oc-plain-dealer 1921-12-17

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS But thanked be memory—her sweet power can bring Back to my heart; its early joy again; Her magic spell revives the frozen spring Of youth and hope, and reunites the chain Of severed sympathies. —Hofland. The day of adversity has no terrors for the thrifty. Wrap your Christmas gift in sincerity and perfume it with good will. It secon will be demonstrated whether or not the alertness of the guards at Leavenworth prison is equal to the cunning of Roy Gardner. The Fountain of Youth and the springs of Good Health are not to be found in ill-ventilated rooms. They exist only in the realms of fresh air. That the Arma Conference is scoring a tremendous success is shown by the fact that even China probably will come out of it without a black eye. A resolution made by a person who is really resolved, should be just as strongly made on any day as though made on New Year's. Dates have nothing to do with the quality of a genuine resolve. There is talk or another federal census in 1925, because of dissatisfaction with the 1920 census. It is not Detroit and cities which showed enormous gains in population which are agitating the mid-decennial count. AMERICA'S SHIPPING IN SORRY PLIGHT The public will be interested in the salient points of the annual report of the United States Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet/Corporation, for the year ending last June 30. The number of ships owned and controlled on that date was 1740, and the number then tied up was 987, about 48 per cent of the tonnage. The total number of ships delivered to the board was 2288, of 13,359,911 deadweight tons. It is brought out, in the report, that 39.8 per cent of this Nation's total foreign trade of $8,910,000,000 was carried in American bottoms. Particularly notable was the heavy tonnage to and from Latin American countries carried in these ships under the American flag. The operations and conditions of shipping reported upon covered a period before the incoming of the present administration of the Shipping Board. There has been much sharp criticism of Shipping Board affairs during the period of this country's participation in the World War and in the months succeeding the Armistice. Losses admittedly were tremendous. But some, while not defending the losses, argue that such a condition was inevitable in the confusion and demoralization of the war period. Crookedness, flagrant dishonesties and sharp practices have been charged in connection with some ship-building contracts. These charges should be given the most searching inquiry and if the government was defrauded—and that there were some frauds seems to be unquestionable—the guilty should be prosecuted and punished. Three hunts to be taken in Hills Cemetery Department of York has received President Hustle for permission buried in theress Hills Cemetery be reburied in consort with The request we belief of the their spirits reaching their fathers. Beside ing labels in pant's name the Hereafter. One more how I do love Every time a fair or exp has always m were climb enough to so far ahead hear of in a here in N cause we cert able and un about as emp the country. to come in o more. Some coast puts on o of the win cheers!" we ace reports a A resolution made by a person who is really resolved, should be just as strongly made on any day as though made on New Year's. Dates have nothing to do with the quality of a genuine resolve. There is talk or another federal census in 1925, because of dissatisfaction with the 1920 census. It is not Detroit and cities which showed enormous gains in population which are agitating the mid-decennial count of American noses. California this year produced $80,000,000 worth of green deciduous fruits, besides all the quantities that were dried and canned. If the world does not incline toward fruitarianism it will not be because California defaults in the volume of its orchard production. UNION OIL CO. SUED FOR LARGE AMOUNT LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17.