anaheim-gazette 1951-03-27

4 Anaheim Gazette TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1951 ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA 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, 1869, under the Act of March 2, 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: 500 per month by carrier or mail. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—The Associated Press in entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all A.P. news dispatchers. THEODORE E. KUCHEL MAX BESLER ERNEST BEYER LEONARD KREIDT MYLES BRADLEY NEIL STANLEY O. E. MELLEN MARY ROULAND RALPH ROULAND LUCY HUBBARD The little man makes a resolution... The little man was quite impressed with the Kerauver crime hearings on TV, especially with having the Senators and characters talking in his living room. He hoped some good would come of them. He hoped they wouldn't wind up like some of the other Senate investigations he read of in the past; nine-day wonders that just pettered out. He certainly agreed with Senator Tobey, the New Hampshire Republican, who said he felt sure when millions of people saw things like this on TV, they'd take a greater interest in government. The little man felt sure they would—and that he would himself. Of course, when he sees a Senate or House committee at work on TV in a committee hearing he sees members of Congress asking cation of that honestly. He asked himself: "Don't I have to take some of the blame for all this myself? Have I been such a good citizen that I can afford to hold my nose?" He asked himself: "What have I really done to see that I have good government in my own town, my own state, and in Washington? I haven't taken even a small hand in politics. Half the time I haven't even voted." The little man trying to examine his conscience, admitted to himself that somehow he had always been too busy to lift a finger in any way to help make his government better. "I've been too busy somehow," he told himself, "even to go to political meetings where I might have some say in picking men for office. I couldn't do it all myself." WASHINGTON — Rare actions of a citizen retethe USA—stepping off American Clipper in New York the other day I immediately tangled in a traffic jam seemed good communist Yugelavia I find a taxi to drive from Belgrade to the bus in the capital of Yugoslavia had to take a horse-driverriage... at Idlewild also stepped in front of an inspector who said: "This been happening while you away. A guy named Kefalotaken this town by stopdon't get much work doing him. That fellow Took his eyeshade isn't so bad. He's saying a lot of the American people would say."... Tobey, I recall the Republican who sent through the New Hampshire mary by the scant margin 2000 votes after all sorts of was poured in by the Chinese and others to defeat him. All of names were hurled at then. I remember because smeared when I went to port. At the airport, every around New York, everyone ed Costelloism, Kefauver, C mink coats, RFC corruption the rascals out... A lot d from war and the prepara-thing about the crime thought, as may car through the traffic jam, is He certainly agreed with Senator Tobey, the New Hampshire Republican, who said he felt sure when millions of people saw things like this on TV, they'd take a greater interest in government. The little man felt sure they would—and that he would himself. Of course, when he sees a Senate or House committee at work on TV in a committee hearing he sees members of Congress asking a lot of questions. They're trying to find out what makes things tick. But he wished he could also see Members of Congress at work among themselves talking and arguing on the floor of the House and Senate. But they won't permit any pictures of themselves in action in the House and Senate; not only no TV, but not even movies, news photos or even a pocket camera. The little man couldn't help think they had a bit of gall to want witnesses before committees to face TV when they wouldn't permit any shots of themselves at work among themselves. But the little man thought quite a lot of what he saw about the crime hearings on TV. They showed underworld characters not only had plenty of connections among themselves but among police and sheriffs and elected officials, too. This was not anything really new to the little man. He didn't have any illusions. He certainly had sense enough to know you can't have widespread gambling without connivance by police and elected officials. And he tried to face the implication. IN THE DAYS OF JONG AGO From the Files of the Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago The sprinkling carts have begun their work in Los Angeles and still they growl about dust. Mr. Olden made a sale of a section of land yesterday, even if the wind did blow. We could not but pity the poor businessman. 