oc-plain-dealer 1921-08-24

DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS To the man, whom heaven appoints, To learn others, should himself first learn. To bend his passions to the sway of reason. —Thompson. Dr. S. stands not only for United States but for Unexcelled Standards. Robert Smith wrote, as it were, with the blood his warm and generous heart as life. Uncle Sam may only be for disarmament, but he does for it on terms that will disarm just suspicion or criticism. David Lloyd George has read his own political obituary time after time, yet he continues to live politically. A man will attempt to fly to the North Pole by airship. No, his name is not Dr. Cook. The most protracted and most complicated thing about the modern war is the making of peace. The ambrosia upon which the gods feast must be either California watermelon or juicy blackberry pie. Veterans and their friends trust that the Sweet bill may be true to name, and not a bitter disappointment. Every child should have good, wholesome home influence to fortify it against the insidious forces of vice and crime. It remains to be seen whether or not soviet Russia will be disposed to bite the hand of Uncle Sam, extended in feed straying Russian peasants. The people of Illinois doubtless will see to it that the next governor of that commonwealth is not a man of the name of Len Small. The ants are sure to be very industrious on the very day and in the very night. Not so many laws, but all good ones, and all of them enforced to the letter —this is what is needed. Whatever else Len Small should be, he should not be governor of the great state of Illinois. Politics is as much out of place in the public schools as poison in drinking water. There are 168 more married than single persons who committed suicide in this city last year. And the cynics are enjoying the figure to the full: The perils of traffic are man made, and safety in traffic likewise must be man made. Conditions will not become automatically safe. Inculcate in children respect for law and the rights of others and this will be an effectual breakwater against "crime waves" in the future. The Pilgrims brought an influence to America that has taken vital hold upon national character and has reflexed, at intervals, to affect lands overseas. Starving children of Russia should be fed, regardless of the form of Russia's government. Humaneness is humaneness, and should not be awayed, in this circumstance, by worldwide prejudice against Bolaheviam. The man who scoffs at Santa Claus and opposes teaching children the beautiful stories of fairyland is twin brother to the man who would not waste space on the front lawn for flowers but would plant cabbage and onions there. Caruso was a self-made man. He was temperate and moderate in his habits, was endowed with unquenchable optimism and enthusiasm, and worked indefatigably. He trod no flowery paths of ease. His career, in Successful, usually abstain from rectly, activities within the newspaper. The shoemaker should this type of sound. For its practice of directivities outside the sphere, either through enterprise thereof. For its first-class success itself such an effort as admits it. But this work News is exceptive ifest need of a city. It saves me And it stimulates philanthropies o'rally speaking, hper best promote kind, not by uu self, but by encosing the work tha AMERICA TO HUNG America is go starving Russia that it has show-petting in Bell days, and for the and Southeastcent times. The emblem of more well as of justice over food supply grad and Moscow dren will be fed lief Organization 000 worth of food leans—will be the famishing o'r Of nothing harer reason to fear generous, and p and the good th ed by these imminent of the world do and appeal for o to be met with ears. Americans Every child should have wholesome home influence to fortify it against the insiduous forces of vice and crime. It remains to be seen whether or not soviet Russia will be disposed to lift the hand of Uncle Sam, extended in feed straying Russian peasants. The people of Illinois doubtless will use to if that the next governor of that commonwealth is not a man of the name of Len Small. The ants are sure to be very industrious on the very day and in the very place where one spreads a picnic lunch. There is no center and no influence more conductive to the promotion of virtue than the good home, where love and loyalty prevail. Disabled war veterans should not be fed upon sugary praises and jealled promises. Give them something substantial. Reduction is the only thing that will take the sting out of the burdensome taxation. Florida promises make tax burdens no lighter. Caruso's father would have made a mechanic of his son. Parents should not be responsible for hiding the light of talented children under a bushel. Buy California products, if possible, Encourage California industries. Patronage is the best form of encouragement for any business or industry. Several names that hertofore have been honorable in the United States army have been blackened by the bar of that Bergdolf scandal. The common people of Italy loved Caruso because he was kind, sympathetic and generous toward them, never forgetting that he himself came from the commonity. That disabled World War veterans should be mistreated while under federal care is a disgrace to the Nation—a shameful condition that should be corrected quickly. It is the high mission of the