oc-plain-dealer 1921-08-13

DAMN GREETING TO HEADERS Against the head which innocence secures, Insidious malice aims her darts in vain, Turned backward by the powerful breath of heaven.—Dr. Johnson. BRITAIN AND FRANCE ARE IN AGREEMENT The controversy over the partition of Upper Silesia, which seriously threatened for a time, friendly relations between Great Britain and France, has been settled, it seems. This is gratifying to all Americans who sincerely hope for the conservation of peace in Europe and who especially are concerned about the holding of the entente between Britain and France, upon which peace in Europe largely depends. It would be a World tragedy were there two ally nations to break their friendship at this juncture. Premiers Lloyd George and Briand, it seems, impressed with the grave responsibilities of a bitter and open breach on this question, have deliberated until an amicable adjudgment has been reached of the points in dispute. Germany and Poland, it is believed, will accept the terms of the ally agreement and Upper Silesia should cease to be a disturbing factor in the European situation. TAXES TO COME DOWN IS THE PRESIDENT'S AIM President Harding has taken an attitude toward federal tax reduction that should meet with the unqualified approval of the masses of the people. He is insisting that reductions to an immense figure shall be made in the government budget, so that it will be possible to repeal certain obnoxious and hurtful items of taxation and make the way easier for the overburdened taxpayer. Reduction of taxation that actually reduces is what the people want. Mr. Harding has sprung into firm, resolute leadership in this, and Congress seems disposed to do us hurry. This is no time for baggling or evasion, or half-way policies. sincere and sweeping retrenchment should be the order of the day in Washington. GRAIN EXCHANGES TO BE RE- MURDER MISTERY AGAIN STILL LOS ANGELES Los Angeles is achieving the dubious distinction of having more murder mysteries than any other city of the West. The Denton murder never has been cleared up, with convincing completeness as to the whole truth. And now comes another dramatic killing with elements of mystery about it. The slaying of J. Belton Kennedy, a prominent young insurance broker, in lonely Beverly Glen, at dead of night had all the horrible details of the most gruesome of tragedies. There are clews, and an arrest has been made. But the mystery is not necessarily clearled. Truth is, in such cases, there oftentimes is a hasty jumping to conclusions, both by the legal authorities and by the public. Many times effecuatantial evidence forges a chain about a suspected person that seems so conclusive as to admit of no doubt. And yet the suspected person may be wholly innocent years before the identity of the guilty one comes to light. The young man held for the Kennedy murder may be or may not be guilty. It is certain that the evidence thus far adduced is not sufficient to vindicate 'Beyold reasonable doubt.' The public should not form judgment too habitily in such cases. The problem is to keep the Pacific ocean true to label. No marriage can be successful that is not based on mutual love and respect. True love is equipped with self-starters, but is subject to punctures and engine troubles. Young people of courting age look askance at any movement for ending all calls to arms. The great world war drama of 1914-18 never should be summoned to play a return engagement. One of the best laws California has, and one that is consistently respected is the law of progress. Open air schools should be encouraged, here in California, where conditions are ideal for such institutions. It remains for enforcement laws, rigorously enforced, to put the pro- GRAIN EXCHANGES TO BE RESTRICTED The more flagrant speculative abuses are to be legislated out of grain exchanges, according to acts of both houses of congress, subject to President Harding's approval. The Capper-Tincher bill provides a measure of restriction on exchange operations that should be salutary in eliminating abuses. These exchanges may have, and doubtless do have, legitimate functionings, of no harm to any interest. But their toleration, if not open encouragement, of speculative gambling in grains and food necessaries, has become a stench in the nostrils of the people. Permit the exchanges to operate, so long as their methods are not of a gambling nature and prejudicial to the public interest. STOP CLAIM ABUSES BY LAW. IS PLANNED Uncle Sam is proverbially easy to be victimized. Generous and tolerant with those who serve him, he has not, at all times, protected himself sufficiently against those who would take advantage of his good, easygoing nature. It has become a common practice, for example, of clerks, lawyers and high officials to quit the government service and to turn about and press claims against the government. This custom has not been confined to minor officials and attachés, but has extended up even to members of the President's cabinet and to prominent officials of the departments. To prevent abuses which arise from this practice, a measure is pending in Congress to prohibit this. Such persons, leaving government service, would be debarred for a period of three years from turning upon Uncle Sam and using against him the knowledge they obtained in the