oc-plain-dealer 1922-06-14

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 DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS My God, what is a heart? Silver, or gold, or precious stone, Or star, or rainbow, or a part Of all these things, or all of them in one? — George Herbert. The meddler is an annoying nut-sense who oftentimes can’t no end of mischief. The law of tooth and fang as between capital and labor should be eliminated. This is a sweet old world in which to live, after all; watermelon season soon will be on. The greater the confidence and optimism of the people, the sooner any period of “hard times” ends. It is to be hoped that the economic normal may return soon, if for no other reason than to dispense with the use of the term “normalcy.” Uncle Sam, in a way, is the world’s burden-bearer. When any country has internal trouble, its thought is to seek help from the United States. When Captain Amundsen sets off to fly across the North Pole, he will take his ear-muffs along. It would be quite chillily breezy, passing over the polar wastes. They are building good roads in Alaska. This is a token of progress that is unmistakable. No region is stagnating or going backward when it builds good roads. CRIMINAL, REFORMED IN UNIVERSITY TALK Just a bit startling, at first thought, is the announcement that a former criminal gave a lecture before the criminology class or the University of California, at Berkeley. But the lecture was arranged by the chief of police of Berkeley and was approved by the university faculty. This man gave some of his personal experiences in safe-cracking and in picking pockets. He has a police record of nearly every large city in America. He first became a pickpocket, he says, after the death of his parents when he was only a child. After that he advanced into safe-breaking and illicit sale of liquor. He at last came into contact with honest folk and he says that he studied their methods as he had studied the methods of crooks before. He soon became convinced that “to go straight is to be happy.” He is now living an upright life and his real name was not disclosed in connection with the lecture. While this method of getting at the viewpoint of the former criminal is bizarre, yet the effect should be wholesome. This man, reformed and leading an honest life, is a good object lesson, demonstrating strikingly what is possible in the way of personal redemption in this Christian land. GIRDLINK ALASKA WITH GOOD ROADS Alaska is getting a form of improvement which is bound to add immensely to its wealth and its development. More than half a million dollars is to be expended out of national forest highway funds for the construction of more than fifty-five Town i Out our way chickens until the neighbors’ g There may be the hoboes’ convoy and congress waist 1st. The demand for movies exceeds the Ohio bride, we probably trying to wedding gifts we VOLSTEADU Here lies the book Farge. His death is tion. He was killed by charge, When he care prescriptic Bowl OUR IDEA OF pocketbook on cr This One Is Ships go to d painted up. Men WHAT IT CE “I understand,” “that Plute Pet Crimson Gulch and “No,” answered boys’d rather not He held four aces same evening.” “That we luck “No.’n’t courage! Wash Agency finds m the best collectors the excuses, may In 30 days th e “an old married w FREE When Captain Amundsen sets off to fly across the North Pole, he will take his ear-muffs along. It would be quite chilly breezy, passing over the polar wastes. They are building good roads in Alaska. This is a token of progress that is unmistakable. No region is stagnating or going backward when it builds good roads. Captain Amundsen doubtless would have an easy time recruiting a crew for his polar trip if he visited Chicago or some large city "back yonder" during a period of stiff heat. Among the inventions which are of very great importance in expediting business is the typewriter. This machine is just taken for granted by many persons, and is not appreciated as it merits. Time was when tomatoes were known as "love apples" and were not considered suitable for food. Times change and the status of the tomato changes with them. This nutritious vegetable is an important part of the Nation's dietary today. Good roads are an indispensable factor in present-day life. It would be impossible to carry on vehicular transportation in such mammoth volume as is necessary and with such speedy transit, if it were not for the permanently-improved highways. It is of gratifying interest to remember that Mark Twain lived for a time in California in its old stirring days of romance and that he gathered much material here for his imimitable works of humor. He and Bret Harte have made imperishable the romantic flavor of the mining camps of California's pioneer days. GIRDLINK ALASKA WITH GOOD ROADS Alaska is getting a form of improvement which is bound to add immensely to its wealth and its development. More than half a million dollars is to be expended out of national forest highway funds for the construction of more than fifty-five miles of roadway. