anaheim-gazette 1951-09-20

The great tragedy!!! The great American tragedy today is the average cup of coffee. The average cup of coffee is what the average man gets when he asks for a good cup of coffee. And it makes him madder than corruption in government, the decline of youthful morals, or a hole in his sock. He is willing to put up with most of the blemishes of an imperfect world. He will face up to the fact life has him behind the S-ball; he will, under pressure, admit to certain small defeats in his own character; he does not, ordinarily, complain that all horse races are fixed just because the horse he bet on lost. In most things he will take the bitter with the sweet. But not when it comes to his cup of coffee. Here he stands four-square against any compromise. He wants exactly what he wants, and nothing else will make him happy. no magic art, handed down secretly from generation to generation. Basically, it is the alchemy of coffee, water at the right temperature, and time. You mix them together in the proper proportions—and you get good coffee. The classic formula for coffee: "It should be hot as hades, black as midnight, and strong as a good woman's love." If you get a cuteful of that, it doesn't make much difference whether somebody dropped eggshells in the pot to settle it. You can thicken it with sugar, or thin it with fat cream. But you can't wreck it. The average cup of drugstore or cafe coffee, however, is more likely to be nothing but lukewarm, grey liquid fog caught in crockery. It has the personality of swamp mist, strained through sulphur, and bitter as an old regret. Though it be served in a vessel of beaten gold—and it isn't—the gressman Hugh Scottsylvania deserves a high-jumping at conde considerable flourishair of being in the knnounced that Genera would accept the nomination. However, here is verbatim account of Scott's talk with Gov Paris, on which the Congressman based shaking prediction: Scott asked Eisenhower was any "hope" of like a GOP draft nominaWhite House. Scott added: "I know good Republican, that a fact?" Before Eisenhowerply, an aide, Grig. C.T. Lanham, who v at the meeting, breingly: "I've never heard say anything to indict isn't a good RepublThis struck Eisenhower funny that he reared go with a belly laughshook the window pikeIkе made no furtherbut Congressman Scottguffaw to mean that t was a good Republicanbody denies—but wo lead the party in thtion. He even anno western Europe wouldgood shape by nextEisenhower could turnreins to a deputy, leaveto return and accep nomination. Note — Much mo feats in his own character; he does not, ordinarily, complain that all horse races are fixed just because the horse he bet on lost. In most things he will take the bitter with the sweet. But not when it comes to his cup of coffee. Here he stands four-square against any compromise. He wants exactly what he wants, and nothing else will make him happy. And the real issue before the people every day is: how to get a good cup of coffee. Not a good cup of nickel coffee. That issue has been fought out and lost. The problem is where to get an honest-to-flavor cup of coffee that will reach down into the gnawing morning anxiety of a man and say, "there, there, everything's going to be all right today." Give a man the wrong cup of coffee, however, and nothing can make his day right. He will criticize his own mother-in-law and detect hidden flaws in her daughter. He'll sing a song of woe until twilight. Why is it so difficult to get a good cup of coffee? Brewing it is IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago The San Diego Union says, "Now let the railroad be extended from Anaheim and we will pay them a friendly visit occasionally. We expect to be able to attend the Southern District Fair of 1871, journeying to Los Angeles by rail." The railroad company has fixed the fare from Los Angeles to San Francisco at $22.50, lay-over tickets $28. The incidental expenses, sleeping car, etc., will amount to about $5 more. Yesterday while Master Jesse Parker was endeavoring to take his revolver from its holster, it was accidentally discharged and the ball passed through both legs. grammar and lower grades and over 100 in the high school. Pupils are in attendance in the high school from Fullerton, Olive, Buena Park, Westminster and other sections. Ex-Governor Markham of Pasadena last week disposed of a part of his ranch north of Orange to the following named persons: J. A. Maag, 16.57 acres, consideration $2400; Indiola Atkinson, 12 acres $1662; D. F. Campbell, 18.54 acres $2300; A. D. Bishop 18.19 acres $2700; Frank Lord 17.56 $2600. Ex-Governor Markham retains 100 acres of the ranch. 25 Years Ago Billy Lake who collects money guffaw to mean that it was a good Republican body denies—but wo not lead the party in the tion. He even anno western Europe would good shape by next Eisenhower could turn reins to a deputy, leave to return and accept nomination. Note — Much more word that Eisenhower GOP candidate come brother Milton, preside State college. Labor Flirts With Taft Most important back in the works by a smith AF of L conven Francisco is to dump patch up labor relation chief author of the T act. Sen Robert Alpha. This move is certain nied, but here is the ming behind this strategy. A group of Republicans AF of L high com to San Francisco with of going back to the Gompers policy of keeping from either polio Headed by canny Bill head of, the Carpenters long a GOP stalwart, includes George Meantial secretary of the ADA