—The Union Oil Co. of Calif. will be sued for from $7,000,000 to $10,000,000 by the Universal Oil Products Co. of So. Dakota. Suit was filed in the U.S. District Court yesterday. Infringements of patents for withdrawing water from crude oil is alleged. A similar suit will be filed against the Standard Oil Co. in Kansas City, District Judge Robert O'Connor, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, said. The Armour packing interests control the Universal Oil Products Co. Wm. Trapp, Jr., Cement Pipe, 107-R-4 HOOVER REPRESENTS U. S. ON COLO. RIVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Secretary of Commerce Hoover will represent the government on the commission which will consider the distribution of the waters of the Colorado river, it is announced at the White House. Plain Dealer for Good Job Printing Get Our Prices Before You Buy HAY—FEED J. E. Schumacher Phone 794 West Anaheim Gill Battery ---HAS NO SEPARATORS--- Do You Realize Separators cause 95% of Oil Battery Trouble? But why, you ask, are separators such an evil? Simply because they retard the necessary circulation of the sulphuric acid and water in the battery. In hindering this circulation the life of the battery is materially lessened. Let us point out how poor circulation damages an electric motor. Losses admitted were tremendous. But some, while not defending the losses, argue that such a condition was inevitable in the confusion and demoralization of the war period. Crookedness, flagrant dishonesties and sharp practices have been charged in connection with some ship-building contracts. These charges should be given the most searching inquiry and if the government was defrauded—and that there were some frauds seems to be unquestionable—the guilty should be prosecuted and punished. In rehabilitating or liquidating the Shipping Board's affairs, nothing but business considerations and conscientious desire to preserve honesty and economy, should have weight. And it is to be hoped that the Shipping Board's past will not be dragged into politics, where it has not proper place. No one evades prices. But amalgamated cently attend crease in local Chinese boycots instead of local Beau washing power they admit, which are ripe for outskirt. It's thing to put that I was burying your car or illiterate. "An oracle others," is the pasteboard town. With stiff paper, with the nail making 63 which are s pivot in the one spins. The cones with fun of Wall dangers." The price keep up, but have fallen, vase of the known as the other Capt. F. Br brought $2. "Murder Buckets of this Junior Guil night for the series and wcial affairs." But why, you ask, are separators such an evil? Simply because they retard the necessary circulation of the sulphuric acid and water in the battery. In hindering this circulation the life of the battery is materially lessened. Let us point out how poor circulation damages a battery: During the discharge period, such as takes place when you start the motor, the acid enters the plates. While the acid is in the plates, the place it formerly occupied in the separators becomes filled with water—this due to capillary attraction. Now then, as soon as the battery starts to charge there is a reverse action. The acid is driven out of the plates by the electric current from the generator. However, by the time the acid can mix with the water, and be back to where it was formerly, serious damage has been done. The powerful acid being continually forced against the separators in almost full strength, eventually burns them. And because the acid is a non-conductor of electricity, it sets up a resistance to the current, creating excessive heat, which warps and buckles the plates. What follows? Short circuits occur which render your battery useless. You take it to the shop and there is a big repair bill. The unhappy part about the whole procedure is that even after the battery has been put in order, you face the same troubles again. Two-Year Positive Guarantee Selby & Moore LOCAL DISTRIBUTORS 142 S. Los Angeles St. Anaheim Phone 32-J for Service Car THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DEALER, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA New York Letter by Lucy Jeanne Price NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Fancy 80 miles of live eels! I can't think of anything more horrible, but there's a fascination about the very awfulness of it. That's what came down the Hudson river into New York the other day. Three barges brought them—200,000 live eels, trapped along the St. Lawrence river and brought down here for the holiday trade. They are valued at $100,000. Three hundred Chinese dead are to be taken to China from Cypress Hills Cemetery on Long Island. The Department of Health of Greater New York has received a request from President Hsu Shih Ch'ang, of China, for permission to disinter the bodies, buried in the Chinese section of Cypress Hills Cemetery, so that they may be reburied in China and their spirits consort with those of their ancestors. The request will be granted. It is the belief of the Chinese that so long as their bodies are buried in foreign soil, their