oc-plain-dealer 1921-01-31

THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DEALER An Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday. R. W. ERNEST, Manager. Subscription rate—In No. Orange-co: Per year, $2; six months, $1.25. Outside No. Orange-co: Per year, $6; six months, $3.50. Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Colif., as second class matter. D. E. GREETING TO OUR READERS But parents, to their offspring blind, canbit not parts, nor turn of mind; Lint, even in infancy, decree What this, what th' other son shall be. U. S. GOVERNMENT AID FOR HIGHWAY WORK. Great impetus is given to permanent improvement of highways throughout the country by the course of the United States government. This contemplates liberal appropriations for highway work out of the federal treasury, to be distributed among the states as they, thrue their legislatures or by vote of funds by the people, appropriate money for the same purpose. The national government, in other words, helps those states which are ready and willing to help themselves. Annual appropriation of $100,000,000 for this purpose by congress is proposed. The appropriations that have been made, since the national government has adopted this policy, have been used to good advantage, and the mileage of well-improved roadways has increased greatly. PROTECT INTERESTS OF THE U. S. IN PACIFIC. The issue that has arisen as to the disposition to be made of the island of Yap, brings strongly before the American government and people the whole general question of safeguarding the Pacific, from the standpoint of protection of the United States against possible hostile designs by any power or group of powers. Yap is a small island, chiefly important as a Pacific cable station. The United States is insisting that it have cable rights there co-equal with Japan and other powers. Japan, it seems, is disposed to question America's rights, and to assert mandatory authority over the island. The right, the United States should not surrender. Nor should it regard the unprotesting serenity, the dominance of Pacific islands, formerly under German control, by Japan. This nation must look out for itself, In the Pacific. It must look carefully to the maintenance of safeguards against tragic eventualities. The United States should regard with the gravest concern any activities of Japan in the Pacific which, in the course of a few years, in the event of a crisis in the relations between the two countries, might be used to the disastrous disadvantage of this country. DO NOT be any reader to steal any man's good name than to purlin his dollars. A DEED for a tract of California land is a very good thing to have in one's possession. THE BEST antidote for lynchings is swift, sure and severe punishment of those guilty of hideous crimes. EVERY LAW on the statute books of the state and nation should inspire confidence and respect among the people. THE SLANDEROUS lie travels like the fleet greyhound; but the refutation of the slander goes on the leaden feet of the tortoise. THE PACIFIC fleet is not to be withdrawn from the Pacific. To do so would be a monumental blunder, inviting national disaster. THERE IS no twilight zone between loyalty and disloyalty to the American flag. One either is loyal or disloyal. There is no middle ground. TRUE AMERICANS should never relax in uncompromising antagonism to anarchism and all the dangerousisms that threaten the safety and perpetuity of the nation and its free institutions. EXTREME CARE should be exercised, in investigating sundry activities of the world war, not to besmirch any innocent persons. The stigmatizing should be reserved for those of whose guilt of crimes or irregularities there can be no reasonable doubt. A WELL BUILT BODY means everything to you as a car owner. What avails it if you have a fine engine and easy riding tires and a handsome chassis, if the upper part of your car is wrong? We build auto bodies to suit you, not to suit the car manufacturer. Just like having your tailor make your clothes. —See us for Cook Automatic Blocker and Ridger. KNOX & MAYBERRY 149 South Lemon Street Phone 81 A NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY For Orange County WILL GO TO PRESS FEB. 10, 1921 —Only those telephones actually working on February 10th will be included in the new Directory. —Please arrange for any change you may desire in present Listing or Advertising as soon as possible so that such changes may be completed not later than— FEB. 10, 1921 Please arrange for any change you may desire in present Listing or Advertising as soon as possible so that such changes may be completed not later than— FEB. 10, 1921 The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company Removal Notice We will be in our new quarters—front of the Anahe & Machine Shop, 226 South Los Angeles street, Thursday week. Our increase in business has necessitated this move, better quarters and more modern equipment