oc-plain-dealer 1922-03-15

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 Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue; and, of that possessed, To Provide resign the rest.—Gay. A seeker after quick riches and his money are soon parted, never to meet again. More important than words are works. God judges men by what they do, not by what they say. Whoever gets that plant and franchise, it is Henry Ford who has made Muscle Shoals famous. The motion-picture magnates are interested most in picture stars of the first magnitude, not in cinematic asteroids. They are seeing plesiosaurian monsters down in Patagonia. They use to see them in d., t. wards of American hospitals. Uncle Sam will not be at the Genoa conference. But he will have his ear to the ground to catch what is going on there. Every tenth person in the United States owns an automobile. The other nine, by close figuring, feel that they soon can afford one. There is poetry that one reads. And there is poetry that one may see and hear in Nature. And there is poetry that one may live, in daily life. It is coming to pass that the population of California consists of those who are enrolled as students of Town in Re Have you squirreled money yet? !staB emoS, Press Age emoS FULLERTON—A pair Yttuoc Egnaro bats are Fe baggage room awaitant. This species of bat very deadly, more than being necessary to cause arrived at the Santa Fe small crate, without any ing the name of either consignee. The railroad quandry and eagerly awant for the strange freewheeling L. A. Examiner. WIRELESS "There is no place that news travels as rapidly among soldiers."—Maj. C. Rickards, before senate committee investigating actions. She'll Be a Big Mare Grows Up FOR SALE—Seven-year mare, weighs about 630 eveners. A. P. Miller.—tabula (O.) Star-Beacon Not Altogether U Singer—What do you voice? Critic—Well, it mi handy in case of fire. Too many people on already started their vault. There would have to every minute to supply tape there may be no vein. Just Telling Each "It's about a half mile crowds." "You mean as the cry..." Every tenth person in the United States owns an automobile. The other nine, by close figuring, feel that they soon can afford one. There is poetry that one reads. And there is poetry that one may see and hear in Nature. And there is poetry that one may live, in daily life. It is coming to pass that the population of California consists of those who are enrolled as students of the University of California, and a few others. Influenza, theoretically, is much milder than it used to be. But those who have had it this winter wonder what it must have been when it was no mild. A Michigan woman, who is a candidate for office, says she would rather wash dishes than be in politics. Well, then, why doesn't she stick to the kitchen? Wanted—A rich group of American citizens yearning to submit to extra taxes totaling several hundred million dollars. Apply to Congress, Washington, D.C. It will be many a long, weary year before the gigantic debt the World War saddled upon this country is paid in full. This burden should not be extravagantly increased. Immigration laws should be based on common sense and one equitable consideration both for America and its interests and for the honest foreigners who desire to come here. If Europe really wants to better itself economically and if it is willing to strive to its utmost for its own rehabilitation it will find no more loyal and helpful friend than the United States. WISE AND WITTY SAYINGS IN BRIEF Cook-books in the hands of young brides are the hope of the medical profession. The common belief is that everything should come down but our own wages. Your complexion will take care of itself if you take care of your liver. In picking out a wife, a son finds his mother harder to please than himself. Passing as many bad bills as they do, it's a wonder congressmen escape being arrested as counterfeiters. MR. HUGHES DRAFTED THE FOUR-POWER PACT Charles E. Hughes, secretary of state, and head of the American delegation in the arms conference, wrote the four-power Pacific treaty. Mr. Hughes voluntarily gave this information to clear up the doubts and insinuations by opponents of the pact as to its authorship. Mr. Hughes makes an earnest appeal for ratification. He asserts that failure to ratify would be "nothing short of a national calamity." "It is a straight-forward document," says Mr. Hughes, and there is not the slightest mystery about it "or basis of suspicion regarding it." Mr. Hughes' frank and clarifying statement should have strong influence in the senate in behalf of ratification. His declarations show how films some of the "arguments" are which have been urged against ratifying this and the other treaties formulated by the arms conference. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE GUNNETT NOT A CANDIDATE Santa Ana, March 14, '21 The Plain Dealer: It has come to my attention that an Anaheim paper published one day last week an article purporting to be an announcement by me that I was a candidate for city marshal of Anaheim. I wish here and now positively to deny any such announcement for I have not and do not intend to make any such announcement.J.M.GUNNETT. Elsie Ferguson and Wallace Reid are seen again today at the California in "Forever." It is the story of a love that triumphs over all obstacles, and flames thru two lives, the story says forever. There are also other features. NO NEED FOR Mr. Peck—I had a last night. I thought running away, with you Mrs. Peck—Ah! And say to him? Mr. Peck—I asked him in such a hurry. Pittsburg woman shows because he hit her wile How touchy the women Health Hint: Never wife when she cries. THE OLD BRAD The old brass pot in the Shines and scowls at pans. Like a stubborn King He sits and frowns—Orders them about When I'm not looking He was a gift from the What can I do? He bolls rice when I Makes broth when it He is magic But he growls all day Without him it would and comfortably In my little cottage With wistaria, grow open windows What can I do? He tells the frying-p FOR SALE OR RENT HORSES AND MULES This is young stock and guaranteed. Will be sold on trial if desired. Can be seen at my ranch on Garden Grove road. AL SPARKS Call 19-W 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 Town in Review Have you squirreled your mad money yet? !staB emoS, Press Agent: !staB emoS FULLERTON—A pair of fierce red ftnuoc Egnaro bats are at the Santa Fe baggage room awaiting a claimant. This species of bat is said to be very deadly, more than one well directed blow from one of them soldom being necessary to cause death. They arrived at the Santa Fe station in a small crate, without any ticket bearing the name of either consigler or consignee. The railroad men are in a quandry and eagerly await a claimant for the strange freight—From the L. A. Examiner. WIRELESS "There is no place in the world that news travels as rapidly as it does among soldiers."—Maj. Gen. George C. Riekards, before senate special committee investigating alleged executions. She'll Be a Big Mare When She Grows Up FOR SALE—Seven-year-old black mare, weighs about $300; two horse stevensa, A. P. Miller.—Adv. in Ash-tabula (O.) Star-Beacon. Not Altogether Useless Singer—What do you think of my voice? Critic—Well, it might come in handy in case of fire. Too many people on the job have already started their vacations. There would have to be two born every minute to supply the demand. Why worry about the soldier bonus? By the time it crosses the red tape there may be no veterans. Just Telling Each Other "It's about a half mile as the fly crowss." "You mean as the cry flows?" Comments of the Press What Editors Are Saying HISTORY IN PICTURES—New York Evening Post Stephen Leacock once described an "educational film" depicting the discovery of America by Columbus. School children were supposed to be given a wholly new insight into history by the spectacle of three cat-boats tossing in a cove, a stagy set of sailors in property costume recruited from the nearest bunch of supers, and some half-draped streeturchins with turkey feathers kissing Columbus' toe. When D. W. Griffith takes Carlyle's "French Revolution" for the movies, he adds imaginative elements and quite properly makes a secondary part. The recent effort to put Biblical history into the movies was of doubtful taste. But when the Yale University Press undertakes to throw fifty volumes of American history into one hundred reels it hopes to avoid insanity and bad taste while sticking to history alone. Properly dramatized, historical movies should have value in making history seem a matter of life, not of books. Of course they cannot take the place of that subjective imagination which, Sydney Smith said, enables the susceptible reader of Livy to hear the geese cackling in Juno's temple and see the splendor of Hannibal's single eye. One could wish that the filming of history would have its marked effect upon the writers as well as upon the potential readers. A little more drama, color, and costume would not hurt the present generation, or any generation, of American historians. There is about as much imagination in many current historical books as in a bookkeeper's ledger; they are collections of facts, that is all. These collections are useful, but, as Roosevelt once told the American Historical Association, they are as far from being history as the unerected materials of Salisbury Cathedral would be from architecture. Just Buttons Cost 100 Million Yearly The people of the United States pay an average of $100,000,000 a year for buttons and have sent $16,000,000 worth abroad since the beginning of the war. The history of the button industry in the United States, since the war cut off our principal source of foreign buttons, drawn chiefly from Germany and Austria-Hungary, is says the Trade Record of The National City-Bank of New York, one of great activity both in home production and exportation. In the year before the war the value of the buttons turned out by our factories was $20,000,000, while a census statement recently announced shows the value of the outturn of our button factories in 1919, the latest census year, $43,000,000, and experts in 249 were in the state of New York. Japan, always alert in recognizing new developments in world needs, has