oc-plain-dealer 1921-12-19

If one looks at the world through dark glasses, it will appear dark. If some of the screen stars receive the fabulous salaries reported, they surely are amply paid for the quality of work they do. It will be a great day for California and the Southwest when Uncle Sam settles down in earnest to the building of that Boulder Dam, in the Colorado river. The spirit of extreme hatred, revengefulness and avariciousness must be eliminated from the human heart before the world will be wholly proof against wars. The intensified patriotism inspired by America's participation in the World War has brought about a more common showing of respect for the American Flag. In parades, when the Flag goes by, there is alacrity among the crowds of men in removing their hats and in cheering. An oil expert says that there is enough undeveloped petroleum in the United States to last for a thousand years. This would be just the kind of reassurance that Mr. Methuselah would relish, if he were on earth. The millions of brave men who perished in the World War will not have died in vain, should the great powers compact themselves together in such manner as effectually to preserve the peace of the world. Work of the Arms Conference gives reasonable hope that universal peace is in near prospect. CRIMINALITY BRAZEN IN CHICAGO It is not the fault of Chief of Police Fitzmorris or of the greater number of the patrolmen on the police force that Chicago has a brazen coterie of desperate criminals who exert influence in such high quarters as to embolden them in their operations. It is openly charged that the escape of "Terrible Tommy" O'Connor, murderer and all-round desperado, was connived at, if not openly aided and abetted, by certain prison guards. This escape was a disgrace, but not to the police department. It is said that the prison guards are superannuated, and no match in wits for clever criminals. It is charged that there is lack of discipline about the prison. And it is intimated that political influence, wielded by the criminal element and their friends, is used to shield law-breakers. This is discouraging to a police department which is trying its level best, according to reports, to do its duty conscientiously and well in fighting the lawless. It is infuriating to law-abiding citizens. It would seem, however, that the people of Chicago could and should demand and get better things from those who are supposed to serve and to protect them. The people are all-powerful in such things if they choose to make themselves so. They had a revolution down in Guatamala one day recently, but it was all over so that the people could go to the theatre the evening of the same day. HARDING CONSIDERS MEXICAN PARLEY WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The calling of a conference on Mexican affairs is being considered by President R. W. Hirschman, Manager PAUL V. HESTER, Editor Subscription auto—In North Orange set: For year $2; Six months, $1.5M. Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as second class matter. THE HUMAN SIDE OF THE POSTAL SERVICE By HON. WILL. H. HAYS, Postmaster General THE Post Office Department spends $600,000,000 annually. THE HUMAN SIDE OF THE POSTAL SERVICE By HON. WILL. H. HAYS, Postmaster General The Post Office Department spends $600,000,000 annually. The annual turn-over, the in and out of the business, which measures any business, is more than $3,000,000. In every single hour of the twenty-four, 1,400,000 letters are mailed; in every day of the 365 days, 33,000,000 letters are sent; during this year more than 12,000,000,000 letters will be handled. Fourteen billion postage stamps, 1,250,000,000 postal cards, and 2,750,000,000 stamped envelopes are sold every year. More than 326,000 postal co-workers are daily engaged serving the 110,000,000 people, or one postal worker for every 337 persons. The postal establishment operates its railway-mail service over rail trackage long enough to encircle the earth ten times. Forty-three thousand rural carriers go out every morning, serving six and one-half million families, and before sundown every day travel 1,170,000 miles—a total of 353,000,000 miles a year over the highways of the country. We use 800,000 miles of twine every year tying the packages of letters. at Weber's Gifts that are useful and always appreciated. EVERSHARP PENCILS The pencil that stands the test; enameled finish with clip or ring 60c Nickle plated and with clip or ring ...$1.00 Sterling Silver engraved ...