oc-plain-dealer 1922-02-18

The Orange County Plain Dealer An Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday R. W. ERNEST, Manager PAUL V. HESTER, Editor Subscription rate—In No. Orange-co: Per yr. $2; six months $1.25 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as second-class matter DAILY GREETING TO READERS Our pains are real things, and all Our pleasures but fantastical; Diseases of their own accord, But cures come difficult and hard. —Butler. Reform, like charity, should begin at home: "Money talks." But sometimes not above a whisper. Isn't it human to be quick to condemn and slow to praise? No danger of overbuilding the United States merchant navy. The get-rich-quick scheme has a swift-ruin finale for its victims. One may as well pay taxes with a smile. A frown brings no reduction. Who gets the more enjoyment out of life, the optimist or the pessimist? The senate would get on the first page often should Mr. Bryan become a senator. The up-to-date wife insists upon being more than the darner of her husband's socks. They are scrapping many big ships, but not the good old pleasure craft Courtship. "Where ignorance is bliss," "twould be folly to foreknow what the weather will be, one week hence. There is this consolation: At no time can the number of divorces exceed the number of marriages. The way of the criminal should be made so hard, here in California, that he would shun this state. The United States needs a great merchant navy—needs it commercial- RAILROAD FINDS SAFETY A GOOD INVESTMENT That prevention of accidents on a railroad is profitable to that road, in dollars and cents, is attested by the experience of the Chicago Great Western road for the year 1921. Putting the matter on a monetary basis, it pays a railroad better to have no tragedies than it does to bear the expense of damages and other monetary losses incident to accidents. In other words, it costs less to make and keep a railroad service comparatively safe than it does to bear the inescapable expenses of a great many serious accidents. By instituting an intensive safety-first system during 1921, the Chicago Great Western reduced the number of accidental deaths from thirty-three in 1920, to twenty in 1921, and the number of injuries was cut down from 610 to 294. Ten of the deaths in 1921 resulted from automobile-crossing accidents, five of those killed were trespassing on the railroad's right-of-way and five were employees of the road. No passengers were killed during the year. This is an excellent showing. It demonstrates the life-saving value of intensive care in operating trains. All railroads are striving to make their ways and means of preventing accidents more effectual. There has been a notable reduction in the number of serious rail tragedies. The daily newspaper is an indispensable and tremendously useful factor in modern life. Shut down every newspaper plant in the United States for six months and the people would lapse into a state of unenlightened that would be veritably chaotic. One should send up a little prayer of thankfulness daily for the blessing of newspapers issued regularly, without trammels. The public has a right not only to DOPPELGA (Literally, "Doubleleg") "I'm waiting for my too late Waiting for myself tonight. I saw myself go out gate And turn to the righ I saw myself, a midi face Of the moon, truth And through the most fine-spun lace Of clouds, go by. I saw myself come house On the other side where you are Discreetly hidden under boughs. It gleams like a star The door glowed on you!" you say. So I sit here waiting And I wish Myself For I ought to go to And he stays so lax—William Rose Ben Republic. LETTERS THE PE The Plain Dealer: I see now that it off a reporter, exe mum. The answers your reporter's question the Civic League we for publication. The article headed forement" does not p me exactly, and yet n construe the language mine. I fear that a sion may result, and put right. (1) The Civic I "nominating committee mittee to inquire into prospective can make recommendation open for all, but they to get behind three o they deem most des tees. They must be worth in general and law enforcement in "Where ignorance is bliss," twould be folly to foreknow what the weather will be, one week hence. There is this consolation: At no time can the number of divorces exceed the number of marriages. The way of the criminal should be made so hard, here in California, that he would shun this state. The United States needs a great merchant navy—needs it commercially and needs it safeguardingly. The verdict as to the quality of California climate, on the part of all who have experienced it, is unanimous. They have started a boom for Mr. Brzan for senator from Florida. But these are killing frosts even in Florida. New York Letter Four hundred and fifty Spanish immigrants got started for home earlier than they had expected, just because an English girl had never seen Broadway—and wanted to. Miss Isabelle Muir is the daughter of an English shipbuilder, who is now building cruisers for the Spanish navy. Miss Muir was one of the passengers who boarded the liner Alfonso XII, at Corunna, Spain, due to touch at Havana and Vera Cruz and then return to Spanish shores. But part way across, Miss Muir decided that she wanted to see Broadway, and asked the captain if he couldn't oblige her. So the captain communicated with the New York office and they agreed that the Alfonso XII was a perfectly feasible ship on which to send home these 450 Spaniards who had fled to this country during the war. So everything was arranged. The ship came into New York Harbor for the first time in three years; Miss Muir saw Broadway; and the immigrants started home. How would you like to buy a nice, tasty, nourishing beefsteak, made out of inexpensive things like air? Some