oc-plain-dealer 1921-02-08

THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DEALER An Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday. R. W. ERNEST, Manager. PAUL V. HESTER, Editor 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, Colf., as second class matter. DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS The old maxim of the schools, That flattery's the food of fools, Yet now and then, your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit—Swift. ECONOMIC PROSPECTS ARE VERY BRIGHT. Conditions as to finance, industry and business throughout the United States, are quite promising. There is no reason to fear business collapse or a financial crisis, asserts Governor Harding, of the federal reserve board. Mr. Harding, from his position of vast influence and intimate acquaintance with economic conditions, anticipates a year of "constructive development." He says that there is no comparison today with conditions a year ago, "when there was unceasiness and apprehension among the best-informed over the badly-expanded credit." Mr. Harding goes on to say that "business is now rapidly reaching a new level and approaching a sound and some basis." These assertions from the head of the federal reserve board are corroborated by the governors of many states and by men who are strong and influential in the financial, business and industrial life of the nation. It is not a theory of better things, but a better condition, that confronts the country. The nation is on the economic up-grade. Which is not to say that normal status has been attained; Dr. C. S. O'Toole Physician & Surgeon Phones: Residence 546 Office 569 TRUCK HAULING by North & Pursington which is not to overlook the fact that there is considerable unemployment. But improvement is noted, from week to week, from many sources. And all the time the psychology of the general situation improves—that is to say, the people take a more hopeful view of things and become more strongly entrenched in the conviction that better times are at hand—that economic adjustment is almost accomplished in entirety. LAW IS BIGGING APPLIED WITH STERNNESS. There is a note of assurance of greater safety coming from the courts of California—safety against crimes of violence. Two women, accused of murder, have been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in Los Angeles within a week. And in San Francisco, the last of the desperate gang accused of atrociously assaulting two girls, has been convicted and sentenced to prison. Three suspected members of that outlaw band were lynched at Santa Rosa for murdering a sheriff attempting to arrest them. Five others have been convicted and given prison sentences. These stern, inflexible workings of the law are having salutary effect. It is believed, in impressing the criminally inclined that California is not to be considered an easy field for their atrocities. It is to be hoped that this drive upon the desperate characters who have no respect for human life or the possessions of others may have such deterring effect as to greatly reduce the number of heinous offenses in California. This state has an abiding faith in and respect for law and its proper administration. Lynching is not tolerable here. The few lynchings that occur in the state are unobesitating and unqualifiedly condemned, both officially and by the public sentiment. But to make the law the protection to society that it should be, its enforcement should be so rigid and so sure as to strike terror to the hearts of the criminal element. A LINCOLN canism is worth adopting in the Great leanism. IT SOON will Washington things, all alone of the Harding himself dine. CONGRESS Dawe verbal to remind it to form and rest well as those. THERE ARE to the object of Mexico. But no thought to suggest run for the city. THE NOIR drawing near are some clought but they are not rainbow of pu better times n. THERE IS 18 States who live $5,000,000 in incumbent authori his name. A you look self-ject is mentio THE WESTion works on likelihood of this kind, with the west legislate in fa projects. A STANDING in big reserve training, shoul ed protection any emergence if, at any time the nation de army to make defense, then n fancy in bring Dr. C. S. O'Toole Physician & Surgeon Phones: Residence 546 Office 569 TRUCK HAULING by North & Pennington Phone Anaheim 197-11 EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL Largest and Most Complete Stock In Northern Orange County JOSEPH A. LIEB 111 E. Chartres Anaheim Phone 531 INCOME TAX RETURNS Expert service that saves you money on your taxes EVENINGS BY ADPOINTMENT RALPH C. HUNTINGTON ROOM 233 WH-SPURGEON BLDG SANTA ANA PHONE 800 DONT DELAY Typewriters —The R.A. Tiernan Typewriter Co. wishes to announce to typewriter users that they can now purchase or rent all makes of machines locally, from Mr. E. D. Abrams, W. Center Street. Abrams Book Store 116 W. Center, Anaheim New $1,000,000 Vet New $1,000,000 Venice Pier Now Building Become a part owner in this mammoth amusement enterprise. ocean pier—to be open all the year 'round Sunset Pier Co. of Venice, Cal., I BIG PROFITS This is