anaheim-gazette 1939-01-05

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. MORE PROGRESS IN 1939 A most momentous year has just closed, not only for this country but for the entire civilized world. Far-reaching changes in the structure of governments and peoples came with dramatic suddenness. By the narrowest of margins, a world war that seemed certain was averted. Still at the same time, civil and undeclared wars raged in furious intensity on large areas of the globe. In our own country problems have come thick and fast. Many have been solved and yet others seem to multiply with the end not in sight. Reforms, with far reaching effect, have been instituted. Recovery, on the other hand, has seemed to lag, except in the last months of 1938 when encouraging reports became apparent in the east. In our own section winds, freezes, floods and depressed market for citrus have caused our people to dig in, call upon the old pioneering spirit and determine not to be discouraged. There is only one way for southern California to go and that is forward. It can be done and we must find the way. AMERICA IS LUCKY! Yes, America worries about its kidnapings, hopes for an end to its labor troubles, looks forward to the day when unemployment will be banished, sees there is much to be donein providing medical care and proper housing for hundreds of thousands of families, and on occasion finds the outlook a AMERICA IS LUCKY! Yes, America worries about its kidnapings, hopes for an end to its labor troubles, looks forward to the day when unemployment will be banished, sees there is much to be done in providing medical care and proper housing for hundreds of thousands of families, and on occasion finds the outlook a little dispiriting. But outsiders, with a new perspective see America differently. Here is Paul Van Zeeland, speaking. After an extended visit in these United States, this very able former Premier of Belgium warmly declares, "You are very fortunate here. If everyone could realize the conditions in Europe and compare them with the United States, you people would consider yourselves very lucky!" And we ARE lucky, despite the precious and essential freedom of democracy, and the means of treating our problems peaceably and with sanity! THE KING'S ENGLISH Just as we get settled in the conviction that the King's English is a stalwart conservative that frowns on the peppery impertinence of slang, somebody comes along and upsets the applecart. This time it's a group of University of Buffalo librarians announcing that many of our modern wisecracks are frosty with age. They have found Sir Walter Scott advising someone "to tell it to the marines," Shakespeare complaining that things "were not so hot," and boasting, "I'll tell the world." No less than 165 years ago a character in English fiction snapped, "Nuts to Jonthan!", and gave birth to a wise crack still in good health. Among many examples we looked for words from the jitterbugs' language. In vain! Even as you and I, the scholars were stumped. At any rate, tradition now entitles the professors to say, "Nuts to the jitterbug language. THE TRUTH, OR ELSE! Watch your step, men! What has happened in Albany, Calif., can happen elsewhere. A new city ordinance makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a $300 fine and/or 90 days in jail. To make false report to the police. It seems that too many husbands have been reporting "robberies" instead of admitting to their wives that the holes in the pocketbook came from gambling losses. Even the most obstinate and profligate of erring husbands must now admit it pays to tell the truth. There's that ordinance to prove it. CASE OF THE DIRTY SHIRT IRUN, Spain—Harold Good British vice consul at San Sebastian in Rightist Spain, arrived the border town of Irun last week on his way to France... The toms officers of Generalis Francisco Franco passed his domestic pouches but search his official baggage thoroughly. He wrapped in one of his dirty socks they found a collection of giving the positions of right troops, detailed reports offection in Generalissimo Fran PINKY OVER AUBREY— WASHINGTON — After he appointed WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins to succeed retiring Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper, President Roosevelt last week named Colonel Francis Clark (Pinky) Harrington as acting relief administrator and chose Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams to head the National Youth administration. Colonel Harrington graduated second in the class of 1909 at West Point, has since proved himself an able engineer and administrator. A member of the U.S. army engineer corps, he has been on detached duty with WPA since 1935, as assistant administrator in charge of construction projects. To all appearances, Harry Hopkins recommended Harrington over Williams—a concession to expediency since Colonel Harrington is a first-rate politician particularly gifted at coddling