anaheim-gazette 1939-04-13

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. JOHNSON ANNOUNCES Six days ago, Hiram W. Johnson, United States Senator from California for the last twenty-two years, gave to the press the terse announcement: I will be a candidate for re-election to the Senate in 1940. In the years gone by, the Gazette has not always agreed with the stand which Senator Johnson has taken upon public questions, but it has always felt that in him, this state had a courageous, outspoken, and forthright representative, whose abilities were acclaimed by all, and who with the passing of years, has become one of the outstanding members or our national legislature. His accomplishments, legislatively, are manifold, but attention might be called to the Swing-Johnson bill the passage of which created the great Boulder Dam. Zealous of his country's weal, he has, for the last quarter of a century, stood in the forefront of the fight to keep America free of international alliances where those alliances might be the means of leading us into war. None there is in California who is better equipped to represent this state. Five years ago, Senator Johnson was elected politically by acclamation. His accomplishments, legislatively, are manifold, but attention might be called to the Swing-Johnson bill the passage of which created the great Boulder Dam. Zealous of his country's weal, he has, for the last quarter of a century, stood in the forefront of the fight to keep America free of international alliances where those alliances might be the means of leading us into war. None there is in California who is better equipped to represent this state. Five years ago, Senator Johnson was elected practically by acclamation. NEPOTISM IN HIGH PLACES We can't help but wonder how a jobless clerk, accountant or bookkeeper, discouraged by long and fruitless search for work, will feel as he reads recent revelations in the press concerning payroll padding in the SRA and WPA and the princely salaries paid to husband-and-wife combinations, brothers and sisters of administrators—uncles, aunts, cousins and all the rest. We can't help but wonder, too, how taxpayers will feel when they ponder requests at Sacramento for $63,000,000 in new taxes. Dozens of flagrant cases have been unearthed where couples—with both husband and wife on the relief administration payroll—are being paid enough by the State to maintain four or five families in comfortable circumstances. And Edwin James Cooley, San Francisco SRA director, replies to critics with the assertion: "Trained social workers are at a premium!" There can be no doubt that social workers are at a premium; the evidence is conclusive. But the evidence also indicates quite clearly that politics and relationship are important factors in determining the premium paid. We heartily concur, in this regard, with William A. Pixley, secretary of the Property Owners Association of California, who is fighting the battle of the small taxpayer against extravagant spending and new tax demands. Says Mr. Pixley: "Even the most hard-pressed taxpayer has no desire to penalize the unfortunate for their misfortune. We can carry the legitimate relief load in California without resorting to new taxes, but we can't continue to carry a top-heavy super-structure in the administration of relief or any other governmental function. We need a little more fair play in State government—fair play for the deserving needy and for wage earners, farmers and business men who have contributed generously to support the needy. We need to cut out the padding and frills." Governor Olson and the Legislature should cooperate to clean up the relief administrative set-up and to stamp out the vicious nepotism system which has loaded State payrolls with political relatives and family dynasties. And the cleanup is overdue! WHERE WILL THE NEXT HOLOCAUST STRIKE? "Vast sections of many U.S. cities are potential death traps, built by man," says Fortune. "Long overdue in one of these cities is a holocaust, and it will come without fail. It may be another ghastly mass cremation like the Triangle Waist sweatshop fire in New York, wherein 145 persons, nearly all of them girls, perished in 1911 because the owners refused to spend the paltry amount of money necessary to WHERE WILL THE NEXT HOLOCAUST STRIKE? "Vast sections of many U.S. cities are potential death traps, built by man," says Fortune. "Long overdue in one of these cities is a holocaust, and it will come without fail. It may be another ghastly mass cremation like the Triangle Waist sweatshop fire in New York, wherein 145 persons, nearly all of them girls, perished in 1911 because the owners refused to spend the paltry amount of money necessary to give even a fair degree of safety. It may be another conflagration such as burned Paris, Texas, to the ground in 1916; such as swept through Salem, Massachusetts, in 1914. "It is appalling to contemplate the certainty of the recurring ruination of life or property on such a vast scale; but any realistic approach to the U.S. fire problem must do so. To the fire specialist, the syllogism is obvious: (1) Past conflagrations were the effects of specific known causes. (2) Identical causes still exist in a great many places. Therefore, just as sure as God blows dry winds over wooden roofs, fire will blocken cities again. "Clearly there is an important variable in the pat logic. The variable concerns the matter of fire causes. If the causes can be controlled, even partially, then the next conflagration can at least be postponed." That puts the issue squarely where it belongs—up to all the communities of America, and all the people who live