oc-plain-dealer 1922-04-28

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. $3; six months $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Cal., as second-class matter The cost of living is just what you make it, and no more. People who want revenge make juicy picking for the lawyers. Prophecy is a 50-50 proposition; you either hit it or you don't. Bravery should have a reasonable degree of judgment mixed with it. It's a bad thing for a country to have more taxes than it has efficiency. As a man's bank balance increases there is a tendency for his waistband to follow suit. Watch the dealer, hold your cards close up and don't overplay your pile. A butcher's books give a more accurate insight into a man's promptness in meeting bills than a Bradstreet report. Suppose, twenty-five years ago, someone had predicted radiophones, wireless telegraphs and airships in general use in 1922—such person would have been termed "queer," if no stronger term had been used. It is come to pass that achievements of today stagger the prophets of yesterday. This is a year to inspire calm, intelligent thinking on the part of the individual voter, before casting ballot in November. Issues of great importance are before the country, and will be until these issues are settled to the satisfaction of the people. A well-informed electorate will decide with sagacity and discretion TO DEVELOP WESTERN ART West is the self-imposed task of the Greek Theatre department of the University of California. By the presentation of high class productions and the encouragement of playwrighting among Californians the theatre is offering the highest inspiration and the greatest inducements to the production of good plays. The prize play written by a California, which is the first to be awarded the $300 prize offered by the Greek Theatre, will be presented here Saturday evening. It is the work of Dan Hotheron of San Francisco and was chosen from eighty-four entries from all sections of the state. The contest will be followed later by similar state-wide competitions by which it is hoped to stimulate interest in dramatics. Each prize play will be presented in the Greek Theatre by carefully chosen casts. In connection with the Greek Theatre movement for the development of art in California th Western Association of Art Museum Directors has been formed with Nilson Laurik of the San Francisco Arts Association as its head. This organization will arrange traveling exhibits of the work of Western artists and will bring to the West the work of Eastern artists. In addition to the Greek Theatre will participate in the organization of a repertory theatre with productions of modern drama in Oakland and Berkeley by actors drawn from the local community, the formation of the Drama Theaters' Federation of California, the purpose of which will be to raise the standards of dramatic production in the public schools. It will also ar- This is a year to inspire calm, intelligent thinking on the part of the individual voter, before casting ballot in November. Issues of great importance are before the country, and will be until these issues are settled to the satisfaction of the people. A well-informed electorate will decide with sagacity and discretion as to issues and candidates. Work is one of the very best gifts inherited by mankind. Much as the imperativeness of having to work sometimes chafes the tired worker, yet were this worker condemned to permanent idleness he or she would be utterably miserable. There is no satisfaction in life quite so keen as that which arises from doing useful work well. The worker gets infinitely more happiness out of life than the chronic idler. Comments of the Press What Editors Are Saying FRENCH WOMEN ADVANCING Chicago Journal Leaders of the woman's movement in France have set themselves to remodel the whole civil law of that country, and thereby have given a stunning surprise to thousands of Americans. France, in this respect, offers the most amusing contrast between theory and practice that the world holds today. Theoretically, and in the eye of the law, the French woman is an inferior person, a "natural slave." as Napoleon brutally phrased it. Left to the law alone, she has no rights over her property, her children, her correspondence, her place and manner of living. The husband is absolutely master of all these things. Practically, the French woman usually is the controlling partner in marriage and wields a greater influence than her sex enjoys anywhere else in Europe—perhaps greater than women wield in America. Legal disabilities of women should be abolished—and now that France has taken up the question, they are likely to be abolished in comparatively short order. They cause a deal of lost motion and needless effort, and no doubt are made instruments of petty tyranny on many occasions. Statute books should be brought up to the standards of the civilization which enacts them — but one will make a host of absurd mistakes if he judges a civilization by its statute books. "Fit where others fail" Queen Quality Shoes Supreme in style as they are in value If you would have shoes which express the newest and best in footwear fashion, with never a trace of the freakish, or undignified — Comfortable as only perfect-fitting footwear can be, and of such superior material, and workmanship that they will retain their shapely beauty under the hardest service — Then look for the Queen Quality trade mark on the sole of every pair of shoes you buy. To a million fastidious women it is the symbol of style, fit and that unusual service which means economy. It is your assurance of shoe satisfaction. A smart, comfortable, though slightly practical walking exeford, smuch liked, by the "sailor-made girl." THE S. Q. R. STORE Anahiem Town in Review Dear Sir: This is for your epitaph collection: Here lies the body Of our little Tim; He blew down a gun barrel— And it blew back at him. Reader. A pair of twins were born to a family named Pancake back in Kansas the other day. Somebody popped up and suggested that they be named Jack and Flapjack. But they're girls, and the opinion is that this would hardly suit. BARNUM HAD THE RIGHT IDEA The old joke on the country feller who paid a city slicker his savings of a lifetime for the union station seems about due to pass. The municipal grafters in Kansas City actually sold hunks of the street to produce dealers for wagon stalls—and pocketed the money. — Eldorado, Kan., Times. IIAR I would be honest day by day and yet I like to steal away. Though I would always truthful be, I'd like to lie beneath a tree. —Detroit Free Press. No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.—Phaedrus. While a Los Angeles man was at church Sunday, thieves broke into his cellar and carried off $10,000 worth of hootch. If there is a moral to this one, you say it. Editor Town in Review: This is old, but maybe the rising generation hasn't heard it: A fly and a flea in a flue were imprisoned; so what could they do? Said the flea, "Let us fly!" Said the fly, "let us flee!" So they flew through a flaw in the flue. —Dick. It is easier to get well on in years than it is to get well on in cash. AND THE EASTER MILLINERY BILLS A Frenchman has discovered an "anti-shock serum." You take a dose before you open the gas bill.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Edifor Town in Review: You seem to like limericks, so please print this one and be sure the printer sets it up correctly: A man who lispes said to me wunth: "I wath told that there'th no rhyme for month. I heard him thay tho, But the chap didn't know— I think he wath simply a dunth. —Daily reader. The government has been asked to police the air. By all means, provided they police the hot air! Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.—Horace. MAKING HIMSELF CLEAR A subscriber writes to the Anthony Republican as follows: "Don't send us your paper any more. We ain't taking any papers now or we would take yourrr, but we don't want none at the present time. The Republican is a awful good paper but we can't take no paper now, so please stop your paper. We'll take your paper again when we can take a paper. Don't send it no more." When I reach the end Of this job each day, I just lean back And roar "Hooray!" While a Los Angeles man was at church Sunday, thieves broke into his cellar and carried off $10,000 worth of hootch. If there is a moral to this one, you say it. Editor Town in Review: This is old, but maybe the rising generation hasn't heard it: A fly and a flea in a flue were im- HOW WAS IT DONE Records kept by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company decrease in the death rate among its Industrial, or weekly premarital 1921 with 1911, for example, there were 55,000 less deaths have been if the 1911 death rate had prevailed. What brought about the great saving of life? The general public health movement—progress in medicine other causes, perhaps. But a very great factor has been the carried on by the Metropolitan itself. This page tells a part o METROPOLITAN Life Insurance Co Incorporated by the State of New York. A Mutual HALEY FISKE, President FREDERICK H. E. Business Statement, December 31, AssetsLarger than those of any other Insurance Company in the Increase in Assets during 1921 Larger than that of any other Insurance Company in the LiabilitiesSurplus Income in 1921 Larger than that of any other Insurance Company in the Gain in 1921 Larger than that of any other Insurance Company in the Total Insurance placed and paid for in 1921 More than has ever been placed in one year by any other C HELPING THE EMPLOYER TO HELP Employers insuring their employees under Group policies are advised regarding health conditions and accident prevention, while the employees receive the benefits of nursing service and welfare literature. 