public service. This measure should pass. Lenfire and Trotzky have read their own political obituaries, time after time. And yet they retain some spark of political life. The people view conditions with greater equanimity because of the fact that the man in the White House was once a newsboy and subsequently was a successful newspaper man. The mystery murderers in Los Angeles will see a bit of baseball paring all calls to arms. The great world war drama of 1914-18 never should be summoned to play a return engagement. One of the best laws California has, and one that is consistently respected is the law of progress. Open air schools should be encouraged, here in California, where conditions are ideal for such institutions. It remains for enforcement laws, rigorously enforced, to put the prohibition into the Eighteenth amendment. The man who consistently "walks the straight and narrow" has little to fear from the murderous shot of the avenger. Experts have been enumerating the things that incline young men to work on the farm. They fall to include in the list the attractive daughters of the employing farmers. The world will not be going right until all nations prepare and appropriate for the useful arts of peace as elaborately and as lavishly as they now prepare and make outlays for war. Who shall pay the expenses of those who attend the disarmament conference? Well, speaking from Uncle Sam's viewpoint and experience, he foots his own bills when he goes abroad, and he commends the same course to others. A good time to buy winter fuel is when fuel is not needed. Then the price and the delivery are more satisfactory than they are in the dead of winter when fuel famines prevail—when the demand exceeds the supply and when deliveries are sluggish. It will dim the stardom of the motion picture star to have his or her salary revised downward heroically, as producers say is to be done. The star that is not popularly believed to be receiving a million or so a year would not thrill a blase public. There should be no playing of the game of petty politics in national affairs while so many great problems remain to be worked out. In the crises of war politics was forgotten, to the good of the country. In the crises o peace the same forgetting of politics should be in evidence. It usually is the "temper" in artistic temperament that causes the commotion and trouble. If there were a stronger blend of common sense in this well known brand of temperament, things would be more pleasant for those who have to come into contact with the temperamental. the public service. This measure should pass. Lenzie and Trotzky have read their own political obituaries, time after time. And yet they retain some spark of political life. The people view conditions with greater equanimity because of the fact that the man in the White House was once a newsboy and subsequently was a successful newspaper man. The mystery murderers in Los Angeles, to use a bit of baseball parlance, seem to be bunching their hits. The poor victims have no more show than a weak batter before a strong condition pitcher. Time for science to take the recklessly floody Colorado River in hand, make it stop sowing wild oats and settle down to be of more use and less mischief in the world. If the world cannot get along without world wars it will have to get along without civilization. For civilization is a flower that would not continue to bloom under such tragic conditions as prevailed from 1914 to 1918. Whenever and wherever there is a disaster at sea, there is heroism. Officers and crew, usually are cool and courageous, and oftentimes passengers show a high degree of bravery and heroic self-abnegation. Circumstances of that kind try the souls of men and women and such test is crucial and develops the best that is in human nature. This country, in traversing the way to economic normality, is under adversities. This is inscapable. There could not be much dented disjuncture of economic ties as the World War caused a period of tribulation as an effect of the world tragedy and as a result of normal prosperity. The others, with all it severity in shelter off than any of them, by which were balloon-buried; War. Great Britain hands Italy are not defeated, which not throwing up any war. Why should such better off the crises of war politics was forgotten, to the good of the country. In the crises o peace the same forgetting of politics should be in evidence. It usually is the "temper" in artistic temperament that causes the commotion and trouble. If there were a stronger blend of common sense in this well known brand of temperament, things would be more pleasant for those who have to come into contact with the temperamental. The public school is America's first line of defense against ignorance and un-Americanism. Break down the morale and the efficiency of the school system, and the country would suffer immeasurably. The best investment that is made of public funds is that which goes into well directed educational effort. Tempests of warfare, if not stayed by international agreements to preserve just peace, would wreck civilization. Another world war would be as much more terrible than the great struggle of 1914-18 as that war was more terrible than any conflict that preceded it. Civilization could not withstand such onslaught. The Voice of Caruso