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has approved of this expenditure. Roads of primary importance to communities within, or adjacent to national forests, are to be built. There is a bureau of public roads in Alaska, and it will supervise the building of these projected highways. Alaska, as it develops, will feed good roads more and more. In its pioneer days little attention was given to this subject. But that region no longer is in pioneer state. It is being modernized swiftly. It has a settled population, and fixed institutions. It is growing after the manner of progressive communities in "the states." The government is building a railway there which is destined to play important part in the advancement of the territory. Construction of good roads will contribute importantly, too. In truth, conditions up there, aside from regrettable political feuds, are favorable for notable development progress. The faces of multitudes are turned toward California. This state grows in favor, as time goes on. It is exploited, cumulatively. All who come here to live or as tourists, become boosters and many of them induce others to come here to live either temporarily or permanently. And so the good promotion work goes on. Mens and Young Mens Suits $20.00 to $45.00 Real Value You always get your money's worth here. Men who wear our clothes know that. Value You always get your money's worth here. Men who wear our clothes know that. This season you get more than you've had in years in Real Value. Suits that are made from the best American woolens—styles that please the most exacting. Palm Beach Suits—Flannel Trousers—Straw Hats. Visit to OUR BOYS' DEPARTMENT will please every mother. Jackson's MEN'S WEAR SHOP "Your Money's Worth Always" Building) DIZ PIANO Co. THINK OF MUSIC Town in Review Out our way we don't count our chickens until they come back from the neighbors' gardens. There may be no connection, but the hoboes' convention meets July 4 and congress wants to adjourn July 1st. The demand for Will Hays in the movies exceeds the supply. Ohio bride, who went crazy, was probably trying to find out what her wedding gifts were. VOLSTEADUS EPITAPHUS Here lies the body of Frederick Le-Farge. His death is too sad for description. He was killed by a mob in a terrible charge. When he carelessly dropped his prescription. Bowdoin Bear Skin. OUR IDEA OF NERVE: Buying a pocketbook on credit. This One Isn't Deep At All Ships go to dry docks to get all painted up. Men go to wet Docs. WHAT IT CERTAINLY WAS "I understand," said the drummer, "that Plute Pete isn't allowed in Crimson Gulch any more?" "No," answered Cactus Joe. "The boys'd rather not have him around. He held four aces three times in the same evening." "That was luck!" "No." wasn't even skill. It was courage! Wash. Star. Agency finds married men make the best collectors. They know all the excuses, maybe. In 30 days the June bride will be "an old married woman." FREE ADVICE NEW YORK, June 15. Peter Stankovitz just couldn't sleep the other night. The air was hot and stuffy, and his eyes wouldn't stay shut; but other people were sleeping away as comfortably as could be, so far as Peter could deduce. At least he heard no sound in any adjoining flat or on the street. It made him pretty mad. "Twain's fair." His get-up passed the Lightfoot Schultz Soap Company's plant. Revenge on the world that could sleep when he couldn't dawned in his heart, and lured him into the engine room. Sleep, would they? He'd see. Peter turned on the steam and blew the whistle. The whole neighborhood works in that plant and there was horror throughout the homes, when they heard that long whistle and they all still asleep! With shoe-laces flying and hair unsmoothed, the men and girls for blocks around began flocking to the factory. Foreman Hugo Lange got there first and discovered Pete. The law put him in a nice cool cell on a charge of malicious mischief, but if it hadn't done it and done it quickly, 200 factory employees would have thrown him into a still cooler river and have seen that he didn't get out. Tariff bills are about as dry reading as most anything imaginable, and this is particularly unfortunate, because there are pretty important things in them that I wouldn't be a bad thing for the public to understand. Some interests represented here in New York are tremendously concerned both ways, for instance, in potash. It is a simple sounding subject but its cause is exceedingly involved, it seems. Naturally, if other countries want to undersell our own products to us, they carry on live propaganda for that purpose. Potash is a leading matter for propaganda just now for Germany and German export agents in this country, and side of the fight is being conducted on Manhattan Island. America wants to develop her own potash deposits, it seems, and she has excellent ones. If she could have five years to get on her own feet, potash-ly speaking, it is declared that then she could sell as cheaply as any foreign potash in particularly good quality, experts testify. But the propagandists of the foreign business enterprises who are humanly concerned in their own interests, have been working to convert the farmers to the idea that a protective tariff on potash would cost them $2.50 per acre. The experts who have gone into the subject explain that as the duty asked is about two and one-half