50 Years Ago The incorporation papers of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad were filed last week with the secretary of state at Salt Lake. The capital stock of the company is placed at $25,000,000 and the corporate existence is fixed at 100 years. The officers of the company are: Senator W. A. Clark in politics. Half the time I haven't even voted." The little man trying to examine his conscience, admitted to himself that somehow he had always been too busy to lift a finger in any way to help make his government better. "I've been too busy somehow," he told himself, "even to go to political meetings where I might have some say in picking men for office. I couldn't do it all myself. But if enough of us did it the political hacks wouldn't be able to do if for me in a back room. "I've left the whole government up to them the political hacks, the pros, who get fat off politics. All I do is vote for one side or the other when I know the hacks are picking both sides." He admitted to himself: When I get a politician to fix a traffic ticket for me it's as bad, in a minor way, as paying off a sheriff to let me run a trap game. They both corrupt the government." The little man ran over in his mind some of the things he thought he ought to do: Talk over candidates and issues with his neighbors, he sure to vote himself, ring doorbells to get his neighbors to vote, go to political meetings, get up and speak his piece, even get over his aversion to politics and sometimes be willing to hold a political job which otherwise goes by default to the handpicked candidates of the pros. He made up his mind he'd get busy but even as he told himself, he wondered if he would. Inside Senator Kefauver—Estes Kefauver has been expelled other people here is a little posing of Estes Kefauver...office walls are cluttered scribbled drawings of his 70-old daughter. His ambition to deal with crime, but be an expert on the Foreign relations committee...Yale-trained he once wrote a book, "20th century Congress," urging that gress be streamlined. He blasted his colleagues for the expensive junkets to Al Hawaii, etc., at the taxpayer pense...One of the few who ever bucked the Crump chine in Tennessee and politically to tell the tale. Crump of Memphis pulled a trick in the bag to defeat him even claimed he was a foreign It all backfired. Kefauver born in Madisonville, Tenn..On Kefauver's office wall hangs a coon-skin cap in a 75 Years Ago The sprinkling carts have begun their work in Los Angeles and still they growl about dust. Mr. Olden made a sale of a section of land yesterday, even if the wind did blow. We could not but pily the poor horses yesterday, cowering, half blinded, in the wind, while their unmindful masters, were taking refuge in the various stores and saloons from its inclementy. Well, there are spots on the sun, some imperfections even in the most refined ladies and flaws in the great Kohinoor diamond, and so we should be reconciled to the occasional irregularities of the weather, which atones for them by our almost invariable perfection. We are informed by a young man of this place that he narrowly escaped being struck, several nights ago, by a bullet fired at a dog. Negliance that permits the possibility of such an accident, is criminal. Another Colorado desert excursion from Los Angeles is advertised to take place on Saturday. Just received by D & G. D. Plato, a large assortment of crockery, glass ware, lamps, etc., which will be sold at the lowest prices. Mr. John Wagner lost 300 sheep a few days ago near the Brea canyon. They crowded into a gulch and smothered themselves. 50 Years Ago The incorporation papers of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad were filed last week with the secretary of state at Salt Lake. The capital stock of the company is placed at $25,000,000 and the corporate existence is fixed at 100 years. The officers of the company are: Senator W. A. Clark of Montana (Butte) president; S. C. Kerens, St. Louis, vice-president; Thomas E. Gibbon, Los Angeles, third vice-president; J. Ross Clark of Butte, Mont., second vice-president; T. F. Miller of Los Angeles, secretary; F. K. Rule, Los Angeles, treasurer. Active construction will be started at once from the Los Angeles end, and a party of surveyors will be at once sent out from Salt Lake to locate that end of the line. The deeds transferring the Los Angeles Terminal Railway Company's property to the new corporation bear $5000 in revenue stamps and in addition $2500 in fees was paid to the secretary of state for filing the articles of incorporation. William Schumacher was over from Fullerton yesterday on business. Mr. Asher is on a business trip to Tehachapti, to be gone until the end of the week. Workmen are busy laying an asphaltum flooring for Hahn's new livery building on Los Angeles St. The Kuebler Bros. have the contract. The brick and concrete foundation has been laid by C. Schindler. 25 Years Ago Proprietors of the SQR and their obliging clerks had time last Thursday afternoon evening to attend to the want customers as their hours were fully taken up in welcoming worms and friends who flocked in thousands to inspect the new and extend congratulations to Messrs. Renner and Schumacher who have within a period of twenty-five years built one of the greatest mercantile establishments in the county. Thursday was a date fixed for formal opening of the store in its new quarters an invitation had been broadened to all the people to call and spect the place. There was generous response to the invitation. The big store was a bower beautiful flowers, hundreds bouquets and floral pieces be sent in by friends, many of them coming from Los Angeles, Francisco and other out of town places. The visitors were cooled through the building and the congratulations were sincere they found one of the best pointed department stores in county. WASHINGTON — Random reactions of a citizen returning to the USA—stepping off a Pan American Clipper in New York the other day I immediately got tangled in a traffic jam. But the traffic jam seemed good . . . In communist Yugoslavia I couldn't find a taxi to drive from the station in Belgrade to the hotel (this in the capital of Yugoslavia.) I had to take a horse-drawn carriage . . . at Idlewild airport. I also stepped in front of a customs inspector who said: "Things have been happening while you were away. A