anaheim-gazette 1925-06-18

CORNER PHILOSOPHY A vain man has few friends. Most henpecked men enjoy it. The chief products of carelessness age fires and funerals. The self-made man doesn't always find it easy to make himself at home. The best way to remember a thing is to try to forget it. Most politicians will stand for anything they think the people will fall for. Some people quarrel over trifles, instead of waiting for something worthy of their talents. This generation is wearing more glasses than ever, and no doubt the next will have to wear blinders. The prude is not only easily shocked, but is always willing to be There are some men who seem to regard the prediction of short skirts as a promise. There is plenty of room at the top, especially when the bottom drops out of the market. Before marriage a man gives his heart to a girl, and after marriage she takes the heart right out of him. The easiest way to make a woman happy is to envy her. The fact that no man can serve two masters is not astonishing. It is hard enough for a man to master himself. The people who are killed with kindness have no objection to a lingering death. The man who accomplishes half the things he intends to do strikes a pretty 20 YEARS AGO IN MOTORDOM An airship of the 1905 vintage beat an automobile in a 30-minute race in Pasadena by a two-minute margin. The owner of the bulky balloon called "The Arrow" won the $100 at stake in the run from the Chutes ball park to the Raymond hotel, Pasadena, after the automobile, considered then the fastest in Southern California, had to stop once at a garage because of mechanical trouble. One reason the horse has practically disappeared as a mode of transportation in communities is seen in a dispatch from Washington, D.C., of 20 years ago which reads: "As one of the President's carriages was being driven from the White House to the stables today, an automobile cut across ahead of the team. The horses became frightened and ran on the sidewalk, striking an iron fence and upsetting the carriage. The driver was thrown to the ground, receiving severe bruises. No one else occupied the carriage at the time." An editorial of 20 years ago in a Santa Clara county newspaper read as follows: "It is about two years since automobiles were ruled off the mountain roads of this county. There seemed to be good reason for such action at that time. The automobile was a new thing as the bicycle once was, a terror to horses and a danger to its occupants, and the public, in inexperienced hands." But now horses are, as a rule, no more afraid of automobiles than of wheels. Furthermore, automobiling has got past the experimental and fad day and has become a public convenience. The supervisors of Santa Cruz county have recognized present considerations and passed an ordinance to open to automobiles the mountain road between Santa Cruz and San Jose. Leading citizens hold that it is now up to Santa Clara county to open the roads to automobiles on this side of the mountain." Cement mile posts were used on blocked-out roads in the vicinity of Los Angeles to inform motorists of the theory of the tyranny of nature we have only to turn to the United States to find legislative houses organize dependent populations, comes about that Nevada Island's senators vote justially as do those of New Pennsylvania, although they represent 100 times as many. Whenever the cities in ready to concede an amendment that will give formia the control of one ramento, reapportionment We doubt if it comes soon. Why Your Mail Doesn't In the presentation of its appeal to the public to care in addressing and othering their postal matter, department presents the formation of fact: That 21,000,000 letters Dead Letter Office last year That 803,000 parcels did That 100,000 letters go-yearly in perfectly blank That $55,000 in cash is usually from misdirected mail That $12,000 in postage found in similar fashion That $3,000,000 in check money orders never re-owners That Uncle Sam collects $ in postage For the return to the Dead Letter Office. That it costs Uncle Sally yearly to look up address directed mail. That 200,000,000 letters a service yearly, and—That it costs in one daily. Moral: Every man knew dress if not that of his own term "nixies" which they matter than is so poorly addressed that it can not liver or returned to them. These "nixies," which all The easiest way to make a woman happy is to envy her. The fact that no man can serve two masters is not astonishing. It is hard enough for a man to master himself. The people who are killed with kindness have no objection to a lingering death. The man who accomplishes half the things he intends to do strikes a pretty fair average. Even when she is a reigning beauty a woman should make hay while the sup shines. Before a man burns his bridges behind him he must realize that he has bridges to burn. You can always tell when you are on the wrong road. It isn't necessary to chew the air. About 97 per cent of the world's idiocles were fostered by people who meant well. Chickens still come home to roost, but some sweetie may buy their rations downtown. There is no such thing as a howling success. The howling is done by failures. Perhaps the easiest way to acquire a dominating personality is to be born feminine. Happy is the man who can laugh at trouble, his own as well as other people's. The minimum of anxiety is what a pedestrian feels about the possible exhaustion of the petroleum supply. Among the