day you will do just that, according to predictions of present-day chemists. Indeed, the materials and apparatus have already been assembled in New York City for a very practical and scientific series of experiments for the production of synthetic protein for human consumption. Robert J. Moore, B. S., M. A., until recently of the department of chemistry of Columbia University, is in charge of this momentous enterprise, and as he has already succeeded in changing petroleum into "animal" fats, it is more than a dream with him. Mother Nature, according to the modern chemists is all right, but she is pretty slow when she goes through all the process of creating our food, especially our meats. A few hours of laboratory work will do what she spends years at, they firmly believe. We are going to be an art center so far as personalities are concerned for a few days, at least. And all due to a lawsuit. Captain and Mrs. H. J. Hahn have declared that what they bought for a real Da Vinci masterpiece is an imitation, and they want their $500,000 back. And a fair proportion of all the art experts in Europe have come over here to swear to the picture's authenticity. The Hahns say they are prepared to spend $1,000,000 to prove that Joseph Duveen, art dealer who insists that the painting is a Da Vinci is wrong, and that the Italian master would scorn the work. A whole corps of authorities, headed by Monsieur Sortais, official critic for the French government, have landed in our midst to uphold the dealer. There is a team of dramatic amateurs doing good work in town, too. That is, their work has been effective, although possibly "good" is a word which does not completely apply, according to one sense of the word. William Stiegel and Henry Berger are the names they gave when they were arrested. These two, so the detectives say, would stag a charming bit of acting if they happened to be caught during a robbery. Stoegel, according to their story, would slip handcuffs on Berger, flash his Home Defense badge, which he had picked up somewhere, and then inform the frightened householders that "it was all right" and that he "had arrived just in time." He would then pull the stage burglar ot of the house, according to the police, taking the foot with him. They are said to have taken in about $20,000 with their one-act sketch, which isn't bad as theatricals go. The daily newspaper is an indispensable and tremendously useful factor in modern life. Shut down every newspaper plant in the United States for six months and the people would lapse into a state of unenlightenment that would be veritable chaotic. One should send up a little prayer of thankfulness daily for the blessing of newspapers issued regularly, without trammels. The public has a right not only to expect, but demand, reasonably good service from public utilities. These concerns here in California are insistent that they be given a square deal, which is not amiss. But by the same token the public should be given a square deal in adequate and satisfactory service. The same rule of fairness should apply both to public utilities and to the public whose servants they are. (1) The Civic IX nominating committee mittee to inquire into prospective can make recommendation open for all, but they get behind three of them deem most desees. They must be worth in general and law enforcement in p. (2) The express sympathies being "wet wets," was not interreflection upon the person of the man or men in their personal habit liquor. Some total quite liberal in supply of those who idude and many who indulge strong for law enufpect the honest oman, and I ask his same regard for mii. (3) Your reader sume that the league man for trustee on p It is not a personal matter of principle,mands better law eboot-leggers and bli. (4) The leagueized in May, 1921 city trustees to pass ordinance. They reefer for law enforcement,the evidence and war We told them the eviad,and advised tha detective They reef them employed detevidence,and seveand convictions rest treasury was enrichd and the scare put gers and blind-plack breakers pulled in and then got busy same condition over The league is worer and better Anahe ple want that? If you get back of the leagl Yours t in New York City for a very practical and scientific series of experiments for the production of synthetic protein for human consumption. Robert J. Moore, B. S., M. A., until recently of the department of chemistry of Columbia University, is in charge of this momentous enterprise, and as he has already succeeded in changing petroleum into "animal" fats, it is more than a dream with him. Mother Nature, according to the modern chemists is all right, but she is pretty slow when she goes through all the process of creating our food, especially our meats. A detective say, would stag a charm-ing bit of acting if they happened to be caught during a robbery. Stoegel, according to their story, would slip handcuffs on Berger, flash his Home Defense badge, which he had picked up somewhere, and then inform the frightened householders that "it was all right" and that he "had arrived just in time." He would then pull the stage burglar of the house, according to the police, taking the loot with him. They are said to have taken in about $20,000 with their one-act sketch, which isn't bad as theatricals go. Washington's COFFEE ORIGINATED BY MR WASHINGTON IN 1909 Make Coffee the Improved Way— In the Cup at the Table G. Washington's Coffee dissolves instantly when water is added. Put it in the cup just as you do sugar. 