congressmen. Relief is headed for trouble with the next congress, and Roosevelt needs just such a man to head WPA. But President David Lasser of the Workers Alliance took exception to Harrington's appointment last week with these words: "We have nothing against Colonel Harrington personally. He is a fine gentleman. But... he represents the army type of mind which does not, in our opinion, embody the qualifications necessary to administer a civil undertaking involving so many social and labor relations." Uppermost in the minds of Lasser, Harrington and congress is the fact that WPA's appropriation of $1,425,000,000 will be spent by February 7 (3 weeks ahead of schedule). The inevitable request for a deficiency appropriation to carry relief until June 30 will give the 76th congress its first big battle, give WPA's critics their chance to try for amendments to end relief-in-politics, to cancel the blak-check system of allotting funds to the administration. ECCLES ON ECONOMICS— WASHINGTON — Franklin Roosevelt's budget message for fiscal 1940 was not due until this week, but indications last week were that it would be a worthy successor to fiscal 1939, the greatest ($8,985,000,000) budget of all. In Boston last month Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd expounded his worries about gov- "READY FOR HIGH GEAR" NEW JOBS GREATER EMPLOYMENT BETTER TIMES FOR ALL NEW FACTORIES FILL 'ER UP BIG BOY AND I'LL BE GOING PLACES! ENT SPENDING WHICH HE BLAIMS ON THE "Crackpot" THEORIES OF MAN MARRINER ECLES OF THE REAL RESERVE BOARD, A BANKER FEAVORS PUMP-PRIMING WITH IN. In a letter which he gave to the press, Chairman Eccles last lectured Byrd and the nation urge on "the pertinent facts" in the budget, taxes, debt. The pertinent facts," accorded by Eccles, "are the volume of debt in the country, the interest on that debt, and the out of which interest may be Spain, and a list of 200 of the generalissimo's spies operating in Loyalist Spain. The vice consul was deeply embarrassed. He said he had no idea where all this material came from, claimed that servants of the th consulate had done his bag-packing. Goodman's explanation was accepted at face value but, with the full approval of the British foreign office, Rightist police immediately began questioning servants, secretaries and messengers of a half-dozen British conspiracies. GAD ABOUT WITH J. WESLEY GROOM EDITOR'S NOTE—Do you know a similar story of our West? If so, communicate with this paper. Your Commentator solicits them. Traveling north up the Pacific Coast from Old Mexico for approximately 72 miles "as the swallow flies," you arrive at San Juan creek. Its shrub lined banks extend back to the northeast for about two miles, there it forks with Trabuco creek and swings around a dome-like knoll to the east and fades away between low rolling hills into the Rancho Santa Margarita to head in the Buttes of the Coastal range. Looking north from that domelike knoll, your eyes float over orange, walnut and avocado groves; and on beyond the fork of those creeks they follow a long row of poplar trees that line highway 101 into what is unquestionably California's most widely known Spanish town. San Juan Capistrano's history, so far as the white man knows, started in the spring of 1769, when Father Crespi led the Portola expedition, a group of twelve men, in to this little valley, then populated with only uncivilized Indians. It was he who selected the original site for the mission, about four miles up the river, and there held the first Catholic services—also the first christening. There was a conference held it was agreed to relocate Mission. Barely had they set the present site and erect cross, when word came from their Serra that the Indians ate Diego had gone on the way and had burned the Mission; their Crespi and Lasuen hurried the church property hastened to his aid. It was on October 29, 1775 Father Serrra, personally, retreated to Capistrano. He found that had been erected by the mer priests, also located and up the sacred church property cluding the Mission bells. He established the present mansion with fitting ceremonies. The building of the presentation was no small task, although its erection started at once derer the supervision of an arsenal sent from Spain. He had one help of native Indians, who unskilled; yet it was completed the fall of 1805. Then came that historical Christmas morning in when the most severe earth ever known in California, ceased San Juan Capistrano Miss crumbling the tower over chapel. In the debris there found forty-three dead they rest in the Campo San cemetery, within the walls. For many years this missive deserted; finally in the late entries, Father Mut came and ed the reconstruction of the ruins before his death. The ther St. John O'Sullivan ca 1910 and took over his task put the mission in its present before passing away in 1935 ther Arthur Hutchinson novries on the good work. In the "crackpot" theories of