anaheim-gazette 1952-04-02

Tremendous employer... Retailing is a big business. It ranks as the second biggest in terms of people employed—8,000,-000 men and women look to it for their livelihood. Retail sales now total some $128,000,000,000 a year. Some of the stores are large and some are small. Some are individually-owned and some belong to national and regional chain systems. But practically all of them have certain things in common—they provide good service, they offer reliable goods, and they do their essential job for a much smaller profit than the average consumer realizes. This profit, in a typical general merchandise store, amounts to only a few cents on each dollar of sales after all the bills are paid. In mass-distribution food systems, it may be but a penny or so. The retailer is the purchasing agent for the consumer. Few of us can go to the factory to buy manufactured wares, or to the farm for our food. The magnificent production system of America, both industrial and agricultural, would be useless without an equally efficient system of distributing the goods. That is the retailer's function, and his existence depends upon how well he performs it. The consumer is fickle, and is not tolerant of mistakes. If the housewife thinks she has been over-charged or poorly treated in some store she won't go back. In our competitive system, there's always another merchant who's eager to please her and get the trade. American abundance depends upon the twin tools of production and distribution. One is as important as the other. WASHINGTON — Friendly President Truman attributes following reasons for his decision not to run again. First, the wishes of Mrs. man; 2. His age—he would been, if elected, the oldest president ever to take the oath of office; 3. The advice of party leaders, including Speaker Sam Burn and Chief Justice Fredson; 4. The embarrassing set given him by Senator Kefa in New Hampshire; and finally the prospect that he would run against his old friend, General Eisenhower. For a long time the president has indicated to members of family and to his closer friends that he did not want to run. Recently he intimated to one of his intimate that the barrage criticism was getting on his neck and he wanted to get out. "There are too many B—this business," he said. Probably only three or four his friends really knew how felt, one of them being the justice, whom the president urged to be the Democrat nominee himself. At one time, approximately nine to 12 months ago, it was Mr. Truman's plan to appoint the chief justice to a key position in the administration such secretary of state or defense mobilizer in order to give him a springboard to the presidency. This was to get around the fact that the chief justice has a vigorous view that the country should not be a springboard. No breakup There seems to be a mistaken impression around that the recent Federal Reserve Board decision ordering Transamerica Corporation to dispose of stock in 47 banks means the breaking up of the Bank of America. The reason is that Transamerica owns very little Bank of America stock and does not control the latter. As for the Reserve Board's decision itself, it is just about as weird as it is possible to be. Sam H. Husbands, president of Transamerica, noted that of the seven members on the Federal Reserve Board, two opposed the decision, and two others had no part in it. Of the remaining three, one was the hearing officer who was charged by a dissenting board member with being arbitrary and unfair to the corporation during the hearings. Fortunately, the board's split verdict is not self enforcing. Transamerica can now take the case into court where, unlike the board hearings, the same people will not act as prosecutor, judge and jury all at once. April 6, 1917... If you can recall that spring day in 1917 when President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany you have seen more history made than you probably care to remember. The President said then in all sincerity that this was a war to end wars. Destroy the Kaiser and his military machine and the world will have lasting peace—that was the general view 33 years ago. But the Kal- ser was destroyed and Hitler arose. Then Hitler was destroyed and Stalin arose. The lesson of history is that the evils we fight against are not merely men, or armies or nations, as such. They are greed and selfishness, indifference and apathy, fear and folly, and the pettiness that obscures the "broad horizon's grander view." No one man, no one group, no one nation possesses these faults alone. IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 50 Years Ago April, 1902 Anaheim schoolboys defeated avoa," and valued at $12,000, was shipped from Los Angeles last month. It was billed to Chicago. IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 50 Years Ago April, 1902 Anaheim schoolboys defeated Orangethorpe boys at baseball on the Lemon street grounds on Saturday afternoon by a score of 40 to 4. The town boys had Murry Mills as pitcher and Willie Fischer as catcher, D. Stone, C. Fischer, D. Bennerschmidt, F. Lewis, T. Dickel and E. Hartung. The Orangethorpe nine was composed of Hedges and Carson, pitchers, Schneider, catcher; E. Tates, V. Porter, R. Porter, N. Hatfield, T. Porter and H. Skinner. Senator T. J. Jones of Garden Grove won the first prize of $250 in cash which was awarded by the Orange Judd Farmer in a sugar beet growers contest open to the entire United States. In class I where the senator was awarded the prize the contest was for the area showing most clearly the methods pursued and the results attained, irrespective of yield, and was open to all growers of the United States. 