oc-plain-dealer 1921-07-29

DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS It often falls in course of common life. That Right longtime is overborne or Wrong. Through avarice, or power, or guilt, or stifle. Which weakens that, and makes this power strong—Spenser. SHALL LOS ANGELES DOMINATE! (Santa Ana Register) Los Angeles commercial interests—municipal, industrial, merchandizing, journalistic—have evidently entered upon a deliberate campaign to swallow up all of So. Calif., with a view to making So. Calif. its very own. San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Bakersfield, El Centro, together with a number of other interior cities, are leading a statewide fight in bringing the counties that Los Angeles and San Francisco legislators always refer to as "cow counties" to a realization of their peril politically and in business way. San Bernardino and Riverside are especially alarmed over Los Angeles' well known and well developed plan to grab all of the available water power sites within its reach. The fight that San Bernardino and Riverside counties started has aroused county and city leaders all over the state. The interest is especially keen in those counties that are dependent upon electric power for their future land and industrial development. "The back country is rapidly awakening to the full import of the situation that is being created by the ruthless rapacity of Los Angeles," says the Riverside Press, in speaking of the power situation. "The question comes directly home to us as to whether we believe in our home city, and how much we believe in it," declares the San Bernardino Sun, also speaking of the Los Angeles program for control of power: "Industrial growth on any big scale is likely to be impossible ed stub in the very spot that breeds a catastrophe. This smoker is but one of a type of persons flagrantly—often criminally—careless with fire. Persons of this type care not for consequences. They either are inexcessibly thotless or less in excusably and viciously indifferent to the logical results of their dangerous mishandling of fire. This recklessness may be on steamships, or in buildings, or in forest reserves, or in grain fields. From carelessness in one form or another, this country suffers preventable fire losses of tens of millions of dollars annually. AMERICANS ARE FULL OF FIRM OPTIMISM The typical American is a confirmed optimist. No matter how badly things may be going—or seemingly badly—this typical American feels that things will be better by and by. Backing his faith with his works, he usually sets to with a will and does all he can to hasten the coming of better times and more favorable conditions. When disaster befalls, the typical American shows his grit. He is dauntless, let fire, or flood, or earthquake, or storm do its worst. The great painter, who would essay to limn the typical American in his courage amid disaster would show an erect figure, undismayed, not stopping to mourn over the ruins of his handiwork, laid low by the conflagration, the torrent or the tornado, but with sleeves rolled up, busily engaged in clearing the debris for reconstruction and rehabilitation. Sure and severe punishment does not seem to break "crime waves." Orderly processes of law ever must be above disorder and violence in this country. Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have a cigar named after them. The faithful, competent public official should not be hounded by captious, abusive critics. COUNTY ADVANTAGE "Orange-co secretes vertising, publicity that not buy, thru our national convention of Chicago." This was the deck the four delegates at Ana Realty board plete with experience tiring way, experienced unusual as they wail. Their observation the East sums up to the business activity as compared with the Pacific coast. Concerning their state that they to be the livest bungtion. Their realtor in amazement at the their success in putting advertising stunt at and in the wheat pboard of trade. scrambled for Oran cla oranges placed fluence of George chief executive. Ed The two films cameigation went over guna being run through nights in one of the houses in the Wind county film showing in one of the largest the North Side. The eager for the film them as features in "Hundreds of per booth in the Morris ed for minute detail said F. C. Pope today was placed in every stage possible and m headquarters after the advertising pamper ber of persons to heard of California, had heard of Santa County. "The interest shoyy by persons who copies of our pampling. The permission distributing our l baseball park and "The back country is rapidly awakening to the full import of the situation that is being created by the ruthless rapacity of Los Angeles," says the Riverside Press, in speaking of the power situation. "The question comes directly home to us as to whether we believe in our home city, and now much we believe in it," declares the San Bernardino Sun, also speaking of the Los Angeles program for control of power. "Industrial growth on any big scale is likely to be impossible in the fact of such conditions. These are not peculiar to San Bernardino; they affect Colton and Redlands, Riverside and Ontario, Pomona and Santa Ana quite as much and precisely in the same way they do us." "Los Angeles would crush the whole south, including the states of Arizona and Nevada, in her wild ambition toward aggrandizement," is the declaration of the El Centro Progress. "All towns, agricultural districts and other