 40th anniversary of the occupation. With native members of the Insular Mine Guard, officers of the U.S., terprise” and a U.S. destr mounted a stand to review parade. Ponce is the place where sons were killed, over 100 on Palm Sunday 1837, w anti-U. S. nationalists (a minority) started shooting lice who had forbidden a Last week, crashing over heads of the paraders and ers, a burst of gunfire s raked the reviewing stand Puerto Rican senator and ers, fatally wounded guard officer. The shooter nationalist agitators who nounced the celebration “shameless disgrace” to Rico. Police restored order one nationalist. Unhurt, nor Winship congratulated cited crowd on “standing called it “a most convincing that Americann institution understood here.” “NATION COMES FIRST” TRAVERSE CITY, Mid Aboard the Roosevelt thiband wagon last week Michigan’s Governor Fran phy. Speaking at Traverhe said: “The nation com... We may have to o president for four more leadership.” STEPHENSON ASKS LESS INSTEAD OF MORE Unless your correspondent's eyes deceived him, only one county official or department head turned in a budget estimate asking for less money than his department spent last year. While the increases asked were mostly small (except in the welfare department), County Treasurer T. E. Stephenson added up his needs for the coming year and actually kept them under last year's figures. NOTES A "compromise" advertising budget showed up in the figures. V. D. Johnson, county ad agent, proposed about $6,500. Somebody slipped through a $2,000 appropriation for state and county fair. Then another $2,000 was put in, bringing the total to about $10,-500, which is more than half the total sum demanded by the Associated Chambers of Commerce. This body will follow up and insist that the board levy one cent for advertising purposes, and agree to the proposed new set-up for handling it. The Associated, by the way, reports the largest cash balance on hand it ever has had—about $67. One smart fellow suggests, that voters ought not to take a candidate's estimate of himself as to his fitness for office. A better scheme would be to talk to the candidate's wife. New Station to Open Saturday Formal opening of the new MacMillan super service station at Lincoln avenue and Manchester boulevard will be held Saturday; it was announced today by officials of the MacMillan Petroleum corporation. The new station is owned and erected by William Schumacher and leased to the MacMillan corporation. A full line of MacMillan products will be handled, in addition to Firestone tires and tubes, amble about the sympathy of aims existing between President Cardenas' new deal for Mexico and President Roosevelt's New Deal for the U.S.: "The issue is not whether Mexico should pursue social and economic policies designed to improve the standard of living of its people. The issue is whether, in pursuing them, the property of American nationals may be taken by the Mexican government without making prompt payment of just compensation to the owners in accordance with the universally recognized rules of the law and equity." From 1915 to 1927, declared Secretary Hull, Mexico seized 161 "moderate sized" properties of U.S. citizens. "Not a single claim has been adjusted and none has been paid." Since 1927 additional properties, "chiefly farms of a moderate size," with a total claimed value of $10,132,388, have been taken by Mexico. "This figure does not include the large land grants frequently mentioned in the press." None of these seizures has yet been paid for. "Certainly on the basis of the record above stated, the United States government cannot be accused of being unreasonable or impatient." Declared Secretary Hull: "The taking of property without compensation is not expropriation. It is confiscation. It is no less confiscation because there may be an expressed intent to pay at some time in the future." Therefore Hull requested that Mexico arbitrate the question whether it has complied with international law (It is the considered judgment, however, of the United States that the government of Mexico has not complied), and the amounts and terms by which Mexico will make good. In short, for Washington no more "manana." WHY NOT?—WASHINGTON — Said WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins last NATION COMES FIRST TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan Aboard the Roosevelt thunderband wagon last week Michigan's Governor Frank Phy. Speaking at Traverhe said: "The nation concludes We may have to appoint president for four more leadership." DEATH AND BOLIVAR BOGOTA, Columbia ing an air review opening great new Campo de Maritary field last week, CoPresident-Elect Eduardo returned to War Minister Pumarejo and said: "I did the way our pilots are over this crowd." Eyeing able perturbation of the diplocorps in their grandstand yards away, the war nervously replied: "The president me they would avoid gerous acrobatics." Then acrobatic Fight Life Abadia, who once was sued from the air service for "ent flying," decided to figh with a super-spectacular ending in a "hall roll" swine tween the two grandstands far enough apart for him to pass between. One wished the diplomatic stand, the president against the preset stand, burst into flame and burning gasoline as its slashed human flesh. The flaming mass crunched during spectators between their slithered 65 feet. Instantly killed were 34 Lieutenant Abadia, the 150 injured were taken pitals where eight later died were not serious injuries diplomats or dignitaries, a few had to snuff out burning gasoline. A bruise which came hurtling off bruised the wife of the Invention of Lamb's has put on the treasury of Orange county however. He worked out form of making out tax bills receipts which has saved an average amount of work and cut the chance of errors to a percentage. For considerable thought and ing he got up a tax bill form made it possible to write two receipts and two all at one time, from a long handled through a wide car-typewriter without having out and put in. There are lots of bills and receipts in washing strip, already folded to formal opening of the new MacMillan super service station at Lincoln avenue and Manchester boulevard will be held Saturday, it was announced today by officials of the MacMillan Petroleum corporation. The new station is owned and erected by William Schumacher and leased to the MacMillan corporation. A full line of MacMillan products will be handled, in addition to Firestone tires and tubes, it was announced. High class lubrication service will be featured at the station, officials said. Larry Tetrault will serve as manager of the station. Did You Ever Hear a Man Brag About His Wife Doing the Washing? Your husband's like most men, he would never admit that you are the family washwoman, much less brag about it. Doing the washing is the most wearing, and most aging on you. We have 5 different services; Damp Wash, Dry Wash,ough Dry flat ironed, Family Finished by pound, and De Luxe by the piece. One of these will fit any budget. Al Anaheim 4503 and have our driver pick up your last washing. THE SANITARY LAUNDRY WE USE IVORY SOAP AND ZERO WATER EXCLUSIVELY Member of American Institute of Laundering RESPONSIBLE W. CLEAVER, Mgr. K. M. CLEAVER LONG DISTANCE saves anxious wondering! 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"Entrprise" and a U.S. destroyer, he mounted a stand to review a gala parade. Ponce is the place where 21 perms were killed, over 100 injured in Palm Sunday 1837, when the anti-U.S. nationalists (a terrorist minority) started shooting at police who had forbidden a parade. Last week, crashing over roads of the paraders and onlookers, a burst of gunfire suddenly kicked the reviewing stand, felled Puerto Rican senator and 30 others, fatally wounded national guard officer. The shooters were nationalist agitators who had defended the celebration as a shameless disgrace" to Puerto Rico. Police restored order, killed the nationalist. Unhurt, Governor Winship congratulated the exited crowd on "standing firm," called it "a most convincing proof that Americann institutions are understood here." NATION COMES FIRST"— TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan—board the Roosevelt third-term and wagon last week stepped Michigan's Governor Frank Murray. Speaking at Traverse City, he said: "The nation comes first... 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