anaheim-gazette 1950-05-23

ANAHEIM GAZETTE Published afternoons, Monday through Friday, at 259 East Center, Anaheim, California. Phone Anaheim 2206. Entered as second-class matter at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice on June 5, 1879, under the Act of March 3, 1879. The Gazette is a member of the Associated Press, the National Editorial Association, and California Newspaper Publishers Association. All rights herein are reserved. Subscriptions: 50c per month by carrier or $5 per year by carrier or mail. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all A.P. news dispatches. THEODORE B. KUCHEL Publisher MAX BESLER Assistant Publisher ROBERT FUNSETH Managing Editor WILLARD GREGORY City Editor NEIL STANLEY Display Advertising Manager RALPH ROULAND Classified Advertising Manager Vet Convention Notes . . . They say the test of any great city is its ability to recover from disasters, depressions and veterans conventions. Well, several California cities will have a chance this summer and fall to refute that part about the conventions. Los Angeles will be host to the liveliest of them all when she entertains the national convention of the American Legion, October 8 to 12. In the meantime, San Francisco will have taken on the national meeting of the Disabled American Veterans, August 13 to 19. Hundreds of ex-GI's from all over the nation will be around to sample California hospitality, etc. But, it doesn't end there. The indigenous veteran groups are 4. Demand a strong national defense and a sound foreign policy. 5. Condemn communism and other alien isms. 6. Reaffirm their programs for children's recreation, civic service, and other good works which get to the grass roots of a city. So, pick out the good planks; argue about the others. People have been doing it for years. We'll check it after the local convention delegates come back and rest up. What about a grab philosophy? While we are talking about veterans, you can note above a couple of items (1 and 3) which are in the nature of "grabs." Such grabs too often are espoused by "pro- WASHINGTON — Hoover is angry and hurried Republican Senators, him on his great engineer for government, the Hoover port. In private talks with ton friends and in a talk by Sales Executives club in York, the ex-president co-bitterly about the groups, paid propaganda organized minorities" who led his reorganization plan Senate. It is the conservative Senators who have long Herbert Hoover as their of government efficiency also the GOP Senate cons who have repeatedly government economy. Hoover worked out and save the government services, and President Trump its adoption by Congress these same GOP Senate thwarted their ex-leader other hand, liberal Re voted with him. This is the record on Hoover plans now stopped Senate: Plan No. 1—Transfer of the comptroller of the to the secretary of the Opposed by the American Association and every Governor except three—Alice Lodge, Mass.; and William The GOP leadership, Rob Ken Wherry, and Gene all voted against Hoover. Plan No. 12—Abolish general counsel of the National Relations board. For Senator Taft (though he it a year before) the Nat Los Angeles will be host to the liveliest of them all when she entertains the national convention of the American Legion, October 8 to 12. In the meantime, San Francisco will have taken on the national meeting of the Disabled American Veterans, August 13 to 19. Hundreds of ex-GI's from all over the nation will be around to sample California hospitality, etc. But, it doesn't end there. The indigenous veteran groups are right now planning their California state conventions. The DAV has scheduled its state round-up in San Diego for June 22 to 26. Meanwhile, the Veterans of Foreign Wars will move into Santa Monica for a five day convention beginning June 24. And, the state Legion will wind up the California vet meetings at Sacramento, August 13 to 16. Of course, you folks who have read thus far are waiting for the clincher about what hell-raisers these veterans can be. Yet, we can state from some experience that there is serious hard work performed at these conventions. Committeemen, lots of them, labor diligently just to get the show on and moving swiftly through the few days of the convention. Others sweat over a convention platform which they submit to the convention at about the last and groggiest business session. Those platforms, incidentally, run pretty much the same year after year. You can check off the wherefores and articles in about this way: The convention will: 1. Publicly castigate ideas, like the Hoover report, that suggest veterans hospitals should be part of a sound national plan. 2. Advise against cuts in the Veterans Administrations budget and hospital personnel. 