oc-plain-dealer 1922-03-09

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Sublime Philosophy: Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven, And bright with beckoning angels; but, alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams. By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth. —Bulwer. One of California's best boosters is its climate. One's mistakes, if improved upon and made instructive, become stepping stones for success. When one starts out to invest in get-rich-quick schemes, it is not quick riches, but swift and sad disillusionment that one gets. Immigration laws should be strengthened, to exclude all aliens who are disposed to change conditions in America by the bombing process. Congress is expected to adjourn about midsummer. Why not advance the date for Thanksgiving, and let it come on the day that Congress adjourns? Life in California is conducive to robustness of body and healthfulness of mind. For climatic conditions are favorable to outdoor living and outdoor sports and pastimes. Wonderful is radio! Like magic! It is wizardly indeed to sit down, put a receiver to one's ear and from the clear realms of the air ensemble, for the hearing, sounds scores of hundreds of miles away, faithfully reproduced. SELF-KILLINGS MANY IN THE UNITED STATES There were 20,000 suicides in the United States during 1921, according to expert estimate. Disturbed economic conditions and the aftermath of the World War are ascribed as the chief causatives of suicides. It is predicted that, with improved business conditions, the number of cases of self-destruction will decrease. Among the reasons given for the increase of suicides are: The growing complexity of modern life; the feverish unrest; crimes; divorces; questionable dress; unhappy home relations; the decline of religious sentiments—these have produced deranged nerves, depression and loss of self-control. It is shocking to contemplate the fact that 858 children committed suicide last year. This in itself denotes an unhealthy complexity of life and deplorable derangement of nerves. In the grim harvest of self-destruction, the rich as well as the poor were represented. Of the 1921 suicides, eighty-eight were heads of large corporations; seventy-six were millionaires; thirty were wealthy women, and ninety-three were bankers, including thirty-seven bank presidents. Which denotes that mere possession of riches does not make happiness or contentment in life. IMPROVED INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS Reviving industry in California and other Pacific Coast states is reported, for the month of February, by the Department of Labor, in its industrial survey. There was some retarding of ranch work in this state by rains, and building construction also was hampered somewhat. But liveliness in the building industry is expected to ensue as soon as... Life in California is conducive to robustness of body and healthfulness of mind. For climatic conditions are favorable to outdoor living and outdoor sports and pastimes. Wonderful is radio! Like magic! It is wizardly indeed to sit down, put a receiver to one's ear and from the clear realms of the air assembly, for the hearing, sounds scores of hundreds of miles away, faithfully reproduced. "Whatsoever ye sow, that shall ye also reap." They that sow befoilment and slandering of others, will in time reap a harvest of befoulment of themselves. Such things are as inevitable and as inexorable as fate. There is this to be said in favor of Captain Kidd: He did not gather treasure from the poor by deluding them into investing in some bogus get-rich-quick enterprise. There is more honor among pirates than among these smooth rogues. Excellence of climate induced the William G. McAdoos to come to California to reside. When discriminating persons come under the influence, they soon surrender to the charms of the winters, springs, summers and autumns of this state. The purity of American home-life should be protected against every enemy that may threaten it. This institution—the pure American home—is at the very foundation of national greatness and security. It cannot be demoralized and corrupted without endangering the very life of the republic. The United States should not enter into political alliance with any nation or group of nations; nor is there any probability that it ever will do so. But there is the utmost propriety in this Nation co-operating closely and in friendly spirit with other powers in movements for the conservation of just peace throughout the world. IMPROVED INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS Reviving industry in California and other Pacific Coast states is reported, for the month of February, by the Department of Labor, in its industrial survey. There was some retarding of ranch work in this state by rains, and building construction also was hampered somewhat. But liveliness in the building industry is expected to ensue as soon as weather conditions throughout the state became settled. It is quite encouraging indeed that all official reports, including those by the Federal Reserve banks, the Department of Labor, and from other authoritative sources and from influential experts, agree in denoting revival already set in and prospects unmistakably favorable for industrial betterment and brisker business. There are some untoward conditions yet, it is true. These are phases of the situation which could be better—which doubtless will be better erelong. But, taking the Nation over, the peak of unemployment, dependable reports indicate, has been reached. There is reasonable ground to hope that this spring and summer will more nearly approximate normal in economic conditions in this country than any period since the Armistice. WISE AND WITTY SAYINGS IN BRIEF The world's great cry now is for somebody who can make plain work popular. What this country needs is less statesmanship and more hens that will lay during December and January. Good complexions come from what you put in the stomach and not from what you put on the face. Love has but one big word, and that big word is the little word "You." Not in the world hides homeile teeth. Advertising Groves WITHOUT MERIT IS MONEY WASTED Here is one of the best full bearing Valencia groves (almost 10 acres) in Orange county, only mile from session of riches does not make happiness or contentment in life. Proponents and Power Aids back today, adviices from People's Econolges stating nessy, city e head of the Street railway posed to the Efforts had, to induce is also direct Hetch Hetchy act on the gthe measure