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I saw myself go out of a moonlit gate And turn to the right I saw myself, a midge on the silver face Of the moon, trudge up the sky. And through the molten silver and fine-spun lace Of clouds, go by. I saw myself come to that misty house On the other side of nowhere, where you are. Discreetly hidden under whispering boughs It gleams like a star. The door glowed open. "Oh, it's you!" you said. So I sit here waiting—with Fate—and I wish Myself would get back For I ought to go to bed And he stays so late! —William Rose Benet in the New Republic. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE The Plain Dealer: I see now that it is hard to shut off a reporter, except by keeping mum. The answers given by me to your reporter's questions in regard to the Civic League were not intended for publication. The article headed, "Seek Law Enforcement" does not pretend to quote me exactly, and yet many people may construe the language used to be mine. I fear that a wrong impression may result, and I wish to be put right. (1) The Civic League has no "nominating committee" but a committee to inquire into the principles of prosepective candidates and to make recommendations. The field is open for all, but the League intends to get behind three candidates whom they deem most desirable for trustees. They must be men of sterling worth in general and four-square on law enforcement in particular. A Doubtful Experiment (Electrical World) While it is prudent at all times to guard against premature and undue alarm, it is also wise to face a situation at its potential worst. The electric utilities of California are threatened with state ownership and the fight is now on. Why California should want state ownership it is difficult to understand. Either the utilities have not lived up to their opportunities or else politicians are hoping to ride to power by awakening and capitalizing the latent populistic ideas of some of the inhabitants. Be that it may, the fact remains that in a state covered with an interconnected network of transmission lines, where electricity is generated efficiently and economically and where its cost is lower and its use more intense than in any other state in the Union, a state-owned system is seriously considered. We have been wont to look upon California as a very progressive state, on its electric utilities as enterprising and resourceful, and on its railroad commission as one of the wisest and fairest in the country. To us it is unthinkable that this whole system, which has contributed so much to California's upbuilding and to the welfare of her people, should now be discarded for such an ephemeral, untried and visionary a scheme as that now proposed. Stranger things have happened, however, and if this menace to American institutions, traditions and ideals is to be killed once for all, the people of California must be put in possession of the facts. All the demagogy and wind of political oratory cannot prevail against fact, and unless the people at the Golden Gate have gone mad or become vindictive for some reason or other, they will be guided by fact. On a question of fact the United States government, through its census bureau, has this to say: "California, in which are found the most intensive hydro-electric developments in any state in the Union, ranks among the highest in per capita consumption of power, in addition to being first in the use of current for lighting purposes." Notwithstanding the very large consumption of high-priced oil by the public utilities of California in 1917, the date of the last census, and the consequent effect on the price of electricity, the census report of that year shows that the average lightning rate for electricity was less on the Pacific Coast than anywhere else in the country and that California's rate for electricity was lower than that of either Washington or Oregon. Having rendered such an excellent account of their stewardship, it is not likely, if the people are in possession of the facts, that private ownership and operation of electric public utilities will be discarded in California for political ownership. We credit California with more wisdom than that. Comments of the Press WOMAN'S ADVANCEMENT Pittsburg Leader The onward march of women in America continues. Another milestone was reached in the announcement today that the staid old Presbyterian church has agreed that women may hold the office of deacon. And why not? The deaconship is one of the spiritual offices of the church, but its principal duties are to look after the poor, the sick and the suffering, and who is so competent to do this work as good Christian womanhood? Berkeley (Cal.) Gazette The association of district attorneys and federal prosecutors of the state of New York is seeking a way to prevent pistols and small arms from being brought into the state by individuals, and also to prevent interstate shipment of firearms. It is a sort of activity which should be going on everywhere. It is of little use for one community or state to try to control the trafic in deadly weapons as long as other localities have no similar legislation. The Civic League has no "nominating committee" but a committee to inquire into the principles of prosepective candidates and to make recommendations. The field is open for all, but the League intends to get behind three candidates whom they deem most desirable for trustees. They must be men of sterling worth in general and four-square on law enforcement in particular. (2) The expression as to men's sympathies being "wet" or "with the wets," was not intended to cast any reflection upon the personal character of the man or men referred to, or to their personal habits with regard to liquor. Some total abstainers are quite liberal in support of the rights of those who indulge moderately; and many who indulge moderately are strong for law enforcement. I respect the honest opinions of every man, and I ask him to accord the same regard for mine. (3) Your readers must not assume that the league is opposing any man for truicee