oc-plain-dealer 1922-03-10

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 He touched his harp, and nations heard, entranced; As some vast river of unfailing source Rapid, exhaustless, deep, his numbers flowed And oped new feelings in the human heart. —Pollock. Strange that they are not seeing sea serpents off the coast of Florida, toward Cuba. There is success that seems to be failure; and there is failure that seems to be success. Angels come down and serve men usefully by disguising themselves as adversaries. Politics should be made the friend and servant of the people, not their taskmaster and tyrant. They who have been writing Mr. Lloyd George's political epitaph are somewhat premature. Should the world ever have another great war, it would be the fault of those nations which could prevent it but would not. California has a comparatively severe winter once in a decade probably sent by Providence to remind Californiaans that they are living on earth, and not in heaven. Wireless telephony is having a development as remarkable as that of wireless telegraphy. They, with advance in aeronautics, point the way to marvels in swift communication through the ether, over land and sea. DEEP WATERWAY NEEDED BY MIDDLE WEST The Middle West, regarding itself as "landlocked" and handicapped in its growing commerce overseas because of the long and expensive railroad haul to reach the Atlantic seaboard, is moving vigorously in behalf of the proposed deep waterway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, through the St. Lawrence River. Normally, the movement of freight from the Middle West to the seaboard is about 200,000,000 tons annually. The barge canal through New York state is totally inadequate to carry this say experts of the Middle West who have studied the subject thoroughly. The railroads, too are unequal to the task of transporting the huge volume of Middle West products at the time most opportune for marketing, and rail freights, added to ocean freights, deprive Middle West producers of much of the net profit they should have. The St. Lawrence deep waterway would ameliorate these conditions and bring about a complete readjustment of transportation routes and situations in the whole West, to the betterment of this section. It is to be expected that New York will oppose the deep waterway project strenuously, because of the inroads it would make upon the commerce of the port-of-New York and the prestige it would take from that metropolis and give to Chicago and other great lake ports. But the issue doubtless would be decided ultimately on the principle of "the greatest good to the greatest number," which is the proper and salutary course. PRE-HISTORIC MONSTER IN PATAGONIA? Get out your textbook on zoology. California has a comparatively severe winter once in a decade probably sent by Providence to remind Californians that they are living on earth, and not in heaven. Wireless telephony is having a development as remarkable as that of wireless telegraphy. They, with advance in aeronautics, point the way to marvels in swift communication through the ether, over land and sea. Should Congress not vote enough money to buy fuel for American warships, that would bring on a naval holiday of another kind. The fleet would have to stay in harbor and forego cruises and practice maneuvers. The navy should not be forced into a holiday of this kind. Singular that Los Angeles and San Francisco are not busy, vying with each other for the honor of entertaining the next Republican and Democratic national conventions. There is no good chance to get one or both of these great assemblages for California, if invitation is pressed vigorously. Public sentiment should be made manifest to the Senate in connection with the fight for ratification of Arms Conference treaties. The monumental work of that historic meet should not be undone in the blindness or prejudice of a minority of the Senate. It is possible for one more than one-third of the Senate to block ratification. While the outlook for the four-power treaty looks reasonably bright, yet it is not safe beyond all doubt. President Harding's cabinet has developed an acute case of friction—that between Secretary of the Interior Fall and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. Government of Alaska and proposed transfer of the forestry bureau from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior, started the controversy. Secretaries Fall and Wallace both are substantial and influential men and Mr. Harding would be loath to lose either of them from the cabinet. The ill-feeling may be composed by some diplomatic turn on the part of the President. PRE-HISTORIC MONSTER IN PATAGONIA? Get out your jectbook on zoology. Turn to the chapters which treat of prehistoric times. All ready Well now that from Prof. Clementi Onelli, director of the Buenos Aires Zoological Garden, comes intimation and belief that down in Patagonia—which is the territorial caboose of the continent of South America—there lives and roams a plesiosarian—do you get this?—monster, an amphibian of the Meszoic order, which, according to the canons of zoology should be extinct and a fossil, but which is as much alive as a New Jersey mosquito in summer camp season. A traveler, while hunting in the Patagonian Andes, discovered a trail flattened-out vegetation near a lake, indicating the track of an animal of enormous weight. This traveler subsequently, it is solemnly alleged, saw in the middle of the lake an animal with a collosal neck like that of a swan, whose movements in the water indicated that the body was shaped like a crocodile. This report is sent out to the world with semi-scientific O. K. But it should be remembered that the person alleged to have seen this monster was not himself a scientist. Three facts should be weighed, too, in deciding how much evidence to place in this report, namely: The person telling the story was hunting, presumably having along with him ample provisions and refreshments; the scene was laid in a wet country; also in a "wet" region. Planting of trees here in California should be encouraged. Let the grown-ups set the good example before the children. The vital importance of reforestation should be impressel upon the young. California should take the lead of all the states in volume of planting of trees. 