guy named Kefauver has taken this town by storm. We don't get much work done watching him. That fellow Tobey and his eyeshade isn't so bad either. He's saying a lot of things the American people would like to say." . . . Tobey, I recalled, was the Republican who squeaked through the New Hampshire primary by the scant margin of about 2000 votes after all sorts of money was poured in by the China lobby and others to defeat him. All sorts of names were hurled at Tobey then. I remember because I got meared when I went to his support. At the airport, everywhere around New York, everyone talked Costelloism, Kefauver, O'Dwyer think coats, RFC corruption, kick the rascals out . . . A lot different from war and the preparation for war engrossing Europe . . . Best thing about the crime probe, I bought, as may car crawled through the traffic jam, is the re- "WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON HERE ?" CURRENT GOVERNMENTAL EXPOSES MORRIS At the airport, everywhere around New York, everyone talked Costellolism, Kefauver, O'Dwyer think coats, RFC corruption, kick the rascals out... A lot different from war and the preparation for war engrossing Europe... Best thing about the crime probe, I bought, as may car crawled through the traffic jam, is the reaction of the people. Sometimes it's good for people to get sore, to use up against leaders who fail lead... These are the folks who are the shock troops of the nation; the home people, the common people, the craftsmen, workers, shopkeepers who run the race and keep the faith. They may plain, poor, simple, but they are stubborn in safeguarding the great ideals of decency, and theirathy reaction to corruption in high places is healthier, more effective than an army of policemen... Truth may desert the high places. Political laziness may gulf the Justice Department, when you have a great armyplain people holding the front for clean living. I am not worried about the future... That the greatest asset of America... That is the most important action I got upon returning to USA. Inside Senator Kefauver—Since senator Kefauver has been exposing other people here is a little exaggeration of Estes Kefauver... His nice walls are cluttered with bubbled drawings of his 7-year-old daughter. His ambition is not ideal, with crime, but become expert on the Foreign Relations committee... Yale-trained, once wrote a book, "20th Century Congress," urging that Congress be streamlined. He even tested his colleagues for taking intensive junkets to Alaska, waft, etc., at the taxpayers' exeuse... One of the few men ever bucked the Crump machine in Tennessee and lived critically to tell the tale. Boss bump of Memphis pulled every inch in the bag to defeat Estes, claimed he was a foreigner, all backfired. Kefauver was in Madisonville, Tenn... Kefauver's office wall also has a coon-skin cap in a glass coonskin may have three rings around its tail," he told Tennesseeans, "but it doesn't have a ring through its nose." Champion of little fellow—It isn't always that a crime-buster is also a trust-buster. But Kefauver's record in fighting for little business, standing up for the little fellow is about 100 per cent perfect. He dared challenge veteran Senator Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming on the basing point bill staged a bitter campaign to show what the new Basing Point bill would do to little business—and won... He was among those who had the courage to buck the big distillers and demand extension of the president's power to suspend whisky distilling until more grain was on hand to feed Europe... He guided the House Small business committee in its fight against monopolies; showed how war concentrated more business in the hands of fewer companies... In the House he campaigned to get the low-cost housing bill dislodged from the Rules committee where it was blocked by the die-hards... He voted against the big gas companies and against his Democratic friends from the southwest on the Kerr Natural Gas bill... And he championed a bill to use some of our huge food surpluses to feed underprivileged children... When the Senator's father came to Washington to see him sworn in, he reaffirmed: "They used to refer to Estes as my son. Now they call me Estes' daddy. That's what makes a country better—when a son is better than his daddy." Tennessee Economizer — When Kefauver was first elected to the Senate from the House of Representatives, he had a lot of House stationery still on hand. So to save the government money he proceeded to use up his House writing paper... Fulton Lewis Hal Boyle By Arthur Edson (Fox Hal Boyle) WASHINGTON (P)—If you want to win friends, and be influenced by people, get yourself an allergy. You won't be alone, for there are more than 15,000,000 of us allergy sufferers in this country. It may be hay fever or asthma or a food or skin allergy. Whatever it is, it's possible that it will be serious and it's certain that it will be annoying. For the allergy victim often is condemned for a lifetime of wheezing or scratching. I'm scratching myself. The little blisters showed up on the index finger of my left hand at the Philadelphia political conventions two years ago. For a time I thought I might be allergic to Philadelphia, but when I came home the blisters came right with me. They haven't been a complete liability, for they have helped me to strike up conversations with complete strangers. I was buying some women's hose, a valentine for my wife, and the selaslady confessed: "I have an allergy, too. I've had it ever since I switched to hosiery from underwear." A Congressional committee clerk