anaheim-gazette 1939-12-21

ANAHEIM GAZETTE Established 1870 ORANGE COUNTY'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher 1887-1935 The Anaheim Gazette has been owned and edited but 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. STATE RELIEF CHARGES GROW The people of Orange county, and of the entire state, ought now to be thoroughly convinced that the administration of state relief in California is bad—bad because of excessive costs, bad because of mal-administration, of undercover policies it pursues, and bad because of the destructive politics infesting it. Everyone feels that the unemployed person, who looks for, but can't find, work, ought to be treated as best as possible by our people. But we do not feel that a person on relief should receive considerably more than he ever did when he was employed. One family in Los Angeles county has been receiving about $150 per month, on state relief for many, many months. Figures show that the head off that family never made near that amount when he was employed—which was a long time ago. Multiply this case a few hundred or thousand times, and you have part of the reason for the continued rise of relief costs. Why is it that our local Orange County Welfare department has an overhead of about seven percent of the monies which it expends; but that the SRA has an overhead of approximately twenty percent? Why, indeed, should there be nearly three times the administration cost? Then this week, from Sacramento, Assemblyman Samuel Yorty let loose a blast against the administration of relief in his own county, Los Angeles. Yorty accused the county for many, many months. Figures show that the head of that family never made near that amount when he was employed—which was a long time ago. Multiply this case a few hundred or thousand times, and you have part of the reason for the continued rise of relief costs. Why is it that our local Orange County Welfare department has an overhead of about seven percent of the monies which it expends; but that the SRA has an overhead of approximately twenty percent? Why, indeed, should there be nearly three times the administration cost? Then this week, from Sacramento, Assemblyman Samuel Yorty let loose a blast against the administration of relief in his own county, Los Angeles. Yorty accused the county SRA director of at least permitting Communist activities to gain a foothold in the Los Angeles SRA. It will be remembered that Assemblyman Yorty, on his legislative voting record, has been accurately classified as an extreme radical. He is, or at least has been, a close political friend of the Olson administration. To have Mr. Yorty now publicly denounce the administration of SRA in the state's largest county is to add considerable weight to the apparently established non-political and non-partisan fact that SRA is not being conducted fully and fairly by believers in democracy and the American system. Relief administration offers a tremendously fertile field for the radical. People who are on relief are, many times, more prone to doubt the efficacy of democracy, and are, therefore, more ready prey for the undemocratic agitator, who is always quick-tongued in his ability to decide our form of government and to paint a glowing picture of what another form of government might provide. It must be remembered that when he resigned as state SRA director, Dr. H. Dewey Anderson scornfully accused his department of teeming with political parasites, and stated his inability to wipe them out because of widespread political pressure. This state relief question is one of California's most serious and far flung problems. And the charges now being made against the present relief-administration demonstrate—in so far as those charges are correct—the need for cleaning house, reducing costs, eliminating chiselers, adjourning politics, and keeping the administration of relief in American-minded hands. 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 Westminster Gazette Buena Park News Anheim Gazette Tustin News Garden Grove News Yorba Linda Star Coastline Dispatch Brea-Progressa Seal Beach Post SUPERVISORS HOPEFUL UNCLE SAM'S LIGHT MAY BRIGHTEN PRADO DEAL After many months of moving around in the dark the board of supervisors think they are beginning to see a little light in the matter of the Prado basin expense. Without doubt the outstanding feature of the situation has been the extent to which the U. S: REMEMBER MARTIN LEACH? HIS CASE IS UP AGAIN Some time next month there will be a hearing before the state prison board which would interest a good many Orange county folks if they knew about it. And probably most of them would like to be on hand and give the prison board a few pointers. The case is that of Martin Leach. A considerable number re-stands exposed as a regime in blood-thirsty and contemptuous human rights than any other regime in the history of the organized world. And concurrent fascism and the whole totalitarian philosophy is stripped of its veil and trappings by the ruthless tread of its chief voice and dard-beerer, Herr Hitler. "Isms," conceived in greed, lust for power, but boldly querading as new ways to be things, finally dropped the querade as their creators began their campaigns of murder and pillage. And simultaneously, in United States, Fritz Kuhn, swaggering leader of the German American Bund, is carted off prison as a common thief; Browder and Robert Weiner, flight