Dave Beck, No. 2 m Teamsters Union and most powerful men in west. The question of still the Democrats has co almost every AF of recently. And a major past has won out on that labor get a black turned on the politics which pulled it out pression years during and battled the Taft act during Truman's. But now the follow with Taft is being done one or two in the AF command. In return for dump Truman, Taft would amend the Taft-Hart fact, he has already paid a bill in the Senate to the building trades all the earmarks of a The railroad company has fixed the fare from Los Angeles to San Francisco at $22.50, lay-over tickets at $28. The incidental expenses, sleeping car, etc., will amount to about $5 more. Yesterday while Master Jesse Parker was endeavoring to take his revolver from its holster, it was accidentally discharged and the ball passed through both legs. D. Plato left yesterday for San Francisco in a short visit. Dewitt C. Lawrence of the West Oakland Press called on us yesterday. He will remain in Anaheim several weeks. Governor Irwin has issued a proclamation making the anniversary of California's admission to the Union a legal holiday. 50 Years Ago Archie Henry was in town a day or two ago, setting up Havana to his many friends on account of the arrival of an 8½ pound son and heir at his household on the 11th instant. Archie is one of the rising young men of the West End, and the wish of his friends is that the new arrival may grow up to be as good a citizen as his father and grandfather. Mother and child are doing well. Public school opened Monday; the attendance being 305 in the following named persons: J. A. Maag, 16.57 acres, consideration $2400; Indiola Atkinson, 12 acres $1662; D. F. Campbell, 18.54 acres $2300; A. D. Bishop, 18.19 acres $2700; Frank Lord, 17.56 $2600. Ex-Governor Markham retains 100 acres of the ranch. 25 Years Ago Billy Lake who collects money from everybody in town for water and light privileges reports that 45 new families have moved into the city since the first of the month. Two permits to construct residences were issued by Building Inspector Tompkins Monday. One was to F. A. Sages for a stucco building at 114 Mills drive and the other was to A. L. Knipe for a stucco house on South Lemon street. The Sager house is to cost $3500 and the Knipe house $4000. Mrs. C. F. Grim left some days ago for the east and will spend several weeks visiting friends at Potsdam, N. Y. Dan Patten and Roy Hoffauer made a flying trip down into the Imperial Valley Tuesday. H. P. Campbell has been at Pasadena this week attending the annual meeting of California Funeral Directors. In return for dumping Truman, Taft would amend the Taft-Hartt fact, he has already paid a bill in the Senate to the building trades all the earmarks of a GOP Bill Hutcheson on penters. The Taft violates all of Taft's moral principles and is only part of the Taft act but the Wagner act not only would abolish in building trades we would protect the unity any unfair labor practice by another union. In brief, this would employ to back an elf a phony union which represented his men. The strategy now drives GOP friends in the AF command is to trade furloughifications of the Taft-Hartt for dumping labor all Truman. Washington Pipeline Senator O'Mahoney complained over the Assistant Secretary of Anna Rosenberg that the Department wasn't getting credit for its painstaking formulating the $600 defense budget. "Barney a good friend of your," suggested. "Why don't..." WASHINGTON — GOP Congressman Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania deserves a medal for high-jumping at conclusions. With considerable flourishes and a great air of being in the know, Scott announced that General Eisenhower would accept the Republican nomination. However, here is an almost verbatim account of Congressman Scott's talk with Generel Ike in Paris, on which the Pennsylvania Congressman based his earth-shaking prediction: Scott asked Eisenhower if there was any "hope" of Ike's accepting a GOP draft nomination for the White House. Scott added: "I know you're a good Republican, general—isn't that a fact?" Before Eisenhower could reply, an alde, Grig. Gen. Charles T. Lanham, who was present at the meeting, broke in jokingly: "I've never heard the general say anything to indicate that he isn't a good Republican." This struck Eisenhower as so funny that he reared back and let go with a belly laugh that almost shook the window panes. Ike made no further comment, but Congressman Scott took this guffaw to mean that Ike not only was a good Republican—which nobody denies—but would consent to lead the party in the 1952 election. He even announced that western Europe would be in such good shape by next year that Eisenhower could turn over the reins to a deputy, leaving him free to return and accept the GOP nomination. Note — Much more accurate Countv Comment By GEORGE HART Maybe you're one of those sane people who never get out on the highways in your car on a Sunday or holiday, because of the traffic crush and its hazard to life and limb. In that case, just listen to the coroner. "Oh, we don't get the fatalities on the Sundays and holidays," Deputy Coroner Frank Hanson was explaining to a police reporter a couple of weeks ago. The newsman had expressed surprise, if not disappointment, at the absence of fatal accidents on a Sunday when traffic was extra heavy. The reported wanted to know how come. "I've because traffic is so thick that they can't get up enough speed to have a bad crash, speeding