oc-plain-dealer 1922-02-23

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 GREETINGS TO OUR READERS And, Oh, when passion rules, how rare The hours that fall to virtue's share! —Sir Walter Scott. Soldier bonus should not be made a partisan political issue. Moderation not only tends to lengthen life, but makes it more satisfying. There are some things worse than piracy. Captain Kidd never employed the Ponzi or Blischof method, or any other method, to rob the poor. The average citizen should exercise as much sagacity in his political decisions as he does in his business affairs. The many honorable, decent persons in motion pictures should not be stigmatized because of the vices of the comparatively few black sheep connected with that great industry. War lords of the future should be set to plowing with the plowshares into which swords are to be beaten, and to trimming up orchards with the pruning hooks into which spears are to be turned. There is a hinting that some of the giant sequolas are to be left outside the limits of the proposed enlarged park to be given the name of "Roosevelt," and that these forest monarchs thus excluded may fall prey to the greed of commercial interests and be cut down. That should be prevented. Those trees should be conserved and protected, and none of them should fall except by the hand of Providence. SCHOOLS FOR BURGLARS DISCLOSED Burglary is being taught by an established school in Los Angeles, according to papers found on a man in Providence, R. I., who was attempting to commit a burglary in the vestry of a church. In the man's possessions were found several correspondence course lessons on how to be a burglar, and a diploma showing that this man had been graduated from this school. He was a clumsy burglar, however, and was caught in the act. Evidence is frequently disclosed that criminals are banded together in closely-knit organizations to protect each other and to make their nefarious operations more resultful. But that there is an established school here in California to teach burglary and to award diplomas for proficiency in knowledge of methods of burglarizing is disquieting, to say the least. This is not a branch of education to be encouraged or to commend itself to public support. It is an institution however, that should commend itself to diligent inquiry by local police and by authorities of the federal government. For if the mails are being used to give correspondence lessons in burglary, it should be possible to trace down the origin of this instruction and to break up this "school." America is noted for its devotion to and generous support of the means of education. But there is not room—not even standing room—in this country for methodical training in crime. That school for burglars should be ferreted out and closed up. Benjamin Franklin would have been great and would have earned the gratitude of mankind had he done nothing else than to give his It Seldom Rains at Time of Orange Show Thanks of all orange growers and other citizens interested in local weather conditions are due to Herman A. Dickel, Anaheim pioneer, for his gift to Anaheim Chamber of Commerce, of rainfall statistics collected here, from October 7, 1879, to the end of May, 1921, when Mr. Dickel's rain gauge disappeared, and he folded his tent to become a resident of Pasadena. The record was kept from 1879 to 1884, by A. Langenberger, one of the original Anaheim settlers, long deceased, and Mr. Dickel took the work over in 1884, and patiently carried on the work for the 39 intervening years. Orange Show enthusiasts, interested in probabilities for more rain during the ending days of May, may rest assured when they learn that the Langenberger & Dickel records show rain between the 23-30 of May, only in the years 1882, 1906, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1921. In 1882, it rained on May 24-25, only nineteen hundredths of an inch; in 1906, on the 26-27-28, 1:26 inches; in 1918, on the 28th, 39 inch; in 1919, on the 22nd, 41 inches; in 1920, May 21, 66 inch; in 1921, as is well remembered, Jupiter Pulvius reigned and rained on the 19.20.22.23, of the festal month of May and cut down the receipts of Only One of Our Kind in Anaheim If you Believe in Saving, save this, it's worth $20. Seeing and knowing is believing. Don't take our word. Get high-class custom tailoring at popular prices. $35.00 Real custom made tailor the Valencia Show not less than $10,000. It was for that reason, and on account of the information afforded by Mr. Dickel's record, that this year's Executive Committee set the opening day forward to the 23rd. The record, boiled down for ready reading, shows that in the months of May during the forty two years covered, there was an average precipitation of exactly $31 of an inch, and that, except in the case above noted, this rainfall occurred during the earlier part of the month. Income Tax Facts The statement is issued by John P. Carter, collector for the Sixth District of California. Numerous inquiries have been received regarding the proper interpretation of Section 223 of the Revenue Act of 1921, which provides that each individual whose gross income for 1921 was $5,000 or over shall file a return regardless of his or her net income. Gross income means statutory gross income defined by the keyvenue Act to include gains, profits and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service... of whatsoever kind and in whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations, trades, business, commerce or sales or dealings in property, whet... or personal growing out of the ownership or use of or interest in such property; also from interest, rent, dividends, securities or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit; or gain or profits and income derived from any source whatever. Gross income does not necessarily mean