238,000,000 PIECES OF LITERATURE Attractive booklets and pamphlets in great variety, dealing with the important phases of health and disease, and prepared by leading experts, are distributed broadcast. So far, 238,000,000 copies have been distributed—25,000,000 in 1921. In addition, 18,000,000 copies of The Metropolitan, a health magazine, are issued annually. A CITY THAT IS WATCHED In Framingham, Mass., the Metropolitan is leading the way in a great experiment, watched by health authorities throughout the country, to demonstrate what proper municipal health regulation can do. Deaths from tuberculosis have dropped from 121 per 100,000 to 40 per annum. GROWTH IN TEN-YEAR PRIORITY | Year | Income for Year | Assets at End of Year | Surplus at End of Year | Num in Foil | | :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | | Dec. 31, 1891 | $11,423,496.68 | $13,626,948.21 | $3,068,533.18 | 1891 | | Dec. 31, 1901 | 88,017,163.59 | 74,771,758.56 | 9,938,694.23 | 1901 | | Dec. 31, 1911 | 98,125,273.71 | 352,785,890.36 | 32,930,499.87 | 1911 | | Dec. 31, 1921 | 301,982,699.39 | 1,115,583,024.54 | 47,241,179.50 | 1921 | The Company issues policies from a Hundred to a Million. In fact, its Ordinary is now larger than its Industrial. The Company also issues Health and Accident Policies. GREATEST IN ASSETS IN BUSINESS PLACED IN BUSINESS GAINED IN BUSINESS IN FORCE Friday, April 28, 1922 "I like 'em" Chesterfield CIGARETTES of Turkish and Domestic tobaccos—blended "They Satisfy" statement that is human Record AS IT DONE? Life Insurance Company show an extraordinary industrial, or weekly premium, policy-holders. Com- were 55,000 less deaths in 1921 than there would be of life? ment—progress in medical science and sanitation—that factor has been the tremendous health campaign This page tells a part of the story. FOR THE NATION'S HEALTH 144 health exhibits and emergency hospitals at county fairs last year; 295 "Clean-up" campaigns; agitation by Agents for health legislation; nationwide campaigns against special diseases; sickness and sanitary surveys; a study of municipal health departments; leadership of practically all American research work relating to influenza—these are some instances of the Metropolitan's activity in interest of public health. OPOLITAN Insurance Company State of New York. A Mutual Company FREDERICK H. ECKER, Vice-President ment, December 31, 1921 Insurance Company in the World. $1,115,583,024.54 Insurance Company in the World $134,669,937.37 Insurance Company in the World $1,068,341,845.04 $47,241,179.50 Insurance Company in the World $301,982,699.39 Insurance Company in the World $38,462,919.41 Insurance Company in the World. In 1921 $1,564,789,607 one year by any other Company in the World. $625,695,325 HOMES FOR 17,744 FAMILIES In the investment of its funds, the Metropolitan is now giving preference to loans which will aid housing. During 1920 and 1921, the Company made and pledged loans of $68,080,017, on new dwellings and new apartment houses, providing homes for 17,744 families. GREAT DECLINE IN DEATH RATES The death rate among Industrial policy-holders reached its lowest point in 1921—31.9% lower than in 1911. The rate from typhoid decreased 71%; tuberculosis, 49%; Bright's disease, nearly 30%; infectious diseases of children nearly 37%. The "Expectation of Life" of white males (reckoned from age 10) increased 4 years. GREAT DECLINE IN DEATH RATES The death rate among Industrial policy-holders reached its lowest point in 1921—31.9% lower than in 1911. The rate from typhoid decreased 71%; tuberculosis, 49%; Bright's disease, nearly 30%; infectious diseases of children nearly 37%. The "Expectation of Life" of white males (reckoned from age 10) increased 4 years. PUBLIC APPRECIATION The American people have made the Metropolitan the greatest life insurance company in the world, with $7,005,707,839 insurance in force. It leads not only in Industrial but in Ordinary. More than half of its business in force is Ordinary—$3,892,207,274—which is more than that of any Company in the world. THE FUTURE The Metropolitan will continue its endeavor to offer the best there is in life, health and accident insurance, and to save human life. Continued growth will give the Company still greater opportunities to serve the American people in insurance protection and in the conservation of life and health. HEN-YEAR PERIODS Surplus at End of Year Number of Policies in Force at End of Year Outstanding Insurance at End of Year YEAR 1891 $3,088,533.18 1891 2,281,640 $258,707,763 1891 1901 9,938,694.23 1901 6,234,302 1,076,977,204 1901 1911 32,939,469.87 1911 12,007,138 2,399,878,087 1911 1921 47,241,179.50 1921 26,542,422 7,005,707,839 1921 In a Hundred to a Million Dollars of Insurance. More than its Industrial. and Accident Policies—minimum $5,000. TEST—IN ORDINARY BUSINESS in FORCE IN REDUCTION of MORTALITY IN HEALTH and WELFARE WORK The People, FOR the People."—John R. Hegeman