being the cause of most fatal accidents," the deputy coroner expounded. "There’s probably another reason," he added. "People have an extra cautious attitude, knowing they are going out into heavy traffic, and feeling that there is more risk than usual. For these reasons, one physical, the other psychological, there actually is less risk than usual." The newsman shook his head dubiously and decided to check for himself. First opportunity was the long week-end at Labor Day—Saturday afternoon, Sunday and Monday in a row. This would be a rigid test. Weather conditions were perfect and the highways were jammed, bumper to bumper. When it was over, not a single fatality had occurred. Then, on Wednesday, there were four deaths in traffic in the county. The speeders held in check by the choked highways during the long holiday, were back in stride on the open road by Wednesday, and the Grim Reaper rode with them. Three Marines and a civilian who were in a car driven by a Marine, ended their trips in mortuaries. "The Marines, of course, have long been the most generous contributors to the fatality lists. Trees jump out into the road in front of them. Or they are trying at 6:30 a.m. to get back to the base before the fire department real adventure in our The rewards of been completely unhad the idea eight that a columnist mornings giving to anxious stalesm noons at the race evenings in a night witty and wise. went home to a l house. Well, bless us, I out that way at a Truman has never advice, and if she hasn't turned out to people hope, my clear I've only been tracks in eight years onl one Manhattan headwaiter by na doesn't know my na penthouse? My wif lucky to have an building that has The real reward for me has been discovery of interest Far from contribute to them, I have m an education from human race, for a gravel mixed into wonderful. Meetle ple I have has given faith in the worth generally. It has wiped cynic being and made me optimist. The letter readers would do tha never got to meet themselves. They em there is more h kind than there is f stones, and pollywors. The biggest danger faces, I think, is t feeling he is import because he has an ant or small. But any that way, if he just g at himself in the min ing ought to pass away placed by a belly la But now the following deal with Taft is being discussed by one or two in the AF of L high command. In return for dumping Harry Truman, Taft would agree to amend the Taft-Hartley act. In fact, he has already introduced a bill in the Senate to help out the building trades which has all the earmarks of a deal with GOP Bill Hutcheson of the Carpenters. The Taft concession violates all of Taft's previous moral principles and repeals not only part of the Taft-Hartley act but the Wagner act. For it not only would abolish elections in building trades unions but would protect the union from any unfair labor practices charge by another union. In brief, this would permit an employer to back an election with a phony union which in no way represented his men. The strategy now discussed by GOP friends in the AF of L high command is to trade further modifications of the Taft-Hartley act for dumping labor allegiance to Truman. Washington Pipeline Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming complained over the phone to Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg that the Defense Department wasn't getting enough credit for its painstaking work in formulating the $60,000,000,000 defense budget. "Barney Baruch is a good friend of your," O'Mahoney suggested. "Why don't you get him to arrange an article in Look Magazine?" ... Congress soon will pass a resolution, sponsored by Rep. Peter Rodino of New Jersey, demanding that Czechslovakia release another American prisoner in addition to AP reporter William Oatis. He is John Hvasta, a Hillside, N.J., Navy veteran, mysteriously arrested three years ago while studying in Parque. Though accused of espionage, Hvasta was held incommunicado by his communist jailers for 18 months after his trial and the State Department has never been able even to get the record of his secret court hearing ... Fresman Senator Welker of Idaho, who regards himself seriously as a presidential contender, has been nagging GOP leaders for a chance to get into the headlines. Finally they agreed to let him take the lead for the Republicans on the new District of Columbia Crime committee ... Governor Dewey called on Pennsylvania's Senator Duff the other day to get instructions about the Eisenhower campaign—not to give instructions—as so many dope stores said. All business about safety in holiday traffic is naturally, directly contrary to the general impression. Such an impression is not only based upon the normal assumption that more traffic means more danger. It is further built up, no doubt, by the newspapers. Press wires stand by as a double holiday approaches, ready to keep count of the fatalities. They are then recorded in boxcar headlines, blazoned on front pages of the nation. The death toll for Labor Day weekend was reported at around 300. It sounded like a very dangerous period on the highways. But had you stopped to think that they never give the totals for ordinary week days? Who knows whether these are more or less than on holidays? Maybe 300 deaths were an unusually small total, compared to a similar weekend period. Anyway, the coroner says its safer on Sunday. The newsman says the coroner can have it. -Colony QuipsBy the Gazette Farm Editor THE PENDING Florida