leaders of the communist party in America, are indicted. a federal grand jury for fraudulent passports, and a communist agitators scurry out of the country before law violations catch up with them. There can be no doubt communism and fascism have thousands of followers in United States during recent years—misguided followers who swallowed foreign propaganda whole and who had concurred thinkingly, in a carefully-planned sabotage against their country an dtheir own liberty. But it is also undeniable communism, at least, still firm hold, through its "front" and its many under-organization's, in many phases American life—a hold that people of the United States they-value their liberty, will make it their business to be once and for all. The effrontery of the regime, in championing its pajo of undermining America's government, was evidenced only a few days ago, when a munist party organ, in Moscow called upon "American toilers" to defeat the "war pact of American imperialism." SUPERVISORS HOPEFUL UNCLE SAM'S LIGHT MAY BRIGHTEN PRADO DEAL After many months of moving around in the dark the board of supervisors think they are beginning to see a little light in the matter of the Prado basin expense. Without doubt the outstanding feature of the situation has been the extent to which the U. S. army and its bosses down at Washington have failed to let Orange county know what it was going to do. It looks now as if we pretty soon might find out. For months it has been evident that the 2½ million dollars in bonds would not be near enough to handle the right-of-way and overflow land costs at Prado alone, let alone the other costs. For months the supervisors lived in hopes that the federal government would come to their rescue. "Now it looks as if they may be ready to do so—but at a price. If the government—via the army—decides to regnburse Orange county for what lands it has bought, and to buy the rest itself, it also take title to those lands and hold them under its own control. Just why is not yet plain, but that seems to be the course of things. However, it has its complications. The chief one has to do with water rights, both as they pertain to the two big water companies which get their supply from the Santa Ana river, and to the Santa Ana basin as a whole and its underground supply. In view of the prospects the country has stopped buying any more stuff in the Prado basin. What is going to develop out of the whole situation still is hard to guess, but the supervisors have hopes that at no too great a price they may be relieved of a situation which was becoming more and more uncomfortable. REMEMBER MARTIN LEACH? HIS CASE IS UP AGAIN Some time next month there will be a hearing before the state prison board which would interest a good many Orange county folks if they knew about it. And probably most of them would like to be on hand and give the prison board a few pointers. The case is that of Martin Leach. A considerable number remember him—to their sorrow. He promoted an automobile manufacturing company, built a factory in Los Angeles, and sold stock high, wide and handsome. It is declared that he took about half a million dollars out of Orange county—and never brought any of it back. All this was about 15 years ago. Leach finally was run to earth and after a long court battle which went to the supreme court was ordered to San Quentin under the indeterminate sentence law. He thereupon jumped bail (his bond proving to be in a bankrupt company) and skipped. It was said he lived luxuriously in New York until a few years ago when he got tangled in the legal net, down in Florida and finally, rather than face the eastern courts, came back to California to begin serving his sentence. In someway unknown here he got probation on most of the counts against him. In January his case will come up for determination of sentence, and those who have been interested are fearful that we will wiggle out of any real punishment. Pursuit of Leach was carried on by George Varnum, than an Anaheim attorney, now living in La Habra Heights. He represented several hundred of the victims. It was by chance that he stumbled onto the recent facts about Leach, and has interested himself in the matter again to the extent of expressing an intention of Said this brazen dispatch: American communist party actively preparing fulfillment its historical task in the new international situation. The U.S. states government is issuing traordinary decrees which claimed are directed against and saboteurs, but in reality used against communists and anti-war forces. AMERICAN TOILERS ARE FACED WITH GREAT TASK — THAT CRUSHING THE WAR PLAN OF A POWERFUL FOE—AMERICAN IMPERIALISM." Translated, this message communist Russia to the munists in the American movement means: While soviet Russia is busy ploiting the riches of conquer Poland, and seeking to subjugate and conquer Finland, commute in the United States must their own country, if need be keep it, from sympathizing or befriending any of the so newly-chosen victims in Europe. Certainly every American worker, who still believes America, should rebel and purge his unions of common influences. Communism stands vealed in its true colors; America needs to do something about it. making a strong protest against further leniency. Va claims that much grief and mourning in the wake of this other schemes, and that there many now suffering from effects of losses incurred. THE