3. Favor, in general, a national veterans bonus. So, pick out the good planks; argue about the others. People have been doing it for years. We'll check it after the local convention delegates come back and rest up. What about a grab philosophy? While we are talking about veterans, you can note above a couple of items (1 and 3) which are in the nature of "grabs." Such grabs too often are espoused by "professional veterans"—not at all by the rank and file yet. Whether you like it or not the professional veterans are often in the saddle in too many veterans organizations and lobbies. They make the sounds, the home town vet isn't heard. Don't you think veterans organizations would be much more popular (the largest has some three million members out of about 20 million eligible veterans) if they would more firmly convince the veteran public they are Americans first, veterans second? It would make the American veteran appear in the public eye exactly as he should: a good citizen rather than the supposed object of handouts whose purposes are patently political. Certainly, it can't be overlooked (but often is) that expenditures for veterans will be paid in years to come by veterans and their families (now some eighty million folks). And it is true that the financial strength of a country determines its destiny, and the destiny and opportunities of the people. Of course, the vast majority of veterans are fine patriotic Americans... this was proved during the war, if it needed proving. So, during this coming veterans convention season all veterans should "pclice" veterans organizations to insure they constantly consider the financial burden of the nation. IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago Visitors to the hot springs at San Juan Capistrano are rejoicing. Park a day or two ago. He has long entertained the idea that oil exists in paying quantities in his section of the county and he is entertaining a proposition to search IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago Visitors to the hot springs at San Juan Capistrano are rejoicing at the splendid accommodations furnished by Mendelson of the postoffice store. J. J. Ayres, J. H. Bland and William Smith will represent Los Angeles county at the forthcoming session of the Grand Temple of Janissaries of Lights. Governor Pacheco has issued a proclamation offering a reward of $500 for the arrest of John Cotton and Caroline Norton, suspected of being the parties who murdered John Norton in Santa Barbara county last April. E. A. Pullen has been appointed census marshal and is now performing the duties pertaining to that office. 50 Years Ago Don David Yorba entertained a number of his friends at a picnic at Sycamore Canyon on Sunday last when a beeves head breakfast, tortillas, barbecued mutton and other delicacies claimed attention. Don David is an expert at preparing these dainties and the large crowd present were loud in their praise not only of his abilities as a caterer, but of his hospitality as well. Ike Williams was in from Buena Park a day or two ago. He has long entertained the idea that oil exists in paying quantities in his section of the county and he is entertaining a proposition to search for it with a drill. His well water has long had an oily surfacing upon it and there are other indications as well. Ike may yet get into the running and start an oil company of his own. 25 Years Ago N. E. Hunt, local rancher, bought the C. F. Skirvin 20-acre orange grove, two miles west of Anaheim on Rio Vista street last Monday. The consideration was said to be $110,000. The price $2500 an acre, is said to be the highest paid since wartime prices. The ranch is set to 15 year old Valencia oranges, and the present fruit crop is valued at $25,000. The deal was made through the Vilott & Swarthout company of this city. At the Thursday luncheon meeting of the Business and Professional Women's Club the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Mrs. Helen Harden, president, Misses Ruth Henley and Alice Humphrey, first and second vice-presidents. The secretary, treasurer and auditor being respectively, the Misses Ruth White, Adelaide Goodson and Clem Backs. Directors chosen are: Misses Alice Pannier, Lucyle Brastad and Elizabeth Martin. WASHINGTON — Herbert Hoover is angry and hurt at the way Republican Senators deserted him on his great engineering plan for government, the Hoover Report. In private talks with Washington friends and in a talk before the Sales Executives club in New York, the ex-president complained bitterly about the "pressure groups, paid propagandists, and organized minorities" which killed his reorganization plans in the Senate. It is the conservative GOP Senators who have long held up Herbert Hoover as their symbol of government efficiency. It is also the GOP Senate conservatives who have repeatedly preached government economy. Yet when Hoover worked out a plan to save the government several