oc-plain-dealer 1922-05-08

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departing hours Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. —Young. Enforce the law within the law. Rail not at the weather. God makes it. Justice does not ride at night with masked face. Some men let their virtues run into hardening of the arteries. Lady Astor is against the double standard in morals. Lady Astor is right in this. Better be a pagan altogether than to be a confirmed hypoerite in professing Christianity. There would be far less friction in social relations if there were fewer meddlesome mischief-makers. Is not the saving of human lives enough consideration to impel this country to control its floody streams by scientific processes? Things will not be right and proper in the social economy until every class and element of society gets a square, equitable deal. Will H. Hays has started out to clean up moving pictures. It's a gigantic task. But possibly that "H" IF A FAILURE AT GENOA, WHAT THEN? Should the Genoa conference fail, what would be the fate of Europe? It is a distressing thing to contem-template. Should that assemblage break up with rancor and discord, without an agreement among the nations of Europe to keep the peace, there could be no economic restoration, so long as this bitterly discord-ant state of affairs prevailed. Europe soon would be turned into an armed camp, with millions of men drawn from peaceful industry to waste their time idily waiting for the next great war to break. Misery would be entailed; hunger would stalk; famine would reign. For Europe must get busy at peaceful pursuits and at useful production, or undergo dire hardships. Surely the nations participating in 'the Genoa conference will take cognizance of the terrible consequences that would come from a failure to agree upon a feasible, bona fide plan to foster peace and to promote economic re-habilitation. Prejudice and passion and overwrought fears should be relegated at Genoa. There yet is opportunity to redeem the conference from threatened disruption and disaster. Will Europe prove to the world that the fires of civilization-and orderly progress are not dying out in that contipient? It is to be hoped and prayed that it will. CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM BENEFICIAL The civil service system no doubt has defects. Any system devised by finite men would have. But, with all its defects, it is infinitely better than the "spoils" system of making political appointments to office and of basing tenure of office upon political considerations. Merit service is better than political service, any Is not the saving of human lives enough consideration to impel this country to control its floody streams by scientific processes? Things will not be right and proper in the social economy until every class and element of society gets a square, equitable deal. Will H. Hays has started out to clean up moving pictures. It's a gigantic task. But possibly that "H" in his name stands for Hercules. They who recklessly add to the dangers of traffic by speeding should be punished. And any who persist in breaking speed ordinances should be deprived of license to drive. See California this spring—not all of it, of course; but make scenic trips as you have time and opportunity. The whole face of Nature is radiantly beautiful this spring, following the heavy rainfall of the winter. Scored killed by floods in Texas. Other scores will be killed by floods there again in future, should there be no scientific controlling of the floods. Leaving streams uncontrolled is a standing invitation to disaster to come, and to come often. Pedestrians and drivers alike will benefit from the proposed rule that the former keep to the left on a road so as to face an oncoming vehicle. This, of course, has nothing to do with turning to the left—the former rule in Canada, England and elsewhere. CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM BENEFICIAL The civil service system no doubt has defects. Any system devised by finite men would have. But, with all its defects, it is infinitely better than the "spoils" system of making political appointments to office and of basing tenure of office upon political considerations. Merit service is better than political service, any day. If it were not for civil service law provisions, and the system of merit evolved under this law, the government of the United States would be a huge camp of political workers—or shirkers. It has been a boon to the public service to have the merit system instituted and to have such large numbers of federal employees hold office on merit rather than on political favor. The system thus built up despite the antagonism of crafty politicians, should not be smashed or surrendered. The Western hemisphere should set an example to the Eastern hemisphere in the matter of disarming. There is o reason why the republics of Latin America should maintain heavy armaments. They are not menaced from overseas, thanks to the Monroe Doctrine and the power of the United States back of it. They should not be menacing to each other. The United States, heaven knows, does not menace them. It would be an inspiring spectacle to see marked reduction in armaments in these sister republics. Profits Ahead UNION PACIFIC TO SPEND CLOSE TO $10,000,000; GET IN NOW! Over 50 Anaheim Citizens Have Bought Already. Come Investigate Today. Save One-third of Your Salary Over 50 Anaheim Citizens Have Bought Already. Come Investigate Today. Save One-third of Your Salary Belvedere Gardens (The tract that is making history.) Adjoining the enormous Union Pacific Project; thousands of men to be employed. Homes going up over night. 