FARMERS CORNER by RALPH H. TAYLOR Executive Secretary Agricultural Council of California THE LETTER TO SANTA DEAR SANTA: I HAVE BEEN A GOOD BOY. I DON'T WANT MUCH OF ANYTHING FOR CHRISTMAS. AFTER ALL, I HAVE ABOUT EVERYTHING I COULD WISH FOR. I HAVE COMFORTS OF LIFE UNKNOWN IN OTHER LANDS. I HAVE LIBERTIES THAT ARE MINE AS AN AMERICAN. THIS IS ONE CHRISTMAS, SANTA, WHEN I AM NOT ASKING FOR ANYTHING — EXCEPT FOR THE CHANCE TO KEEP THIS COUNTRY OF OURS AS GOOD AS IT IS, AND TO MAKE IT EVEN BETTER. WE CAN DO THIS IF WE STACK TO THE THINGS. AMERICAN WAY OF DOING THAT'S ALL ANY-REAL WANTS. Johnnie Public Santa Ana Youth is Winner of Contest Raymond Ross, Santa Ana high school student, and Ruth Snider of Orange high school, will represent central Orange county in the county finals of the American Legion oratorical contest on Americanism on January 4. Anaheim Boys Join Navy During Month Two Anaheim youths and three from Santa Ana were enlisted in the United States navy from the Long Beach recruiting station during the month of December. Those from Anaheim are John Franklin Thompson, Rt. 2, Box Orange County Only Half Map Adequate topographical have been made of only about half of Orange county, acc to recent information from United States Geological The portion that is mapped quately lies west of an imme line extending from Laguna to the junction point of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. By "Inadequate mapping survey means a lack of graphic maps, which show dimensions and picture the rate shape of the earth's and hence are of much usefulness than "flat" map third dimension—that of is added by means of... Santa Ana Youth is Winner of Contest Raymond Ross, Santa Ana high school student, and Ruth Snider of Orange high school, will represent central Orange county in the county finals of the American Legion oratorical contest on Americanism on January 4. Ross, speaking on "Our Enduring Democracy," won first place in the district finals last Friday. Miss Snider, second place winner, used as her subject, "The Development of the Constitution." There are more than 3,000,000 telephone users in England. Anaheim Boys Join Navy During Month Two Anaheim youths and three from Santa Ana were enlisted in the United States navy from the Long Beach recruiting station during the month of December. Those from Anaheim are John Franklin Thompson, Rt. 2, Box 239, and Burdette Basil Siler, Rt. 4, Box 142. The Santa Ana youths are Paul Edward Bingle, James Robert Spain and Donald James Glotzbach. Franz Schubert used the guitar to work on his compositions, being too poor to own a piano. Last Call for Remember That Man In COME IN NOW AND WE'LL HELP YOU MAKE YOUR GIFT SELECTION. GIFT HANDKERCHIEFS Expuisite hand rolled initialed Irish Linen with fancy borders. HICKOK BRACES AND BELTS Individual items or matched sets. ROBES Probably the nicest gift Choose from many styles cluding Beacon flannel genuine Skinner satin f $4.95 to $10. GIFT HANDKERCHIEFS Expuisite hand rolled initialed Irish Linen with fancy borders. 25c - 50c - $1.00 Boxed 50c and $1 SHIRTS - SHORTS Always a needed item. Shirts are fine combed cotton or rayon. Shorts are fine broadcloths. By Manhattan. Allen A. 25c to 50c HICKOK BRACES AND BELTS Individual items or matched sets. 50c and $1.00 GLOVES Dress and driving. Mocha in gray, tan and black. $1.00 - $1.50 $2.00 - $3.00 ROBES Probably the nicest gift Choose from many styles including Beacon flannel genuine Skinner satin f $4.95 to $10. A Small Deposit will hold any item until Christmas—Gifts. 145 WEST CENTER STREET YUNGBLUTH Orange County is Only Half Mapped Adequate topographical maps have been made of only about one half of Orange county, according to recent information from the United States Geological survey. One portion that is mapped adequately lies west of an imaginary line extending from Laguna Beach on the junction point of Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. By "Inadequate mapping" the survey means a lack of topographic maps, which show three dimensions and picture the accurate shape of the earth's surface and hence are of much greater usefulness than "flat" maps. The third dimension—that of height is added by means of contour lines to show elevation above sea level. Newport's Float to Represent Sailboat Sailboat made of flowers will characterize Newport Harbor in the Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena New Year's day, according to Jack Sarleir, chairman of the committee on arrangements. The boat will represent a snowbird, one of the most popular type of small sailing craft, on a base of blue. Groups Opposing Bay Oyster Beds Protests may be filed with the county supervisors over proposed granting of oyster bed privileges in the upper bay area at Newport Beach, it was revealed early this week. Opponents of the plan content that such privileges might prove a serious handicap in future development of the region as an addition to the yacht harbor facilities in the main bay. Certain interests are seeking oyster rights in the upper bay region on a long term lease agreement through county agencies, it was reported. 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All new Christmas shades, snappy patterns and styles, button and middy types. $1.65-$1.95 to $5.00 Christmas—Gifts Wrapped for Christmas LUTK'S ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Our Sincerest Wish is that you have a most Joyful Christmas!