the Human Marriner Eccles of the General Reserve board, a banker favors pump-priming within his office. In a letter which he gave to the press, Chairman Eccles last lectured Byrd and the nation urge on "the pertinent facts" in the budget, taxes, debt. One pertinent facts," accorded Eccles, "are the volume of debt in the country, the interest on that debt, and the out of which interest may be Chief Eccles' arguments: Total Debt, public and private, greater today than it was in 1927. All that the present all-time national debt of $39,406,000 means is that the government borrowing and using "otherwise funds of individuals and corporations." Private enterprise has no position to employ anybody near the total of country's savings. Interest on the federal amounts to only a little more than 1% of our national income. Owing to the decline in rate of interest, the total of most payments today is far less in 1929." Home, on the other hand; "out which debts are serviced," indeed $30,000,000 between 1937 and 1937. "Have you not cooked the fact that as nation-income increases, tax revenues case, even without a rise in tax?" Tax receipts of the local government increased $2,080,000,000 for the fiscal ending June 30, 1933 to $6,-000,000 for the fiscal year end-June 30, 1938." (But not with new and increased taxes.) E OF THE DIRTY SHIRT—UN, Spain—Harold Goodman, cash vice consul at San Sebas-in-Rightist Spain, arrived at border town of Irun last week this way to France... The custo-officers of Generalissimo Francisco passed his diplomatic pouches but search his unilal baggage thoroughly. There, hoped in one of his dirty shirts, found a collection of maps marking the positions of rightist maps, detailed reports of disaffection in Generalissimo Francisco's San Juan Capistrano's history, so far as the white man knows, started in the spring of 1769, when Father Crespi led the Portola expedition, a group of twelve men, in to this little valley, then populated with only uncivilized Indians. It was he who selected the original site for the mission, about four miles up the river, and there held the first Catholic services—also the first christening. In 1775 Father Serra sent Father Lasuen from San Diego with cattle and more necessary church property. On this trip they were escorted by an armed guard, commanded by Lieutenant Ortega, who remained and in later years proved himself a gallant soldier and officer. He became an outstanding character in the early history throughout Southern California. In honor of Ortega, the highway is named from the Mission to Elsinore. With Father Lasuen's arrival STARS—NEW YORK — Revealed last week were the results of the annual poll of 10,000 independent U.S. theatre owners by the movie tradepaper "Motion Picture Herald." Representing for the first time only two of Hollywood's major film companies—20th Century-Fox and M-G-M—the ten biggest box-office stars of the year were (in order): Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Sonja Henie, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Robert Taylor, Mynra Loy, Jane Withers, Alice Fay, and Tyrone Power. The London zoo, in 1936, exhibited an albino elephant from Burma. England imposed a capital levy as early as 1262. It is with a milestone recollection various steps perience what to make this association. It is also a whom have from the day reached their chief o to make th During the Association roll in any Put Your M Interest Pa with us pri On January brates its walls. For many years this mission deserted; finally in the latter enties, Father Mut came and ed the reconstruction of the ruins before his death. The ther St. John O'Sullivan cation 1910 and took over his task put the mission in its present before passing away in 1933 ther Arthur Hutchinson novies on the good work. The swallows that come so methodically have come held the attention of the per recent years. But few realize San Juan is famed for many things. In fact it is the home of champions—both man and Don Marcus Forster from to 1905 was the proud owner several blooded animals of "Nacho B" held the re number of years for two m Murphy," California's closing soon TELEPHONE DIRECTOR Are you planning to order service? Do you wish your present listing changed in any way? Do you want additional listings? Please call... SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TELEPHONE COMPANY 217 North Lemon Street — Telephone Anaheim 2101 Our Best Wishes For a OFFICERS: Wm. T. Wallop, President Dr. W. L. Bigham, Vice-President Fred A. Backs, Secretary Elmer E. Bruce, Assistant S Bank of America, Deposit MEMBER FEDER The Savings, Loa JOHN W. PRICE, Inspector 211 East Center Street A conference held and was agreed to relocate the mission. Barely had they selected present site and erected the press, when word came from Foster Serra that the Indians at San Diego had gone on the warpath and burned the Mission. Foster Crespi and Lasuen hurriedly tried the church property and