oc-plain-dealer 1921-08-29

DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS Laws do not put the least restraint Upon our freedom, but maintain it; Or, if it does, 'tis for our good, To give up freer latitude; For wholesome laws preserve us, free. By stinting of our liberty—Butler. Adam was not a model husband, by any means. Poets are born, not made—and the birth rate is exceedingly ill. If there were cafeterias in heaven It would not be heaven to some men. About the Dimsest thing on earth is a bachelor's excuse for not getting married. The Shipping Board has on its hands deficits of the continuous performance clean. "The hand that rocks the cradle," in Ohio, may be bringing up a future President. Some persons never pass beyond the grammar grades in the school of experience. President Harding's father was lonesome and proceeded to get married. "Boys will be boys." If all drivers and all pedestrians were reasonably careful, the traffic problem would not be serious. Boost the community in which you live. It has morals, or you would not live in it. Help to make these morals known. The American people are longing to have economic readjustment in the past tense and normal prosperity in the present tense. It formerly was held that the United States Senate was the graveyard of Presidential ambitions. But look at Warren G. Harding. It said that Captain Kidd was not such a repellent figure as he is painted. Perhaps not, if he be compared with the profiteers of today. What the world needs is diplomacy without the cloak of secrecy over its face and without the germ of deceit and double dealing in its heart. "Los," San Berdoo" and such manglings of mellifluus names are excercable. It is to be hoped that the delegates to the disarmament conference will find the waters of the Potomac more promotive of their efforts than the delegates to the peace conference found the waters of the Seine. Read the ads. There is much of human interest in them. They are real news and keep one informed as to prices, styles, and so forth. And it is worth a good deal in dollars and cents, to keep up on advertising. There is much in sensational newspapers about crimes. But criminality is the exception, not the rule. For every crime committed and for every criminal, there there are a thousand honorable deeds and a thousand honorable men. The airship, experts say, is the coming vehicle of transportation. But let auton alrships come or go as they will; there will be a few on earth who like to walk, even though it be many blocks or many miles. If invention took all the walk out of human beings, it would be an unmitigated evil. Walking is one of the most healthful exercises. RELIEF FOR VETERANS IS EXPEDITED A Pacific Coast man is director of the newly created Veterans' Bureau — Col. Chas. R. Forbes of Seattle, a man with typical western vim and push, and a sincere sympathizer with disabled veterans. Recent legislation of bureaus and agencies into the Veterans' Bureau, and co-ordination of the work of relief for disabled former service men of the World War, has made it possible to expedite the providing of relief for deserving veterans. Colonel Forbes gives assurance that he will push thru all meritorious relief claims as rapidly as possible. There are difficulties to be surmounted yet, it is true. But with divided authority at an end and with a single well organized bureau to handle these matters, it is possible to speed up the work. It will be gratifying to veterans and their friends to know that seemingly everything... It formerly was held that the United States Senate was the graveyard of Presidential ambitions. But look at Warren G. Harding. It is said that Captain Kidd was not such a repellent figure as he is painted. Perhaps not, if he be compared with the profiteers of today. What the world needs is diplomacy without the cloak of secrecy over its face and without the germ of deceit and double dealing in its heart. While the other delegations to the disarmament conference are minding their pts. and gis, the Chinese will be looking after their teas and queues. President Harding once played the trombone in a village band. He should be able to make himself brand in a concert of nations on disarmament. Ever notice how impossible it is to discourage a mosquito in its favorite work? It a human being had that much persistence he would rise to the top in his vocation or profession. There is no reason to believe that the delegates to the disarmament conference will have to be searched at the door of the conference chamber for concealed weapons. These euphonious proper names of places in California should not be corrupted by abbreviation. "Frisco." LUMBER YARDS Adams-Bowers Lumber Co. Gibbs Lumber Co. C. Ganahl Lumber Co. REAL ESTATE The J. T. Lyon Realty Co. 111 No. Los Angeles St. H. E. Scott, 112 N. Los Angeles St. Real Estate, Life and Fire Insurance Durrett-Morris. Phone 498 Golden State Bank Bldg. BEEBE AND HARRISON "The INSURANCE MEN" 120 No. Los Angeles St. We will loan the money to build your home. Frank Tausch & Co. Fire, Plate Glass, Auto, Compensation, Accident The Reliable Insurance Firm Res. Phone 342-W Office Phone 94 306 First National Bank Bldg. TRANSFER The work of relief for disabled former service men of the World War has made it possible to expedite the providing of relief for deserving veterans. Colonel Forbes gives assurance that he will push thru all meritorious relief claims as rapidly as possible. There are difficulties to be surmounted yet, it is true. But with divided authority at an end and with a single well organized bureau to handle these matters, it is possible to speed up the work. It will be gratifying to veterans and their friends to know that seemingly everything that is humanly possible to be done is being