which we are ing. When needing Auto Tops, Seat Covers, Plate Glass in Curtains, Tonneau Wind Shields—Cushions repaired or anything in our line, see us. EARL FARR New Address, after January—226 S. Los Angeles St. THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DEALER, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Charges should not made hastily and recklessly. No accusation should be spread broadcast, as in the case of Charles M. Schwab, unless there is undoubted and indutuable proof of guilt. POLITICAL AND social machinery, in this country, is lubricated with a mild and genial tolerance. It is this broad spirit of toleration which keeps the nation solidified and harmonious in every crisis. THIS IS A nation, not of bloody feuds and revolutions, but of peaceful evolution. When political and social conditions get awry the people set them right, not with bullets, but with ballots. ARE THE lessons of the world war to be forgotten and to go unheeded? Is the world to go on in the same old way, instead of becoming the new world that was predicted just before the armistice was signed? God forbid! THE PEOPLE have their opportunity to study pending retrenchment measures before the legislature. They will not default in this. By keeping well informed and keenly alert, they will be a position to make their influence felt in the legislature. EACH AND every person accused of crime, no matter how flagrant the offense, should be given speedy and impartial trial and should be convicted or acquitted, as the facts warrant, without interminable delay and without drawing the case through technical loopholes. MERE TALK OF retrenchment reduces no taxpayer's burden. Retrenchment is a practical process, not a series of bland mouthings. Californians want this practical process. They have heard about all the promising and theorizing they care to hear; they want action and amelioratory results. DISCUSSIONS OF AND lamentations over the shortage of houses do not shelter any more families. The only way to relieve the situation is to build more houses. Every inducement and encouragement, within reason, should be given those with vacant land and with means, to build as quickly as possible. COUNTY WAR UPON BOOTLEGGERS LOOMS That a county-wide cleanup of all bootlegging shops and a general roundup of all violators of the prohibition laws will follow the adoption of the proposed county prohibition enforcement ordinance by the board of supervisors, was the declaration of Dist. Atty. A., P. Nelson today. City attorneys of every city in the county have been advised of the proposed county ordinance and have promised to cooperate with Dist. Atty. Nelson. J. C. Burke, city attorney of Seal Beach; L. F. Coburn, city attorney of Orange; Albert Launer, city attorney of Brea and Fullerton, and L. W. Blodgett, city attorney of Huntington Beach, have personally appeared before Nelson and discussed the prohibition ordinance. Others are expected to call. Dist. Atty. Nelson says the proposed county ordinance embraces practically every point out in the Volstead act and calls for a strict enforcement of the prohibition law. The maximum penalty provided under the ordinance is a 90-day jail term or a $300 fine, or both. Nelson said that only one point in the proposed ordinance was not favored by the city attorneys who conferred with him yesterday. The rest of the draft was approved and each city attorney announced that he would draw up a similar ordinance to govern his respective city. This will make the county law and city law uniform. The one exception to the proposed ordinance is a provision requiring druggists and physicians, who are authorized to use liquors for medicinal purposes, to apply to the board of supervisors for permits. The city attorneys held that this would be unnecessary as those authorized to dispense liquors for sacramental and medicinal purposes are now required to secure permits from the internal revenue office. They contended that this would duplicate the work and could as well be eliminated. Dist. Atty. Nelson explains that the object of the proposed ordinance MENT is a practical process, not a series of bland mouthings. Californians want this practical process. They have heard about all the promising and theorizing they care to hear; they want action and amelioratory results. DISCUSSIONS OF AND lamentations over the shortage of houses do not shelter any more families. The only way to relieve the situation is to build more houses. Every inducement and encouragement, within reason, should be given those with vacant land and with means, to build as quickly as possible. THE UNITED STATES should have leading place in a well-matured plan for disarming the world. The problem of disarmament is one of the most important before the world today. So long as the great powers continue to build and maintain vast armaments, so long will the world be menaced by terrible conflicts. A VETERAN who lost both legs in the world