will live for an indefinite period, thanks to the phonograph, which comes more nearly immortalizing the human voice than any invention ever brought forth by man. Think what such an invention would have meant in the days of the patrols, and in the time of Christ and the apostles. What a rich heritage it would have been could the voice of the Savior have been recorded and preserved through the ages! Americans became habituated to holding up their hands in horror because of banditry in Mexico, in the troubles days before the Obregon regime. But there is superbundance of reason to be horrified at the daring banditry here in the United States. Big steals of this kind are more numerous in this country than in any other part of the globe. The United States should sweep its own house clean before criticizing Mexico or any other country. LOS ANGELES POWER GRAB (The following excerpts from editorials in the newspapers of River side and San Bernardino counties, the San Joaquin, Imperial and Owens Valley valleys, and elsewhere, show the freeway plans throughout the state on the Los Angeles power program, and the means that should be adopted to effect it.) OWENS VALLEY SHOULD CO-OPERATE WITH INTERIOR COUNTIES' PLAN (From editorial in Inyo Register (Bishop, Inyo-co.) July 28, 1921) It is not the ownership of the gorge that is publicly important. It is the principle that Los Angeles can take a property to which it has no moral right. If it can take the company's gorge rights, it can take those on Bishop creek. If it can condemn So. Sierras plants, it can take those of other companies on similar pretexts. If the courts uphold the claim that a city has a preference right for power, they will certainly maintain its superior right to water. If the city's chief ring-leaders conclude that Los Angeles should have pure mountain water instead of an aqueduct that is claimed to deliver Owens river water, the law already gives a preference in its favor and against our ranches. If these suggestions are to be imaginative, consider the past, and consider also that Los Angeles is now looking toward the Colorado River with an $800,000,000 power project in mind. And in this connection we may repeat a prediction made to us by a city employee. In conversation regarding the decision of Judge Van Fleet's court in the gorge case, the remark was made that the city could condemn the Bishop creek plants and control the water. He predicted that in ten years Los Angeles would own all the valley water. With such belief already extant among the subordinates, are the above suggestions wholly wild? And are we too insistent in urging that the water committee lose no more time? It is apparent that Los Angeles ambitions look toward a complete monopoly of the power situation, for the building up of that city. The city has already secured preference location rights on 25,000 square miles of mountain area, and by the beneficence of the laws passed for its benefit is in position to hold those rights for eight years, in dilemmas. Other interests that might develop them for the use of communities must keep out, and the communities get along or not, just as may happen. In addition, there is the huge Colorado project, as already mentioned, in which the city seeks 809 pet control of power that should build up the whole southwest. In all this power program, it should be remembered, the municipality is absolutely independent of state control or regulation. It may sell power below cost, paying the difference. It may undersell and run out a competitor, and then make its own rates. In command of a field it may divert its current to some manufacturer and leave irrigation pumps idle. These things and more are possible—and with Los Angeles any unchecked possibility may sooner or later become a probability. All the territory within the Los Angeles influence is called on by the circumstances to line up for or against the city. He who is not against its remorseless ambition is for it. Among us are those whose honest hope is that the city may win in Owens river gorge simply because of enmity to the company; that is a fact for which the company can thank its claim, now decided against it, on the limitation of Bishop creek flow. But once more we want to emphasize that the company's direct success is but an incident of the issue. Look beyond the one fact to all its far-reaching possibilities, and realize that the same condemnatory power of which the So. Sierras may become a victim may also, in the future, be used to take property that is yours. On one side is the unlimited possibilities of Los Angeles aspirations; involving the choking of smaller communities that the city may realize its ambition of becoming America's largest; on the other, the growth and development of all the territory, including Owens valley. Unless the ambitions of Los Angeles are curbed, we may look forward to the gradual taking away of whatever of our possessions it desires. It is a great city, and will be greater; but its greatness will do the rest of us no good if it means urban growth and the expense of the back country. Inyo-co owes the movement its full support and should show no hesitation in giving it. MR. USED CAR-SAYS HOW-DY-DO, POLKS! Have you seen Mr. Used Car? No! Well, few people have as yet but before another week goes by it is safe to wager that everybody