gross receipts. A merchant, for instance, in computing statutory gross income should deduct therefrom the cost of goods sold. For example, a merchant may have gross receipts amounting to $10,000, but the cost of goods sold amounts to $7,000. He has no other income. The statutory gross income would be $3.000. In case the other deductions al... If you Believe in Saving, save this, it's worth $20. Seeing and knowing is believing. Don't take our word. Get high-class custom tailoring at popular prices. $35.00 Real custom made tailored in our own shop $35.00 Silk sewed and lined with first-class linings. But be sure to get in the right spot. Large volume and small profits have ten sales to one, but by giving real satisfaction to every customer. H. Chasin High-Class Tailor 213 E. Center St. Anaheim, Cal. Gross income does not necessarily mean gross receipts. A merchant, for instance, in computing statutory gross income, should deduct therefrom the cost of goods sold. For example, a merchant may have gross receipts amounting to $10,000, but the cost of goods sold amounts to $7,000. He has no other income. The statutory gross income would be $3,000. In case the other deductions allowed him for business expenses, taxes, interest, bad debts, etc., amount to $2,500, his net income would be $500. No return of income is required in this case. A lawyer who is married and living with his wife has gross receipts in the form of fees amounting to $6,000 and his necessary business expenses amount to $4,200, leaving a net income of only $1,800. A return will be required in this case, as taxpayer's gross income as well as gross receipts is $8,000. WEALTHY MAN ARRESTED LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23.—Carrying in his pockets and handbag securities worth the better part of a million dollars, William Wendt, known in Buffalo, N.Y., as the "Tron King," was arrested on a warrant charging insanity by detectives as he was about to take a train at the Southern Pacific station. He was placed in the county hospital psychopathic ward for observation. He came to California with the securities on Oct. 3, 1918. OPTOMETRIST Glasses Fitted Ten years a member of the North Dakota state board of examiners of optometry. Advanced optical knowledge together with twenty-three years' experience makes our name stand for SERVICE. Using the Vertex Lenses for testing together with the most scientific instruments on the market. DR. WALTER R. BLAKELY OPTOMETRIST Office Over S. Q. R. Store Hours, Except Sunday Special Appointment 8 to 12—1 to 5:30 By Request THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DEALER, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA UPLIFTING DISCUSSIONS By Dr. Orison Sweet Marden MISSING THE THINGS FOR WHICH WE STRIVE A New York millionaire recently admitted to me that his life had been largely a failure because of the lack of continued self-investment, the cultivation of his finer nature, the broadening of his mind by reading, travel and self-improvement generally. He had totally neglected all the things which would build a fine, desirable personality, the things that would have made him an educated, cultivated man. He had paid no attention to music or art, or even books. He had a fine library; but he said that it meant almost nothing to him, because he had not acquired the reading habit. The beautiful art objects and expensive paintings of the masters in his great mansion made no appeal to him. He simply bought such things because other rich men did, because they were considered valuable, the symbol of a cultivated taste. It is amazing to see the great number of men in this country who are struggling for success, and yet are missing the very object at which they aim. The very fierceness of their pursuit, the unnatural methods they employ, and the tremendous strain they put upon their faculties, wreck their lives and make the success for which they long an absolute impossibility. They become so absorbed in the terrific competition of business, in the great American game of fortune building, that repose harmony, leisure, and a quiet mind—the very things necessary for real growth, for higher attainment—are unknown to them. I have watched some of these men at the opera and other theatrical shows, and have seen them leave their seats and go to the smoking room, pace up and down the corridors, or talk about business. Nothing else seems to interest them. Their brains are so active and they have formed such a habit of pushing and driving everything—and every body about them, that they really do not know what pulse, real refreshment, or rest means. They don’t even take time to get acquainted with their children, to know them, to keep pace with their growth, to sympize with their aspirations, to guide them to help them to solve their life problems. They sacrifice their friendships, their homes, their families, everything for business. A man can have no greater delusion than he should spend the best years of his life coining all his energies into dollars, neglecting home, his friendships, his natural feelings — everything really works while for money, and yet find happiness at the end. What he will find—if breakdown or premature death overstays doesn’t overtake him—is slavery. The capacity to enjoy anything out side of the game which has shrively his soul will have died in him. The “ticker” and the market quotation are the only things that will interest him. He will not be a man but monstrous money-gland, a slave his business. When we hear of the great success of a business man, we want to know what he has lost on the way to his fortune; we want to know whether he has been a success as a husband as a father, a success in his home whether he has been a success in his friendships in his social life; for the piling up of money is a small part of real success. In their mad chase