deal, which appeared exclusively in last Thursday's Gazette, in which it was announced that the Florida Citrus Exchange would purchase the processing plants of Clinton Foods Snow-Crop to us, was a step forward in the evolution of the US citrus industry. It puts the big money boys right where they belong in the merchandising end of the business. Of course, Snow-Crop will still grow oranges, about 4700 acres worth, in Florida. Wall Street by this move reaffirms its confidence in the future of the Florida citrus industry's ability to return a good profit to the GROWER. It should be good news to every California grower because we may be able this coming year to make out the real COST of a 6 ounce can of frozen concentrate with the grower getting 50 cents a pound for his soluble salts. What the boys in the Kremlin get out of a can also should be right there for all Exchange "members," to see. We understand that another five per cent of the overhead has been loaded on the carned stuff. But this will eventually (?) all come out into the open, we hope. Then the real operation of the big co-op can be more or less accurately evaluated. NOW DON'T GET the idea that the above is a rock thrown at a great humanitarian organization. The Exchange certainly is not that, and, in the proper company, would be the first to admit it. We are simply pointing out, and have been for some time, that they have gotten too far away from the grower to be healthy. The good that free silverware did for the orange grower thirty years ago is no reason to build up the provident plan today. Today's job is the one they are lagging at and the one which should determine whether or not there will be a shinier gimmick at the end of the line. If the boys up there want to keep their positions of trust and security they had better get rid of the feather beds and start doing a job that will keep their employers in business. Mr. Wilcox is afraid of a California Mutual. Why? We can only surmise but we would be willing to lay a little bet that his fear had something to do with showing up somebody's nice, fat job. Or maybe a couple of hundred jobs? That sort of thing has been the farthest away from this writer's ideas of anything. We believe in good salaries because by offering good money you get good men—but you insist they do a job. California growers are more and more demanding that a job be done for them in the shape of higher returns for their fruit. How else can you determine how good a job Wilcox has done except by the MONEY return you get for your fruit? A CALIFORNIA Mutual would be the greatest thing that ever happened to the California grower. We make that statement unreservedly and offer you proof. The 47-48 season down in Florida was real adventure in columning. The rewards of the job have been completely unexpected. I had the idea eight years ago that a columnist spent his mornings giving consultations to anxious stalesmen, his afternoons at the racetrack, and his evenings in a nightclub, being witty and wise. Naturally, he went home to a 15-room penthouse. Well, bless us, it didn't turn out that way at all. President Truman has never solicited my advice, and if the government hasn't turned out the way some people hope, my conscience is clear. I've only been to two race-tracks in eight years, and I know onyl one Manhattan night club headwaiter by name. But he doesn't know my name. And the penthouse? My wife says we are lucky to have an apartment in a building that has elevators. The real reward of columning for me has been the perpetual discovery of interesting people. Far from contributing anything to them, I have myself gained an education from them. The human race, for all the sorry gravel mixed into its grit, is wonderful. Meeting the people I have given me a deep faith in the worth of people generally. It has wiped cynicism from my being and made me an amble optimist. The letters I get from readers would do that even if I never got to meet the people themselves. They have taught em there is more hope for mankind than there is for rocks, and stones, and pollywogs and flowers. The biggest danger a columnist faces, I think, is the danger of feeling he is important. Merely because he has an audience, large or small. But anytime he feels that way, if he just goes and looks at himself in the mirror, the feeling ought to pass away and be replaced by a belly laugh. something to do with showing up somebody's nice, fat job. Or maybe a couple of hundred jobs? That sort of thing has been the farthest away from this writer's ideas of anything. We believe in good salaries because by offering good money you get good men—but you insist they do a job. California growers are more and more demanding that a job be done for them in the shape of higher returns for their fruit. How else can you determine how good a job Wilcox has done except by the MONEY return you get for your fruit? A CALIFORNIA Mutual would be the greatest thing that ever happened to the California grower. We make that statement unreservedly and offer you proof. The 47-48 season down in Florida was completely depressed—which probably did more than any other thing to lead to the creation of Florida Mutual. The average return for oranges in the 47-48 season was 63 cents a box. (These are official figures—as are all the rest you read in this column.) Then in the 45-49 season with Florida Mutual doing the stuff the return went up to $1.37 which is well over double. In 49-50, the Mutual agreement came into its own and with the help of