25 Years Ago April, 1927 The first solid carload of avocados to leave Southern California containing 2184 boxes of "Cal-avos," and valued at $12,000, was shipped from Los Angeles last month. It was billed to Chicago. There the car was to be re-consigned, a large portion going to New York, a considerable percentage being sold in Chicago and smaller lots being sent to favorable points in the east and south. A new directory of Orange county has just been issued and is now offered for sale. It contains nearly 95,000 names, which indicates that the county's population is in excess of 100,000. Nearly 1000 volumes were printed. According to the directory there are 36,468 persons in Northern Orange county. Alfred L. Leonard of Hollywood in a letter to the Gazette, writes that he is receiving the paper regularly each week, and that it keeps him in touch with a community in which he is very much interested. If Mr. Leonard will come down and give us the "once over" his interest will probably be much increased. According to Leo Sheridan's gauge the rainfall Wednesday was twenty hundredths of an inch, making 15.11 inches for the season. Last year to date it was 6.12. This view was that Harry T. man would go down in history as a great president, if for not otherwise because of his courageous foreign policy. Historians chief justice is understood to have told the president, would owe look the petty political bicker and the corruption issue and would focus attention upon Trump's courage in saving Greece and Turkey from communism, in putting across the Marshall Plan and in conceiving the North Atlantic Pact for the defense of West Europe. It would also give him credit for his courageous stand for civil rights. But if he ran again, Truman friends believed, the Democrats party would be torn asunder first over the civil-rights issue also in part over foreign policy. The campaign would give the Republicans a chance to attack that foreign policy as was not done in the 1948 campaign when Senator Vandenberg was alive Thus, it was pointed out. Truman's great milestones against communism might be plowed under. This advice by Democrats is great standing in the party is not ported to have offset the importing of the palace guard that the president should run again COUNTING ON A SUMMER HARVEST APRIL PRIMARIES PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS TV-RADIOLOGIC TV-RADIOLOGIC 'Mr. District Attorney' Writer on Visit Here By TOM E. DANSON HOLLYWOOD—I met 30-year-old Bob (Robert J.) Shaw, writer of both the radio and television scripts for "Mr. District Attorney," the other day during his short stay on the coast, while on a "quickie" lecture tour. Being curious as to how the fellow got started in a writing career, and particularly, writing crime stories, I popped the question, with his reply being: "I had a job in New York with the NBC press department, after coming from a small radio station in Green Bay, Wis. One day, I asked Anne Hummert, one of the top writing packagers there, just what qualified a good writer. She told me, 'A young man with a Midwest background.'" Bob continued with, "A few days later while sitting at my typewriter at NBC I suddenly thought — Why, that's me! I qualify! Before long I had my first chance at writing, doing the first in the series of the daytime serial, 'Front Page Farrell.' I wrote this for about two years." Bob gathers his material for the crime stories on "D.A." from police manuals and crime books. His start in the field came through reading magazine detective stories, and it was through this source, that his first "D.A." script was written. Shaw told of an amusing incident revolving around one of his recent TV scripts. He wrote a stabbing scene, where the depth of the wound was being disguised as time. TELE-TIPS . . . Paul Kelley and Ann Dvorack will star in the "Celanese Theater" production of Elmer Rice's "Street Scene" via microwave tonight at 7 over KECA (7) . . . A thrilling story of undercover treasury agents, "T-Men" will be seen over KTTV (11) at 7. This is a television premiere . . . A brand new show bows in over KTLA (5) tonight when "Yesterday's Newsreel" is shown. This is an exciting panorama of men and events in the fabulous first half of the 20th century, and will be seen at 7:15 . . . It's an all request night for Liberace on his KLAC (13) show at 7:30 . . . Lovely star Deborah Kerr will appear in "The Day Will Dawn," a story laid in Norway during the Nazi regime. KNBH (4) is the station, and the time is 9 . . Sen. Leverett Saltonstall of Mass., will be seen as "The Man of the Week" overKNXT(2) at 10:30. DIAL-LITES . . . It’s another father and son night when Bing Crosby and his oldest son, Gary, beat it out with the Bell Sisters over KNX at 6:30 . . . For the second consecutive year in Family Theater, "The Story of the Little Tree" will be heard over KHJ at 7 . . . Sen. Richard B. Russell, avowed presidential candidate will be guestarriving tonight on the debut of "Crossfire," a new refusal by the county supervisors to approve subdivision at Highwyn Chapman avenue, seen removed from any of that section, was of passing significance. wrote some new policy county development. That policy would be the requirement that shall develop around existing population looks like the official lowered on wildcat trapping. Pioneering into new county government hearing lusty yells from corporated cities about type services rendered ban and rural areas. No plaint of the municipal anything to do with pervisorial policy. Forterer, county government admitted the "free tax" cusation from the cities that the unincorporated gives as good as, or not it gets. But the supervisors