United States to assume leadership in practicable efforts to prevent the world from being "bled white" by a recurrence of the World War. Caruso left no successor, but his wonderful career may inspire some "mute, inglorious" genius to develop into a second Caruso. Genius developed lights the torch a genius latent. There must be speed and traffic and general regulatory laws, for the air, as for traffic on terra firma. Aerial service is developing swiftly and prodigiously. The phonograph is a boon, making the best of music by the great masters, available for the humblest home in the land. The phonographic record is a great instrumentality for refinement and culture. There is merry rivalry between the prejudice against Bolshevism. The man who hoffs at Santa Claus and opposes teaching children the beautiful stories of fairyland is twin brother to the man who would not waste space on the front lawn for flowers but would plant cabbage and onions there. Caruso was a self-made man. He was temperate and moderate in his habits, was endowed with unquenchable optimism and enthusiasm, and worked indefatigably. He trod no flowery paths of ease. His career, in many respects, is as inspiration to any poor boy who has talent and ambition in any line. Human nature crops out quite notably in the hearings of Congress committees on revision of taxes. Each interest protests vigorously against being taxed heavily, and yet is willing that other interests should bear the brunt of revenue-producing. In other words, selfishness, in more or less refined form, prevails in this as in other relations of life. Several little islands have figured in the history of mankind. There was Patmos, where John had his apocalyptic visions; there were Corsica, Elba and St Helena, figuring in the career of one of the greatest military geniuses of all time and here is Yap, looming as a potential source of very serious trouble between the United States and Japan. There should be—and there doubtless will be—one Democrat on the delegation to the disarmament conference. The delegation should not be warped and one-sided, politically. Truth is, politics should not enter into the preparations for the conference or into its deliberations after it assembles. Uncle Sam should not be a hard taskmaster. On the other hand, he should not be an "easy mark" victim for uncerupulous persons who hold offices and positions in government service, and who do as little as possible and who take as much as possible. Loafers and evaders of duty should be weeded out of the public service. If there is to be reduction of federal taxes, there must be corresponding reduction of government expenses. Secretary of the Treasury Melion holds, and then contention has all the earmarks of soundness. Meal cannot be taken out of a bag that is empty. Huge government expenses cannot be met unless the treasury holds funds to meet them. Apropos the commotion over women’s bobbed hair, the skill and dexterity of a stenographer or office girl does not lie in her hair, as did Sampson’s strength. The style of the hair is not necessarily indicative of the style of brain under the hair. Matrimonial changes, here in Calls forma, are becoming so lightning like that the man in the case as he comes from the courtroom with “a divorce Of nothing hath he reason to feel generous, and parded by these imprints of the world do and appeal for him to be met with America; Americans liberally, and thieves go with their traitions. HEROIC LIFE August Kaufman contractor, made his life for his story of his first wife for his wife been published. It develops he started on took with him water and somniburn. But as his springs, and as the desert and to his loved on the water which it might mean he conserved it dren. And when this untouched on oranges work This is hero tattooing, homely heroism. BLINDNESS OF SIGLIA A boon index it be, if the c Brooklyn eye He has evolved asserted, will o blindness c the optic nerve has been regular formula for this placed before chalast who is has high standards Science indices and concludes Many do performed on its results. Eye superseded amazingly treatment for all that is hoped by its originate rible of human robbed of much hope and brains shall be the best expects it to be. PRESS ON The action thru in calling a constitution of armament meet with the al of the Ameri-gard to part- into a second Caruso. Genius developed lights the torch a genius latent. There must be speed and traffic and general regulatory laws for the air, as for traffic on terra firma. Aerial service is developing swiftly and prodigiously. The phonograph is a boon, making the best of music by the great masters, available for the humblest home in the land. The phonographic record is a great instrumentality for refinement and culture. There is merry rivalry between the municipality of Los Angeles and private power interests to obtain hydroelectric development right on the upper Colorado river. The keen struggle stresses the enormous value of the proposed development. The United States has come through the unsettled and readjusting period following the armistice with far less disastrous economic effects than there was reason to fear after November 11, 1918. Armistice Day, 1921, may become as notable in history as Armistice Day, 1918. Should that disarmament conference come up to the hopes and expectations of its sponsors, it will be an immeasurable blessing to mankind. Possibility persist