ownership of development. T a statement in northern city power act, w to the voters ing election, w competition ad adopted. His "Although hisipal ownership ever practicable pending water principal object not work. The great industrial 800 miles long not and cannot "The scheme plan proposed of dollars raises could be devoid utilities alreath would mean we be fatal to us Then, again, preference to developed wouldities nearest arbitrary rule and often in community mily. "No limit is of bonds for This is another badly New scheme of irrigation method project signed and lt As a result th ing financial munities inj damaging the "Advocates the Caribou prise which o the estimate Surely that is ownership. T and little like will be able heers, than any companies. U pen, and with companies pay while public o load on the payers, or both to be sold at make a wide of communitie fairness be pu service. Advertising Groves WITHOUT MERIT IS MONEY WASTED Here is one of the best full bearing Valencia groves (almost 10 acres) in Orange county, only mile from business center of Anaheim, on the boulevard. A bumper crop, without frost, a uniform grove, soil the best, a beautiful home, 7 rooms strictly modern. Price $60,000, the terms easy. Sickness causes owner to retire. James E. Stewart, Realtor 236 West Center St. Anaheim, Calif. Comments of the Press What Editors Are Saying PROPER TASTE FOR GIRLS—Berkeley (Cal.) Gazette The supervisor of home economies in the schools of a large city reports a great improvement this year in the dress of high school girls. She says through the organizations of the students themselves the matter has been taken in hand. Naturally, this works better than any "sumptuary legislation" laid on from above. The supervisor was asked by one group of girls to name the details that she considered untidy, those she thought in poor taste and those she thought immodest. She made this list and sent it to all the schools with which she is connected: Untidy—Shoelaces broken and tied together, safety pins showing, pins used in place of buttons, run-over heels, short ends of loose, straight hair, spots and stains on clothing, wrinkled garments and dusty hats. In poor taste—Exaggerated hairdressing, expensive jewelry with an inexpensive cqstume, silk stockings with a gingham dress, white shoes and stockings with a dark dress, bracelets on the outside of a glove, the use of a vanity case in public, large plaids on a fat girl, limitations of all kinds—cheap faces and jewelry, going down town without a hat. Immodesty—Too short skirts, too low necks, too thin waists, conspicuous underwear, not enough underwear to conceal an uncorseted figure, display of bare knees. One of the interesting things about this list is the small amount of money required to be tidy, in good taste and modest. A few cents for shoe laces and buttons and cleaning fluid, with the aid of a little labor, will turn the untidy girl into the tidy one. Untidiness, moreover, makes for scatter-brainedness, and the girl who has lifted herself from the one class into the other will undoubtedly find her school marks improving. To be in good taste, one needs only a little sense and forethought in buying new things, and a little restraint in the matter of "showing off." It is safe to prophesy that the girl who is tidy and tasteful will, without thinking much about it, develop a sense of modesty in her clothing and conduct. The orderly, tasteless girl will find that the simple and graceful clothes she now chooses are long enough at both ends, and trim enough and substantial enough to fulfill the other requirements, without being clumsy or hampering. New York Letter by Lucy Jeanne Price Water and Power Act Advocates Set Back Proponents of the proposed Water and Power Act received a sharp setback today, according to telegraphic advices from San Francisco to the People's Economy League of Los Angeles stating that M. M. O'Shaughnessy, city engineer and directing head of the San Francisco municipal street railway, is emphatically opposed to the measure. Efforts had been made, it is stated, to induce O'Shaughnessy, who is also directing the building of the Hetch Hetchy project, to support the act on the ground that adoption of any public venture. If the state is going into the water and power business it should acquire existing utilities and make new equipment, yet the German superman system cracked and proved a failure. Democracy with all its faults is more tolerable than defective autocracy. So the great power which it is proposed to give to the water and power board would not get the expected results, for that board would be too far away from the people whose watchfulness and interest and ability to check extravagance are necessary to the success of any public venture. It's rather interesting to read about vertisements and wonder at what kind of experience the people have suffered who have written them. For instance, in a New York evening parer the other day, some one advertised for an architect and his wife to take a permanent position, the wife to be a sort of hostess. I gathered, and the architect to do architecture, suppose. And here was this intriguing sentence: "Must be governed by Mid-Victorian ideas, or better, as domestic relations, but must be otherwise strictly up-to-date." Not much confidence in complete up-to-dateness in that man's mind. Every once in a while a foreign comes to town and gives us lessons in our own talent of "getting along." This one is statuesque and attractive which undoubtedly helped. But this idea took brains just the same. She wanted a piano and couldn't afford to rent one. So she went to a famous pianist whom she knew and who was cramped for space. "I have an exceptionally fine piano," she said. "And I'd be delighted to have you come to my studio and play on it." Proponents of the proposed Water and Power Act received a sharp setback today, according to telegraphic advices from San Francisco to the People's Economy League of Los Angeles stating that M. M. O'Shaughnessy, city engineer and directing head of the San Francisco municipal street railway, is emphatically opposed to the measure. Efforts had been made, it is stated, to induce O'Shaughnessy, who is also directing the building of the Hetch Hetchy project, to support the act on the ground that adoption of the measure would establish state ownership of all water and power development. The engineer declared in a statement given out today in the northern city that the water and power act, which is to be submitted to the voters of the state at the coming election, would result in