done to bring needed relief without further disheartening delays. This legislation has come none too soon. The need of it is patent. Speculative gambling in food stuffs and necessities of life should be suppressed with iron hand. Conduct of the grain exchange in Chicago had become obnoxious. Grain was "sold" on Change there in quantity many times the total production in the Whole world. In other words, specu- BEEBE AND HARRISON "THE INSURANCE MEN" 120 No. Los Angeles St. We will loan the money to build your home. Frank Tausch & Co. Fire, Plate Glass, Auto, Compensation, Accident The Reliable Insurance Firm Res. Phone 342-W Office Phone 94 806 First National Bank Bldg. TRANSFER T. W. ELLIS 119 E. Center Phone 310-J ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS Holland Electric Company 119 N. Los Angeles Phone 402 Anaheim Electric Company 209 W. Center Phone 59 PLUMBERS ORANGE COUNTY PLUMBING COMPANY ESTIMATES FURNISHED Phone 352 206 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim F. H. GARRISON 177 W. Center Phone 132 BANKS The Anaheim National Bank The First National Bank MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS If you want class and music, too, you see Roland B. Ingram 114 S. Lemon St. Buy Your Music At HAMMEL'S MUSIC STORE 124 E. Center Street DUNHAM & KNIPE Home of The Edison THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DE ALER, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA FOREIGN COMMERCE OF U. S. DECREASES The huge loss in America's foreign trade, during the last fiscal year, was not unexpected. The decrease was more than $3,000,000,000, about evenly divided between exports and imports. The United States therefore maintains its relative balance of trade. The balance in favor of this country totaled nearly $3,000,000,000. That there should be a great decrease in the volume of foreign commerce, as compared with the unprecedented records of World War years and the year following the armistice, naturally was to be expected. Those were abnormal years. The high levels established then, in volume of commerce, will be reached again some time in this era of peace. But the growth must be gradual. Foreign trade must expand normally and in response to natural commercial demands. Lands overseas have not the ceridt to buy heavily now of American commodities. Nor is the United States buying so heavily abroad. Economic readjustment is not complete here. The full return to normality in business and industry has not been accomplished in this country or in any other country. The World War was too staggeringly destructive, too widely demoralizing, for its effects to be counteracted and overcome in so short a period. AMERICAN HISTORY FOR BRITONS The Chain of American History, founded in Britain by Sir George Watson, has been inaugurated under auspices the most promising. Viscount Bryce, formerly ambassador to the United States, who, as historian, has written in scholarly way of American annals, gave the inaugural lecture. Eminent American scholars from time to time will appear in Britain and deliver lectures on phases of United States history. This intimate study of the history of the United States by Britons should be beneficial. It were well if Americans studied more extensively the annals of Great Britain. There is nothing which so soundly and surely gambling has run riot there. It is believed that this measure will bring relief to Gast to some extent. It affirms facts and weaknesses should be found in the act, the way would be made plain for strengthening it by amendment. STEPHENS GUESSING AGAIN ABOUT OIL HUNTINGTON BEACH, Aug. 29. What ho, and a bale of hay! The question which sticks geologist W. F. Stephens, again appears on the oil field horizon with another of his worthy forecasts with a few hindcasts thrown in for good measure. The clock strikes 17 and oils well! His eminence this time attempts to give a report on Signal Hill and incidentally makes a few of his usual kind remarks about the Huntington Beach field, and this is where we come in. Following is the so-called report: About the latter part of the month of April I surveyed the Shell well site at Long Beach at the request of parties interested in the Long Beach oil operations; and as a result of this test I reported that the well of this company was either off the oil formation or on one that did not carry a sufficient body of oil for my instrument to detect. As a result of the showing of oil later on, I made a more complete survey of the well site to determine whether or not a streak existed in the vicinity which would account for the showing. As a result of these investigations I found that a streak did exist within approximately 250 feet of the well site. This streak is extremely narrow and carries only a moderate test. The extreme width (allowing for the extreme points which I may fail to define) is not more than 500 or 600 feet. My conclusions as to the result of my test are that this field (or I would say streak, for it has no appearance of a field) is of much less value than Huntington Beach. The utmost caution will have to be exercised in placing the wells, and unless this is carefully watched the results will prove even more disastrous than at Huntington Beach. Of all the wells now placed the Shell is the most favorable for production, but it is my opinion that, due to its position, it can only be a small producer, with grave possibilities of sand trouble on account of being off the oil streak, of an edge well. It is in a position that I would never think of recommending it to locate oil with or without an oil field when it was in its infancy, and which proved him to be an exceedingly poor guesser. According him Standard B-1 would not provide to be a well and it came in at 88 barrels. He