in, has a tendency to produce the unfavorable condition that it professes to believe exists. Put the germ of pessimism into a sound body politic and let that germ develop, and it soon will produce a sleek body politic. Banks of California are exceptionally strong and in their prosperity they reflect the flourishing economic conditions prevalent in this state. As the air about Washington has not turned sulphurous, it is presumable that General Dawes is restraining his flow of characteristic language. The wonderfulness of the phonograph is well demonstrated in connection with the death of Caruso. His subpassing voice is preserved to mankind through the records which will endure for an indefinite period. This is a means of perpetuation of musical masterpieces which is a boon to mankind. The ideal form of government would give every class and every individual of every class a fair chance to get on in the world. But the getting on should be just to the energy and initiative of the individual. Government paternalism, that would undertake to do for the individual what he could and should do for himself, would be pernicious. BIG. SPLENDID CHARITY BY CHICAGO NEWS The Chicago Daily News deserves great credit for instituting and sustaining a charity that is novel and immensely useful—a fresh-air fund sanitarium for sick babies. This charity has just opened its 35th season in a new $271,000 fireproof building on an island in Lincoln Park, Chicago. This institution, since it was founded, has cared for more than 70,000 sick babies. Everything at the sanitarium is free, including medical treatment for children and for mothers, if needed. The chairty fund that maintains the institution is supported by the Chicago Daily News, as stated, and by contributions ranging THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DE ALER, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES POWER GRAB (The following excerpts from editorials in the newspapers of Riverside and San Bernardino counties, the San Joaquin, Imperial and Owens Valley, and elsewhere, show the trend of opinion throughout the state on the Los Angeles power program, and the means that should be adopted to defeat it.) Riverside Daily Press, June 23, 1921 DANGER OF POWER MONOPOLY. The back country is rapidly awakening to full import of the situation that is being created by the ruthless rapacity of Los Angeles as recently shown in the suit for condemnation of the Adams power plant of the Southern Sierra company in Owens river gorge, 200 miles north of the city limits and engaged in serving cities, as well as industries and agriculture, in San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial counties. If the supreme court should uphold the decision of Judge Van Fleet in this case, there is nothing to prevent the condemnation and taking over by the city of Los Angeles, not only of the remaining plants of the Southern Sierra, but those of the Southern California Edison company and the San Joaquin Light and Power company, and making the entire territory now served by these companies absolutely dependent on Los Angeles for the hydro-electric power essential to its further increase in population and productivity. Such development would give Los Angeles the power of a residual annexation over half the state of California, and that half the one most dependent on hydro-electric power in agriculture and industry—Practically, not here could be added to the area now under cultivation in this area, nor,理 culture, a unit added to the population of its towns and cities except as Los Angeles saw fit to generate, transmit and distribute to them the hydro-electric power under her control. Power developments, which must be made within the next ten years, unless the progress and growth of Southern California are to be arrested and stultified, call for expenditures equal to twice the amount required to build the Panama canal, since they include the Boulder canyon project on the Colorado river. Filling made by the city on power sites, up and down the state from near of the Hetch Hetchy south as far as anything worth grabbing can be located, total over 1,000,000 theoretical horsepower, in the aqueduct Los Angeles has 250,000 horsepower, of which is 14 years, the city has developed 60,000 horsepower, or about 25 per cent. At the recent election in Los Angeles, power bonds ever turned down. What would have happened if the Coachella valley had been depending on the varying of these bonds for power to put water on its date groves, its cotton and garden truck? Yet this is precisely the situation that will result if the ambitions of Los Angeles to control all available sources of hydro-electric power are realized. Moreover, by the provisions of her charter, Los Angeles is a power unto rates and service. She can give or withhold service as to those outside the city limits as suits her convenience, politics or ambitions. The state railroad commission has no jurisdiction over her. Once let her complete her campaign under the provision of the water power net which gives preferential right to hydro-electric sites to cities, and she becomes mistress paramount of the destinies of half the state, since these destinies are vitally dependent on adequate hydro-electric service. The question involved is not one of municipal ownership as against the public service corporations, but that of a municipality adopting the methods of the worst type of public