anaheim-gazette 1939-02-16

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 239 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. WHAT KIND OF A DEAL IS THIS? In his report to Congress, President Roosevelt reported that the sum total of relief expenditures by the federal government since April, 1935, amounts to $9,632,271,228. Of that amount, California has received a little over half a billion dollars, to be exact $515,485,451. But . . . During the same four year period, California has paid into the United States treasury well over one billion dollars, or, again to be exact, $1,131,000,000. Whatever kind of a "deal" this is, California ought not to approve it. And while on the subject of taxation, let the Gazette readers ponder these figures: In the last two years, Californians paid in local, state, and federal taxes one and one-half billions of dollars! In the year 1916, the total receipts of the federal government were $782,584,548, and the total expenditures were $784,056,302. The proposal of the state administration for spending and for taxes during the ensuing biennial period, approximate those of the United States government program for a one year period, just twenty years back. And Mr. Ellis Patterson, the lieutenant-governor, tells our people that the state administration is going to put federal taxes one and one-half billions of dollars! In the year 1916, the total receipts of the federal government were $782,534,548, and the total expenditures were $784,056,302. The proposal of the state administration for spending and for taxes during the ensuing biennial period, approximate those of the United States government program for a one year period, just twenty years back. And Mr. Ellis Patterson, the lieutenant-governor, tells our people that the state administration is going to put through its $557,000,000 revenue program, "even if it takes a special session to do it." What magic is there in a special session? The problem is whether our legislators supinely approve the tax increases as a whole, or whether they perform their constitutional functions and determine what is best for the state in these troublesome times. THE “WHY” OF FROZEN CAPITAL Reference is often made these days to "frozen capital" as largely to blame for unemployment and business depression. Many people, no doubt, wonder just what frozen capital is, why it exists and why it is so closely tied in with our current economic ills. Everybody knows that "capital" means money and that "frozen," in this sense, means inactivity. A good answer to the "whys" is found in a recent nation-wide survey of potential investors. (Anyone with a savings account is a potential investor). The survey, conducted by the National Association of Manufacturers, asked this question: "Do you have money available which you could invest and would like to invest, but which you do not care to invest at the present time?" The reply of 75.1 per cent was "yes." The 75.1 per cent was then asked to indicate why they did not want to invest now. Here are some of the answers: Inadequate present profits and doubtful future profits because of possible new legislation, existing taxes, prospects of new taxes, labor trouble and international troubles. Factors that would create a willingness to invest were also listed. There were: Improved government policies and attitudes affecting business, changes in government spending budget policies, last government competition with business, reduced taxes, and a change in Federal labor legislation. Remembering, now, that business must have money on which to operate if it is to give jobs and pay salaries, it should be easier for everybody to understand why it is frozen. "The MARCH OF TIME" Prepared by the Editors of TIME The Weekly Newsmagazine "ENEMY OF PEACE" ROME—Nothing could have lighted the European democracies more and nothing could have less pleasing to the dictator than the report that President Roosevelt had told a senate committee that the U.S. defense officers were in France. The French and British press shouted while the totalitarian predecessor Germany and Italy outdid previous efforts in denouncing Roosevelt and all he stood for. The French chamber of cities echoed with cries of "Live Roosevelt!" and "I Amerique!" after Air Minister Chambre, explaining the purchase of 600 warplanes in U.S., paid this tribute: "If this opportunity of thanksgiving great American democracy can lead President Roosevelt has realized that in so France he is serving peace." In the controlled dictator President Roosevelt was pled as an "enemy of peace," Fascist No. 1". Propagandaister Goebbels sickened the German press on the president Virginio Gayda.. Dictator Milii's journalistic mouthpiece clared in "Giornale d'Italia" the president's words "were open provocation of war," President Roosevelt "himself and welcomes armed conspiracy since the U.S. frontiers are the Rhine, Signor Gayda Italy's and Germany's fright should now be extended Panama