also tremendously increased her button output in recent years and especially that of pearl buttons, as is illustrated by the fact that she sent to the United States in 1920 5,000-000 gross of pearl buttons, valued at $1,947,000, while the pearl buttons drawn by us from all other countries amounted to less than $30,000. New York Letter Too many people on the job have already started their vacations. There would have to be two born every minute to supply the demand. Why worry about the soldier bonus? By the time it crosses the red tape there may be no veterans. Just Telling Each Other "It's about a half mile as the fly crows." "You mean as the cry flows?" "No, I mean as the flow cries—heck!" "I see—as the clow fries! No! No! I mean—" UNCANNY Suppose man should free himself from gravity, as scientific journals are predating he will to the extent of learning some day how to make an airplane stand still in the air without falling. Hard labor would become easy. A moving van man, with an anti-gravity device, could make a piano as easily handled as a feather. Heavy freight trains would become light. With gravity under control, friction would be reduced. Pipe-dream? Not any more than moving pictures, wireless communication and the airplane seemed in Abraham Lihcoln's day. "Two-faced people don't double their face value with me," says Lil' Gee Gee, the office vamp. NO NEED FOR IT Mr. Peck—I had a queer dream last night. I thought I saw a man running away, with you. Mrs. Peck—Ah! And what did you say to him? Mr. Peck—I asked him why he was in such a hurry. Pittsburg woman shot her husband because he hit her with a hammer. How touchy the women are getting! Health Hint: Never laugh at your wife when she cries. THE OLD BRASS POT The old brass pot in the corner Shines and scowls at the kitchen pans. Like a stubborn King He sits and frowns—Orders them about When I'm not looking. He was a gift from the fairy queen—What can I do? He bolls rice when I want it. Makes broth when it is needed; He is magic. But he grows all day Without him it would be pleasant and comfortable In my little cottage With wistaria, growing over the open windows—What can I do? He tells the frying-pan The history of the button industry in the United States, since the war cut off our principal source of foreign buttons, drawn chiefly from Germany and Austria-Hungary, is says the Trade Record of The National City-Bank of New York, one of great activity both in home production and exportation. In the year before the war the value of the buttons turned out by our factories was $20,000,000, while a census statement recently announced shows the value of the outturn of our button factories in 1919, the latest census year, $43,000,000, and experts in that industry estimate that the sum paid for them by the "final consumer" in the United States was about $100,000,000. The total number of buttons turned out by the factories of the United States in 1919 is stated by the census at 69,323,000 gross, or equivalent to practically 10,000,000 buttons. Beside this big total of over $40,-000,000 worth of buttons supplied to the home market by our manufacturers, they have rapidly expanded their sales abroad. Prior to the war the value of the buttons exported from the United States averaged a little more than a half million dollars a year, but with the chief European button manufacturers, Germany and Austria-Hungary, cut off from the outside world the foreign demand upon the United States was greatly stimulated and the value of our exports of this class of manufacture jumped from a little over a half million dollars in 1914 to 1% millions in 1919, and nearly 4 million dollars in 1920. Of this big production and exportation the once despised "mussel" existing in enormous quantities in the rivers of the United States and especially the Mississippi furnishes an important part of the material used in the manufacture of pearl buttons, and the score of button factories, which line the Mississippi in Illinois and Iowa turn out millions of dollars' worth of pearl buttons the exports alone of that particular group "pearl buttons" having amounted to nearly a million dollars in 1920. In fact, a little over one third of the buttons turned out in 1919 were "fresh" water pearl or shell," the total number in that year being 23,960,000 gross out of a grand total of 69,323,000 gross. The whole world has apparently learned the attractiveness and value of the United States button. Of the pearl buttons alone exported in 1920 direct sales were made to no less than 60 countries and colonies, and the $3,000,000 worth of buttons other than pearl distributed went to over 80 countries and colonies. To Europe alone the 1920 exports of pearl buttons amounted to $300,000 and all other buttons $800,000 making the 1920 exports of buttons to Europe, formerly the great button manufacturer of the world, over a million dollars, while the remainder of the nearly $4,000,000 worth exported in 1920 were distributed to North and South America, Asia, Oceania and Africa. NEW YORK, March 15. Marriage may be regarded as pretty desperate conduct to be advised. But it certainly is less startling than