5c Car Fare $600 up--$25 Starts you Pa. $10 a month return ...allowed. AND MANY OTHER'S Angeles Liberal Stop-Overs and Choice of Routes. UNION PACIFIC C. S. BROWNE, G. A. 419 Busli St., Santa Ana, Calif. Telephone 1877 IT'S REACHED TH' POINT WHERE TH' FELLER THAT MENTIONS ABOUT BUSINESS IS REGARDED AS BEIN' HARD UP FOR SOMETHIN' T' TALK ABOUT. A RADIO RECEIVIN' SET IS A DANDY THING T' KEEP FOLKS AT HOME WHO DON'T DRINK. TOWN IN REVIEW Dear Town in Review: No doubt you, like we other favored dwellers in Anaheim have heard the mocking birds singing at night. And perhaps you also knew that it was the male bird doing the singing, and that he was perched, not far from the nest where his mate was covering the egg. When I have heard these nocturnal serenades, the above thought has always been a pleasing one to me, and I liked the sentimental aspect of it all, but now a friend of mine has come along and shattered another idol. NEW YORK, May 8.—Photographic reproduction of every painting or drawing of modern times are to be contained in the Frick Art Reference library, to supplement the art collection left to this city by Henry C. Frick. It is a gigantic understaking, but although the work has been under way only little more than a year, 15,000 items have been collected, classified and placed on file. Investigators are working in London and Parris ferreting out photographs of old collections and gathering data, and photographers are at work both in this country and in Europe making copies of pictures that have never been photographed. There is only one other art reference in the world, so far as is known that of Sir Robert Witt in London. I came across a girl the other day who had spent four years studying to qualify as secretary to a big-business man, but had just left her $25 per-week job to become a waitress in a tearoom where she is now averaging $70 a week on tips and a $12 retainer. Has this anything to do with the democratization of the world? In the Times the other day, a man advertised for a position at housework, "either as butler or useful." This effort at dress reform may not be quite as distressing as some others. Mrs. Ripley Hitchcock is president, and Charles Dana Gibson, himself, vice president, will hold an exhibition beginning the last week in March, to show artistic dress as created by the girl of today. Its announced object is to "divert ambiguous tendencies in dress reforms into the definite channels of concrete portrayal of artistic dress." The Parents League, the Board of Education, and leading dress-makers of New York, Chicago and Cleveland will co-operate. REGULATION W. E. ALLEN California Biological Feature Service This morning while looking over a book on natural history, I noticed a short description of the Franklin's Grouse, or "Fool Hen." It is a bird which has formerly been fairly abundant in the North-West but is approaching extinction in Washington. A beautiful bird of poor flavored flesh, it is especially nordic for its fearlessness which attracts comment from every observer, not admiring comment but contempt. A typical story concerning it is to the effect that one specimen calmly sat at the limb of a tree, looking at a poor marksman who repeatedly shot at it with a rifle and that it did not even move when a toe was shot off. All accounts agree that these birds are often caught by hand or that their heads may be easily knocked off by a stick carried in the hind. Any one who has had experience with a skunk vividly remembers how calmly and deliberately this animal comes along with very little regard to a man's wishes in the matter. Every one admits his fearlessness but no one praises his intelligence. The porcupine is even more noted for being fearless, and stupid. Inexperienced men are often fearless just as is an inexperienced child but no one rates their intelligence very highly. Under the influence of alcohol or other drugs a man may become fearless but it is because he has temporarily destroyed his intelligence, not because he has increased it. The country boy has always found delight in taking his city cousin to see a hornet's nest which the latter fearlessly investigates, but never again. Every year people who do not fear the ocean surf are drowned at our beaches. Two years ago a man was killed by a Gila Monster which he did not fear. A few months ago a drunken man and his companion died suddenly because he had no fear of the powerful automobile engine under the control of his finger tips. Frontier history abounds with counts of men slain, families de... Dear Town in Review: No doubt you, like we other favored dwellers in Anaheim heard the mocking birds singing at night. And perhaps you also knew that it was the male bird doing the singing, and that he was perched, not far from the nest where his mate was covering the eggs. When I have heard these nocturnal serenades, the above thought has always been a pleasing one to me, and I liked the sentimental aspect of it all, but now a friend of mine has come along and shattered another idol by telling me that Mr. Bird is not out there on a limb to be company to his mate, at all, but that he is kept there by Mrs. Bird so that she will know just where he is at night while she is busy, and the louder he sings the surer she is that he is still there and not visiting some neighboring nest. N. R. M. Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.