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THE TUSTlN NEWS, TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA Friday, October 22, 1937. THE TUSTIN NEWS EDITORIAL PAGE The Tustin News The Home Paper of the Blue Ribbon District Subscription: One year, six months, $1.25. CLYDE SIMMONS Publisher and Editor GRETCHEN A. SIMMONS Business Manager The Tustin News is declared a newspaper of general circulation for the publication of legal notices, as defined by Section 4460 of the Political Code of California, in the Superior Court of Orange County. Telephone 5180 Entered as second-class matter at the Tustin postoffice, January 12, 1923, under the Act of March 3rd, 1879.

Page 2. NOT THAT WAY With Other Editors A return to the disastrous sel- 15. Tuesday evening the President fishness exhibited by the Ameri in one of his radio "fireside chats" ijiiiiniiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuig I ORANGE JUICE I by I GERALD WILL 5 F.msiiiumiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinn VITAMINS Vexatious birth control problems never bother Italy and Japan; they employ death control. Though there's no disputing the fact that many film folk are dissipated, "it is equally true that they have a redeeming quality kindliness. The best kind of preparendess a nation can have is the armor plate of righteousness not self-righteousness.

The easiest way to get out of jail is to stay out. by industry all over the country would have two immediate results: bankruptcy for the small operator and confiscation for the large one. It would throw the nation into a panic the like of which has never been experienced. Capital is already jittery from a succession of legislative moves, some of them sound, others quite the reverse. It would take a relatively small shove to send it reeling.

And the strongest exponent of labor would probably hesitate some time before he undertook to solve all the problems of agement without previous training. The thirty hour week is another of that epidemic of would-be economic solutions with which those honestly concerned with general welfare have had to battle. As an objective it possesses many advantages. It can be gradually approched, may within a few decades become as general as the forty eight hour week is now. But to jump into it all at once because it has some advantages is like jumping into a bathtub full of scalding water because it is wet.

We'll be a lot healthier if we take our time. As conditions are today a thirty hour week, for a majority of industries, is utterly impossible. And the man who disputes that statement is either a liar or very badly informed. can people in the days that marked Woodrow Wilson's defeat on the League of Nations issue a policy of "freedom from entangling alliances" exemplified by the G. 0.

P. is echoed in the closing lines of an Orange Daily News editorial on the American attitude toward Japan. Conflicting viewpoints on the American attitude toward Japan are to be expected. Senator Logan of Kentucky remarks that the firm stand is his ieda of good policy. "I am opposed to running for a hole every time, anyone says 'boo'," he observes and believes the fleets of a group of nations block told the nation the objects of the special session are to rush legislation for surplus crop control and for establishing minimum wage3 and maximum hours of labor in industry.

It is clearly intended there shall be no let-up in New Deal legislation, if Mr. Roosevelt continues to direct congress. Both problems -crop control and labor control involve deeply rooted constitutional questions; hence the President's desire for executive control of the Supreme court. If congress agrees upon a wage and hour bill it will do little harm to employers and be of little benefit to workers except that it will establish the precedent of control of I employment by the federal govern "You can't get to Heaven that way," a song warns, and we borrow the line to apply to most recent developments or lack of developments in the Republican party. Over Hemet way the "News" staunch Democrat organ during years when being democratic was decidedly unfashionable hereabouts points out that one of the reasons why the Republican party hasn't shown more definite signs of a come-back within the past several years lies in its adoption of a purely negative program.

We agree whole heartedly. We've run against that same stone wall ourself. Just a few weeks ago we talked with a couple of Orange County leaders of the G. O. P.

"What," we asked, "is the party doing to resurrect itself?" The reply was a none too light hearted laugh. "Shucks," said the speaker uneasily, "we don't need to do anything. Just let the Democrats alone. They'll fix things so we'll have a walk away next election time." At which point we left. We have no crow to pick with Democracy or with those who now support its cause.

The political affiliation or religion of our fellow man are two affairs with which we are not concerned. But we do believe that this particular period is one in which a renasence of the Republican party or something built along similar lines would be for the best welfare of the Country. And we are certain that no renasence can take place as long as it is predicated on the mistakes made by the other fellow. Negation never develops anything more definite than; another negative. No matter how virtuous our Republican friends may be, they'll never reach a political' heaven by the act of pointing to the misdeeds of the opposition.

Something much more constructive in the way of a program is needed. SEAL BEACH RENEWS YOUTH Despite the fact that Uncle Sam's 1937-38 kindergarten crop made up of depression babies of 1930-31 has suffered an enrollment slump, Seal Beach reports a 30 per cent increase. Moving vans rather than storks are believed BEG PARDON ading Japan would soon settle matters. Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts, on the other hand, is emphatic in the view that we are heading for an alliance with England, France and Russia against Germany, Italy and Japan and he favors playing a lone hand and attending strictly to our own business. Sundry peace societies have already condemned the administration's position on the Japanese situation, warning that we are moving on dangerous ground and abandoning the idea of neutrality.