bombs of black anarchy. The other day a gathering, of the unemployed was held down on one of New York's waterfronts. Expectations were sensational. All sorts of courses were said to be contemplated. Some of the city's bravest reporters went in a body. The crowd was small but orderly, but hopes still smouldered in onlookers hearts that the suggestions made by those who were to address them would be exciting enough to give some thrill. This was the most definite advice or suggestion: an orator named A. Goldman got up and said: "There was recently a story in the news of a young laboring man who married a rich woman much older than himself. I suggest that all of you find women of wealth and marry them." Intellectual interest may take various forms. Theodore Maynard was much amused by the one and only demand for knowledge he was able to solicit from a verse class before which he lectured in New York. He concluded his remarks by reading from his poems, and then asked if there were any questions any one wished to ask. There was a long silence broken at length by a lifting feminine voice inquiring, "Who are you, please?" We do get living nature—the true essence of the out-of-doors—in motion pictures as the spoken drama can never give it to us. And when, in addition to that, we have real drama, splendid characterization, good acting, skilled direction, exceptional photography and a great story—well, then we may be glad that we didn't live and die before the screen took its place in life. All this is called forth by having seen "The Prodigal Judge" the other night, a new film in which Macklyn Arbuckle does some of the best work of his career in the role of Judge Slocum Price. Love interest is not the dominating feature of the story but it is there with Jean Paige as the heroine of it. If you saw her in "Black Beauty," you know what she can do. The play is based on a story by Vaughan Kester and is principally concerned with a politically prominent and aspiring citizen of the old South who flings away ambition and becomes a vagabond after his wife runs away with When I'm not looking. He was a gift from the fairy queen— What can I do? He bolls rice when I want it, Makes broth when it is needed; He is magic But he grows all day Without him it would be pleasant and comfortable In my little cottage With wistaria, growing over the open windows— What can I do? He tells the frying-pan To stay on its hook— He shouts at the other pans In a gruff voice— They all might be so happy In my cozy kitchen! Tell me—but you must whisper— What can I do? —Hilda Conklin. The capital now invested in the button manufacturing industry of the United States is approximately $30,000,000, and the sums paid in wages in the last census year over $10,000,000. Of the 557 button factories in the United States in 1919, direct sales were made to no less than 60 countries and colonies, and the $3,000,000 worth of buttons other than pearl distributed went to over 80 countries and colonies. To Europe alone the 1920 exports of pearl buttons amounted to $300,000 and all other buttons $800,000, making the 1920 exports of buttons to Europe, formerly the great button manufacturer of the world, over a million dollars, while the remainder of the nearly $4,000,000 worth exported in 1920 were distributed to North and South America, Asia, Oceania and Africa. The scarf has become almost the insignia of the age. Never outside of the Klondike did those articles have such vogue as they have right here in mild America. The latest domain to be invaded by them is the sands and waters of the sea. Scarfs of rubber in brilliant colors to match the bathing cap, adorned with painted figures and finished with long rubber fringe are the latest accessories to swimming and beaching costumes. HAVE YOUR CAR SIMONIZED Leave your car one day, and we will scientifically dry, clean and Simonize it, removing all stains and blemishes and providing a hard, dry shining surface. We make used cars better than if repainted, providing the finish is not entirely destroyed, and if new cars are Simonized before being used, it will positively protect the finish and prevent the wear and tear of weather and travel from destroying it. We do this at a very reasonable price, very little more than you are paying for an ordinary wash and polish. Anaheim Simoniz & Auto Paint Company 139 S. Los Angles St.—Ph. 232 V. C. HALBERG H. D. HALBERG SPECIAL ESTIMATE OF CITRUS DAMAGE The farm advisor's office has just received for publication a summary report of the wind and frost damage to citrus during the winter. The report is quite comprehensive and a result of a survey made by E. E. Kaufman, state corp reporter. "What is more generally conceded to be the most disastrous freeze in the history of citrus production in California occurred January 19-21. Although a month has passed it is still impossible to estimate definitely the damage sustained. Official temperatures of 20, 22 and 23 degrees were reported in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, such low temperatures continuing for hours on one or more nights of the period. Smudging was resorted to in many localities and in most instances