attended to his aid. It was on October 29, 1776 that Foster Serra, personally, returned Capistrano. He found the cross it had been erected by the former priests, also located and dug the sacred church property, including the Mission bells. He then published the present mission with fitting ceremonies. The building of the present mission was no small task, although erection started at once, until the supervision of an architect from Spain. He had only the top of native Indians, who were skilled; yet it was completed in fall of 1805. Then came that historical Mass. Christmas morning in 1812, when the most severe earthquake known in California, centered San Juan Capistrano Mission—embling the tower over the apel. In the debris there were and forty-three dead. Today my rest in the Campo Santo or monastery, within the mission hills. For many years this mission was serted; finally in the late seventies, Father Mut came and started the reconstruction of the old sins before his death. Then Foster St. John O'Sullivan came in 180 and took over his task and the mission in its present order before passing away in 1933. Foster Arthur Hutchinson now carves on the good work. "THE DICTATOR" HOLLYWOOD — Charlie Chaplin last week prepared to start work on his next picture (an all-talkie), the first in three years. Chaplin wrote the story, will act two parts, one his famed tramp. Title: "The Dictator." In Germany, the "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" charged that Chaplin had been "commissioned" to make the film by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, as "propaganda against a state with which the United States is at peace." In early days, the weapon hand was bared and held out as a symbol of peace. This is said to have been the origin of handshaking. Many species of birds have been completely destroyed because of the demand for their feathers for feminine adornment. Economical—Use one LEVEL teaspoonful to a cup of flour for most recipes. Dependable—Scientifically made by baking powder SPECIALISTS to produce best results. For many years this mission was asserted; finally in the late sev-cles, Father Mut came and start- the reconstruction of the old sins before his death. Then Fa-er St. John O'Sullivan came in 10 and took over his task and it the mission in its present order before passing away in 1933. Fa-er Arthur Hutchinson now car-ers on the good work. The swallows that come and go methodically have completely held the attention of the people in recent years. But few realize that Juan is famed for many other things. In fact it is the home of many champions—both man and beast. On Marcus Forster from 1880 to 1905 was the proud owner of several blooded animals of fame. "Nacho B" held the record a number of years for two miles. "Murphy," California's fastest Economical—Use one LEVEL teaspoonful to a cup of flour for most recipes. Dependable—Scientifically made by baking powder SPECIALISTS to produce best results. KC BAKING POWDER Same Price Today as 48 Years Ago 25 ounces for 25¢ You can also buy A full 10 ounce can for 10¢ 15 ounce can for 15¢ Double-Tested — Double-Action MILLIONS OF POUNDS HAVE BEEN USED BY OUR GOVERNMENT 50 Years of Pleasure -- 1939 It is with a great deal of pleasure that we reach the milestone representing the 50th year of service to our community, and from this vantage point, view the various steps of our journey. Steps brought with experience which though sometimes trying, have served to make this one of the strongest Building and Loan associations in California. It is also a pleasure to meet our friends, many of whom have had their funds invested with us almost from the date of our incorporation, folks who have reached the age where safety of their investment is their chief concern, and know we have done our part to make their positions more secure. During the year 1938 $55,000 in Interest was paid by this Association, which is comparable to a nice pay-off in any community. Put Your Money to Work for You in 1939— Interest Paid from January 1st on All Funds placed with us prior to January 11, 1939. On January 9, 1939, this Association proudly celebrates its Golden Anniversary commemorating 50 During the year 1938 $55,000 in Interest was paid by this Association, which is comparable to a nice payoll in any community. Put Your Money to Work for You in 1939— Interest Paid from January 1st on All Funds placed with us prior to January 11, 1939. On January 9, 1939, this Association proudly celebrates its Golden Anniversary commemorating 50 years of successful business in Anaheim and on that day we will have open house and extend an invitation to the entire community to visit us between 2 and 5. Wishes For a Prosperous and Happy New Year DIRECTORS: Wm. T. Wallop Dr. W. L. Bigham Fred A. Backs Henry M. Adams A. E. Schumacher H. H. Benjamin Elmer E. Bruce FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK ings, Loan & Building Assn. of Anaheim Phone 3515