new things daughter brought home from school is a new conception of bedtime. Poverty in America isn't so bad. You can always have all the things poor people can't afford. The objection to falling in love with an ankle is that an ankle knows so little about cooking. Movie prices are fair enough. It isn't the picture you pay for, but the nice seat. After all, you can't judge a man by his clothes or a woman by her lack of them. What the farmer needs most is a government bulletin telling how to raise the price. You never get a chance unless you grab one. But now horses are as safe a rule, more afraid of automobiles than of whips. Furthermore, automobiling has got past the experimental and fad day and has become a public convenience. The supervisors of Santa Cruz county have recognized present considerations and passed an ordinance to open to automobiles the mountain road between Santa Cruz and San Jose. Leading citizens hold that it is now up to Santa Clara county to open the roads to automobiles on this side of the mountain." Cement mile posts were used on blocked-out roads in the vicinity of Los Angeles to inform motorists of the direction and distance to that city. Now, Southern California is the most thoroughly sign-posted territory on earth with its durable, metal signs posted everywhere by the Automobile Club of Southern California. Airplane Transport Service Organized A $10,000,000 air transport line organized in Detroit plans to use established government mail routes. It will start service along some of the more important lighted airways for night flying as soon as they are ready. "Private capital in commercial airplane operation," explains an official, "must depend on the government to maintain the airways' and title municipalities to furnish the terminals." This seems reasonable. It applies to commercial aviation some of the established policies for navigation. The government will be expected to see that the air routes have their lighthouses and marked channels, like the water routes. And cities ambitious to become air ports will be expected to provide harbor facilities just as seaports do. There must be co-operation between federal and local agencies, but the division of duties seems fair. And it is reassuring that, while the government is blazing its trails, dozens of American cities have already taken steps, or are now doing so, to provide the necessary landing fields and other terminal facilities to put themselves into the air routes and attract their share of future air business. Fortunate is the city quick and enterprising enough to get into this game early, while land is cheap and competition not very keen. It may mean in many cases as much as bringing a railroad into the town meant in the days of the last great transportation development. A SITUATION IN COMMON Perhaps in no other state in the Union will the threatened deadlock in Illinois be watched with so much interest as in California. The city of Chicago announces that it will refuse to turn over state tax monies until the legislature of Illinois grants a reapportionment of legislative districts. For there is this parallel between Illinois and California: Neither state has had a legislative reapportionment since that based on the census of 1910. In both Movie prices are fair enough. It isn't the picture you pay for, but the nice seat. After all, you can't judge a man by his clothes or a woman by her lack of them. What the farmer needs most is a government bulletin telling how to raise the price. You never get a chance unless you grab one. A new source of revenue simply means tapping the same fellow in a new place. At this divorce rate, the years of connubial bliss after the first will soon be classed as extra innings. HIGHWAY WORK Another big project on the 1925 reconstruction program of the California highway commission—the repaving of 13.45 miles in San Diego county—was advertised for bids to be opened in Sacramento, July 6. The work includes a "second story" concrete pavement and flush concrete shoulders, for the widening of the present highway from 15 to 20 feet, from near Oceanside to San Onofre, on the trunk line between Los Angeles and San Diego. Heavy traffic over this route has made imperative the widening and thickening of the pavement. The Oceanside-San Onofre project, together with the work already contracted for north of San Onofre and between San Juan and Gallivan, Orange county, will complete a 20-foot pavement between Los Angeles and San Diego. The work is a part of the $2,500,000 reconstruction program for Southern California to be placed under contract by the commission during 1925. It is announced by Commissioner Nelson T. Edwards. Other work will follow in the near future. A survey made in New York shows that corned beef and cabbage is the favorite dish in the metropolis. But you could never get the boys back in the prairie country to believe that the New Yorkers eat anything cheaper than caviar. A SITUATION IN COMMON Perhaps in no other state in the Union will the threatened deadlock in Illinois be watched with so much interest as in California. The city of Chicago announces that it will refuse to turn over state tax monies until the legislature of Illinois grants a reapportionment of legislative districts. For there is this parallel between Illinois and California: Neither state has had a legislative reapportionment since that based on the census of 1910. In both states the big cities have grown faster than