spirits haven't a chance of reaching the celestial realms of their fathers. Besides the necessary shipping labels in English, each coffin will be inscribed in Chinese with the occupant's name and the direction "To the Hereafter." One more sign of prosperity—and how I do love them—exhibitions! Every time a city has decided to hold a fair or exposition of some kind, it has always meant either that we were climbing the upgrade fast enough to see a pretty good hilltop far ahead. So every exhibition we hear of in any part of the country, we here in New York rejoice. Because we certainly do feel the favorable and unkind words of fortune about as emphatically as any city in the country. And reports have begun to come in of these expositions once more. Some city on the California coast puts one on for the California of the winter visitors. "Three cheers!" we cry. Grand Central Palace reports a busy season ahead of AMATEUR BILLIARD CHAMPION AT 70 NEW YORK LETTER BY Lucy Jeanne Price SO. CAL. AUTO CLUB MEMBERSHIP LEAPS What's One matter with the membership of the auto club's local office? Matter enough! The membership has about doubled during the year. The gain was discovered this morning; when upwards of 500 copies of instructions for the 1922 license were mailed out, together with notice of the appointment of Attorney Austin E. Longcroft to represent the club in Orange-co. He will give all of his time to the work, and is at the service of any member with the credentials of the So. Calif., Auto club. His office will be in Santa Ana, but he will come here or go to Fullerton by appointment. Senator Walter Eden of Santa Ana, remains consulting counsel for the club. 30 DENOMINATIONS WORKING FOR PEACE CHICAGO, Dec. 17—A program for world peace was promulgated here yesterday by thirty Protestant church denominations, represented in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Obligations of America to the world which the council believes the government should recognize, aid to Austria, Russia and Armenia, congratulations to Great Britain and Ireland, recognition of an international court for the settlement of world problems and prayer and goodwill to the League of Nations also were outlined or voted. BASER METALS MADE INTO SYNTHETIC GOLD LONDON, Dec. 17—German chemists have succeeded in making synthetic gold from baser metals by use of an electric vacuum furnace. Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale University, said he had been credibly informed: It is a serious possibility that they may be able in time way to pay off their war indemnities. Prof. Fisher added. The statement was made in a lecture at the London School of Economics on "Business Depression and the Instability of Money." has always meant either that we were climbing the upgrade fast enough to see a pretty good hilltop not far ahead. So every exhibition we hear of in any part of the country, we here in New York rejoice. Because we certainly do feel favorable and unkind words of fortune about as emphatically as any city in the country. And reports have begun to come in of these expositions once more. Some city on the California coast puts one on for the California of the winter visitors. "Three cheers!" we cry. Grand Central Palace reports a busy season ahead of trade exhibitions. Fine! Then comes word of Cleveland with its nothing less than PERMANENT business exhibition to open within another two months. Could anything be greater than that? Of course Cleveland has the advantage of being a manufacturing city and turning out pretty nearly every kind of product under the sun. But still it couldn't make a thing like that go if it didn't have faith in its own good times. A year around exhibition, filling a new eight floor building with all sorts of products made there in Cleveland, Think of the time saved the poor buyer, who was wont to travel from outskirt to outskirt. It's a great idea and a great thing to put it through. I'm proud that I was born in Ohio. No one ever thought higher education would interfere with laundry prices. But the august association of amalgamated Chinese washers has recently attempted to justify its increase in local prices by the fact that Chinese boys now go to the universities instead of shining collars for the local Beau Brummels. Soap and washing powders are cheap enough, they admit, but it is the universities which are raising the price and you have your choice of more expensive or illiterate Chinese. "An oracle for some; a game for others," is the subtitle on a small pasteboard box now selling down town. Within is a square piece of stiff paper, divided