$3.00 WATERMAN PENS $2.50, $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 "ONOTO" INK PENCIL $3.00 HARDING CONSIDERS MEXICAN PARLEY WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The calling of a conference on Mexican affairs is being considered by President Harding. The suggested conference would be held at some date following the conclusion of the armament conference and would take place either in Washington or some accessible place near the Mexican border, close friends of the President said. enough twine to encircle the earth thirty-two times. Every year 6,500,- 499 pounds of paper are used in manufacturing the postal cards alone. Debts totaling $1,500,000,000 are pair through the Post Office Department annually, with 150,000,000 money orders. There are 500,000 depositors in the Postal Savings, a larger number than in any banking institution in the world, and 75-percent of them are of foreign extraction. Sixty-five million sacks are in use constantly, and it requires 6,000,000 yards of canvas every year to keep up the supply. There are over 1,625,000,- 499 separate facing slips used on the packages of letters and pouches of mail. One hundred and eighty million envelopes are used annually for the correspondence of the postal service alone and a billion blank forms. There is twice as much business done in the post office in New York City as in the entire Dominion of Canada. An average of more than 250,000 letters every day in the New York City post office alone are read-dressed from city directories; 19,000, 499 letters every year go to the Dead Letter Office—think of the cost which those services bring to the taxpayers because of the carelessness of the public in addressing. The Parcel Post is the greatest express service in the world, and this year handle more than 2,500,- 499 packages; the annual business of the American Railway Express will probably be 400,000,000 packages. ENTERTAIN IN PRISON AUBURN, N. Y., Dec. 13.—A man and wife, serving life sentences here, entertained at dinner their 14-year-old daughter, born in prison, now an orphan asylum inmate. It was a family reunion. RESTORES HATS' SHAPES A metal attachment for soft hats to restore their form after they have been pinched is the idea of two English inventors. The vogus for jacket From shope girls to is the dernier cri. cheap little imitation fine strand of color sell up to $10,ooo. semi-precious stone is with the most precious stones to give an efferre arre and yet artistic stores are showing spades. I have recently service which cost course they lure us buying a small bit of material that the mines been exhausted and the chimneys are finding museums. There is intention evident in even gorgeous stone, and it to picture it once resized. WATERMAN PENS $2.50, $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 "ONOTO" INK PENCIL $3.00 The only satisfactory ink pencil on the market. ADDRESS BOOKS We have a wonderful assortment of Address Books priced 25c, 35c, 50c, 70c, 75c, and $1.00 PURSES Every gentleman appreciates the gift of a purse. We have them from 50c up to $8.50. WEBER'S BOOK & MUSIC STORE 12 East Center St. ANAHEIM ENTERTAIN IN PRISON AUBURN, N. Y., Dec. 13.—A man and wife, serving life sentences here, entertained at dinner their 14-year-old daughter, born in prison, now an orphan asylum inmate. It was a family reunion. RESTORES HATS' SHAPES A metal attachment for soft hats to restore their form after they have been pinched is the idea of two English inventors. STORAGE $5 Month $2.00 Week OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Corner Chestnut and Los Angeles Streets Phone 31 Auto Electric Maintenance Company Don't Forget That The Ready Truck & Transit Is still able to do your hauling description. Contract hauling a special Get our price. O. J. LINNARTZ, Prop. Residence 211 E. Sycamore Safe Milk for INFANTS and Horlicks Malted Milk For Infants, Invalids and Growing Children The Original Food-Drink For All Ages Richmilk, malted grain No Cooking — Nourish Science Cuts Frame House Fire Risk In Half Plan by N. L. M. A. Sketchn Illustrates New Features of Fire Resistive Construction. DANGER from fire in frame houses has been reduced fifty per cent through improvements in construction worked out by the most competent engineers in the lumber industry. This announcement has just been made after these engineers have been working upon improved designs in frame construction during the past year with a view to reducing the fire hazard for wood houses to a minimum. Practically no change in appearance in houses constructed by the improved methods and very little, if any, additional cost is involved, but the methods recommended by the engineers give protective features making the fram house essentially resistive to fire. Interposing of panels and short pieces within spaces that ordinarily serve as flues for rapid spread of fire, for instance, reduces danger from this cause. Other protective improvements prevent wooden parts catching fire from chimneys, fireplaces, heating plants and steam and hot water pipes. While wood will burn and there is no such thing as a "direproof" house within the reach of the ordinary All That Was Left of a Frame Dwelling Built by Old Methods. (Numbers Correspond to Those on Sketch) (1) Fire stopping at all intersections of walls and partitions with floors, ceilings and roof. (2) Herring-bone fire stopping in partitions midway between floor levels. (3) Partition and wall corners framed solid. (4) Wall between porch attic, and house sheathed solid. (5) Header beams 20 inches from the fireplace breast. Incombustible hearth. (6) Wooden members 2 inches from chimney, space between filled with loose incombustible material. (7) Plaster applied directly to chimney breast. (8) Fine lining in chimneys. (9) Top of chimney 2 feet above peak of roof. (10) Protection over heating plant. (11) Roof framing 