Canal. What apparently hurt feelings most, however, was sale of U.S. planes to Popolo di Roma", denounced "scandalous supply of paper warned France not to believe." Remembering, now, that business must have money on which to operate if it is to give jobs and pay salaries, it should be easier for everybody to understand why it is frozen. The MARCH OF TIME Prepared by the Editors of TIME The Weekly Newsmagazine SENATORS IN DISTRESS— WASHINGTON — News that President Roosevelt had secretly aided France in purchasing U.S. airplanes, revealed accidentally by the crash of a new Douglas bomber in California, last week upset and excited the senate military affairs committee. To the 17 committee-members, assembled in the White House, the president explained his reasons for helping France, using backgrounds facts and confidential reports so arresting that he bound them to "secrecy" on what he had to say. But secrecy lasts about five minutes in Washington—particularly if 17 senators are involved—and newspapers the world over soon headlined that Roosevelt had placed the U.S. "frontier" or "first line of defense" in France. As Chief executive, they said, he had laid down for the senators a foreign policy aligning the U.S. more strongly than ever behind France and England. As commander-in-chief he had declared his determination to back those democracies for defensive war by every means except actual manpower. With a storm of protest brewing in the senate, and the U.S. press asking the basic question: "Had this democratic president made any secret commitments with regard to 'foreign entanglements'," Roosevelt two days later handed out a sharp rebuke to U.S. publishers (and foreign commentators) who, he said, had wilfully misconstrued his "secret" statements to the senate committee. He described as "a deliberate lie" the published statement that he had placed the U.S. frontier or first line of defense on the Rhine or in France; he described as "a boob" any one (presumably a military affairs senator) who had reported any such thing and asked him to step forward and reveal himself. Then he enunciated a "simple" U.S. foreign policy: No. 1: We are against any entangling alliances, obviously. No. 2: We are in favor of the maintenance of world trade for everybody—all nations—including ourselves. No. 3: We are in complete sympathy with any and every effort made to reduce or limit armaments. No. 4: As a nation—as American people—we are sympathetic with the peaceful maintenance of political, economic and social independence of all nations in the world." Two questions were in everyone's mind at last week's end: Did the chief executive and com- What apparently hurt feelings most, however, was sale of U.S. planes to B.Popolo di Roma", denouncing scandalous supply of petroleum France not to believe U.S. help would be forthright in a war: "This is one of the colossal delusions into France has ever fallen. But if despite the efforts of the tarian states to insure a just war should break out, before U.S. could say 'Oh!' the frontier would be smashed te TEAPOT TEMPEST— WASHINGTON — While president was having financial policy trouble with the Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt whose U.S. popularity is less than her husband's in polls last week wrote: "As possible I never discuss quo of partisan politics, but . . . "We are the leading demi of the world. Do our symbliie with the other demirac do they lie with the total states? The present tempet teapot is stirred up by that a Frenchman flew test plane which France legally was going to buy ... "Germany is geared to a thousand planes a France to produce one hundred planes a month ... "I want to see all the life of the world reduce their meents... I have seen no adence on the part of Mr." HOLDING THE RUNAWAY WHOA! WILD SPENDING CONGRESS Have you? Who is taking a belligerent attitude in the world today? RED HUNT CONTINUED— WASH.—Rammed through the house of representatives by a vote of 344-to-35 last week was a new lease of life for the committee to investigate un-American activities, chairmanned by Martin Dies of Texas. Dies had to be content with an extension of one year and a promised appropriation of $100,-000 (to be voted later), instead of hollering for more room, to The purchasing agent and went before the board out whether he was to tear and re-build courthouses orders of one supervisor. He was not to do so, and the iteration plans have been into the pigeon-hole, at least now. BIG RED TAPE BALL TAKES LOTS OF THINKING Citizens who take a little to study the conduct of the fare department have begun wonder whether all the real rigamarole which require many workers in the welfare department is all necessary. Well known that the socialers, investigators, field men, women, etc., who have checked the many cases check them, and turn in their reports. It is also well that the files of the department contain thousands of reports which never have been lost since the day they were made. The