into sixteen parts, with the names of four stocks in each, making 63 names in all, many of which are speculative favorites. On a pivot in the center is an arrow which one spins. The announcement which comes with the game says: "All the fun of Wall street, with none of its dangers." The price of eggs and flour may keep up, but art treasures seem to have fallen, anyway. A large Chinese vase of the Sung period, technically known as the Ostrich Egg vase, sold here the other day for $1,200. At the Capt. F. Brinkley sale in 1903, it brought $2,300. "Murder on the Half Shell; or Buckets of Blood" was the dainty title of this year's production of the Junior Guild. It was given the other night for the benefit of two local nurseries and was one of the brilliant social affairs of the season. BASER METALS MADE INTO SYNTHETIC GOLD LONDON, Dec. 17.—German chemists have succeeded in making synthetic gold from baser metals by use of an electric vacuum furnace. Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale University, said he had been credibly informed. It is a serious possibility that they may be able in this way to pay off their war indemnities. Prof. Fisher added. The statement was made in a lecture at the London School of Economics on "Business Depression and the Instability of Money." METAL IS LIGHTER A metal that is obtained by electrolysis from natural brine obtained from wells in Michigan is one third lighter than aluminum and hesembles magnesium. Buena Park News BUENA PARK, Dec. 17.—(Spl.) The Woman's club met on Thursday afternoon in the community hall with Mesdames Teagarden, Cox Simpson and Myers as hostesses. A brief business meeting was held and arrangements made to care for a needy Mexican family. The program committee had a very fine program prepared for the afternoon. The committee also decorated the club room with the season's colors and a beautifully decorated Christmas tree stood in the center of the room, loaded with presents. Miss Wanita Simpson opened the program with a piano selection followed by a reading from Ben Hur by Mrs. Hasson. Miss Wanita Simpson ad Anna Fisk sang Holy Night and Miss Ruth Myer gave a Christmas reading. While a quartet were singing Jingle Bells the outer door opened and in popped Santa Claus with a large pack on his back. He had gifts for all, besides pop corn balls and Christmas boxes filled with candy. The hostesses served punch and a fine time was enjoyed by all. The club will meet on Jan. 5th with Mesdames Miller and Johnson as hostesses. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Horn and family left on Thursday for Arizona where they will spend the holidays. Jack Golden spent Thursday at Laguna Beach. Buena Park Congregational church for Sunday, Dec. 18, 1921. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Morning service at 11 a.m. Subject: Preparation for the Messiah's Coming. Evening service at 7:30 p.m. Subject: Ideal Soil for the Word-of-God. S. F. Hilgenfeld pastor. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Golden were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Waynick on Tuesday evening. Mrs. George Thurman of Lodi, Cal., visited for several days this week with her daughter, Mrs. H. S. Horn. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bixby spent Wednesday in Los Angeles. TEXT BOOK OF WALL STREET 1922 EDITION Contents History of New York Stock Exchange History of the Consolidated Stock Exchange of New York History of the New York Curb How to Open an Account and Methods of Trading The Art of Speculating for Profits Augmenting One's Income How to Secure Loans on Stocks Dictionary of Wall Street Terms and Values of Foreign Exchanges Copy free upon request The price of eggs and flour may keep up, but art treasures seem to have fallen, anyway. A large Chinese vase of the Sung period, technically known as the Ostrich Egg vase, sold here the other day for $1,200. At the Capt. F. Brinkley sale in 1903, it brought $2,300. "Murder on the Half Shell; or Buckets of Blood" was the dainty title of this year's production of the Junior Guild. It was given the other night for the benefit of two local nurseries and was one of the brilliant social affairs of the season. Mrs. Latham Hall, the English golf player who has been winning from her American rivals this fall, sailed the other day on a ship equipped with a golf-meter, which will enable her to play her daily 18 holes game, or its equivalent. The golf-meter is set up amidships and Mrs. Latham lost no time in starting on it. She hurried to her stateroom immediately upon going aboard and appeared a few minutes