billions, and President Truman urged its adoption by Congress, it was these same GOP Senators who thwarted their ex-leader. On the other hand, liberal Republicans voted with him. This is the record on the four Hoover plans now stopped by the Senate: Plan No. 1—Transfer functions of the comptroller of the currency to the secretary of the treasury. Opposed by the American Bankers Association and every GOP Senator except three—Aiken, Vt.; Lodge, Mass.; and Williams, Del. The GOP leadership, Robert Taft, Ken Wherry, and Gene Millikin, all voted against Hoover. Plan No. 12—Abolish the general counsel of the National Labor Relations board. Fought by Senator Taft (though he was for it a year before) the National As- Plan No. 1—Transfer functions of the comptroller of the currency to the secretary of the treasury. Opposed by the American Bankers Association and every GOP Senator except three—Aiken, Vt.; Lodge, Mass.; and Williams, Del. The GOP leadership, Robert Taft, Ken Wherry, and Gene Millikin, all voted against Hoover. Plan No. 12—Abolish the general counsel of the National Labor Relations board. Fought by Senator Taft (though he was for it a year before) the National Association of Manufacturers, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Only five Republicans voted with Hoover: Aiken and Lodge, Ives, N.Y.; Langer, N.D.; and Tobey, N.H. Plan No. 7—Give executive powers to the chairman of the Inter-State Commerce commission. Bitterly opposed by the association of American Railroads and the Railway Labor Executives association. Only two Republicans, Knowland of California and Williams of Delaware, favored it. Plan No. 11—Give the Federal Communications commission chairman executive authority. Fought by National Association of Broadcasters and American Bar Association. Only eight Republicans voted with Hoover: Aiken, Ives, Knowland, Langer, Lodge, Smith of N.J., Thye of Minn., and Tobey. Hoover Explains Explaining his defeat to the Sales Executives club, Hoover said: "All the pressure groups have got in their work on the reform that would affect them, while they proclaim their endorsement of all the other reforms. I promise you that, before we fail, I shall name by name and describe them (the vested interests) by the use of all the English language of which I am capable." Note: One outfit that has done a bang-up job for the Hoover report is the lively Junior Chamber of Commerce, Clifford D. Cooper, the national president, has visited every state, organizing grass-roots pressure for government reform. Balloons to Russia Theodore H. Sloan of Washington, Pa., who was chief development engineer for the Council of Defense during World War I, has written me a letter about his experiences in floating small balloons into hostile territory—such as Russia. Mr. Sloan worked out a plan in 1917 for floating balloons into Germany carrying fire bombs to set fire to German forests. Eventu- SS Independence and the SS Constitution, a tribute to American flag initiative on the high seas. After the war, in view of the world shipping surplus, many predicted no more passenger ships would be built for years . . . A detective has been working under cover in the Senate, posing as an employee, to catch the bookie who is supposed to be operating there. So far, all the detective has uncovered is one numbers bet . . . Congressman Usher Burdick's bill to investigate payroll abuses by Senate and House members has been quietly shelved by the House Rules committee. It would expose too many colleagues . . . Here is a sure-fire cure for absent-minded atomic energy officials who leave secret documents lying around on their desks. They are hauled out of bed and must return to the office and lock the secret paper in a safe. Seldom do they make the same mistake twice . . . The Senate small business committee has discovered that it is powerless because the Senate, in authorizing the committee, neglected to vote it any money or authority. The oversight is being corrected . . . Senator Kefauver can't find office space on Capitol hill for his new crime committee. The Senate office building is so overcrowded that typists are actually working in the halls and on stairway landings. Sidestep China Crisis in U.N. By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER (For DeWitt MacKenzie) AP Foreign Affairs Analyst LAKE SUCCESS—The decision of the Big Three Foreign Ministers in London against acting now in the China crisis in the United Nations is said by a United Nations diplomat to mean these two things: 1. The West in effect is telling Nationalist China to take it easy and not press in the U.N. Little Assembly its charges that the Security council in January because the council would not expel Tsaiang. In dreary succession the Russians and their followers have walked out of or boycotted other U.N. organs as they met. Sixteen of