wasteful competition and prove a failure if adopted. His statement reads: "Although an advocate of municipal ownership of water supply wherever practicable, I am opposed to the pending water and power act. The principal objection to it is that it will not work. Bureau operation of a great industrial enterprise in a state 800 miles long and 200 broad will not and cannot succeed. "The scheme is wrong. Under the plan proposed five hundred millions of dollars raised by bonding the state could be devoted to establishing public utilities to compete with public utilities already established. That would mean waste, and waste would be fatal to so vast an enterprise. Then, again, the act provides that preference to water and power developed would be given to communities nearest the source. Such an arbitrary rule would mean confusion and often injustice, for the needy community might be shut out entirely. "No limit is placed on the amount of bonds for any particular project. This is another plan that will work badly. New South Wales tried the scheme of issuing unlimited bonds for irrigation districts. Under this method projects were improperly designed and inadequately estimated. As a result the projects failed, causing financial disaster to the communities involved, and seriously damaging the state credit. "Advocates of the act have cited the Caribou project, a private enterprise which cost $15,500,000, altho the estimate was but $5,500,000. Surely that is no argument for state ownership. There is no assurance and little likelihood that the state will be able to obtain better engineers, than are employed by private companies. Underestimates will happen, and with this difference—private companies pay for their own mistakes while public companies put the extra load on the taxpayers or the rate-payers, or both. Further, if power is to be sold at cost such mistakes will make a wide variance in the rates of communities which should in all fairness be paying the same rate for service." Village Gossip E. S. Richman of Fullerton noticed a news dispatch the other day, telling of a ewe which had given birth to three lambs, making it necessary for them to take turns at getting their meal. The incident of the ewe giving birth to three lambs was considered such a freak that it was wired broadcast over the country. Mr. Richman states that he can beat that story and go it one better. He has a nanny goat at his home which recently gave birth to four kids, which is the first time he ever heard of such an occurrence. Ordinarily a ewe or a nanny goat only have two udders. Nature however, in the case of the Richman nanny goat, provided for the big family, his nanny goat having four udders, which allows the whole family to dine at one time, it not being necessary to "spread a second table." All of Mr. Richman's kid goats are getting along fine, he states. INVENTS RUBBER MASKS Plastic rubber masks have been invented by a Los Angeles man to give a life like appearance to actors with grotesque features in motion picture photography. CASINGS IN WELLS Casings made of porous concrete for artesian wells, recently invented, are claimed to admit almost as much water as brass strainers, without clogging with sand. HAT DYES Three Kinds. Surely that is no argument for state ownership. There is no assurance and little likelihood that the state will be able to obtain better engineers than are employed by private companies. Underestimates will happen, and with this difference—private companies pay for their own mistakes while public companies put the extra load on the taxpayers or the rate-payers, or both. Further, if power is to be sold at cost such mistakes will make a wide variance in the rates of communities which should in all fairness be paying the same rate for service. "It is easy to talk of getting supermen to run the machinery of publicly-owned utilities. Even if you get them success is far from certain. Germany obtained the services of the best men in the nation. All the German cities boasted of a splendid mu- CASINGS IN WELLS Casings made of porous concrete for artesian wells, recently invented, are claimed to admit almost as much water as brass strainers, without clogging with sand. HAT DYES Three Kinds. All Colors. Heying Pharmacy "On the Corner" Friday and Saturday With Each 35c Bottle Cocoanut Oil Shampoo, One 10c Cake Cocoa Almond Soap FREE! Buck & Gibson Prescription Druggists The New Store with the New Prices Forest Officers State Health Deputies Do you go camping? Last year, according to District Forester Paul G. Redington, over one and one half million people visited the National Forests in California, and most of them camped. Nearly all the large streams of California have their headwaters in the National Forests. Many of these streams furnish drinking water for numerous cities and towns throughout the State. In view of the ever increasing number of people who are visiting the mountains the state officials realize the great danger of contamination to the water supply of these cities and towns. For the purpose of securing better sanitary protection on lands within the National Forests, the California State Board of Health and the United States Forest Service have entered into a cooperative agreement whereby the State Board of Health will deputize Forest officers as sanitary inspectors. Under the authority vested in these appointments the Forest officers will have full power to enforce the state laws and they will see that sanitary practices are observed on the National Forests. Redington said there are three main things to remember when you go into the mountains: "Be careful to see that your camp fire is out before you leave it; Don't pollute the streams. Leave your camp clean for the next person." "These requirements," he continued, "care with fire and a clean camp, are the signs of a real woodsman, an old timer in the woods. If you are one of these you need not worry the next time one of the new deputies visits your camp." From nine in the morning until ten at night, they are in constant use, according to the librarians. Not only by women, either. "It's no uncommon thing to pass out books to as many as six men a day," said one book guardian. "New York is famous for its kitchenette mate population. Probably more men do their own cooking here than anywhere else in this country. Of all people they most need recipes." DEVELOPING RESOURCES A council has been formed to develop the natural resources of Western Australia already has led to the establishment of glass-and pottery works. 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