the first time the public has been given an opportunity to participate in the profits of an amusement Pier in Venice. If you know Venice, you know the profits are enormous. You also know that Venice, Calif., is known the world over as the amusement center of the Pacific Soast. OPEN YEAR ROUND Hundreds of thousands of tourists in Southern California have deplored the fact that Venice amusements have been closed during the winter. Sunset Pier will be open every day in the year. This will enormously increase the patronage and bring in thousands of dollars in added revenue to the owners of the pier. CONEY ISLAND OF THE PACIFIC The Sunset Pier will make Venice the Coney Island of the Pacific. June 1st is the date scheduled for the opening of this great, modern amusement pier — in time for the thousands of patrons who will visit Venice during the summer—and it will be running full blast when the new thousands of visitors flock to Los Angeles during the winter months. NEWEST AMUSEMENTS The world's newest and most popular amusements will be installed on this pier. Purveyors of amusements of international fame are now negotiating for space. Attractions of the highest class only will be accepted. BUY NOW—MAKE YOUR INVESTMENT SURE—BUY See H, E. SCOTT, Exclusive Representative Phone 505 112 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim, Calif. THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DEALER, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA R. Sunday. ST. EDITOR. Thurs. $1.25. The fact that employment from week and all the general say, the view of strongly in that better economic re-printed in WITH curance of the courts most crimes accused of and sent to Los Anl in San desperate assaulting detected and the suspect-band were murdering them, wrekted and workings of effect, it the criminals is not to for their that this characters man life or may have recently offenses faith in proper ad- not toler- things that critically both of sentiment, detection to its enforcer and so sure parts of the sired in dealing with the burdens of taxation which he heavily upon the people. A LINCOLNIZED brand of Americanism is worth considering favorably, and adopting. There was no hypothesis to the Great Emancipator's Americanism. IT SOON will be disclosed that the Washington correspondents knew things, all along, about the personnel of the Harding cabinet that Mr. Harding himself did not know. CONGRESS NEEDS a Charles G. Dawe verbal drubbing occasionally, to remind it that it has duties to perform and responsibilities to meet, as well as those whom it investigates. THERE ARE rumors and rumors as to the object of Mr. McAdoo's visit to Mexico. But nobody has had the hardihood to suggest that he is preparing to run for the presidency of that country. THE NORMAL in economics is drawing neaver and nearer. There are some clouds in the economic sky, but they are rolling by. Already the rainbow of promise of brighter and better times are athwart these clouds. THERE IS one man in the United States who, in 1918, paid more than $5,000,000 income tax, but the Washington authorities will not divulge his name. Are you suspected? Do you look self-conscious when the subject is mentioned? THE WEST will welcome reclamation works on a big scale, and there is likelihood of getting big enterprises of this kind. The south is uniting with the west in urging congress to legislate in favor of huge reclamation projects. A STANDING army or 150,000, with a big reserve of men having military training, should suffice to afford needed protection to the United States in any emergency that may arise. But if, at any time, the best judgment of the nation dictates a larger standing army to make adequate the national defense, then there should be no hesitancy in bringing the strength up to the nation's requirements. townspeople split on, threw rocks at and even sniped the American troops who were under orders not to return the fire. "Wait until we got outside the town, then if they follow us, we'll give them something to remember us by," said the lieutenants. The mob followed and the Americans dropped behind a railroad bank from where they shot 150 of the Mexicans who shot the Yanks were afraid to fight. "When Villa took Parral in 1919, with no more troops than there were inside the city, he didn't even disarm the Carranistas. He merely told them they were working for a mighty poor boss; that he didn't want a one of them to join his ranks. He sent most of his own men away, keeping only a few for patrols, although there were several thousand government troops within a day's march of Parral. He seized one of the finest homes of the city for his headquarters and sat down to enjoy life, sending notice to mining companies to send over large sums if they didn't want their properties wrecked. Those that did meet his demands, and I guess they generally did, were encouraged to proceed with operations. "Despite the fighting, the Alvarado Mining & Milling Co., at Parral has been able to maintain operations more than three-fourths of the time since the revolution began in 1910." An author's "mystery sense," or in other