in them. Up-to-date building codes, the elimination of fire traps, scientific inspections of property to discover and eliminate hazards, unremitting education of both children and adults—here are fire's most potent enemies. If they are used to the full; it may be that the next horrible holocaust of which Fortune speaks will not only be postponed, but prevented. UNSEEN FOES People can fight a foe whom they can see; nations can guard themselves against physical threats to their safety. But it is immensely more difficult to protect ideals, beliefs and principles against the onslaught of ideas. There is always the danger, especially in times of economic distress, that great numbers of people will be deceived into believing that the new idea is better than the old one, and that somehow they will fare better by discarding the ancient beliefs in such things as freedom of thought, the rights of individuals as superior to those of the state, the privilege of religious liberty, and the right to speak and preach one's opinions. ET THOSE FEET OUT OF HIS FACE REGULATORY LAWS AND UNJUST TAXATION HEY! HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO CLIMB? Sheppard Offers Tax Legislation Congressman Harry R. Sheppard has introduced HR 5290, "to tax the profits out of war by steeply graduated income and other taxes in order to provide for an effective national defense, to promote peace, to encourage actual neutrality, to discourage war profiteering, to distribute the burdens of war, to keep democracy alive, and for other purposes." "I feel the enactment of this type of legislation is necessary due to the critical European situation and the strife which is going on at this time," Sheppard said. "However, I want to assure the people of my district that I am unalterably opposed to this nation becoming involved in any foreign entanglements and intend to follow that policy in voting on legislation which is brought up on the floor of the house for action." Back in 1933, when the last determined fight was made in the legislature for an economy program (a fight that failed for lack of public support), the farming industry demonstrated its sincerity by voluntarily cutting the budget of its most important agency, the state department of agriculture, more than $1,000,000. But only one other department in the state government followed suit. And agriculture was penalized at that time for its sincerity by the action of an assembly committee in lopping off $400,000 more, apparently on the assumption that its sincerity was duplicity—and that it The MAR Prepared by the Editors PATCHES— WASHINGTON—For nearly months the U. S. public had up with federal wage-hour regulation in spite of the wage and law.. Administrator Elmer R. Andrews has been able to get compliance mainly because he reasonable man, the act's decree modest (25c an hour, 44a week), and the penalties stiff that business had to conform to a miserably vague statute. But, vexed just as as business by the bungled Andrews last week asked co to cure the worst defects chief proposals: 1. Exempt from overtime employees who get $200 or a month in guaranteed salary (as distinguished from wages), thus removing an excessive and vexatious burden employers without lessening fits to low-paid workers. 2. Guarantee that employees will not be prosecuted if they low the administrator's rate and interpretations, pending decisions on moot points. ployers now take Andrews' at their risk, chancing damages, fines up to $10,000 six months in jail if they disagree with the administration what the law means. 3. Don't make business subject to punishment if the goods produced in plants or the act is violated without purchaser's knowledge. The Farmers Corner by Ralph H. Taylor Executive Secretary Agricultural Council of California California taxpayers have a new opportunity at the current time to recognize it quickly enough, take hold of it vigorously—to clamp the brakes on agrant state spending and the upward climb of state on! Despite the record-break budget which has been attached to the legislature; despite the demand for more than 10,000 in new taxes which the contemplates, and despite act that "pressure groups" tamoring on all sides for something for nothing"—there is actual sentiment for a proof of sound economy and sensitrenchment among members of legislature than at any time in many years. Most legislators, in the final crisis, will vote as the people home urge them to vote. If most insistent demand comes from groups and individuals ing bigger relief payments, pensions, bigger political bills and bigger expenditures out of the lawmakers, in all ability, will vote them, and vote for new taxes to pay the bill. But if farmers, homes, business men, wage earners and housewives join in doing an end to constantly rising tax burdens; if they accept on their high horse and all the "yell leaders" hired government's wards and departments, there is more than an chance that the legislators will take the pruning shears to the budget and kill all new tax proposals. The "battle of the budget", in this writer's opinion, will not be decided in the legislative halls at the state capitol, even though the ballots will be cast there. The battle will be decided in the legislators' home districts—by the letters, phone calls, telegrams and delegations that are sent to Sacramento. The real battle is not between legislators; it is between taxpayers and taxpayers, with every likelihood that the most articulate and best organized group will win. California agriculture has much at stake on the outcome of the tax fight at the legislature—for California farmers are among the state's heaviest taxpayers. And if