What should be clear from past experience is that, in dealing with a nation actually at war, nothing but force has any influence with that nation. Such a nation has already appealed to force, is irrevocably committed to such a policy cannot retreat. Any hope of influencing Japan, therefore, must be backed up with guns and a willingness to use them. We doubt that the American people are prepared for any such step. Somewhat oddly, the attitude meets with more general (acceptance than would naturally be ex ment despite constitutional guaranties of the right of private contract.

As to surplus crop control: if it is the President's desire to eanct laws that will aid producers to limit production and stabilize prices by orderly co-operative marketing, well and good; but if it is to result in further payment of subsidies for the production of record-breaking crops it will merely be another step toward National bankruptcy and the loss of the remainder of our export trade. His attitude is probably shared by a majority of the people in the Nation. Sessions of Congress hiave been "viewed with alarm" ever since we began kicking slats from the family cradle, and as events have proved, rather rightly so. Mr. Roosevelt somewhat indignantly repudiated the charge in his recent speech, but the fact remains.

It may be because we send so mlany folks to Congress for the sole purpose of getting them out of our hair or so it appears from a birds-eye view of some of the Congressmen. (Present company always excepted, of course.) But viewing with alarm is not confined to the Congress worse luck. At Fullerton another Max LOCAL COLOR Bill "Red Dab" Davis, the Garden New's un-extinguished sports columnist, is getting! first hand information playing quarter on the Argonaut squad. At practice the other day I had no difficulty picking him out even though his flaming topknot was Kiden under a subdued red helmet Trained newspaper man that he is, he never missed a chance to sit down. AISLE SEAT Sophia Tucker, ilent screen star and singer of yesteryears, is still in demand for comedy bits.

During the filming of R. K. "Thoroughbreds Never Lie," at the Santa Anita race track, she was one of seven women overcome by the heatHenry Stone, doubling for Freddy Bartholomew in "Captains Courageous," inhaled more of the Pacific ocean than was good for him when a small boat capsized, pinning him underneath a pulmotor was requiredOnce Victor Jory, stage and screen star, was knocked out for five minutes by a Baker Iron Works bruiser in the first round of a bout promoted by a group of Pasadena high school pals in an abandoned Alta-dena reservoir. At 18 Vic was Canadian amateur light-heavy boxing title holderOn a 60 acre set south of the studios, M-G-M is filming Rosemarie," a $2,000,000 production. Five hundred dancers appear in a single scene.

pected in a nation which has always been extremely idealistic though priding itself on its practical ways. Equally blind the GOP, party long supported by the Orange publication. For had Wilson's scheme not received the rebuff it did receive from the opposition party, it is extremely questionable whether the world today would have seen its fascists and communists arrayed in deadly combat with danger of the same bitterness crossing to this side of the Atlantic. Be that as it may, at Whatever else the citizens of Placentia do, they have apparently solved the problem of dealing with boys. Two editorials from the Placentia Courier last week approached the same subject from two different yet closely associated angles.

One was a congratulatory piece about the Valencia High School livestock judging team which has achieved national honor; the other dealt with the fact that Placentia Scouts have proved themselves the best in the County at a camporal held not long ago at Irvine Park. Success in boys' work is, of course, largely a matter of leaders. Hence the bouquets in this case are very likely due more to the adults behind the two movements than to the community itself. In any case, however, no detraction from Pla-centia's glory is possible. The community is small and not over wealthy on a per capita basis.

That it can produce two separate groups of championship caliber along practical lines is something very well worth writing home about. Tustin, and doubtless the remainder of Orange County, congratulates Placentia, its boys and its leaders of boys. It's a fine job of building fine men. IMPOSSIBLE NOW well does a bit of gumshoeing and comes up for air with the infor-maiton that communistic activities are getting more and more persnickety hereabouts. He also charges that the chief supporters of the doctrine are the C.

I. O. and the various and sundry groups of people on relief. We quote a part of his screed: The Peace Officers Association of the state of California is not a group of bogey makers. Its members are practical men, whose job it is to conserve peace and safety.

They are in closer touch with conditions and tendencies threatening to peace and safety than any other group of our citienzs association is keenly concerned about the advances being amde by communism in California. The reason for this concern is the evidence which they continue to find of communistic activities. A recent report submitted by the association's committee on subversive ac least one other Orange County paper supports the Tustin News in its defense of existing townships in these words: Last week the "News" received a letter on stationery of the California Committee of One Hundred for Political Unity. The hundred were there and we read their names. Recognizing none of them we threw the letter into the waste-basket, but retained the enclosure.

Headed, "Statement of Purpose" the enclosure began "This group is not another political party. It is a coalition of liberal, labor and farmer forces working within their own parties. Coalition is particularly important at this time of widespread tendencies toward fascism. The "News" hopes it is correct, in differing with the "Committee of One TIijnuLtqgfciieii comes to the matter of including theTarmer in a so-called liberal grouping. The farmer doesn't belong in this classification; if he puts himself there he is misinformed.