2 inches from chimney, flashed, permitting free move- New York Letter by Lucy Jeanne Price New York shows unmistakable signs of the holidays. Not only a Santa Claus exhibit in the windows and in person in the stores, but the red and green tinsel of the yule tide is with us stronger than ever. A certain herald of the holidays is in the organized effort of the charities to appeal to their contributors at a time when everyone is prone to give. We have Christmas seals, the corner cash box and a general drive on the hearts and purses of our generous givers. As each association announces the object of its Christmas campaign one can have only one feeling, and that of regret, that they cannot give more widely and more generously. This is a particularly good Christmas for the "Peace on Earth" slogan. The vogus for jade has hit us. From shape girls to dowagers pade is the dernier cri. It may be the cheap little imitation carring or the fine strand of colorful beads which sell up to $10,000. This once-thot semi-precious stone is now combined with the most precious metals and stones to give an effect at once bizarr and yet artistic. Many of the stores are showing special exhibits of jade. I have recently seen a dinner service which cost $100,000. Of course they lure us poor folks into buying a small bit of it with the argument that the mines have long since been exhausted and that the rare specimens are finding their places in museums. There is a certain tradition evident in every piece of the gorgeous stone, and it is not difficult to picture it once resting in a curious hassard for wood houses to a minimum. Practically no change in appearance in houses constructed by the improved methods and very little. If any, additional cost is involved, but the method recommended by the engineers gives protective features making the frame house essentially resistive to fire. Interposing of panels and short pieces within spaces that ordinarily serve as flues for rapid spread of fire, for instance, reduces danger from this cause. Other protective improvements prevent wooden parts catching fire from chimneys, fireplaces, heating plants and steam and hot water pipes. While wood will burn and there is no such thing as a "fireproof" house within the reach of the ordinary pocketbook, the new protective measures devised by the lumber engineers offer an economical type of construction that is fire resistive and as nearly fireproof as frame construction as now developed can be made, according to their conclusions. The methods conform strictly to the scientific codes of the most progressive cities and carry a minimum of fire risk because of the necessarily slow spread of combustion in houses following the new type of construction. You cannot keep the show man down! The dramatic sense will invariably assert itself in the most serious considerations. Along comes David Wark Griffith with an idea to utilize the scrapping of our navy to moving picture purposes. Not only would he show this great spectacle for its scenic possibilities but clluch for so important an historical scene a long enduring moral of world progress. The navy is offered the privilege of using a fair proportion of the returns on such a picture to such purposes as it may designate. But it would be just like Mr. Griffith to be the last show man in the world's greatest show. The best-known cop in the country has just returned to private life — "Honest John" Costigan, for 32 years a member of the New York City police force. For many years Costigan has been at the head of the police vice squad and the purveyors of vice in the city's underworld know the worth of "Honest Dan" as most of its respectable citizens do not. Costigan always objected to the nickname, given him by a newspaper, writer early in his career. "It sounds as tho an honest policeman in New York was an exception," he protested, "and he isn't. For every one who slips there are 100 that stay absolutely square." Nevertheless there was a stalwart fighting quality about Dan Costigan's honesty that has marked his career as more than ordinary, and New York regrets to see him go back to private life. TAKE OVER POWER The government of Czecho-Slovakia will take over the utilization of water powers for the systematic development of hydro-electric plants, leaving the distribution of current to private interests. Plain Dealer Want Ads get results. Get Our Prices Before You Buy HAY—FEED J. E. Schumacher Phone 794 West Anaheim Put a Superior New Chevrolet in the Family Christmas Stocking Just one more week and old Santa Claus will be here once again. The greatest joy that you can bring to yourself, is to make others happy. Do you know of anything that would make your family happier than a new car? Last week we completely sold out of cars but we are unloading another carload today. Order today and make sure of having your car on Christmas day. Frank P. Taggart Phone 490 "CRICKET HOUSE" FOR MIDGET FAMILY NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Probably no more interesting dwelling house exists in New York than a four-story brownstone in West 71st-st just off Central park. This ungainly old structure houses 19 of the smallest people in New York. There