enormous amount of time required a lot of work the workers require a space. The department has expanded again and again last two years. WATCHTOWER ARTICLE SLOWS OFFICE MOVING ORANGE COUNTY WEEKLY WATCHTOWER A Compilation of Observation and Comment and for the Weekly Newspapers of the County Huntington Beach News South Coast News Oosta Mea's Globe La Habra Star Placentia Courier Newport Beach News Westminster Gazette Buena Park News Anahlm Gazette Tustin News Garden Grove News Yorba Linda Star Seal Beach Post Coastline Dispatch Brea Progress RED HUNT CONTINUED— WASH—Rammed through the house of representatives by a vote of 344-to-35 last week was a new lease of life for the committee to investigate un-American activities, chairmanned by Martin Dies of Texas. Dies had to be content with an extension of one year and a promised appropriation of $100,-000 (to be voted later), instead of two years and $150,000. His victory was otherwise impressive. PIE IN THE SKY— WASHINGTON — In 1935 Franklin Roosevelt sold congress and congress sold the U.S. Social Security act, the biggest, most comprehensive, most expensive mass insurance policy ever written. Since then its purchasers, the nation's taxpayers, have had occasion to read their policy carefully and now practically every politician in the U.S. has put revision of social security at the top of his must list. The house ways and means committee last week began hearings on proposals to make the act work better. The Social Security act has functioned well for participants who have drawn out $400,000,000 in unemployment benefits since the program started operation. But for old folks, social security is still pie in the sky: it will not begin paying monthly old-age insurance benefits for those over 65 until 1942. The ways and means committee's first witness last week was the Social Security board's scholarly Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer, who recommended that the act be extended to cover seamen, domestic servants, employees of educational and charitable institutions and other groups that would add 6,000,000 to the board's present clientele of 42,500,000; that the board increase its subsidies to the states for dependent children and the blind. Chairman Altmeyer also outlined his, and the White House's three-fold plan to give more to the old: Begin monthly old-age insurance payments in 1940 instead of 1942. This would help already insured oldsters who now get nothing but lump-sum settlements of their claims, totaling only $12,-000,000 since 1937. Extend old-age insurance benefits to wives over 65, aged widows WATCHTOWER ARTICLE SLOWS OFFICE MOVING Watchtower gets credit for slowing down, if not stopping, the process by which the welfare department threatens to displace everything on the first floor of the court house annex, and also a remodeling job on the first floor of the main building. Hearing that a department was to be moved, and knowing that the coroner already had been ousted from his first floor office to make way for some more welfare workers, the head of this department, went to the purchasing department, which also has been threatened with removal to some other quarters. About the same time Supervisor Finley, who as committeeman on building and grounds gives the orders about them as if they were his own property, gave instructions to tear out a partition, and thus make available for the assessor's department about as much additional space as is contained in an average-sized bathroom. (It appears that the assessor has been ist John T. Flynn, writing in "Harper's" on "The Social Security 'Reserve' Swindle", last week declared:—"Obviously the government cannot pay adequate pensions if it insists on 'borrowing' most of the old age taxes and spending them to support the government. The whole thing is a disguised tax levied upon the lowest income groups under the pretense of old age pension premiums. No government would dare support itself out of a payroll tax if it honestly proclaimed its purpose..."" (Continued from page 7) Welfare department heads that much of the detailed stuff is required to conform state and federal laws which most of the relief and sion funds are distributed is no doubt much truth statement. One of the outer features of the development bureaucratic government is mand for red tape, and the site number of workers to and unwind it. Just how one single county can do is problematical. However, one instance of what can be done about related in the incident of worker recently added to the fare staff. When it was fouled not use a typewriter part accommodated by a stenographer. NOTES Most of the members grand jury have never reeled haps not even seen) copies county auditor's statistical and financial statement per each fall and containing ormous amount of facts inures. This was discovered week when Assessor Jim was before that body. studied county government good many years, and knew more facts about Orange business than most people proved his points by them and learned the interest that the grand jurors had the book. Jim immediately one into the hands of ease with the implication they well to study it. The county building looks like the next piece neat to be fought over. The ent building code has been clared invalid because it does the Fourth district (Orange... When you're away from home, why not put your self back in their lives frequently—regularly—means of Long Distance? The service is swift and clear. The rates are low. Every night between 7 P.M. and 4:30 A.M., all day Sunday, they are even lower. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TELEPHONE COMPANY Business Office 217 N. Lemon St., Anaheim 217 North Lemon Street — Telephone Anahcim ANGE COUNTY WATCHTOWER Observation and Comment by City Newspapers of the County: The purchasing agent balked, and went before the board to find whether he was to tear down and re-build courthouses on orers of one supervisor. He found he was not to do so, and the allation plans have been shoved to the pigeon-hole, at least for new. G RED TAPE BALL MAKES LOTS OF THINKING Citizens who take a little time study the conduct of the wellife department have begun to under whether all the red tape and rigamarole which requires so many workers in the welfare department is all necessary. It is well known that the social works, investigators, field men and women, etc., who have charge of the many cases check and reeck them, and turn in volumious reports. It is also well known that the files of the department contain thousands of report sheets which never have been looked at since the day they were made out. One enormous amount of this roune requires a lot of workers, and the workers require a lot of peace. The department has been expanded again and again in the last two years. Welfare department heads claim that much of the detailed report stuff is required to conform with state and federal laws under which most of the relief and penfunds are distributed. There They Say . . . "Understanding is the magic key to most of our human problems. Lack of understanding is the germ which creates them." Charles R. Hook, president, American Rolling Mill company. "War business is temporary business and diverts you from your Willard Smith as its supervisor). Supervisor West has been scraping to make the ordinance apply to the entire county. He has the support of pretty much everybody except the folks in the Fourth who back Smith. Court house observers have been wondering why the new supervisor, Willis Warner of the Second, was handed the salary and fee ordinance hot potato. This matter has been the bone of much controversy for two years. It has been cussed and discussed from tunket to the morning meal by pretty nearly everybody it affects. It has caused fights and lawsuits. To revise it to suit a majority will call for a lot of painstaking study and work. One of the deputy district attorneys is an officer in the company which owns the "green sheet," Santa Ana political weekly. Joe Ogle is secretary and treasurer of the organization. long-range objectives. The big consumption of products over the long pull is peacetime consumption." Edgar M. Queeny, president, Monsanto Chemical company. "The proper function of government in labor relations is to insure equal rights for both employer and employee with due regard for the public interest and the rights of individual citizens." R. W. Moore, president, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc. "The greatest enemies of democracy, the most violent reactionaries, are those who have lost faith in the capacity of a free people to manage their own affairs and wish to set up the government as a political and social guardian, running their business and making their decisions for them." We are at the beginning of a new year at the very zenith of a march of progress towards national health. Never before in this or any other continent have any 130,-000,000 people recorded such low death rates as will be reported in the United States for the year, 1938, for all causes." Charles Gordon Heyd, M. D. Buy now and Buy in Anaheim! DISCOVERY MONTH ELECTRIC COOKING COSTS ½ AS MOCH AS YOU THINK NOTES Most of the members of the grand jury have never read (perhaps not even seen) copies of the county auditor's statistical deport and financial statement published each fall and containing an enormous amount of facts and figures. This was discovered last week when Assessor Jim Sleeper was before that body. Jim had studied county government for a good many years, and knows far more facts about Orange county business than most people. He proved his points by the report, and learned the interesting fact that the grand jurors hadn't seen the book. Jim immediately put one into the hands of each juror, with the implication they might do well to study it. The county building ordinance looks like the next piece of business to be fought over. 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