in every home where the local papers reach chap. Mr. Used Car is one of the "Who's Who" in the automobile world and he deals particularly in used cars, always surrounding himself with excellent values and offering them at prices that save the buyer money. It will be impossible to meet him in person as it has always been his policy to meet the public thru the press, as it is his contention that he can talk to the greatest number of people in this manner. Mr. Used Car has taken up his residence in Northern Orange county and will sell used cars for Frank P. Taggart. He advises everybody to see him first before purchasing an automobile. —Witman, Eyresight Specialist. Hudson and Essex Are Now In A With Sales Rooms And Service Stands 129 North Lemo We have been fortunate in securing the Anaheim territory for these excellent times. Each is the ultimate in its class and sooner or later you will realize that your expectations in motor car equipment and service. Hudson and Essex owners, in fact all those interested in automobiles are invited that rewarded us with success in Santa Ana is extended to you here. —In all Hudson's records this important fact is clear: No ability is sacrificed in one direction to gain supremacy in another. —For instance the great speed of the Hudson means no forfeit of other qualities. For in official tests the Super-Six has also outperformed all other types in endurance, hill-climbing and acceleration. —Only a supreme advantage could account for such all-round dominance. Hudson has it in the Super-Six motor. In the same size motor the Super-Six In all Hudson's records this imperfect clear: No ability is sacrificed in one direction to gain supremacy in another. For instance the great speed of the Hudson means no forfeit of other qualities. For in official tests the Super-Six has also outperformed all other types in endurance, hill-climbing and acceleration. Only a supreme advantage could account for such all-round dominance. Hudson has it in the Super-Six motor. In the same size motor the Super-Six principle adds 72% to power and 80% to efficiency. Endurance is practically doubled, through minimizing vibration almost to nil—nearer the ideal than any type we know. Moreover this extra ability in speed and power means driving at half load in all ordinary motoring. It means absence of strain, thus much less mechanical deterioration. How these qualities are valued by motorists is shown by Hudson's position as a sales leader among fine cars, for nearly six years. TOWNSEND and H. R. GROVE, Manager, Anaheim SANTA ANA, 506 North Broadway—Phone 1318 ESSEX MOTOR CARS BATTERY DOESN'T STORE ELECTRICITY The storage battery does not store electricity in the great majority of motorists suppose," declared a representative of the Automotive Electric Co., USL Service Station representative for this section, yesterday. "As a matter of fact," he continued, "the battery transforms the chemical energy into the electrical form when discharging and charges electricity into chemical energy when being charged." "The practically universal idea is that a battery stores electricity from the fact that if we send a current of electricity through the cell for a certain length of time we can later on drawing almost the same amount of electrical energy out of it. This is one of the many rudiments of the electric battery which the motorist should familiarize himself with. A well-informed batter owner is the man who it at all times having satisfaction with his automobile. He is the man who can tell the difference between positive and negative plates and their proper functions. He is the man, also, who knows the difference between machine-pasted and pasted plates." German experimenters have developed a way to utilize the oil obtained from the marshmallow plant as a salad oil. Kelly-Springfield TIRES An optimist is one who believes he can get a tire as good as Kelly-Springfield for less money. ANAHEIM VULCANIZING WORKS 156 So. Los Angeles St. Phone 259 For Service Car Buy a Spare and Essex In Anaheim D SERVICE STATION LOCATED AT Lemon Street For these excellent automobiles and models will be on display at all you will realize that it is either the Hudson or Essex that answers automobiles are invited to call. The same cordial welcome and service ou here. ESSEX MOTOR CARS —No casual acquaintance could create the bond of esteem owners hold for Essex. —It has grown through an intimate companionship in steadfast service. It has thrived in weeks and months that brought no disorders or disappointments — no requirements of attention. —Is it remarkable then that this friendship is so manifest it causes comment everywhere? You too It has grown through an intimate companionship in steadfast service. It has thrived in weeks and months that brought no disorders or disappointments — no requirements of attention. Is it remarkable then that this friendship is so manifest it causes comment everywhere? You too have observed it. And all might covet an ownership that has so many substantial elements of satisfaction. What owners know of Essex has put all concern about the car from mind. So far as certainty of destination is involved the Essex owner commits himself to a journey across town or across continent with equal serenity. and MEDBERY Manager, Anaheim ANAHEIM, 129 N. Lemon—Phone 256-J With McMahan Auto Co.