for wealth many men show no more intelligence than that private soldier of whom the historian, Gibson tells us. Who the Roman emperor, Galerius, sacked the camp of the Persians, there for into the hands of this man “a bachelor of shining leather, filled with pearls. He carefully preserved the bag, but threw away the contents.” The money chasers throw away the finest things in life, real success. Select Verse THE NEW SILVER DOLLAR The new silver dollar is lovely to see. But any old dollar looks lovely to me! Now fresh from the mint. To a welcome in print Come a cartwheel of silver to brighten the place, Aglow with the smile on a pretty girl's face. But the bank clerk announces with looks that are black: "That thing may be art, but the dollar won't stack." I wish I'd a million all strewn on the floor. They might clutter the place and I wouldn't get sore! They might tumble and fall Any old way at all. Roll under the bureau or under the bed. I'd still be admiring that young lady's head; Those glorious dollars I'd never attack, Or curse or despise them because they won't stack. Some call her a "flapper"—the young lady who Has loaned her fair face to the dollar so new. I've seen long-bearded men on a "five" or a "ten." And though no one would say they were handsome to see, The greenback that wore them still looked good to me; So it's little I care for the fault-finding pack. Good dollars are dollars although they won't stack. The bank clerks may grumble, the art critics sneer, But the new silver dollar I'll cherish and cheer. To my life's journey end All its charms I'll defend. I'll sing of its praises wherever I roam. And should it be friendless, I'll give it a home; Oh, never in hatred will I turn my back On the new silver dollar because it won't stack. POEMS OF LIGHT Wait In Joy Do your dull days give scope for no great act? Build them a lovely dream outshining fact, Be beautiful and strong, until the hour That brings high use for your outpouring power. The rainbowed waterfall upon the hill Becomes the valley stream that turns the mill. Lighting the Way The friendly rays that fall tonight game of fortune building, that repose harmony, leisure, and a quiet mind—the very things necessary, for real growth, for higher attainment—are unknown to them. I have watched some of these men at the opera and other theatrical shows, and have seen them leave their seats and go to the smoking room, pace up and down the corridors, or talk about business. Nothing else seems to interest them. Their brains are so active and they have formed such a habit of pushing and driving everything—and every-pairings in his social life; for the piling up of money is a small part of real success. In their mad chase for wealth many men show no more intelligence than that private soldier of whom the historian, Gibson, tells us. Who the Roman emperor, Galerius, sacks the camp of the Persians, there for into the hands of this man "a bait of shining leather, filled with pearls. He carefully preserved the bag, but threw away the contents." The money chasers throw away the finest things in life, real success. Wright Prohibition Act Is Volstead Law (By Charles H. Randall, Prohibition Congressman, 1915-1921.) What is the Wright law, or the Wright Enforcement Act, of which we are beginning to hear so much? Why is it to appear on the ballot in California this year? Why shall we vote in order to support it, or oppose its adoption by the state? Answering the first question, the Wright Prohibition Enforcement Act is a law passed by the last legislature in compliance with the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution adopting prohibition as the constitutional law of the United States. The Eighteenth Amendment empowers congress and the several states to enforce prohibition by appropriate legislation. All states except four including California, have already adopted such laws. California's legislature has twice enacted the law authorized by the Eighteenth Amendment, but upon both occasions the law was held up or suspended by a referendum petition of those opposed to prohibition. Two years ago this law was known as the Harris Act, and was defeated by the voters at the election. Following that defeat the legislature passed the present Wright Act, being careful to omit the drastic features of the former Harris law. The Wright law follows the Volstead law word for word, in fact it simply incorporates the Volstead Act into the California statute books. It goes even further, and provides in the event the Volstead law is changed in any way, the California law will automatically follow these changes. This disarms every possible objection which was made two years ago to the Harris law because it proposed to make California more arid than the law of congress did. The Wright Act will appear on your ballot this year, and if you favor enforcement to the constitutional law of your country by your state as well as federal officials, you should vote "yes." One important provision of this law, which every citizen will favor is as follows: "Sec. 4. All fines and forfeitures collected under any ordinance now or hereafter enacted shall be paid into the treasury of the city or county whose (dry) ordinance is violated." Under the present system, while California has no state prohibition enforcement law, all cases prosecuted under the federal law result in millions of dollars in fines going to the United States treasury, while the state in which the crime is committed receives nothing but the odium and the expense caused by the presence of the criminals. WISE AND WITTY SAYINGS IN BRIEF Ignorance of business matters is distinguishing mark of the politician. The college yells come in handy students who go into the fish-bedding business. Common sense will improve the man race a whole lot more than eugnics. Romance is something that goes just so