the country districts, and in both the cities would absolutely dominate the legislature if reapportionment were ordered on a strict population basis. There is this difference: In Illinois, the great population is all in the city of Chicago, while in California it is divided between the three big cities, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland. But that is a mere matter of detail. The results of a reapportionment would be the same, and while the legislators from Chicago would wholly control Illinois legislation, the lawmakers, from the three cities in this state would quickly find a basis for a common understanding, and the country and the "cow counties" would get "the leavings" from the appropriation banquet. Now, Chicago threatens to withhold state taxes, for in Illinois state taxes are still levied direct, instead of being collected indirectly as in California. Such a threat could not be made in California, but not likely to be seriously attempted in the eastern states. For the state has the authority to levy a penalty that would be somewhat serious, and of course can enforce its own laws. But in both states the people of the rural counties have a right to demand that they be protected against such metropolitan domination. Our neighbors in Los Angeles are prone to insist that it is Southern California that is demanding such a reapportionment. There is small basis for the allegation. It is the city of Los Angeles that wants more senators and assemblymen at Sacramento to make it easier to pass legislative matters in which Los Angeles has a selfish interest. The whole plan and genius of the American government is against the theory of the tyranny of majorities, and we have only to turn to the senate of the United States to find one of our two legislative houses organized entirely independent of populations. By which it comes about that Nevada's and Rhode Island's senators vote just as influentially as do those of New York and Pennsylvania, although the latter may represent 100 times as many people. Whenever the cities in California are ready to concede a constitutional amendment that will give to rural California the control of one house at Sacramento, reapportionment will come. We doubt if it comes sooner. Why Your Mail Doesn't Arrive In the presentation of facts to justify its appeal to the public to exercise more care in addressing and otherwise marking their postal matter, the postoffice department presents the following statement of fact: That 21,000,000 letters went to the Dead Letter Office last year. That 803,000 parcels did likewise. That 100,000 letters go into the mail yearly in perfectly blank envelopes. That $55,000 in cash is removed annually from misdirected mail. That $12,000 in postage stamps is found in similar fashion. That $3,000,000 in checks, drafts and money orders never reach intended owners. That Uncle Sam collects $92,000 a year in postage for the return of mail sent to the Dead Letter Office. That it costs Uncle Sam $1,740,000 yearly to look up addresses on misdirected mail.' That 200,000,000 letters are given this service yearly, and— That it costs in one city alone $500 daily. Moral: Every man knows his own address if not that of his correspondent. The postal men have the appropriate term "nixies" which they apply to mail matter than is so poorly wrapped or addressed that it can neither be delivered or returned to the sender. These "nixies," which amount to the of building material strung along the parking in front of the site of a proposed new dwelling or store building. There is nothing very romantic about it or nothing that appeals to the imagination until one begins to figure what could be done with it. But there is a new interest in the suggestion when it is stated that if all the lumber brought into Los Angeles harbor in the last two years were sawed into one-inch boards one foot wide, it would make a board track a foot wide that would take a motorcyclist traveling 35 miles an hour, eight hours a day, every day in the year, including Sundays and holidays, six years and four months to cover, which is equivalent to traveling nearly 26 times around the world in a little more than six years. There is no wonder that Los Angeles harbor is called the greatest lumber receiving port in the world. Trainload after trainload passes through the harbor in a steady stream from a large fleet of lumber boats operating between the northern Pacific and Los Angeles. While a large part of these lumber cargoes go into construction of homes, store buildings and office buildings and factories in Los Angeles, a fair percentage of it is distributed through Southern California, where building operations are on a par with those in the metropolis. Also large quantities are shipped into Arizona, where there is also a brisk building program, and into Nevada and some of it even into New Mexico and Utah. To give an idea of the imensity of lumber receipts here it is only necessary to say that if all the lumber brought here through the harbor last year alone had been converted into five-room bungalows, each on a lot 50 feet wide, there would have been enough bungalows built to line both sides of a street extending from San Diego through Los Angeles to San Francisco. In other words, there would have been provided 121,327 bungalows, or enough bungalows to build the residence section of a city to house more than $55,000 people. 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