Farm interests, by and large, are those of the property owner and capitalist. That he is occasionally hand-fed with social legislation is accidental. We also differ with the Committee in' its statement that "coalition is particularly important at this time." The reverse is actually true. What is wanted is two active political parties who will expend their surplus energies in political sparring, thus saving the nation the tragedy of sliding off into the deep water of socialism or communism. Finally, the "News" emphatically does not agree with the statement, "The combination of reactionary forces should be challenged by a coalition of progressive, liberal, farmer-labor and pro-Roosevelt forces." The term "reactionary" as thus used it seems to us, is in particularly bad taste.

When leftist forces are described by the term liberal instead of the more picturesque but less popular communistic, it is simple justice to group the opposition under the caption conservative. If the "Committee of One Hundred' wishes to come out into the open, toss its smoke screen aside and label itself simply, then we shall be very glad to consent to the use of "reactionary" for a conservative grouping of all shades and colors. But it is scarcely fair for one group to shelter itself under a "liberal" umbrella while insisting that the other side is reactionary or, even less politely, "fascist." If stress is to be laid on names, let's get them straight in the first place. And to list the farmer as a "liberal" or communist is just about the utmost possible in truth distortion. The history of the Russian Kulak land owning farmer to you is about the best illustration of what happens to the farmer under a "liberal" program that history has ever devised.

With all due deference to the Committee, if its program for future action is as badly distorted as its "Statement of we shall not need to fear trouble from its supporters. But it would be awfully nice if people who are being urged to rally to the "Committee's" defense could, at the same time, be correctly informed of its ultimate purpose. Political unity in California and the Nation just now would bring about exactly what the "Committee" so ardently appears to desire: a death fight between fascism The plan of the County Super visors to do away with township justices and constables, is just another move toward centralization of power at Santa Ana, and at least every citizen outside of that town should oppose the proposition. It will take the justice courts away from the people and will lessen the protection the people now have in their constables. And the plan offered will also be a more expensive one eventually, although the move is announced as an economic one.

Only we scarcely approve painting Santa Ana quite so black as all that. In fact We question strongly whether there are many people in the neighbor city who are interested in the plan at all. Meanwhile Editor Bert Maxwell tivities offers plenty of documentary proof that communism is waging a constant and all too effective campaign in this state. According to this report the chief activities of the communists are centered in two groups. One is the CIO.

The other is the large element on relief work and the dole. The CIO activities require several chapters in themselves. But one paragraph of the report is GRUB STREET GOSSIP Clara Spelman, Newport Beach Elementary school teacher, is whipping into shape for publication her operetta "Dream Ark," produced last year at the Yorba Linda grammar school. She is also writing a book of children's stories and poemsShortly to appear in Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine is a begonia-fuchsia article "Beautify that Shady Spot," written by Garden Grove's Jean MillerTAILS, a magazine of California and far West interest published in Pasadena, is edited by Harold D. Carew and Louise LiebhardtTarzari's Edgar Rice Burroughs, who like Upton Sinclair, publishes his own books, startles with another pseudo-scientific yarn, "Back to the Stone Charles G.

Norris, author, husband of Kathleen Norris, celebrates his 61 birthday October 30. of peculiar interest concerning the at Capistrano takes a squint at the i operations of the agitators among President's call for a special ses relief beneficiaries: sion of Congress and finds therein nothing much for approval President Roosevelt on Tuesday issued a call for a special session of congress to convene November A recent announcement said to come from C. I. O. headquarters declaring that John L.

Lewis' organization would begin at once to campaign for general adoption of the thirty hour week apparently proves that the labor group involved is viewing the picture from a single angle its own. A thirty hour working week would have certain very definite advantages. Experience in industry has already disclosed that the more a man earns and the more time he has to himself the more money he will spend in purchase of commodities he and other workmen manufacture. Moreover, judging the future by the past, the only criterion we are afforded, no one in his right mind would dare to say the thirty hour week is an impossibility. But for labor to stand up today and demand immediate adoption of the thirty hour week proves one of two things either that labor is incapable of seeing capital's side of the page; or doesnt' give a hoot about the welfare of anyone save itself.

Immediate adoption of the thirty hour week "Communist agitators employed on WPA projects have been continuously causing riots on the jobs and have been instrumental in causing disorder generally. When we read of war, pestilence, typhoons and similar tragic events in other parts of the world we are glad we live in the U. S. A. and in Southern California.

FIFTY-FIFTY Jack Bietz, pre-School nephew of Westminster Gazette's managing editor, Jim Smith, was walking the Long Beach pike with his mother and was getting very tired. Finally he halted. "Mama," he said seriously, "If you'll carry me, I'll carry your handbag." Folks who worry about the record-breaking-national debt "ain't seen nothin' yet." Wait till everybody gets a pension then we'll have to devise new figures for calculating the debt and use a microscope to determine the value of a dollar. and communism in the United States..