are all midgets but as such must keep house, read the newspapers and act like full sized human beings. Fraulein Victoria Neider is the head of the establishment and chaperons the entire group while they are here keeping theatrical engagements. She explains their happiness in the fact that they are all unwed, and has distributed them over the house so as not to misplace any of them. The six members of what one of my friends calls the unfair sex occupy the second floor and 13 bachelors have the third and fourth. They are so tiny that three or four of them can sleep in an ordinary bed without crowding and 19 at the table at one time doesn't bother them in the least. Charlie Becker's cook and the fact that he has to stand on a chair over the gas range doesn't bother him because after all he is an aerobat. One of the party makes all their shoes another does the dressmaking and yet another—and incidentally the smallest of the lot—is their business manager. Cricket House might not be a bad name for this establishment. MEMORIAL DOOR IN FATHER'S HONOR NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—During the week two immense bronze doors designed by several leading architects will be placed in position in the hall of liberal sciences at New York University. They are more than magnificent doors because in their design and concept are supposed to epitomize the spirit of Stanford White in relation to his contribution to the architecture of the present day. His son, Lawrence White, is to accept them in the memory of his father. It seems an excellent practice to perpetuate the memory of any distinguished performer in terms of his work. I was reminded of this same principle some years ago when his own compositions were played at Reginald de Koven's funeral. There was something fine in reminding the public that a tangible thing lived after the artist had died and so it is with these doors. They are practical, beautiful and distinctive of the science. MANY COUPES AND SEDANS FOR XMAS George Dunton, Ford and Fordson distributor, reports December business very satisfactory. Up to today sales of new autos total 25. A record has been established in number of enclosed models sold, 50 per cent of the sales this month being of that type. "A Ford coupe or sedan makes a mighty attractive Christmas present, a fact that is being realized by many people this season," says Dunton. TO LAY PLANS FOR 1922 POULTRY SHOW Plans for holding next year's poultry show will be perfected by the officers of the So. Calif. Poultry show, at a meeting to be held at the Farm bureau at Santa Ana next Tuesday night. The meeting will be attended by Dr. R. A. Cushman, president, E. G. Teaney, secretary, and a number of others interested in the project. The poultry show, which ended Saturday, was a pronounced success, according to Secretary Teaney, and the finances of the organization are in excellent condition. Although no definite statement, was forthcoming, it was said that several outside cities are bidding for next year's show and these will be considered at Tuesday night's meeting of the directors. Chief among those cities is Anaheim. Fullerton, it is understood, is another bidder. Santa Ana will make a strong effort to keep the show, however, and its claims will be presented in detail. More than 3000 visitors viewed the various exhibits on one day—Friday. Plain Dealer Want Ads Bring Results. Try Plain Dealer Want Ads. AUTOS WASHED Polished and Simonized, Tops Dressed, Air Compressor and Spray for Cleaning Motors, Cars Called for and returned. C. E. INGRAHAM What Is More Conservative Than A BABY BOND FOR A CHRISTMAS GIFT We offer for a short time only Republic of Poland Internal Loan Bonds to yield 5% per annum. An assorted income with enormous speculative possibilities backed by the entire resources of Poland. A Republic with 30,000,000 population. The lowest per capita debt of any civilized country in the world. No war inemnities. It will pay you to investigate. A COMBINATION OF THE MOST CONSERVATIVE INVESTOR. Price $17.00 per Bond of 10,000 Marks—Write or call for further information—but do so immediately. H. E. SCOTT 112 N. Los Angeles St. Anaheim Announcement The many friends and patrons of JOHN UPDYKE will be glad to know he has returned to Anaheim and will resume work for his former employers, where he will be in charge of the machine and repair shop as before. Turton & Lumsdon Maxwell and Chalmers Dealers 142 S. Los Angeles St., Anaheim Phone 327 NEW LOW PRICE — on — DECOMPOSED MARINE SHELL AND BONE SUPER-LIME (From Deposit of Torrance Lime & Fertilizer Co. at Lomita, Cal.) Effected by: — INCREASED OUTPUT — ADDITIONAL INSTALLATION OF IMPROVED EQUIPMENT — CONSOLIDATION OF SALES AGENCIES BUY NOW! Interested growers will be taken on trips of inspection to Deposit and to groves where they can without obligation obtain first-hand information of results secured from use of D. M. S. & B. SUPER-LIME. For information and prices write: CALIFORNIA LIME & FERTILIZER CO. (Lee B. Hawkins, L. E. Sandos, Jos. R. Hargrove) 299 Wholesale Terminal Bldg. Pico 4160 Los Angeles, Calif., or your County Agent S. A. SALVESON --- Phone Fullerton 284-W WANTED: AGENTS FOR OPEN TERRITORY.