words his faculty of seizing upon story-making hints, may be responsible for returning to persons in Scotland a bagpipe stolen from a relative of theirs by Indians while he was crossing the plains in the middle of the last century. Dusty and neglected, its valves and tubes dim with age, its bag rotated in places, the instrument was found in San Diego-co by Stephen Chalmers, well-known novelist, and scenarjo writer, who is spending the winter at Laguna Beach. To the man who owned the bagpipe it was nothing more than just that—an old and useless instrument, neglected and forgotten. To Chalmers, however, the moment he saw it hanging in a dim oil commission and see that the well is properly plugged. A communication was read from Francis Cuttle with regard to the trash remover. It was referred to the suprintendent. A communication was read from Robinson Farmer with regard to getting a refund on income tax and capital stock tax. The secretary was instructed to inform Mr. Farmer that his proposition would be accepted. The superintendent was instructed to see Mr. Lewis of the Byron Jackson iron Works with regard to a new steel pump frame for the new pit at pumping plant No. 1 and report at the next meeting. SUFFER TROPICAL FEVER A STANDING army or 150,000, with a big reserve of men having military training, should suffice to afford needed protection to the United States in any emergency that may arise. But it, at any time, the best judgment of the nation dictates a larger standing army to make adequate the national defense, then there should be no hesitancy in bringing the strength up to the nation's requirements. AMERICA WILL not lag behind other great free powers in honoring its unknown dead of the world war. The proposed removal of an unidentified American soldier from Flanders fields to the new amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery should be done, and with the most impressive ceremonies, to emphasize to the world that America is not ungrateful toward or forgetful of its heroe dead, however humble they may have been. The Village Gossip Fred Marston, who had just accepted the position of mill superintendent of the Silverado mines, and who has had some interesting experiences with Bolsheviks in Russia and with Villa in Mexico, believes it is possible the revolution is really over in Mexico; at least, he hopes so. "Villa, whom I have met a number of times, got a mighty good thing out of it in his settlement with the Mexican government. I believe, as long as the Mexican government doesn't attempt to 'copper' any of his bets, he will behave himself. He is really a little king with a kingdom all his own on the estate granted him, besides the large sum handed over and the big annuity. There he and several hundred of his followers are able to live better than they could ever hope to otherwise. Marston gives an idea of what Pershing was up against when he was sent into Mexico. "Pershing had orders not to use the government railways. Therefore he had to parallel the railway for 400 miles by wagon road from El Paso to Parral. Two lieutenants with 250 negro soldiers, hot on Villa's trail, with orders not to enter a town, found themselves at Parral, far from their base, entirely out of supplies. They went into Parral, where they explained to the authorities why they were there." WATER CO. MAKES ASSESSMENT OF $5 Directors of the Anaheim Union Water Co. have voted an assessment of $5 per share. There are $800 shares. The assessment is pabable on or before March 15. Stock will become delinquent if assessment is not paid by March 16 and advertised from a relative of theirs by Indians while he was crossing the plains in the middle of the last century. Dusty and neglected, its valves and tubes dim with age, its bag rotated in places, the instrument was found in San Diego-co by Stephen Chalmers, well-known novelist, and scenario writer, who is spending the winter at Laguna Beach. To the man who owned the bagpipe it was nothing more than Just that—an old and useless instrument, neglected and forgotten. To Chalmers, however, the moment he saw it hanging in a dim corner, the bagpipe carried a ghostly message from a bygone day, a message in which was interwoven a mysterious thread of romance and thrilling as fascinating as the droning highland melodies that it once intoned. A score of questions immediately occurred to Chalmers. How did the San Diego man come into possession of the bagpipe? When was this? Was it during a battle with an Indian band led by that wily Apache, Geronimo, that the instrument was taken? These were among the questions Chalmers asked. The bagpipe held an overmastering appeal for Chalmers. The owner wanted only $15 for the pipe but Chalmers, who had a vision, paid him $25. Then, after the author and Jack Colman, artist, returned to Laguna Beach from their duck hunting trip to San Diego-co, Chalmers set to work. Using as a basis those few actual facts he had been able to obtain from the owner of the bagpipe, Chalmers wrote a story, weaving in to it his own version of how the hardy Scot, one of the many intrepid Forty-niners, lost his precious bagpipe