the bi-partisan economy bloc in the legislature, which has shown splendid determination in its fight this session to halt, the state's spending spree, fails to receive support from the people back home, there will undoubtedly be drastic tax increases and the collapse of any serious effort toward economy for years to come. The Agricultural Council of California, representing 40 major farm cooperatives, with 70,000 farmer members, voted at its legislative meeting recently to oppose any and all tax increases at this session of the legislature—and to work for a policy of trimming expenditures to a point where they can be met with present revenues. Of public support), the farming industry demonstrated its sincerity by voluntarily cutting the budget of its most important agency, the state department of agriculture, more than $1,000,000. But only one other department in the state government followed suit. Agriculture was penalized at that time for its sincerity by the action of an assembly committee in loping off $400,000 more, apparently on the assumption that its sincerity was duplicity—and that it must not need the money. It is to be hoped that this session there will be a determined stand to treat every department alike, with no favorites, and with intelligent pruning to effect a balance between outgo and income. William A. Pixley, secretary of the Property Owners Association of California, whose group represents more than 100,000 small home-owners and farmers will soon lose their properties and their life savings unless a halt is called. I am assured by Senator Tickle, chairman of the senate revenue and taxation committee, that there is no actual need for new taxes, or increases in existing taxes, if the public will make known to the legislature its demand for a balanced budget—balanced the business-like way, by reducing expenditures to a point commensurate with income. That statement is a challenge to every home-owner and farmer in California to sit down and write his legislator and demand the relief he so badly needs." For the sake of farm recovery, business recovery and economic recovery in every line of endeavor, it is to be hoped that the economy battle of 1939 fares better than that of 1933. New taxes at this time would be little short of a catastrophe—but the final decision rests with the taxpayers, rather then their legislators. Annual value of the motion picture industry in the United States is estimated at $1,250,000,000. MMM! HORSERADISH TANG FRIED RIGHT IN GOLDEN FRIED OYSTERS SO CRISP AND BROWN WITH NEW CRISCO! I'M NEW CREAMIER CRISCO! NEW GYRO CHURN PROCESS MAKES ME BETTER THAN EVER FOR GRAND DIGESTIBLE FRIED FOODS! GOLDEN FRIED OYSTERS 2 dozen large oysters 4 tablespoons horseradish 1½ cups fine bread crumbs 2 eggs Clean and dry oysters between absorbent paper. Roll in crumbs. 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Foods fried the modern Crisco way are as digestible as if baked! The MARCH OF TIME Prepared by the Editors of TIME The Weekly Newsmagazine WATCHES— WASHINGTON—For nearly six months the U.S. public has put with federal wage-hour regulations in spite of the wage and hour law. Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews has been able to get wide compliance mainly because he is a reasonable man, the act's demands modest (25c an hour, 44 hours week), and the penalties are so that business had to try to conform to a miserably written statute. But, vexed just as much business by the bungled law, Andrews last week asked congress to cure the worst defects. His self proposals: 1. Exempt from overtime pay employees who get $200 or more month in guaranteed salaries distinguished from variable wages), thus removing an expense and vexatious burden from employers without lessening benefits to low-paid workers. 2. Guarantee that employers will not be prosecuted if they follow the administrator's rulings and interpretations, pending court decisions on moot points. Employers now take Andrews' advice on their risk, chancing heavy damages, fines up to $10,000, even months in jail if the courts agree with the administrator on what the law means. 3. Don't make businessmen subject to punishment if they buy goods produced in plants where the act is violated without the purchaser's knowledge. dislocate the flow of business in a particular industry." POLITICAL RESOLUTION— WASHINGTON—Tom Connally of Texas uprose in the senate chamber last week to read into the record a resolution which the Texas state legislature had passed only a few days before. It concluded: "... That the said John Nance Garner is hereby indorsed and put forward as a candidate for the nomination by the national democratic party for the high office of president of the United States ..." Texas urged democrats of other states to second its sentiments. The dean of congress, Texas' Senator Sheppard, promptly announced himself "in hearty sympathy", and a few house members later chimed in. STOP-IHITLER STEPS— LONDON—Turning her back on a long established policy of no military commitments in Europe east of the Rhine, Great Britain last week guaranteed that the British fleet, along with the French army and the combined air forces of the two nations, would fight to protect the states of Eastern Europe from further nazi aggression. For Britain, this step marked the end of a six years' effort to get along with Adolf Hitler. Time after time Fuhrer Hitler has torn up treaties, ignored agreements, threatened neighboring states with invasion. As many times Britain has looked the other way. When, three weeks ago, the fuhrer moved (Continued on page 7) "It's the family!" 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