communities would be compelled to get down on their knees to Los Angeles in order to obtain electricity enough to pump water or burn lights ten years from this date if the plans outlined by Bill Mulholland, W. B. Mathews and others in the angel city are carried out." The Long Beach Press this week points out that it may be true, as has been charged, that certain Los Angeles interests are fighting Long Beach for fear that Long Beach will become "the Oakland of the South." The reaching out of Los Angeles for more business for itself, and a corresponding breaking down of business in the smaller cities of Southern California, is shown in numerous ways. One method sanctioned by the big department store of Los Angeles has in view a gobbling up of trade of the smaller cities thru the free distribution of Los Angeles newspapers carrying Los Angeles advertising. In this respect the mercantile interests of Los Angeles have long and longingly looked upon the flesh pots of Orange-co and gnashed their teeth because they could not buy advertising space in the local newspapers. There is not a city in So. Calif. that has not suffered by the ruthlessness of big Los Angeles interests. With the present determined program evidently agreed upon, looking to the swallowing up of all So. Calif., business, it behooves the cities of So. Calif. outside of Los Angeles to stand their ground and fight for their futures. BUSINESS IS BETTER IN CALIFORNIA "Retail business is good; confidence in gradual improvement is generally expressed." These are encouraging words about the general economic situation in California, given out by the United States Department of Labor. Business conditions on the Pacific Coast are more clear and severe punishment does not seem to break "crime waves." Orderly processes of law ever must be above disorder and violence in this country. Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have a cigar named after them. The faithful, competent public official should not be hounded by captious, abusive critics. The shipping board seems to have tried to float a merchant navy in a sea of debt and losses. Give the children pure food for thought. Trashy, unclean, suggestive or demoralizing books should be kept out of their hands. The time is coming when every gallon of surplus water falling in California will be impounded and utilized. Scientific control of floods will be an inestimable boon to this state. The ballot box must be protected against corruption, or the very foundations of government will be undermined. With mankind asking for the bread of peace, the response should not be a profiter of the stone of big armaments and militarism. One way to improve pictures is to patronize only the good ones. Lack of patronage soon would discourage the patronage of bad films. There is close relation between the practice of economy by the people and fruiting of economic readjustment. The economic structure of this and other great countries rests very largely upon economy practiced by millions. Suggestion that a lofty peak in the Rainier National park be named Lane's Peak, in honor of the lamented Franklin K. Lane, is good. A towering mountain should be the one to bear the name of the man whose virtues towered far above the commonplace. The American relief organization will feed Russia's hungry children if the Russian authorities will release American prisoners. Fair enough. If the Moscow "powers that be" are humane and really want to save the starving, they promptly will accede to these terms. Life imprisonment for autoists who carelessly and wantonly run down and kill pedestrians, is advocated by Chief of Police Jones, of Los Angeles. If the penalty for this hideous slaughter were made severe and certain, the deterrent effect should bring improvement over the present perils of traffic. Grandsons of the men who, as boys went out as dawn was breaking to chop wood to cook breakfast, now BUSINESS IS BETTER IN CALIFORNIA "Retail business is good; confidence in gradual improvement is generally expressed." These are the encouraging words about the general economic situation in California, given out by the United States Department of Labor. Business conditions on the Pacific Coast are more encouraging, says the same report, in California, building of residences is brisk. While there is considerable unemployment yet in this state, steady improvement in conditions is expected. This is one of several recent reports, from responsible sources, indicating general betterment of conditions in California and along the Pacific Coast. Best of all, these reports agree that the people of all classes are in good spirits and in confident expectation of better times. This state of mind unquestionably is having good influence upon the general economic situation. The optimism is all the more effectual because it is well grounded. There are good and substantial reasons for it. The economic stage is set in this state and section for steady betterment for a long time to come. All the elements for return of normal activities and well distributed prosperity are here. All the raw material, so to speak, for better times, is or the ground. FIRE CARELESSNESS ON LINER DISASTROUS Behold what a little lighted cigarette and a little carelessness did—set fire to the great steamship Mauretania and threatened it with utter destruction. The damage will be very heavy. This is a conspicuous example of astrous effects from recklessness fire. How easy it would have been or the smoker of that cigarette