on personal grounds. It is not a personal matter, but a matter of principle. The league demands better law enforcement as to boot-leggers and blind-piggers. (4) The league was first organized in May, 1921. They asked the city trustees to pass a more stringent ordinance. They refused. We asked for law enforcement. They said, "Get the evidence and we will prosecute." We told them the evidence was to be bad, and advised that they employ a detective. They refused. The league then employed detectives, secured evidence, and several prosecutions and convictions resulted. The city treasury was enriched by the fines and the scare put into the boot-leggers and blind-piggers. The lawbreakers pulled in for a little while and then got busy again. It is the same condition over again. The league is working for a cleaner and better Anaheim. Do the people want that? If they do, they will get back of the league and support it. Yours truly, J. U. HEMMI. WHAT KIND OF BAIT Young Lady (on first visit to Western Ranch)—For what purpose do you use that coll of line on your saddle? Cowpuncher—That line, as you call it, lady, we use to catch cattle and horses. There are more women who would like to be men than there are men who would like to be women. Pittsburg Leader The onward march of women in America continues. Another milestone was reached in the announcement today that the stalid old Presbyterian church has agreed that women may hold the office of deacon. And why not? The deaconship is one of the spiritual offices of the church, but its principal duties are to look after the poor, the sick and the suffering, and who is so competent to do this work as good Christian womanhood? Men who have filled the office because of business and frequent calls from home have, though holding the office, failed, in a degree at least, to do all that was expected, but with a woman on the board of deacons it is altogether likely that there will be no more cause for complaint along those lines. Woman who has done nearly all that has been done in missionary work, woman whose aid societies have kept many a church affloat in a financial sense at least, will bring to the deaconship the kind and sympathetic heart and the helping hand so badly needed in the hour of sickness and suffering. The Presbyterian church has acted wisely. SAD EXAMPLE Crookedness never pays in the long run. Look at the corkscrew.—Burlington News. Continental Finance Corporation, County MEN, and it offers to YOU the of INVESTMENT that it has offered to EVERY DOLLAR INVESTED has THIS CORPORATION IS WORTH The STOCK of this CORPORATION PAR VALUE. Cowpuncher—That line, as you call it, lady, we use to catch cattle and horses. There are more women who would like to be men than there are men who would like to be women. From Farmer to Consumer DAIRY FEEDS J. E. SCHUMAGHER CO. Opp. S. P. Depot W. Anaheim Phone 794 Does This App? The STOCK of this CORPORATION FAST. REMEMBER that $100,000.00 WOULD BE SCRIBED for by the OFFICERS and DOLLAR. NO BONUS STOCK HAS BEEN ONE. There is $150,000.00 worth of this stock being of which is being subscribed for very fast. "Time is too late." If interested, phone No. 1, Anaheim, or address St., Anaheim. OUR MONEY ORANCE COUNTY MONEY ORANGE COUNTY M / SHOULD S Saturday, February 18, 1922 A Laugh or Two IT FEELS THAT WAY The finding of a headless body has caused the arrest of an American dentist. Our experience with dentists is that the head doesn't really come off; it just feels that way.—Manila Bulletins. Said a friend to the proud father of a college graduate who had just been awarded an A. M. degree: "I suppose Robert will be looking for a Ph.D. next?" "No. He will be looking for a J. O. B."—Life. GAME TO THE LAST An editor was dying, but when the doctor bent over placed his ear to the doctor bent over, placed his ear to his lation almost gone!" the dying editor shouted: "You're a liar! We have the largest circulation in the county!" —Exchange. Last Time Today CECIL B. De MILLE'S Magnificent Photoplay Supreme Saturday Night Featuring Conrad Nagel The play that caused a sensation at Grauman's Theatre, Los Angeles Stage Appearance of Orange County Symphony Orchestra HAROLD WALBERG, Conductor 47 WONDERFUL MUSICIANS No Raise In Prices CALIFORNIA Theatre Anaheim No Raise In Prices CALIFORNIA Theatre Anaheim ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF WEST ANAHEIM LUMBER CO. LOCATED AT 1133 Lincoln Avenue GEO. H. SHANK, Prop. Contractors and builders are invited to call and inspect yard and get prices on all building materials. Finance Corporation 100% ANGE COUNTY Fact, that this is YOUR OWN, Finance CorporaONE of the Corporation in the Way of Investment, Corporation, is composed WHOLLY of Orange offers to YOU the same OPPORTUNITY in the way it has offered to the Officers and Directors. INVESTED has the same EQUAL earning POWER. ION IS WORTHY OF YOUR CONSIDERATION. CORPORATION is all COMMON STOCK, at $1.00 ONE of the Corporation in the Way of Investment, ance Corporation, is composed WHOLLY of Orange offers to YOU the same OPPORTUNITY in the way it has offered to the Officers and Directors. INVESTED has the same EQUAL earning POWER. ATION IS WORTHY OF YOUR CONSIDERATION. is CORPORATION is all COMMON STOCK, at $1.00 ed from other Companies throughout the Country their First Year on the Dollar INVESTED, from 20 SEED EARNINGS YEAR TO YEAR. This Appeal To You! CORPORATION is being SUBSCRIBED for VERY $100,000.00 WORTH of this STOCK was SUBOFFICERS and DIRECTORS, at 100 CENTS on the STOCK HAS BEEN OR WILL BE ISSUED TO ANY. this stock being offered to the people of Orange county, "only," Fast. "Time is short." "Today is the time." "Tomorrow may be eim, or address Continental Finance Corporation, 109 East Center OUR MOTTO: MONEY COUNTY MADE SHOULD STAY AT HOME FOR ORANGE COUNTY TRADE