later with a brassle and mid-iron. A golf ball attached to a ten-foot steel cord was tied on a mat and the English woman made a perfect drive of 275 yards, according to the meter. It is a pleasure to see a moving picture which has the courage to deal with a more or less shackneyed and trite subject containing the universal appeal, and at the same time giving something of real truth and entertainment. In the Goldwyn film, "The Poverty of Riches," an adaptation by Le Roy Scott of his novel, "The Mother," a sincere demonstration is given that children are necessary for conjugal happiness. All the little features of domestic irritation are shown up in just the way we know they happen, but the solution is found in a quiet naturalness which makes even the most sophisticated movie audience think. A certain red flare way seems necessary in the movies, but it is the rare occasion when this requirement can be adapted to the telling of a fundamental truth of life and happiness. This film takes the subject of married life rather seriously, as it should I suppose, and enforces its lesson upon you without annoying you with its moral. The cast is exceptionally good and depends upon Miss Louise Lovely for much of its beauty. She gives a very unconventional performance of what has been thought necessarily conventional. I liked it a lot. T Stands for Trouble We all have enough When you're insured tho It isn't so tough. This, dear reader, is a picture of a man drawing a long face. He is doing it because he has just had to pay a big damage bill for a collision. If he belonged to the Auto Club of Orange County he wouldn't be drawing a long face. The Club would have taken care of his damage bill. Moral: Join today. AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF ORANGE COUNTY 519 N. Main St. Phone 452 Santa Ana CALIFORNIA Saturday, December 17, 1921 AUTOMOBILE DIRECTORY ANAHEIM AUTO WORKS 217 North Los Angeles Street Phone 170-J Pioneer Manufacturers of Special Tops Original Designs Sliding glass, permanent, semi-permanent and one-man. NOTICE—Our frames are "made in Anaheim" in our complete woodworking and metal departments. P S.—Don't fail to see our Craftsman body covering. AUTOS WASHED Polished and Simonized, Tops Dressed. Air Compressor and Spray for Cleaning Motors. Cars Called for and returned. C. E. INGRAHAM Across from new Anaheim Laundry Bldg. Phone 372-J STORAGE $5 Month $2.00 Week OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Corner Chestnut and Los Angeles Streets Phone 31 Auto Electric Come on in the distilled water's fine! Robt. V. Jensen 242 E. Center St. Anaheim Ph. 168W Prest-O-Lite BATTERY SERVICE STORAGE $5 Month $2.00 Week OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Corner Chestnut and Los Angeles Streets Phone 31 Auto Electric Maintenance Company Robt. V. Jensen 242 E. Center St. Anaheim Ph. 168W Rest-O-Lite BATTERY SERVICE WELDING IS OUR SPECIALTY Look for Service Car No. 13 A service car equipped to do all kinds of welding. We call and deliver. ANAHEIM WELDING COMPANY 217 S. Clementine, Anaheim Phone 493-J FORD DONT'S Don't drive with faulty brakes. Don't drive your car with headlights out of focus; we will adjust and focus them free of charge. Don't let anyone when making repairs to your car, use anything but Genuine Ford Parts. Don't start your car with spark advanced, you may injure your starter. But if anything should happen to your car, drive in or call 263. Nothing But Genuine Ford Parts Used George Dunton Ford and Fordson Sales and Service Anaheim Crash! Bang! Another Accident Radiator caved in, fenders smashed up. Hard luck. But don't worry, bring the old bus to us, we will fix 'er up as good as new. We specialize on just such jobs and it won't cost any more to have it done by experts. Radiator caved in, fenders smashed up. Hard luck. But don't worry, bring the old bus to us, we will fix 'er up as good as new. We specialize on just such jobs and it won't cost any more to have it done by experts. Anaheim Auto Sheet Metal Works 307 E. Center St. Phone 56 S. A. Beisert, Prop. LET US SUGGEST for his, and the family Xmas gift — a Tonneau Shield. We have them from $22.50 to $67.50 installed on your car. Easy-a-Just Wings in beautiful shape and cuts of glass. Plain, beveled, decorated, from $22.50 to $27.50 installed. Sun Shades, for rain and sun, metal and glass, installed at $10.00 to $22.50. Bar Caps, Spotlights, Mirrors, Motormeters, Soft Pedals, Windshield Cleaners, Stop Signals — and Lens. WE WILL HELP YOU OVER THE XMAS PROBLEM OF GIFTS FOR THE CAR. Anaheim Windshield Co. 211 N. Los Angeles St. ANAHEIM Phone 25