the Mauretania to have quenched before throwing the stub inside have thrown the lighted cigarette with water or in some receptacle could not set fire to him how easy to have done thus the shitful and sensible consequence takes no need of casts the light- Life imprisonment for autoists who carelessly and wantonly run down and kill pedestrians, is advocated by Chief of Police Jones, of Los Angeles. If the penalty for this hideous slaughter were made severe and certain, the deterrent effect should bring improvement over the present perils of traffic. Grandsons of the men who, as boys went out as dawn was breaking to chop wood to cook breakfast, now strike a match and light the gas or press a button and turn on the electric current. There have been many forward strides since the days when boys chopped wood for the family kitchen. The public official is a servant of the people and as such should keep a servant's place. The people, on the other hand, should treat the public official as considerately as well disposed, kindly folk usually treat servants. There should be mutual consideration and fairness, in other words, between the people, who are served, and public officials, who serve the people. Europe is suffering tremendously from one of the most disastrous droughts of modern times. Crops are all but ruined over wide areas, live stock suffers and even the supplies of drinking water are running low. Against visitations of this kind the devices of men are fruitless. Happily, however, these fell strokes of Providence do not come often. Before the season ends, Europe may be drenched with copious rains and the present distressing situation soon may be forgotten in the return to normal precipitation and restored fruittfulness of the land over there. One of the marvels of this age of marvels is the gathering of news from all parts of the world. The great press associations assemble, from all over the earth, news of interest and distribute it to newspapers with almost incredible swiftness. The reader, who, this evening sits in his easy chair and goes through his favorite paper is being served by the ceaseless vigils and indefatigable efforts of hundreds of alert newsgatherers and by sleeps less graph operators and editors. The making of a modern newspaper is a wonderful and thrilling romance in itself. COUNTY ADVERTISED AT REALTY MEETING "Orange-co secured wonderful advertising, publicity that money could not buy, thru our efforts at the national convention of realty dealers in Chicago." This was the declaration today of the four delegates from the Santa Ana Realty board to the big convention, all home today from a trip replete with experiences in an advertising way, experiences that were at unusual as they were successful. Their observation of conditions in the East sums up to the effect that the business activity there is nothing as compared with what it is on the Pacific coast. Concerning their stay in Chicago, they state that they were conceded to be the livest bunch at the convention. Their realtor comrades gasped in amazement at their enterprise and their success in putting over the big advertising stunt at the baseball park and in the wheat pit of the Chicago board of trade, whose members scrambled for Orange county valencia oranges placed there thrue the influence of George Marcy and his chief executive, Ed Heinman. The two films carried by the delegation went over big, that of Laguna being run three days and two nights in one of the largest movie houses in the Windy City, and the county film showing for three days in one of the largest movie houses on the North Side. The managers were eager for the films and advertised them as features in their programs. "Hundreds of persons came to our booth in the Morrison hotel and asked for minute details of Orange-co," said F. C. Pope today. "Our literature was placed in every place of advantage possible and many came to our headquarters after getting copies of the advertising pamphlets. Any number of persons told me they had heard of California, but never before had heard of Santa Ana and Orange county. "The interest shown in this county by persons who had been given copies of our pamphlets was surprising. The permissions we gained for distributing our literature at the baseball park and the two剧院s flux of easterners to California, according to the returned boosters. Orange-co will get its full share of the tourists, whose number will be increased by the wonderful advertising secured by the delegates at the convention and going to and from the convention city. Literature was placed in the hands of the six or eight thousand realtors attending the convention, and all were keenly interested in it because of the activity of the delegation. They will be good boosters for the county, it was declared. Governor Dedicates Legion Quarters Commandant Wm. P. Webb, Jr., of the Anaheim Post, American Legion, was a guest at the dedicatory services last night for the legion clubrooms in the new city hall there. Governor Stephens spoke for 20 minutes on recent legislation affecting servicemen and Burn R. Flits, state legion commander, spoke for an hour and a half on what had been done by and for servicemen and on the problems facing them. Mayor Elmer Hayward and other Orange officials, Major H. G. Upham, commander of the Orange post, and other officers of the post, greeted the governor and his party on the city hall steps. Dinner was served to 100 at six o'clock. 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