accounts for the difference in degree of the damage reported. As of Dec. 1, the preliminary estimate of the bureau of markets and crop estimates indicated a total orange crop of about 22,500,000 boxes. During December some damage resulted from high winds in the southern counties where fruit was not only blown from the trees but was mailed around sufficiently to injure it for shipping, and as high as 20 per cent damage was reported. Estimates on the total crop was reduced by as much as 5,000 cars or about 10 per cent. This would leave a crop of approximately 20,250,000 boxes of which about 10,000,000 boxes would be navels and the balance valencias and miscellaneous. At the time of the freeze there had been shipped and placed in packing houses a total of about 4,000,000 boxes equivalent to 9,000 cars and all navels, leaving approximately 6,000,000 boxes of navels on the trees. Estimates of the damage to this portion of the crop vary widely by reason of location of the groves, differences in temperatures, and the amount of orchard heating done; making it difficult to arrive at definite figures representing the loss. Reports now indicate a 50 per cent loss to the navel crop remaining on trees, leaving about 3,000,000 boxes of mer- At the time of the freeze there had been shipped and placed in packing houses a total of about 4,000,000 boxes equivalent to 9,000 cars and all navels, leaving approximately 6,000,000 boxes of navels on the trees. Estimates of the damage to this portion of the crop vary widely by reason of location of the groves, differences in temperatures, and the amount of orchard heating done; making it difficult to arrive at definite figures representing the loss. Reports now indicate a 50 per cent loss to the navel crop remaining on trees, leaving about 3,000,000 boxes of merchantable fruit, not all frost free but which can be marketed. Miscellaneous varieties were probably damaged fully as much as were navels. Opinions differ widely as to what extent the valencias may recover. Two months hence will tell the story; no one seems qualified to do so just now. It can be said, however, that in the heaviest producing valencia districts, temperatures were not so low and did not hang around the danger point for so long a time. Consequently the loss is not so great and 60 per cent of the crop or about 6,000,000 boxes may be marketable. On the basis of 450 boxes to the car, the total orange crop available for market following the freeze will be about 20,000 cars with the odds favoring a decrease from this figure. Some of the heavy lemon producing sections escaped with less damage because temperatures were not quite so low and also by reason of the fact that a comparatively larger percentage of the lemon acreage was protected by smudging. The lightest damage was in San Diego and Ventura counties and around Corona. About 600,000 boxes had been shipped, and 40 per cent damage to the remainder of the crop would leave about 2,800,000 boxes of lemons for shipment until October 31, next. To what extent orange and lemon trees have been damaged and what the effect will be on the next crop is problematical. Some damage has undoubtedly been experienced but cannot be definitely estimated for some time. Whole orchards have been practically defoliated and others look like they had been swept by fire. The bark of young trees, particularly lemons, in a few places has been split open by the action of the frost and severe damage must inevitably follow. EAT DEAD MICROBES NOW PARIS, March 15.—Eat dead microbes of the disease you want immunity from instead of being vaccinated. This is the latest scheme of French physicians. Subjects remain without food for 18 hours and then take two meals of germs. The method is said to have worked with fever, from which the subjects were made immune. HAT DYES Three Kinds. POLITICS VS. ECONOMICS LOS ANGELES, March 15.—It is one of the greatest weaknesses of our American system of Government that we approach our great economic problems as political problems and treat them in partisan terms," William G. McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury and Director General of Railways told the City Club here. McAdoo declared the railways of the country an "archaic machine" and lauded the plan for hydro-electric development of the Colorado river. Why Neglect Your Feet? when you can get expert advice as to the cause and for the relief of same Free You don't have to suffer with bunions, cramps in the joints, corns or flat feet. Come in and let us demonstrate to you how quickly the relief comes when the right corrective measures are applied. Dr. Scholl's Zin Ox Pads will give you relief for that corn on your little toe immediately. Try them. Lindsay's HAT DYES Three Kinds. All Colors. Heying Pharmacy "On the Corner" Do You Know that your local Southern Pacific agent can arrange every detail of a local or transcontinental journey, secure your Pullman accommodations, check your baggage from here to destination, and otherwise help you in your transportation problems both passenger and freight? Why not do your business here in Anaheim? MALTBY, Agent elephone 123 145 S. Pacific Lines