service corporations of the old unregulated days in order to build up itself at the expense, and to the rulous injury, of every city and community outside its limits. If the courts are unable, under pass HEROIC LIFE SACRIFICE BY PASADENAN August Kaufman, Pasadena cement contractor, made heroic sacrifice of his life for his children—sacrifice that was truly manly and noble. The story of his fruitless search for water for his wife and little ones has been published. It develops that Kaufman, when he started on his search for water, took with him a small quantity of water and some oranges to sustain him. But as he did not find any springs, and as he struggled with the desert and with thirst to get back to his loved ones, he would not take the water which he carried, even tho it might mean the saving of his life. He conserved it for his wife and children. And when his body was found, this untouched water and the uneaten oranges were found upon him. This is heroism—simple, unostentatious, homely, but none the less heroism. BLINDNESS CONQUERED IS PHYSICIAN'S CLAIM A boon indeed, to humanity, will it be, if the confident claim of a Brooklyn eye specialist is fulfilled. He has evolved a serum which, it is asserted, will restore sight in cases of blindness caused by atrophy of the optic nerve, a condition which has been regarded as incurable. The formula for this serum soon is to be placed before the world by this specialist, who is responsible and who has high standing in his profession. Science indeed has wrought marvels and continually is working them. Many delicate operations are performed on eyes with remarkable results. Eye surgery has been developed amazingly. Should this medical treatment for blind eyes prove to be all that is hoped and claimed for it by its originator, one of the most terrible of human afflictions may be robbed of much of its terror. Let’s hope and pray that this discovery shall be the blessing that Dr. Pond expects it to be. PRESS ON DISARMMENT. The action the President has taken in calling a conference to discuss limitation of armament, we dare say, will meet with the whole-hearted approval of the American people without regard to partisan affiliation—Richard A. Savage HISTORY OF THE RED MAN SERIES White men often ask why Indians wear lily hair. There are many reasons; but I will tell few. But first I would ask: Why should we wear the hair? God willed that men should grow lily hair. The races that cut their hair are rapidly coming baldheaded. Whoever saw a baldhead Indian? Hair protects the head in many ways. The Indian who lives much in the open and in places keeps his face and lips from cracking; wrapping his hair around his face; and in same way he protects his face from flying sand. There are many other things we could say; here is one reason more important than all. Indian with short hair would have been admitted to a council of war. A council of war was a coil of men; not of boys or women. It was conceived a mark of cowardice for an Indian to cut hair, for he thereby lowered the value of his scars. Indians who braided their hair always braided a little scalp lock on the back of the head. This was for the convenience of the enemy in There are many other things we could say; here is one reason more important than all Indian with short hair would have been admitted to a council of war. A council of war was a council of men; not of boys or women. It was concerned a mark of cowardice for an Indian to cut hair, for he thereby lowered the value of his scalp. Those Indians who braided their hair alu­braided a little scalp lock on the back of the head. This was for the convenience of the enemy in using the scalp. It was already to tie to the brass as an ornament. PRESS ON DISARMMENT. The action the President has taken in calling a conference to discuss limitation of armament, we dare say, will meet with the whole-hearted approval of the American people without regard to partisan affiliation.—Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (Democratic). Nothing of an importance comparable to this call for a conference to limit armaments has developed during 1921, with the possible exception of Germany's final acceptance to the allies' ultimation on the Indemnity.—Richmond (Va.) News-Leader (Democratic). In his efforts toward disarmament President Harding will have the hearty good wishes of his political opponents.—Port Wayne Journal-Gazette (Democratic). It begins to look as if the coming conference to discuss reduced armments and related questions might develop into a real peace conference, resulting in a plan to prevent war based on sound principles to justice and permanently superseding the discredited league of nations.—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. The call for a conference to discuss disarmament is one of the greatest steps for humanity that the world has ever seen, a world that at times forgets the words of Him who said, "All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."—Jersey Journal. President Harding, in proposing to the major nations of the world that armament be limited, is asking for genuine peace, humane peace, sensible peace, the kind of peace we like to think we are intelligent and civilized enough to enjoy.—New London (Conn.) Day. LUMBER INDUSTRY BETTER. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 24.