the 59 U.N. members have recognized the Peiping regime. They are: the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, India, Burma, Pakistan, Britain, Denmark, Norway, Israel, Sweden, Afghanistan, White Russia, the Soviet Ukraine and the Netherlands. The United States has announced it will not vote to seat a red delegation but it will accept the decision of the maority, if and when a majority ever decides to recognize the credentials of a communist delegate. Time for Gardenin You bet I have. SINCE I GOT A NEW AUTOMATIC GAS RANGE! If you're tied to your present range, read these facts: Nothing else, in my opinion, gives you as much kitchen freedom as a new automatic gas range. Gas is so fast, you don't even have to pre-heat your oven before putting in a cake. And because the oven temperature never varies, you can forget about your cake until the specified baking time has elapsed. With clock control, you can place a complete meal in the oven and never give it a thought until time for serving. You'll have as perfect a Balloons to Russia Theodore H. Sloan of Washington, Pa., who was chief development engineer for the Council of Defense during World War I, has written me a letter about his experiences in floating small balloons into hostile territory—such as Russia. Mr. Sloan worked out a plan in 1917 for floating balloons into Germany carrying fire bombs to set fire to German forests. Eventually, Woodrow Wilson stopped the plan as inhuman. "The balloon was about 60 inches in diameter, carrying an automatic ballast tank and release mechanism for the fire bomb," wrote Mr. Sloan. "The balloon would rise to about 60,000 feet, at which point the ballast held it at about this altitude, the prevailing wind causing it to travel easterly at about 100 miles per hour. "A large number of these mechanisms were built and tested. On one test, 80 were sent up from Nebraska and dummy bombs were dropped along the Atlantic coast. We had attached a notice of reward for each dummy bomb returned, and by this means got about 60 per cent back. "The whole outfit," continued Mr. Sloan, "can be built for about $2 each and will carry about 10 ounces of dead weight. It has the following advantages: 1. It is the cheapest method of transporting printed material into an enemy country. 2. Human life is not jeopardized. 3. The balloons are practically invisible at 60,000 feet; therefore, can not be shot down." Note—Many patriotic Americans have written this columnist offering to help get propaganda balloons into Russia. Merry-Go-Round American Export lines will soon launch two new luxury liners, the Hal Boyle NEW YORK, (AP)—One of the world's most durable punching bags is the American husband. He is particularry the target of imported intellectuals, and practically any visiting foreigner can make a fast buck here by getting up on a lecture platform and saying a few unkind words about the typical American husband. It's been that way for 100 years. And gradually a stock figure has emerged . . . a wonderful cartoon that represents the average European lecturer's idea of the average American married man. This mythical fellow is a paunchy, walrus-necked tycoon who spends his mornings in an air-cooled office scanning the stock market ticker and roaring at underlings. Afternoon finds him belting a golf ball around a remodeled cow pasture. And at night he comes reluctantly home to his wife, a henna-haired vixen in anermine wrap who dishes him up a cold meal out of cans and wears his ears raw with her strident wail: "You gotta earn more sugar for mama, big boy—I dropped another hundred at bridge today." He's an ulcer-riddled, money-grubbing success in business. This American husband—but a bum bet in the boudoir. "He mak the monnee, yes, but at l'amour he ees no good. In love he ees a schoolboy, no?" No, he isn't. This whole picture of the American husband is an outward phantasy, an illusion dreamed up by foreigners as a result, perhaps, of seeing too many 25-year-old Hollywood movies—and taking them seriously. He's an ulcer-riddled, money-grubbing success in business. This American husband—but a bum bet in the boudoir. "He mak the mon-nee, yes, but at l'amour he ees no good. In love he ees a schoolboy, no?" No, he isn't. This whole picture of the American husband is an outward phantasy, an illusion dreamed up by foreigners as a result, perhaps, of seeing too many 25-year-old Hollywood movies—and taking them seriously. It might be a good idea for the State Department to hire a few really American families and send them on tour to other countries, just to bring them up-to-date on what kind of people live here. It would be the best kind of propaganda. Too many common folks abroad still believe Americans carry gold around in buckets and sleep on bedsheets woven from $100 bills. 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