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 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. THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DEALER, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Comments of the Press What Editors Are Saying REPERTORY THEATER EVOLVING Christian Science Monitor There is a development in the theater that is slipping quietly upon us, but which we will all know about in a very few years. It is founded on old lines, but this age will give it its stamp of originality, and as a page in the history of the theater it will prove most interesting. The system that for 25 years we have known as the commercial system in the theater cannot, in the very nature of things, survive. No art can thrive on factory plans, for the very simple reason that creative art dies in the presence of the commercial conditions demanded of it. The return to a modernized form of the "repertory or stock system" is inevitable, if the spoken drama is not to go out of existence entirely. The little-theater movements across the country have kept alive the creative art quality during the past few years, and have "discovered" for the larger theaters, among other things, the new playwrights, stage directors, and new plans for stage lighting. The guilds are taking the next step. Other guilds in America are beginning to come into existence. The Theater Guild of New York has the greatest success so far; but others are beginning to appear in the horizon. The guilds will in turn influence artistically the repertory theater, when it comes, and as the repertory theater is the ideal theater, it is sure to come in America. AMERICA'S NAVAL POLICY Washington Post The artification of the naval limitation treaty and the fixing of the naval personnel, according to the situation produced by the treaty, will not mean that congress is required to follow blindly the lead of the administration. The margin of legislative liberty of action is wide indeed. Congress remains, as before, with sole authority to "provide and maintain a navy," under the constitution. But the exercise of that authority is not incompatible with the wholehearted co-operation with the executive in promoting good relations with other nations. The treaty limiting capital ships could not go through the senate unless, congress, as a whole, should favor the plan, for the senate has only one character and cannot support in a treaty what it would oppose in a legislative capacity. The treaty outlines a broad policy which could not be expressed in a law, because a law is of domestic concern only. The United States could not co-operate with other nations if it were dispossessed of the power to make treaties. A treaty is the supreme law of the land, but it is also a law in other lands. Economy and enthusiastic reduction of naval expenditures are good, but they should be in line with national policy as already well defined. NEW YORK LETTER NEW YORK, Mar. 10—St. Simone's Episcopal church which was consecrated the other day, is one of the most interesting of the modern churches in the city in the story of its construction. It was started as a her rooms come "loud and continuous noises and disturbances," which is hardly a sympathetic way to speak of the work of students in that art. The courts will have to decide the matter, as a law passed way back in 1847 protects the inhabitants of that part. Cypress, March 1 Hello Folks: a have been misheard that they were wearing them long in the Angel City and I went up without my smoked glasses. My was awful! For a while I thought the Scot Highlanders were on parade. It wonderful how some women can travel about on such fragil legs who others have to drag most of their weight about from their knees down. What gets me is why they want to parade a pair of brooms sticks a pair of ten gallon kegs. Seems if they would not like to have sudeformities noticed. Stockings, Man! they can not described. But say, leaving the extremes of the modern short skirts, which lows freedom in movement, and gives grace to the women not parade, is a great improvement of the old street sweepers the ladies used to wear. We poor men will always have put up with the dress of women without judgment. I suppose it is just as bad for a sensible woman to watch a big healthy male spec... NEW YORK LETTER NEW YORK, Mar. 10.—St. Simeon's Episcopal church which was consecrated the other day, is one of the most interesting of the modern churches in the city in the story of its construction. It was started as a mission 21 years ago, and the first services were held in a stable, the altar standing where the manger had been. For many years this stable served as the place of worship for the members, until in 1906, the construction of the new building was begun. It is now one of the handsomest Gothic structures in the northeastern section of the city. The current number of the Columbia Jester shows what frivolities can be set forth by "highbrows" when they put their minds to it. None other than the respected Prof. Brander Matthews himself is one of the contributors, with a flippant, unreproving doggerel on "The Flapper," and Edwin Markham, Ellis Parker Butler, and others of like fame have sprinkled the pages with jesting. The New York group spending February on the Riviera is larger this year than at any time since the pre-war days. Just now they are frivolating at full speed at the annual and very gay carnival at Nice. Once more have George S. Kaufman and M. Connellly scored. They made their mark when they wrote "Dulcy," that wonderful gay and truly clever comedy. We were almost afraid to have them do another because it didn't seem as though they could possibly live up to the "Dulcy" standard. But "To The Ladies," which opened the other night at the Liberty Theatre proved the futility of fears. Its satire is as keen and as humorous, its people as real and as engaging in their human stupidity, its lines as skillful as they