—Savings re­statement of the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn., just issued shows the mill production in western Washington and Oregon is only 29 pct. below normal. This is a decided gain for the condition a few months earlier. This left no speculative gamble reduction. In necessaries of the imp­ ORANGE COUNTY OIL CO. So. Los Angeles St. J. C. BRESSLER SERVICE STATION So. Los Angeles St. GRAB newspapers of RiverImperial and Owens union throughout the neons that should be under canyon project on water. by the city on power down the state from Hetchy Hetchy south as her worth grabbing can over 1,000,000 theorer. In the aqueduct 250,000 horsepower, years, the city has 60,000 homepower, or At the recent eleccles, power bonds were what would have hapchella valley had been the varying of these to put water on its cotton and garden precisely the situation if the ambitions of control all available hydro-electric power are the provisions of her angeles is a power unto decide. She can give or as to those outside as suits her convenambitions. The state session has no jurisdiccomplete her campaign of the water powlies preferential right sites to cities, and stress paramount of half the state, since are vitally dependent hydro-electric service. Involved is not one of orship as against the corporations, but that adopting the methattype of public services of the old unregunder to build up itself and to the rulpous city and community are unable, under pass Wednesday, August 24, 1921 (Porteryville Messenger) Los Angeles in its efforts to grab power and water rights in the San Joaquin valley is continuing the policy that was inaugurated when the Owens river project was planned. The representatives of Los Angeles at congressional committee meetings in Washington contended that the Angel City only desired water for domestic purposes. Water for this purse was not disputed. But the late Congressman Smith of Bakersfield who was looking out for the interest of his constituents, stated that Los Angeles would not be satisfied with water for domestic purposes, but would use it also for irrigation purposes. The Angel City representatives grew very indignant and denied that the city had any such aim. Everyone knows that the entire San Fermando valley is irrigated with the surplus waters of Owens River. The authorities of Los Angeles do not "tote" fair with the people of Inyo county, and they will not deal fairly with the people of the San Joaquin valley when the attempt is made to steal the water and power rights of this valley. MISSOURI SAVINGS SHOW GAIN T. LOUIS, Aug. 24.—Saving accounts in banks here which have steadily diminished since June 15, have taken a trend upward and have shown an increase in the last week. This condition is also observable in the smaller cities in this section. WE WANT Valencia Oranges For Immediate Shipment WE PAY CASH Pepper's Fruit Co. Packing House Olive, Calif. Phone Orange 161-W Call Evenings Bert Liehy, 303 OrangeCall Evenings THE COUNCIL OF WAR BY "INDIAN" MILLER Why Indians wear long socks; but I will tell a story: Why should we cut men should grow long their hair are rapidly beaver saw a baldheaded head in many ways. In the open and in dry lips from cracking by his face; and in the face from flying sand. Things we could say; but important than all. No old have been admitted council of war was a counsellor women. It was consid- or an Indian to cut his head the value of his scalp. Led their hair always on the back of the head. Face of the enemy in tak- What was the purpose of the council of war? It was to declare war or to plan a campaign. When war was declared the warriors put on war paint. The warpaint was a sign of mourning as well as a sign of war; and it generally consisted of black alone. It was customary for everyone to stand aside on the trail to allow one in mourning to pass; and a man was rash indeed who expected an Indian on the warpath to give half the trail. Indians on the warpath were allowed the whole trail. The council of war gave this authority. In the wigwam of The Spreckels "Savage" Tire Company in the Fall of 1919 was held a Council of War. The decision to build a Cord tire was made. It was decided further that this tire must be a mighty tire—mightier than any that had ever been built before. That tire—the Savage Cord—is now on the market. It is on the war path and claims the whole trail for the com- ings we could say; but important than all. No old have been admitted council of war was a coun-women. It was consid- or an Indian to cut his the value of his scalp. led their hair always on the back of the head. ace of the enemy in tak-ady to tie to the bridle the warpath to give half the trail. Indians on the warpath were allowed the whole trail. The coun-cil of war gave this authority. In the wigwam of The Spreckels "Savage" Tire Company in the Fall of 1919 was held a Council of War. The decision to build a Cord tire was made. It was decided further that this tire must be a mighty tire—mightier than any that had ever been built before. That tire—the Savage Cord—is now on the market. It is on the war path and claims the whole trail, for the company back of it has done everything within its power to make it the best tire ever produced—it is Built to Excel. "SAVAGE" TIRE CO. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIAASSET IS THE SATISFIED CUSTOMER HEFFNER, ORANGE COUNTY JOBBER OIL CO. St. ORANGE COUNTY MOTOR SERVICE CO. N. Lemon St. CE STATION St. AUTO ELECTRIC MAINTENANCE CO. 203 S. Los Angeles St.