have no intention of slated subdivisions here through the agriculture is regarded by many and practice, an improper urban and agricultural one time, approximately 12 months ago, it was Truman’s plan to appoint chief justice to a key post in state or defense office in order to give him ringboard to the presidency. Was it get around the fact that the chief justice has held rigorous view that the court did not be a springboard for politics and that no man step from the court into effective candidacy for any off-season the presidency. As plan was sidetracked in July Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin though McCarthy to this probably doesn’t realize it. Over the constant barrage of sniff fire at Dean Acheson built imperative in the mind of Truman, whose loyalty to his wife is legion, that Acheson be cuased at the helm of the State Department. As time passed, the chief felt it was too late for him to into another office as a board to the presidency, enough months remained before campaign. Tempted Truman was at this point—approximately around December and January—that President Truman easily reconsidered changing his about running. This period led with Senator Taft’s regains of delegates and when seneschower backers were disheard. At that time, it looked Taft would be the Republi-copinee, and nothing has used Truman’s political nos- more than the idea of de- his old critic and enemy, craft. Is itching on the president’s to take on Senator Taft what caused some of his heated political friends, insuing Speaker Rayburn and chief justice, to urge him to run. The chief justice Speaker Rayburn discussed matter privately and later chief justice was selected as man to present their joint to the president. View was that Harry Tru- to take on Senator Taft what caused some of his political friends, including Speaker Rayburn and Chief Justice, to urge him to run. The chief justice Speaker Rayburn discussed matter privately and later Chief Justice was selected asman to present their joint to the president. The view was that Harry Tru would go down in history as the president, if for nothing because of his courageous policy. Historians, the justice is understood to have the president, would oversee the petty political bickering or corruption issue and would attention upon Truman's role in saving Greece and from communism, in putross the Marshall Plan and receiving the North Atlantic Treaty of defense of Western Europe. It would also give him power for his courageous stand on rights. If he ran again, Truman's belief was believed, the Democratic would be torn asunder, over the civil-rights issue, apart over foreign policy. Campaign would give the Americans a chance to attack foreign policy as was not in the 1948 campaign when Mr. Vandenberg was alive. It was pointed out, Tru-great milestones against nationalism might be plowed away by Democrats of standing in the party is re-into have offset the im-ing of the palace guard that resident should run again. A few weeks thereafter came Eisenhower's show of strength in New Hampshire and the victory of Senator Kefauver which clinched Mr. Truman's decision. DIAL-LITES . . . It's another father and son night when Bing Crosby and his oldest son, Gary, beat it out with the Bell Sisters over KNX at 6:30 . . . For the second consecutive year on Family Theater, "The Story of the Little Tree" will be heard over KHJ at 7 ... Sen. Richard B. Russell, avowed presidential candidate will be guestarring tonight on the debut of "Crossfire," a new show to be aired over KECA at 8:30 ... Reporter John J. Flanagan, Jr., of New Bedford, Mass., will be honored during "The Big Story" over KFI at 9:30. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ... The occultist and optometrist are the only doctors who see eye-to-eye with their patients. Copyright, 1962, by Universal Radio and TV Features Syndicate Iron resources are being developed to replace the dwindling reserves of the Lake Superior region. THINGS TO COME by Thomas SYNTHETIC MILK FOR PIGS PROMISES FASTER HEALTHIER GROWTH RESULTING IN BETTER CHEAPER PORK JUNIOR MUSTY DRINK FOOD MILK There are seven Romantic languages—Portugese, Spanish, French, Italian, to-Romanic idioms and Hal Boyle NEW YORK (P)—How will history rate Harry S. Truman, who has staked out a "for rent" sign on the White House? When the partisan lin of our times dies away, the chances are he will be allotted a greater niche than many of his critics now suspect. This little man of big surprises may rank as the most warmly human president since Abraham Lincoln. For surely one of the greatest sources of his appeal has been the fact he looked and talked so much like the average citizen. His great office was thrust upon him unexpectedly, and any American could look at his picture and say, "why, the same lightning might have struck me." That was a big advantage to him—any voter could imagine himself being put in Harry's spot. Even in his act of voluntarily removing himself from the 1952 presidential race—the latest of many unpredictable acts—some people are sure to say, "well, there's a man that finally listened to his wife." And they will feel they understand him even better. If he now goes on and steps out of the political scene altogether, his final stature in the story of our nation will begin to emerge more clearly. The small legends of leadership will cluster around his name and fame, molding him into the pattern that after generations will know. HOW WILL THEY remember Harry? County Comment By GEORGE E. HART Refusal by the county board of supervisors to approve a 54-acre subdivision at Highway 39 and Chapman avenue, several miles removed from any of the towns in