all were in the earlier production, and its triumph as great. Helen Hays and Otto Kruger have all the desired appeal, too, as the young married couple who are weightily concerned with the husband's business advancement, so that the audience loves them while it laughs at them—and laughs at the business world at large, even more. Which is quite as it should be in a true comedy. The return of Louis Sherry to the corps of restauranteurs is a cause of rejoicing in the city. Sherry's had become such a recognized New York institution that it was almost as though Central Park had been turned into building lots when he closed his doors and retired from the avenue. Now he is back, on Park instead of Fifth this time, but it is the same her rooms come "loud and continuous noises and disturbances," which is hardly a sympathetic way to speak of the work of students in that art. The courts will have to decide the matter, as a law passed way back in 1847 protects the inhabitants of that part of the city against any such thing as business being carried on within its confines. Town in Review A Chicago girl broke her neck while combing her long, flowing hair. Which is about the only good argument so far submitted in favor of bobbed hair. The time of year has about arrived when members of picnic parties at Orange-co park will reach the conclusion that old Noah had more than two ants in the ark. "Travel enriches the vocabulary," says a magazine writer. Absolutely. Especially if you travel in a second-hand fliver sold to you by an innocent looking guy who said it was better than new and good for at least 50,000 miles. Dear Mr. Mann: I am not a poet of any great ability, such as Rock Cool Claude, Tommy Getz, Barraeuda Pete and Old Town Ike, but frequently I try my hand at free verse. This is my latest: Mary Rose Sat on a pin; Mary Rose. —JUDGE SHAKESPEARE. CAMOUFLAGE You've probably observed that most Kinsley girls eat like a canary when there's company in the house. But they make up for it when they get to the kitchen.—Kingsley (Mo.) Mercury. Why did the good Lord make a man who can sit and watch a horse-shoe pitching contest all day? Dear Town in Review: A mother heard her little son say "damm" three times yesterday, and told him that if he would never use the word again she would give him 10 cents. "Gee," responded the young American, "if that one is worth 10 cents, I know some words worth $1.50." —CONTRIB. Dear Colonel: Speaking of up-to-date journalism, this I found in Ozark Democrat-Enterprise: "Last Wednesday morning Miss Eva Buckner make her bread so... so that the audience loves them while it laughs at them—and laughs at the business world at large, even more. Which is quite as it should be in a true comedy. The return of Louis Sherry to the corps of restaurateurs is a cause of rejoicing in the city. Sherry's had become such a recognized New York institution that it was almost as though Central Park had been turned into building lots when he closed his doors and retired from the avenue. Now he is back, on Park instead of Fifth this time, but it is the same Louis Sherry and the same familiar and unrivalled atmosphere. Is music a business or an art? Much depends upon the decision on that mooted point. Augusta Hays has a music studio where she teaches in the exclusive Murray Hill district—113 E. 35th street, to be exact. Now, since time immemorial that district has been restricted against "business"; and some of Miss Hays' neighbors are complaining that teaching singing is not only a business but an obtrusive and disturbing one. The neighbor who has made the most articulate complaint alleges that from Dear Town in Review; A mother heard her little son say "damn" three times yesterday, and told him that if he would never use the word again she would give him 10 cents. "Gee," responded the young American, "if that one is worth 10 cents, I know some words worth $1.50." —CONTRIB. Dear Colonel: Speaking of up-to-date journalism, this I found in the Ozark Democrat-Enterprise: "Last Wednesday morning Miss Eva Buckner make her bread so salty it wasn't fit to eat; ah! Eva, next time use more flour and less salt. —FRIEND. HAT DYES Three Kinds. All Colors. 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Seems as should not like to have such noticed. is, Man! they can not be leaving the extremes out, on short skirts, which alom in movement and really to the women not on a great improvement over street sweepers the ladies ear. or men will always have to with the dress of women withment. I suppose it is just a sensible woman to have a big healthy male spec- WISE AND WITTY SAYINGS IN BRIEF The only way to drive a nail is to hit it squarely on the head with a hammer. Bitter experience is twice as bitter if it comes when you are old. Perhaps no human task is harder than thinking more of others than you do of yourself. Philosophy is a poor substitute for a square meal. Modesty will never come back until it becomes the style. To find truth, listen to both sides and then split the difference. What has become of the o. f. woman who used to boil soft soap in the back yard? We grant, although he had much wit. He was very shy of using it. —Butler man parading around with a Charlie Chaplin mustache and a wrist watch. The freaks have one good influence. If it were not for them we would no appreciate the really good dressers. Yours, SARGUM SPROUT. How Would You Say It? "Grammar is frequently misconceived," says A. R. Brubacher, president of the New York State College for Teachers, in an article on "The Mother Tongue in School," in Scribner's Magazine. "To the conscientious objector it is a linguistic straight-jacket whose purpose is to hinder the natural movements of sentences and to compress the shape of words, arbitrarily, into fossil forms. This is a perverted view. Grammar is merely a record of usage. It seeks to show how the mother tongue is used by persons of education and good speech habits. It is the simplest means of making language intelligible to all alike. Grammar is to the language, as a whole, what the dictionary is to words alone. 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