told me a well known senator had a breaking out on his hands for years. The girl where I bank pointed to some splotches on her hand and asked sympathetically, "are you allergic to money, too?" "I'll never know," I said sulkily. Others have chimed in with all sorts of helpful hints, from taking vitamin pills to coating my hands 25 Years Ago oprietors of the SQR store their obliging clerks had no last Thursday afternoon and being to attend to the wants of customers as their hours were taken up in welcoming visiters and friends who flocked in by sands to inspect the new store extend congratulations to Mrs. Renner and Schumacher, have within a period of twenty years built one of the big mercantile establishments in county. Thursday was the fixed for formal opening of store in its new quarters and invitation had been broadcast all the people to call and in the place. There was a serious response to the invitaThe big store was a bower of full flowers, hundreds of sets and floral pieces being in by friends, many of them going from Los Angeles, San Francisco and other out of town. The visitors were ecstatic through the building and their attributions were sincere as found one of the best appended department stores in the city. Tennessee Economizer — When Kefauver was first elected to the Senate from the House of Representatives, he had a lot of House stationery still on hand. So to save the government money he proceeded to use up his House writing paper . . . Fulton Lewis long ago began lambasting Kefauver. (Mrs. Lewis is the daughter of another Tennesseean, Claudius Houston, former chairman of the Republican National committee.) . . Nothing galls aging Senator Kenneth McKellar more than Kefauver's triumphs. McKellar did his best to defeat Kefauver, later wrote the president taking credit for swinging Tennessee for Truman. Actually he had done almost nothing . . . A great family man, Kefauver wanted a third child and when this appeared impossible, the Kefauvers adopted one. By that time the family was big enough. But Mrs. Kefauver produced an unexpected fourth . . . Estes was so busy with the crime probe in Chicago that he almost wasn't there for the arrival. Quotes from the Washington Merry-Go-Round—"On the surface, Kefauver is as calm as a Sunday afternoon, but this covers a stormy spirit inside." . . "The young Tennesseean is a liberal lawyer-economist who modes like a tornado in slow motion . . . "A tall, handsome younger edition of Cordell Hull." . . Three-year-old David Kefauver is the only person who ever told Truman he didn't need a bodyguard. Delivering a ham at the White House with his mother, David asked the president what the circular doors in his office were for. "For the Secret Service men to come in to protect me," the president replied." . . "Aw, you're a big man," blurted David, "you don't need anyone to protect you." . . Eleanor Kefauver, daughter of the crime buster, once invited all members of her class to ride on the Tennessee float in the 1948 inaugural parade. "All the girls in my class have connections with Tennessee," she explained. When asked what connection a South American classmate had with the State, Eleanor replied: "She had to come through Tennessee to get to Washington." Congressional committee clerk told me a well known senator had a breaking out on his hands for years. The girl where I bank pointed to some splotches on her hand and asked sympathetically, "are you allergic to money, too?" "I'll never know," I said sulkily. Others have chimed in with all sorts of helpful hints, from taking vitamin pills to coating my hands with vegetable shortening. Naturally I have followed every piece of advice given me, both amateur and professional, and the results have been gratifying. The blisters have spread only to four fingers of my left hand and to the little finger of my right. Without this kind of help, I'm sure I would have been a goner. Certain conclusions have been reached from these interviews, and I pass them on as my small contribution to medical science. 1. The person who has an allergy never suggests a cure. -Colony QuipsBy the Gazette Farm Editor LET'S TAKE quite plainly about the California citrus industry for a few minutes. We all know and have seen the inflationary spiral that has sent the prices of almost everything up and up and up. Everybody will go along on this. Look at the Florida citrus picture. It has reacted to this situation and last year, according to a Florida citrus leader and reported by the Associated Press, the Florida grower received an average of $2.72 for his juice fruit. That was not the average for valencias but for ALL Florida juices fruit. A large percentage of this fruit is what we in California would term "culls" and down in Florida they are known as "packing house house rejects." Now the present California navel market is in the doldrums. It is not bringing enough money to make the grower a decent return. Still we are rolling the cars east. (To protect the Exchange overhead?) The Exchange last week in one of their numerous "news releases" gave us poor benighted numseills the inside reason why the market was poor for navels; this is the time of year when income taxes are paid. That is what the Exchange reported to newspapers last week. Does it not take your breath away, we mean but completely. Why did we not think of this before. IT REMENDS us of early last summer when our beautiful early Sunkist valencias were bringing nothing to the grower, and on the OAC, the Exchange was insisting on no cut in the prorate because we had to "move the crop" and forestall a "run-away" market. But the answer was simple at that time too. The Exchange got all of its millions on the long distance telephone and found out what was the matter. They told us the answer. Mr. Wilcox was probably aware of it all the time. Mr. Prizer probably had to be told as he is an expert only on Florida. Or is he? We get confused. But the answer to why our valencias were bringing nothing except enough to pay off the upper echelons with the "nothing" reserved for the grower was that meat was too high. Simple was it not? Who was simple? The grower who fell for that sort of "baloney." But why should he not believe it now, after all these years? But to get back to our original premise. Why are California oranges the ONLY agricultural commodity that has not responded to the inflationary spiral in money return to the producer? 