during a battle with the Indians. Bringing into play that which is a writer's greatest stock in trade, imagination, Chalmers wove into his story a wealth of detail, not the least of which was a scene showing the bewilderment of the Indians upon first getting their hands on the instrument, their clumsy attempts to make the instrument produce music and so on. Incidentally, Chalmers sold the story to an Eastern publishing firm, of course for a sum considerably in excess of what the bagpipe cost. And finally, the writer set to work to find in Scotland by means of advertisements the relatives of the man from whom the bagpipe was originally taken. WATER CO. MAKES ASSESSMENT OF $5 Directors of the Anaheim Union Water Co. have voted an assessment of $5 per share. There are 8000 shares. The assessment is pabable on or before March 15. Stock will become delinquent if assessment is not paid by March 16 and advertised for sale on April 8. Director Dwyer of the ditch committee reported that John Beneke has requested that the company pipe the open cement ditch in front of his place on West Ball-rd. Anaheim. This was referred to the superintendent. The reports of the treasurer and superintendent were read, accepted and ordered filed. The report of the finance committee was accepted and warrants ordered drawn in payment of the various demands therein recommended. The following transfers of stock were granted: Walter Hartman, 8 shares to be divided, 3 shares to John Beneke and 5 shares to Herman Stern; 10 shares Hemphill and Christensen to Guarantee Trust and Savings bank, a corporation; 1½ shares Bernard Heinz to P. C. Curtis; 3 shares F. P. Wood to be divided one share to Laura C. Gregory and 2 shares to F. P. Wood; 32 shares John Hartung, Pledgee for W. W. Adams to Argus Adams; 10 shares O. R. Brown to O. R. and V. P. Brown. Upon motion by Dwyer, seconded by Thamer transfer of 29 shares from the Brennerman estate to be transferred to E. E. Beazley and J. W. Hetchbrink upon condition that J. C. Smith send certified copy of his power of attorney. Ten shares from the Allec Gardner estate will be transferred upon condition that satisfactory surety bond be put up for certificates of stock representing eight shares lost or misplaced. A communication was read from the Anaheimmated Oil Co., stating that it intended to abandon well No. 28 on the La Habra reservoir lease. This was referred to the superintendent. He will take it up with the state man from whom the bagpipe was originally taken. ABLE MANAGEMENT —The Sunset Pier will be under the management of successful amusement men of long experience and wide reputation, who have made a practical investigation of the demand for a pier of this kind on the Pacific Coast, and who are well qualified to successfully manage this gigantic enterprise. YOUR OPPORTUNITY —A limited amount of the preferred stock of the Sunset Pier Co. is being offered to the public. This is your opportunity to participate in this big Southern California enterprise. Remember, the pier is building now. —The Sunset Pier Co. of Venice is incorporated under the laws of California for $1,000,-000. —The men behind this company are among the most substantial in the Southwest. MENT SURE—BUY NOW Representative Anaheim, Calif. Phone 505 Tuesday, February 8, 2021 Dr. C. S. Ottole, Physician and Surgeon, Phone, Residence 599 Dance at Olinda Thursday Warehouse Space Phone 58 DR. W. M. McMULLEN OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN 502 North Spadra Cor. Chapman Fullerton Glasses Fitted DR. G. A. NETH Chiropractic & Electric Treatments Phone 80— 120 W. Center St., Anaheim We Buy Liberty Bonds Market Value for Cash FREE EXHIBITION FOR ANAHEIM Ghosts will walk in one midst on Thursday night. The mysterious is here. Fay, America's most celebrated spirit medium, is in the city. The greatest scence ever offered the American public is to be staged at the High School Auditorium Thursday night. Free to everybody. All the cost added to this great exhibition is your trouble in going there. No charge. No collection. Fay proves beyond question of doubt the truth of a mysterious power about us in every day life. Such wonderful tests as the famous Anna Eva Pay Cabinet Mystery, Spirit Table Rapping, Spirit Slate Writing, the Outa board and the receiving of messages will be given. You see EVERY Buick owner esteems his car because of its dependability—its ability to "come through." To this, the new 1921 Buick models bring improvements and refinements that add to the joy of possession of every Buick owner. A new graceful, low, streamline body; a more roomy interior with comfortable seating arrangement; and a more resilient spring suspension which makes riding delightful, are but a few of the new features. Effective January 1, regular equipment on all models will include cord tires comfortable seating arrangement, and a more resilient spring suspension which makes riding delightful, are but a few of the new features. Effective January 1, regular equipment on all models will include cord tires Anaheim Auto Company WM. GOODRUM, Prop. 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