far, and then quits cold. Woman is bigger than language for no one has been able to write down what she is. BOOTLEG GANG IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA PASADENA, Feb. 23—A gang bootleggers is operating between San Francisco and southern California; the local police are convinced, following the arrest of C. J. Neumauer one liquor charge. Evidence was found that the man's possessions to show that "bonded" liquor is being counterfeited by bootleggers. A fine of $500 and 60 days in jail were imposed. Endorse Washington Memorial Plan WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—Mason of the United States expressed the approval today of the final plans for the erection of a beautiful memorial building to George Washington which is to be built at Arlington Ville. The cost of the structure is estimated at $2,000,000. It will stand over 20 feet above the ground and will be plain view of the national capitol. Do your dull days give scope for no great act? Build them a lovely dream outshining fact, Be beautiful and strong, until the hour That brings high use for your outpouring power. The rainbowed waterfall upon the hill Becomes the valley stream that turns the mill. Lighting the Way The friendly rays that fall tonight Down roads our trusting footsteps take Ages ago, from some vast height. Left some bright star that may be dead. So words go taking swerveless flight To guide men's steps on some far way; May only love and truth go out to light Those brothers on that fateful way. —Anna Cathrine Markham. JAMES BROWN POTTER DEAD RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 23. The father of Mrs. Fifi Potter Stillman. James Brown Potter, is dead here. He died suddenly after his arrival from New York. HARDWOOD FLOORS st. J. Ohland, Local Mgr. 610 E. Chartres Anaheim Phone 776-W Anaheim Battery Co. GOULD Dreadnaught Batteries Recharging and Repairing 132 Chestnut St. Phone 108-J J. E. SCHUMACHER CO. Opp. S. P. Depot W. 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Wick Always Leads, Others Follow. SERVICE THAT SATISFIES. Wickersheim Implement Co. Fullerton STRANGE PHILOSOPHY REVEALED IN TANGLE 50 WELLS DRILLING AT SANTA FE SPGS. With Oil Operators Santa Fe Springs can still be said to be a wild cat field. Some fifty wells are drilling and as yet none of these have located the sands that made Bell No. 1 famous. The Amalgamated Oil Company claims the best showing of the wells drilling in the field at Delugge No. 1. The showing came at 3917, and the water string was set. The Standard's Brownrigg-Kellar has passed the 4600 mark and looks like it will be necessary to go to 4,700, the depth of the Amalgamated's line well, now producing 345 barrels before production is obtained. Hepler No. 1 set 81-4 at 3970. Pacific Clay Products set at 3971. Drilling on South Whittier Community No. 1 has dropped below 4000 feet. Wolfskill No. 1 set at 81-4. Thus far the Standard's drilling would indicate deep production in five locations in the field. The outlook for a field at Palms is not encouraging. The Eddystone Oil Corporation's Burkhart No. 1, now drilling at 4845 has not struck anything that looks like oil. A lot of brown shale has been drilled thru, but it carries no oil. The Union Oil Company's test well got down to 5000 feet, the drill pipe twisted off, leaving the well in a rather bad condition for any further work. There is just a chance for the recovery of the pipe and getting the hole in condition for drilling again. Abandonment would be justified now as there has been no showings of importance. Attention is being focused on the Richgrove Oil Company's well near Hollywood. At 564 feet a good showing of oil was encountered and the pipe set. The Richgrove people believe they are about to open up something big and give Southern California a second shallow field that will rival the famous Camarillo field. CROSS-NATION MAIL IN 30 HOURS SOON LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 — Deliv- SOUTH MUST HAVE HARBOR FACILITIES LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23. — Development of So. Calif. will be seriously interfered with, unless its harbor facilities are developed, says Edward N. Hurley, former head of the U. S. shipping board and member of the Federal Trade Commission at the 31st annual banquet of the Chamber of Commerce in the Ambassador hotel last night. Hurley lauded Henry M. Robinson for the services Robinson rendered at Washington and during the peace conference at Paris. The facts were brought out at the dinner that 437 new industries and 23 new shipping lines were brought to this city during the past year. SEEKS $75,000 FUND LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23. — The Y. W. C. A. will begin a campaign on Feb. 28 for a fund of $75,000 to carry on the work in this city. Plain Dealer for Good Job Printing. CROSS NATION MAIL IN 30 HOURS SOON LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23. — Delivery of mail by airplane between New York and San Francisco in 30 hours within five years was predicted by Eddie Rickenbacker, premier American ace, in a speech before the city club. He is busy checking up on the service, with the view of making recommendation for the expenditure of $15,000,000 for improvements. He predicted airplanes operated by electricity for fuel and directed by wireless in the near future. STARR Phonographs "THE DIFFERENCE IS IN THE TONE" You will find the best of entertainment and refreshment in the music that come from the Starr Singing Throat of Silver Grain Spruce. There are many scientific reasons why the Starr betters all records, but the actual proof is a "hearing". Any time we will be glad to play the Star and the new Gennet records for you. No obligation. We are glad to let you know why real musicians prefer the Starr. 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