—Le Sage. AND I HOPE IT'S HARD LABOR As soon as the world tires of sex novels a lot of novelists will have to work for a living.—Chicago News. History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortune.—Voltaire. An egotist is the center of an admiring crowd. And he composes the whole crowd. FLIPFLAPPANCY It is not by her garments new. And neatly dapper. But by her flippancy that you Can tell a flapper. —Scissored. Dear Town in Review: Why not a few looney lines for your column, as follows: Tom A. Towe (Tomato) and Sweetle Prune canteloupe because the potato has his eyes on them. He would be sure to turnip and beet them to it. Oh, lettuce have mercy on this pear! THE CRICKET. Alpine, Calif. Every time I Pick up a newspaper or a magazine and see "copyrighted" over an article, I know, without reading, that it is a bum article. A CAT WHAT AM A CAT Mrs. Edith A. Smith has a cat that knows a thing or two. One day last week the cat brought in a garter snake. It left it in a closet off the back pantry. Mrs. Smith in looking over some articles in the closet that afternoon came across the snake, which was in an almost dormant condition. It had life enough, however, not quite as distressing as some others. The Art Center, of which Mrs. Ripley Hitchcock is president, and Charles Dana Gibson, himself, vice president, will hold an exhibition beginning the last week in March, to show artistic dress as created by the girl of today. Its announced object is to "divert ambiguous tendencies in dress reforms into the definite channels of concrete portrayal of artistic dress." The Parents League, the Board of Education, and leading dress-makers of New York, Chicago and Cleveland will co-operate. One of the most interesting — to me —places in and about New York City is over at Fort Lee, across the Hudson, where Frank Attaway educates dogs for motion pictures and the regular drama. He was formerly a trainer with the biggest and most popular of the dog pony shows which we used to love so. "Half-r raised young dogs that have had to hustle for a living make the aptest pupils," he declares. Once more we realize the close affinity between dogs and humans. The Council of Jewish Women, that organization which always achieves such practical philanthropy, has sent a Barnard student, Miss Elinor Sachs, to Europe, where she is to be the first of a corps of young women who will help prepare the immigrant women for life in this country. They will instruct the waiting emigrants at the points of embarkation and organize a service that will gradually reach back into the small interior towns. They are not interested in increasing the numbers of those sailing for America but in doing a little advance Americanization work with those already decided to come. THOSE WHO SLEEP IN FRANCE When all is dark, And Life's frail baubles tire, I turn again to take the pathway winding. Where brooding pines are touched by sunset fire; 'Mid friends of yore, assured of finding A welcome warm that still will show No change from long ago. Though all seems dark. And smiles again I know will greet me there. The same—alas! the same in future never: For some met Fate amid the unbound air. Beneath the sea some sleep forever. And far in France on vale and hill The legion lie who will Not come again. 'Mid faces strange, Far from their home they lie; And shall we leave them there, nor have to treasure. The country boy has always found delight in taking his city cousin to see a hornet's nest which the latter fearlessly investigates, but never again. Every year people who do not fear the ocean surf are drowned on our beaches. Two years ago a man was killed by a Gila Monster which he did not fear. A few months ago a drunken man and his companion died suddenly because he had no fear of the powerful automobile engine under the control of his finger tip. Frontier history abounds with accounts of men slain, families destroyed, and villages desolated because people did not suffice easily fear their savage neighbors. The trend of military history has many times been determined by the cap ture or destruction of forces which had too little fear of the enemy opposed to them. Similar experience are numerous in business and politics. In view of such facts, the enumeration of which one might continue endlessly, it seems very strange, or ten ridiculous, that the many people write and speak of fear as a thin to be entirely destroyed and removed from human life, or all life. It so very evident that absence of fear means, in most cases, either absence of knowledge or absence of intelligence; that one would think people would hesitate in declaring their selves so intolerant of fear. As if some who are constantly talking about it one might think the fear or fear to be the dominant feature in their lives. In the existence of any single individual living thing, fear is perhaps the most important instinct or emotion. Probably no day passes which it does not save the individual from harm on destruction, peaks many times in feeding, poisonous or hurtful things. A CAT WHAT AM A CAT Mrs. Edith A. Smith has a cat that knows a thing or two. One day last week the cat brought in a garter snake. It left it in a closet off the back pantry. Mrs. Smith in looking over some articles in the closet that afternoon came across the snake, which was in an almost dormant condition. It had life enough, however, to wiggle, and with the first wiggle Mrs. Smith almost fainted away. This same cat last summer brought in a black snake. The tail of the snake was colled around the cat's neck. The cat had hold of the snake in the middle and had all it could do to drag it into the house.