2. The person who hasn't an allergy always knows exactly what will cure you. My doctor says finding this villain can be extremely difficult and complex. "I had a woman not long ago who was allergic to her fur coat," he said. "But she insisted she wanted to wear furs, and had me test her for her reaction to each kind of fur." "She was overjoyed when I finally found the only fur she could wear was mink." Many prominent people have been hypersensitive, but my favorite is Marcel Proust, the famed French author. In an introduction to Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Lewis Galantiere says of this sufferer from chronic asthma: "Indoors and out, he would wrap himself up like an anemic voyager in Antartica, retaining (for example) his furlined coat whole evenings through, while seated in the most brilliant drawing rooms of Paris. "In bed he wore over a long night-gown, sweaters and muffers, and with these, stockings, loves, and a nightcap." In later years Proust went out only at night, and used to drop in on his friends at 2 a.m. So put Proust down as an exception to my rule that an allergy helps win friends. On that schedule, his friends soon must have become allergic to Proust. OBLONG VIEWS FROM AN EGG-SHAPED HEAD BY WALDO HUNTER A MEMBER OF the Federal Communications Commission, a powerful bureau which regulates all licenses for radio and TV, has proposed that at least two of the hitherto unfilled television channels be reserved exclusively for "educational" programs sponsored by the government. Naturally, there would be no commercial advertising on these channels. They would be the exclusive property of the government. One's first instinct is to react violently to such a proposal as an attempt at enforced governmental propaganda. We naturally recoil at the thought of giving our government a pipeline through which to pump "education" into our parlors. It smacks too much of the way the ruling clauses of Russia, Spain, and Argentina keep their vassals "informed." THEN, TOO, business interests in this country would be the first to raise the hue and cry about government competing with private interests (just like they did when Hoover dam was built, without which Southern California today would probably be a parched and barren wilderness). But the more one thinks about the proposal, the more practical it seems. After all, if we didn't like any particular government "educational" program... THEN, TOO, business interests in this country would be the first to raise the hue and cry about government competing with private interests (just like they did when Hoover dam was built, without which Southern California today would probably be a parched and barren wilderness). But the more one thinks about the proposal, the more practical it seems. After all, if we didn't like any particular government "educational" program, a twist of the knob would deliver us from it. If the "programs" were selected and prepared by a strict bipartisan committee with neither political party dominating the scene, such a scheme would prove of great benefit. In the first place, a series of documentary films on the processes of government at the highest level would not be out of place, considering the average citizens' abysmal ignorance of how this country is run. IT IS ALMOST certain that the government couldn't do any worse than some of the sponsors who are now "educating" us on the abused TV screens. I give you "Hawthorne," for instance, and you are entirely welcome. Television could be the mightiest force for cultural enlightenment this country has known. The moving pictures had their chance, and failed miserably. Radio, even at its peak of popularity, either ignored or found itself unable to meet the challenge. Its asinine singing commercials and other advertising gadgets are fit fare for infants and idiots and none other. Let's hope it is not necessary for our paternal government to step in to lay its heavy hand on television. The TV executives, and the sponsors surely realize that they are, after all, responsible to the American public and that the American public is not made up entirely of 12-year-olds and dolls. IF YOUR MINISTER ever drops in for a call and your little boy levels a cast iron six-gun at him with the cool, calculated command, "get your hands up and get goin'" you will realize what I mean. DAILY WORKER NEEDS RUBLES NEW YORK (P) — The Daily Worker says it is threatened with bankruptcy. It is appealing for funds. A front page editorial in the communist newspaper yesterday said it must raise $200,000. It urged its readers to contribute and to get friends to contribute $5 each. The Worker blamed its financial plight on "decline in circulation" and "harassment of our advertisers." It said the newspaper is operating at an annual loss of at least $200,000.