war risked his life and saved a baby on the beach at Miami. Fla. by pushing his wheeled platform in front of a motor car to push the child out of the way. He succeeded, and escaped with only painful, not serious injuries. Now if somebody does not spoil the noble story by proposing to give him a hero medal! The Village Gossip The First National bank is conducting a school of banking for its large staff of employees. Once each week a list of ten questions pertinent to banking is handed each employee. At the end of the week, printed answers are checked with those of the "scholars." The course runs for 52 weeks. At the end of the course, each employee will have a very thorough education in banking. Justice of the Peace Cox today said that he occasionally reads in some Eastern paper that a court has discovered a novel means of getting direct evidence in auto damage suits by the use of toy autos and miniature roadways, the cars being used by witnesses to show their exact position at the time of the smash. This stunt is nothing new in the court of Justice of the Peace Cox. He says he has had the plan in operation for more than five years. The justice found difficulty in trying some cases because explanations offered by witnesses as to their position in accidents were not clear. To eliminate any possibility of this and get at the exact facts in the case Justice Cox purchased a blackboard and five toy railway cars. Now every time a complicated situation arises he gets out the blackboard and the miniature cars and tells the witness to show him just how it happened. The blackboard measures 36 by 24 inches and two lines drawn lengthwise on the board represent the outer edges of the roadway. The lines are altered to fit the road Fortunately for Dr. Cowles, he has been able to keep body and soul together without a pension, but no better example can be found of the red tape which cumbers government procedure and which is just now causing so much suffering to hundreds of boys who served in the recent war. LOCAL MEN PLEASED AT MOLYDENUM CAR Local stockholders in the Standard Minerals Co., which owns large molydenum properties at Kingman, Ariz., were much interested in an article in the Sunday Times on the new molydenum automobile. The molydenum automobile. The molydenum man have long contended that the moment real competition again appeared in the manufacture of motor cars there would be a turning to molydenum. The Times article contained the following: DETROIT, Jan. 27. — Production of the new Wills-Lee automobile started this week at Marysville. Coming now when the industry is just emerging from its biggest crisis, the long-expected announcement is expected to inspire confidence in the leaders of the automobile industry. At the outset 1500 men will be employed. More will be taken on, the company expects, as production is increased. The new car weighing 3000 pounds and containing an eight-cylinder power plant, is to be produced in the "model" plant in the "model city," the plans for which were conceived and executed by C. Harold Wills, former chief engineer of the Ford Motor Co., and John R. Lee, also a former Ford executive. Numbered among the Wills-Lee workmen are many especially skilled who left the Ford company to join their new employers in the new venture. Marysville, the "model city," designed for a population of 100,000, is located on the St. Clair river, three miles south of Port Huron. It was designed as a unit, with its school, residence and factory sites all laid out before a house was built. Railway extension to connect Marysville with the Detroit terminal railroad is already being made. A unique feature of the idea incorporated by Messrs Wills and Lee is to have every part of the new car manufactured by industry of Marysville. Subsidiary industries essential to the manufacture of automobiles are being encouraged to locate in Marysville. The promoters hope in this way to reduce transportation problems to a minimum. The Wills-St. Clair, as the new car is to be called, combines roominess with exceedingly light weight. The car is constructed of molybdenum steel. No announcement of the sales price of the new car has been made. The motor is a 60-degree V type. Minimum production for this year is scheduled for 6000 cars. Edwin B. Jackson, former vice-president of Willys-Overland, takes the New York territory as distributor. WHAT'S DOING AT HUNTINGTON BEACH Drill. Prod. Build. Standard Oil Co....... 9 3 5 Amalgamated Oil Co....... 3 Union Oil Co....... 2 Pet. Midway Co. Ltd....... 1 Western Union Oil Co....... 1 Republic Pet Corp....... 1 Vista Del Mar Oil Co....... 1 W. Whittler Oil Co....... 1 Texcal Oil & Refin.Co....... 1 Mid-Central Oil Co....... 1 Bell of Montebello Co....... 1 Venture Oil Co....... 1 Hunt Central Oil Co....... 2 L.B. Oil & Gas Co....... 1 State Consolidated Co....... 1 Miley-Keck Oil Co....... 1 Texas Holding Co....... 1 Pla-Rich, Cent.Oil Co....... 1 Blue Shale Oil Assn....... 