—Ridgefield, Cann., Press. Most any Anaheim girl thinks she can improve on nature. And she generally does. Life is too short for long stories. The best story-teller is the man who can keep 'em short. I'm a bug on brevity. They used to say that they wouldn't believe a man on oath, but now they say that he is just about as unreliable as the label on a whisky bottle. Dear reader, now that we must part. If only for a day, Grant me a soft spot in your heart Before I hit the hay. And shares again I know will greet me there. The same—alas! the same in future never; For some met Fate amid the unbound air. Beneath the sea some sleep forever, And far in France on vale and hill The legion lie who will Not come again. 'Mid faces strange, Far from their home they lie; And shall we leave them there, nor have to treasure. Their poor remains—not feel they still are nigh? Yes, leave them there! A higher measure Of justice bids them steadfast stand. —Erik Achorn. The murderous speedster should have a speedy arrest, a speedy trial and a speedy trip to prison, but without speedy release. ORANGE COUNTY Business College SANTA ANA CAL INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION. POSITIONS FOR GRADUATES. ASK FOR FREE CATALOGUE. DAY SCHOOL NIGHT SCHOOL President. J. Hammack. Don't Forget That The Ever-Ready Truck & Transfer Co. Is still able to do your hauling of any description. Contract hauling a specialty. Get our price. O. J. LINNARTZ, Prop. Residence 211 E. Sycamore St. PHONE 209-M REGULATION OF GROWTH E. ALLEN Biological Feature Service ing while looking over natural history. I noticedption of the Franklin's Pool Hen." It is a bird merely been fairly abunorth-West but is applition in Washington. Bird of poor flavored especially noted for its which attracts comment observer, not admiring contempt. A typical ing it is to the effect them calmly eat at the eye looking at a poor no repeatedly shot at it and that it did not even a toe was shot off. All see that these birds are by hand or that their easily knocked off by used in the hmd. who has had experience vividly remembers how deliberately this animal with very little regard fishes in the matter. Evits his fearlessness but his intelligence. The even more noted for beand stupid. Seced men are often fears an inexperienced child rates their intelligence Under the influence of other drugs a man may less but it is because he firmly destroyed his intel because he has increas-ry boy has always found making his city cousin to its nest which the latter investigates, but never year people who do not can surf are drowned at Two years ago a man by a Gila Monster which bear. A few months ago a man and his companions because he had no fearful automobile engine control of his finger tips story abounds with acen slain, families de- WISE AND WITTY SAYINGS IN BRIEF What this country is suffering from is an excess of oratory and a shortage of sweat. A good policeman is not one who makes the most arrests, but who maintains a peaceful beat. No man amounts to much until he can see the difference between growing and swelling. The least important thing about marriage is the ceremony, and yet the most fuss is made over it. Be on the level, but get all you can. WILL SERVE YOU WELL The Quality Storage Battery Service With a Smile Automotive Electric Co. Phone 155 234 S. Los Angeles St., Anaheim Cooperation Builds Homes, —Operation means to work. Co-operation means to work together. Co-operation is the agency of advancement and development of modern progress with everyone joining hands working for the upbuilding of their —Operation means to work. Co-operation means to work together. Co-operation is the agency of advancement and development of modern progress with everyone joining hands working for the upbuilding of their city and prosperity for its citizens. Here in Orange county there exists complete co-operation in aiding home builders. Desirable lots are available at prices and on terms that cannot help but make appeals. —The various building material merchants are completely equipped to serve you—efficient labor is obtainable and money is available for those who are desirous of obtaining assistance. Appreciating this, and the valuable service we are in position to render in conveying by actual photographs a complete assortment of home building ideas, that you may determine in advance what the new home will look and be like, and approximate cost, are reasons why you should give immediate consideration to home building. GIBBS LUMBER ANAHEIM “Will You Excuse It. Please---” “Will You Excuse It, Please--- There Is No One on the Line Now” Mistakes are bound to happen. We all make them. When your telephone bell rings and the operator says, “Will you excuse it please, there is no one on the line now,” she is not responsible for your annoyance and inconvenience. The occasion for the use of the phrase most frequently arises when the called party is slow to answer—the calling subscriber does not wait and hangs up his telephone. Many times daily telephone users call wrong numbers — use incorrect prefixes, such as "Main" for "Market"—transpose figures, such as 5342 for 5432. Suddenly realizing their mistakes, they hang up their telephone. Without fault or negligence on her part the telephone operator is left to explain, and the sentence first quoted is that adopted as most briefly and concisely covering the situation.