that section, was of more than passing significance. It probably wrote some new policy for Orange county development. That policy would seem to be the requirement that new growth shall develop around the core of existing population centers. It looks like the official boom was lowered on wildcat subdivisions. Pioneering into new regions may have settled this country, but that was different. The old pioneers didn't want all the modern conveniences as soon as they knocked their log cabins together. County government already is hearing lusty yells from the incorporated cities about municipal-type services rendered to the urban and rural areas. Not that the plaint of the municipalities had anything to do with the new supervisorial policy. For that matter, county government never has admitted the "free tax ride" accusation from the cities. It feels that the unincorporated territory gives as good as, or better than it gets. But the supervisors, obviously, have no intention of spotting isolated subdivisions here and there through the agricultural areas. It is regarded by many as ill-advised practice, an improper mixing of urban and agricultural life. If he now goes on and steps out of the political scene altogether, his final stature in the story of our nation will begin to emerge more clearly. The small legends of leadership will cluster around his name and fame, molding him into the pattern that after generations will know. HOW WILL THEY remember Harry? They will remember him as a man who would rather be Senator than president, and would rather be a Medal of Honor winner than either. They will remember him as a man who could pitch a baseball with either hand and look in a horse's mouth and tell its age. They will remember him as a man who helped his wife dry the dishes and insisted that she edit all his speeches. They will remember him as a man who assumed his high office with a feeling of unpreparedness, but who went on to make vast decisions of breath-taking boldness. They will remember him for his fantastic, stubborn loyalty to his friends—and be in more of a position to judge whether that was a virtue or a defect. They will remember him as one who rose personally unstained from a corrupt political machine to practice the trade of professional politician with an art probably unmatched since Lincoln. HISTORIANS ARE sure to write of him as a man less simple than he seemed, and they will label as the greatest mistake of his enemies the error they made of consistently low-rating his profound knowledge of people in the mass. "That boy could plow the straightest row of corn in the county," his mother once said of Truman. "He was a farmer who could do everything there was to do just a little better than anyone." but county government never has admitted the "free tax ride" accusation from the cities. It feels that the unincorporated territory gives as good as, or better than it gets. But the supervisors, obviously, have no intention of spotting isolated subdivisions here and there through the agricultural areas. It is regarded by many as ill-advised practice, an improper mixing of urban and agricultural life, producing something that is neither fish nor fowl as an economy. But mainly, it is a question of locating population centers that will want services in places where they can get such services, because the services are already there. Lights, water, fire protection, and the like are already available in so many settled communities in Orange county that it seems unnecessary create the need for them in new locations where they are not available. Sewers are not yet available in many of the urban communities but probably will be before long, now that the county sanitation program is picking up momentum after long delay. The supervisors' new policy, incidentally, includes the requirement for sewer connections in new subdivisions, even though the trunk lines are not yet laid. So it seems that, so far as possible, new growth in the county will be guided toward the present population centers, instead of sprinkling small population centers between them. There are seven Romance languages—Portugese, Spanish, Provencal, French, Italian, the Rhaeto-Romanic idioma and Romanian. The French legend of Roland is based on authentic history, an incident in one of Charlemagne's campaigns. That boy could plow the straightest row of corn in the county," his mother once said of Truman. "He was a farmer who could do everything there was to do just a little better than anyone else." But he himself said: "I've worked hard all my life. That's the only recipe for success I know." Truman has always been proud of being a professional politician. How would he himself like best to be remembered — this man who called the White House "the finest prison in the world." The key can probably be found in two statements he made during his presidency: "Government is politics and in the hands of able and honest politicians government is likely to prosper. So many men who have been attacked as politicians while they were alive have gained fame after their deaths that I think the best description of a statesman is a dead politician. "Nothing in my life amounts to anything but world peace. That is all I am working for." But it is too early to determine yet how Harry Truman will be most remembered. For the issues of his lifetime are still undecided. The French legend of Roland is based on authentic history, an incident in one of Charlemagne's campaigns. Impeachment proceedings, according to the constitution, can be brought against the president, vice-president and all civil officers of the United States for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."