1 The Petroleum Co....... 1 Hunt-Crude Oil Co....... 1 Motor Oil & Refin.Co....... 1 Totals.....24 3 18 justice found difficulty in trying some cases because explanations offered by witnesses as to their position in accidents were not clear. To eliminate any possibility of this and get at the exact facts in the case Justice Cox purchased a blackboard and five toy railway cars. Now every time a complicated situation arises he gets out the blackboard and the minature cars and tells the witness to show him just how it happened. The blackboard measures 36 by 24 inches and two lines drawn lenghtwise on the board represent the outer edges of the roadway. The lines are altered to fit the road where intersections are involved. Justice Cox originally owned five railway cars but some small boy who happened to be in his court one day took a fancy to two of them, so there are only three left. The justice says he will have to buy some PUZZLE IN TRAFFIC CASE STUMPS COX This is a case that requires a Solomon to determine. So declared Justice of the Peace Cox as he dismissed the case of F. L. Livinetz, of Santa Ana, arrested by Traffic Officer Vernon Meyers Jan. 15 on a charge of reckless driving. The defendant was specifically charged with trying to pass between two cars on the highway as they passed each other. Meyers was driving one of those cars. He claimed that Livinetz passed him when another car was coming in the opposite direction and less than 150 feet away. Livinetz testified that Meyer’s car was apparently still until the moment he approached it and then it slowly turned out. He said that while he was not exceeding the speed limit he could do nothing but pass on. Conflicting evidence as to the distance of the third car and other details of the situation made the issue confusing. Justice Cox said that it was simply one of those cases that could not be determined. He said it is not humanely possible for two drivers to know what the other is going to do under similar circumstances. In this connection Justice Cox said the law should compel a continuous sounding of the horn or claxon when one car is approaching and passing another standing on the highway, for the driver of the moving car cannot tell when the other man is going to pull out. —Witman, Eyesight Specialist. WAR UPON BIGGERS LOOMS county-wide cleanup of all shops and a general violators of the prohil follow the adoption of county prohibition ordinance by the board, was the declaration A. P. Nelson today, days of every city in the seven advised of the proordinance and have operate with Dist Atty. city attorney of Seal Coburn, city attorney Albert Launer, city attain and Fullerton, and L. city attorney of Hunta, have personally appeared Nelson and discussed ordinance. Others are Nelson says the proposlinance embraces pracpoint brot out in the and calls for a strict enthe prohibition law. penalty provided unordinance is a 90-day jail fine, or both. that only one point in ordinance was not favity attorneys who consim yesterday. The rest was approved and each announced that he up a similar ordinance is respective city. This the county law and city exception to the proposed a provision requiring physicians, who are use liquors for medisions, to apply to the board for permits. The city bid that this would be as those authorized to orders for sacramental and proposes are now required permits from the internal e. They contended that duplicate the work and be eliminated. Nelson explains that the proposed ordinance EDISON SPENDS $48.000.000 FRESNO, Jan. 31—Declaring that public necessity require the construction of certain reservoirs, conduits and power plants on the San Joaquin river, the railroad commission has issued to the So. Cal. Edison Co., a permit to proceed with a program which calls for an expenditure of approximately $48.000.000. Nick and Gus Theodore attended the Southern California Laundry Office Assn at the Los Angeles Athletic Club Friday night. Kid Anklet Pumps —Kid Anklet Pumps, new and smart looking. Fine soft kid with flexible soles. $10.00 value, Special— Kafateria Shoe Store 109 W. Center Street Anaheim DOING AT BINGTON BEACH Drill. Prod. Build. Co. 9 3 5 D Oil Co. 3 O. 2 Co. Ltd. 1 3 On Oil Co. 1 t. Corp. 1 nar Oil Co. 1 Oil Co. 1 Refin. Co. 1 Oil Co. 1 tebello Co. 1 Co. 1 Al Oil Co. 2 Gas Co. 1 Idated Co. 1 Oil Co. 1 ng Co. 1 nt. Oil Co. 1 Oll Assn. 1 um Co. 1 Oil Co. 1 Refin. Co. 1 The way you feel —Did you ever think of building? —Then this is the way you feel: —I want a good building as reasonable as a GOOD building can be built for, and if building for investment, I want it as quickly as it can be delivered so my income will start as soon as possible. —I look all around. I see one building go up in 60 days; another of equal construction in 60 weeks. —Oh well, what is the use—I'll go see Wilson and Bever. I'll then get what I pay for and have it delivered complete. 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