frozen concentrate the return was $2.14. The last season, 50-51, Florida sold the largest crop in its history for a year's average of all grades, sizes and conditions at an average ON THE TREE price of $1.62 a box. Figures such as these are unobtainable as far as the California crop is concerned. At least we have never seen them published or have found out how to get them. This seems to be more of the "iron curtain" policy promulgated, we believe, by the Exchange in their efforts to keep the knowledge of the economic value of citrus away from the grower. Has Mr. Wilcox or his cohorts any answer to that? He has never made one. OBLONG VIEWS (THREE YAK-YAK) By WALDO HUNTER THE WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION, an organization which deserves the respect of drinker and non-drinker alike, has been dealt a serious blow by that modern one-eyed monster, Television, which is subtly revolutionizing the domestic American scene to a degree undreamed of a few years ago. Whether this revolution is for the good or the bad remains for unborn scribes of the mystic future to catalogue. The spectacle of the beer salesman pouring and drinking beer right in their parlors must be extremely revolting to families who adhere strictly to the no-alcohol code. Fact is, it is getting mighty boresome to the TVviewer who himself hoists the brimming flagon occasionally. We must give the WOTU credit for fighting a stout fight in the face of near insurmountable odds, and TV has grievously damaged their cause. But TV has damaged other causes, to. I read an article last week by one of the syndicated Hollywood columnists who said: has just flown around the globe nonstop, steps from his plane in Paris to acknowledge the plaudits of the "excitable French," then says, "I am very tired. All I want to do is go to bed with a book and a bottle of champagne." Then, pausing for effect and looking around at the throng of voluptuous women pressing up to him, he asks, "Would anyone care to join me?" In another scene, Miss Calvet, one of the most substantial shipments of hormones to come to this country from France in many a year, steps behind a folding screen, sheds a formal gown for a vastly more kind than there is for rocks, and stones, and pollywogs and flowers. The biggest danger a columnist faces, I think, is the danger of feeling he is important. Merely because he has an audience, large or small. But anytime he feels that way, if he just goes and looks at himself in the mirror, the feeling ought to pass away and be replaced by a belly laugh. The prayer of most columnists is to make their deadline every day. But I think another good silent prayer might go something like this: Deur Lord, please don't let me get pontifical. Keep me from taking the easy way out and writing to please people's prejudices. Let me gain again the wisdom of a child, and keep what mind I have open and free." Well, now let's see what the next eight years will bring. Sweet Sugar Ray WASHINGTON (AP)—Sugar Ray Robinson is the first boxed in the 31-year history of the National Boxing association ratings system to lose and regain his title in a three month period between NBA announcements of standings. For Health, Eat California Fruit We must give the WOTU credit for fighting a stout fight in the face of near insurmountable odds, and TV has grievously damaged their cause. But TV has damaged other causes, to. I read an article last week by one of the syndicated Hollywood columnists who said that the old Hays office moral codes for films had been relaxed to allow movies to compete more successfully with television. In other words, films coming out now are (by and large) dirtier than in the pre-TV years. When I read the article, I passed it off as just another case of a "holler-than-thou" crank trying to sell his wares, but last Saturday night I went to the movies for the first time in a year, and now I am beginning to wonder. The movie was entitled "On The Riviera," and it starred Danny Kay, Gene Tierney and Corinne Calvet. This extravaganza was sex from beginning to end. Now, I do not wish to be placed on the record as being against sex, for without it I doubt that any of us would have got to where we are today. But there is a place for it, and the silver screen is not the place. This picture used the play on sex as its only excuse for being filmed. I will describe a few scenes to prove my point. In one, Danny Kay, playing the character of a philandering French aviator who pausing for effect and looking around at the throng of voluptuous women pressing up to him, he asks, "Would anyone care to join me?" In another scene, Miss Calvet, one of the most substantial shipments of hormones to come to this country from France in many a year, steps behind a folding screen, sheds a formal gown for a vastly more informal one, emerges from behind the screen, thrusts her near-nude bosom at a male member of the cast and asks defiantly: "Is there enough of me showing NOW?" Danny Kay plays a dual role in this picture, and several reels are given over to by-play about Gene Tierney sleeping with a man whom she believes to be her husband, due to the remarkable similarity of two characters played by Mr. Kay. If your kids are at the impressionable age, leave them at home when you go to this picture. That is, if you had rather leave them exposed to the scarcely less damaging refinement of some of the TV programs. To Make Your Contribution CONTACT ANAHEIM COMMUNITY CHEST 139 N. LOS ANGELES ST. Telephone Anaheim 7974