published statements on the Los Angeles papers to the effect that he would stake his reputation that Standard A-4 would not be well and it came in at 900 barrels. Therefore, his reputation as an prognosticator is not worth much. The report says "the utmost caution will have to be exercised in placing the wells, and unless this is carefully watched the results will prove even more disastrous than at Huntington Beach." What he means by "more disastrous than at Huntington Beach" is beyond us. Mr Stephens has knocked the Huntington Beach field from the start and is now doing the same thing at Signal Hill. If his object in doing this is to work up trade, he has chosen a poor method. We fail, to see how anyone who has paid attention to his antics in this field and how badly he has missed out on them, could have the least faith in his method of location. So far as we know, not a single well staked out by Stephens has developed into a producer of any kind. If he can't locate oil with his instrument he might try locating water out between the mainland and Catalina Island — he might have more success. AUTO TRADES ENJOYS SAN DIEGO WEEK-END Orange-co Auto Trades Assn., wry royalty entertained when they went guests of the San Diego Auto Trade Assn.: The association band accompanied the Orange-co men: A big parade was a feature Saturday afternoon. A bull fight at Tla Juana was arranged by the San Diego men and this was greatly enjoyed by all wives. A big feature of Sunday was the barbecue. -If it's from Witman's it' good! Save Money By Making Improvement A Reminder We know from experience just less and forgetful people can come to making needed and new pairs, always it is put off until theute or until necessity demands. Now is a good time to do the things that is needed doing. If the roof leaked or water seeped in doors or windows, don't wait until the rains start in again and allow the rains to do additional range to have the repairs tended to now. A new coat of paper or tint on the walls will make them like new again, possibly the floors need, or wood work should be varnished — many of these improvements can be cared for by you. Now is a good time to do the things that is needed doing. If the roof leaked or water seeped in doors or windows, don't wait until the rains start in again and allow the rains to do additional damage to have the repairs tended to now. A new coat of paper or tint on the walls will make them like new again, possibly the floors need polishing, or wood work should be varnished — many of these improvements can be cared for by you without them. The roof and exterior walls are the covering that protects your home, do not allow them to detract from use of lack of paint or stain. You would not think of allowing your insurance to lapse; it is just allow your home investment to go un-protected because of lack of proper care. Rain and sun with unprotected roofs and walls. In addition to the protection it gives, the attractiveness of modern homes is not only a feature that gives you much pleasure, but will be an example for your neighbors likewise, thus adding a new, pleasing atmosphere to your neighborhood. Sleeping porches are becoming a year around necessity; one or more should be added to your home; many are building them in the back yard, others are building two-story garages, utilizing space or as a screened sleeping porch. Re-modeling, modernizing the interior of the home is the greatest of indoor sports. It isn't just features as fireplaces, buffets, linen and kitchen cabinets, medicine cabinets, cooler closets, breakfast nooks, ironing boards, etc. They all represent real labor and time saving conveniences housewife, transforming her duties to a pleasant occupation; they are inexpensive and inexpensive applied and used. Advise with the Building Material Merchants on the improvements that are needed most and now while weather conditions are favorable make those needed improvements. Build Homes Modern, Distinctive Ones STUTZ SHOES For Men You will surely like these shoes — of very best construction insuring comfort — top grade leather insuring wear — big profits left off insuring economy. Stutz Shoes sell at $7.00 and $6.00 All leathers. All shapes. Kafateria Shoe Store 109 W. Center St. Anaheim Tuesday at 10 a.m. All Remnants Tuesday at 10 a.m. All Remnants Left Over From Last Week’s Sale Going at Half Price 00.01 The S.Q.R. Store CONTRACTORS W. H. KIDD Plasterer and Composition Work Cor. Claudina and Alberta Phone 685-W L. F. Lemley, Ph. 100-J-5 Cement Pipe Contractor A. H. PIBEL' General Contractor, Designer, All Kinds of Buildings 204 N. Helena St. Phone 236-J WILSON & BEVER General Contractors Office: Wilson-Bever Building ROY A. TAYLOR Painting, Papering, Tinting 210 N. Los Angeles St. Phone 26 Quarton & Abbott, Ph. 571-W Paperhanging, Painting, Tinting... All Work Guaranteed J. A. VOLZ General Building Contractor 825 W. Broadway Phone 497-J U. S. AMACK 711 W. Broadway Phone 403-W Painting, Papering, Tinting 210 N. Los Angeles St. Phone 26 Quarton & Abbott, Ph. 571-W Paperhanging, Painting, Tinting All Work Guaranteed J. A. VOLZ General Building Contractor 825 W. Broadway Phone 497-J U. S. AMACK 711 W. Broadway Phone 403-W THE ANAHEIM LAUNDRY Phone 18 HOME FURNISHERS Exchange Furniture Company Complete Home Furnishers 121 E. Center Phone 568 J. C. Penny Company The S. Q. R. Store Sebastian Bros. Anaheim Pharmacy WALL PAPER AND PAINTS B. F. SPENCER 166 W. Center Phone 27 RAMSEY & RUTLEDGE PLASTERING CONTRACTORS 1101 W. 17th St. 1029 E. Santa Ana St. Phone 1471 Phone 542 CLEANERS; DYE WORKS Sanitary Dye Works Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing 314 S. Los Angeles Phone 508 MARKETS WEST END MARKET 202 W. Center Phone 95 ARCHITECT M. EUGENE DURFEE Architect Cassou Bldg. Anaheim