cents a pound, the actual added cost to the farmer would not be more than 25 cents an acre—which is quite a different thing. The chief use of potash is for nourishing soil which has been robbed by successive crops of its natural potash, and a secondary use is for black powder. One reason that every nation feels it necessary to develop its own potash fields where possible, is in order to be independent of any other nation in case of future hostilities. Which reminds us of the new "carb," the moving picture exchange. At Forty-ninth street and Seventh-ave the men gather who are responsible for a large part of the distribution of films. They deal in feature pictures, and the transactions are as diversified as Arabian Nights. They scatter gossip of the players in with their business talk and add much to the zest of the passersby in that neighborhood. Count and Countess Zichy, our most interesting bridal couple, have taken their first step toward going into the movies. They were tried out last week, amid great efforts at secrecy in one of the local studios. because there are pretty important things in them that I wouldn't be a bad thing for the public to understand. Some interests represented here in New York are tremendously concerned both ways, for instance, in potash. It is a simple sounding subject but its cause is exceedingly involved, it seems. Naturally, if other countries want to undersell our own products to us, they carry on live propaganda for that purpose. Potash is a leading matter for propaganda just now for Germany and German export agents in this country, and like most of America's export and import affairs, a lively commercial What's worse 'n findin' one good glove? Th' conversation never gits 'n gain' good till th' hostess starts th' Victroly. FISK CORD TIRES FISK CORD TIRES USE your judgment in tire buying. A tire that does not show strength and a springy resistance when flexed under hand pressure will not give adequate endurance under road wear. Fisk Cord Tires are remarkably resilient. Also they are big, good-looking tires with a deep-cut button tread which offers security on wet roads and pavements. There's a Fisk Tire of extra value in every size, for car, truck or speed wagon Time to Re-tire? (Buy Fisk) TRADE MARK REG. U.S. FAT. OFF. Full Line of FISK TIRES NENNO & BOCK Everything for the Auto 145 S. Los Angeles St., Anaheim Phone 464 Comments of the Press What Editors Are Saying AERONAUTIC GEOGRAPHY—New York Evening Post As the age of airplanes brings in more travel on the shortest line between two points, it will vastly increase the average man's appreciation of the relative position of the great land masses. Few New Yorkers ever quite realize that the Fifth avenue traffic towers are due north of the west coast of South America. Most of us are under the impression that we are straight above Rio de Janeiro on the east coast. Few Americans realize that the distance between South America and Africa is only as far as from Vancouver to Winnipeg or San Francisco to Houston, so far east at one point does Brazil extend. The Portuguese fillers who set out from Lisbon to the Canaries, went down the African coast to the Cape Verde Islands, and crossed to St. Paul's Rock under the Brazilian flag, were blazing a route between Europe and the New World which may prove a great future highway of air commerce. People who closed their geographies at 12 were surprised in 1919 to learn that Newfoundland projects so far into the Atlantic; Senators Johnson and Borah must have been frightened to think of any part of North America so near Europe. Alcock and Brown had only 1960 miles to cover between St. John's and Ireland, whereas the New York-Southampton liners cover 3080. Our ideas of geography are still conditioned largely by the handicaps of the steamship. Travelers leaving England for India must round Spain into the Mediterranean; the airplane flies straight southeast to Rome and Athens. After passing Suez the steamer to Bombay must make another long detour around Arabia; the airman flies straight through Bagdad and Basra to Karachi. Every text on physical geography points out how largely the wealth and size of Chicago, London and Singapore were dictated by conditions of transportation; and now a powerful new element is being felt among these conditions. MESA-MIST When the passion of the day is done, And the weary sun, Lingers above the far plateau And mesa-waters, stains The contonwoods and cranes With afterglow, Day keeps a fleeing tryst With Night, in the mesa-mist. When her vermillion arms embraces The valleys, buttes, and plains No more, spent Day, slips quietly to rest Upon a ghostly mountain breast— And nothing, nothing remains, Save in the twilit places The ghosts of rains, And dead forgetmenots who wistful faces WISE AND WITTY A lady with money doesn't have to depend upon clothes for attracting the attention of men. Scenery is fine, but you can't live on it. To be able to earn a living is much more important than a college education. Real estate men are privileged in dividuals—no one expects them to tell the truth. And mess-waters, stains The contonwoods and cranes With afterglow, Day keeps a fleeing tryst With Night, in the mesa-mist. When her vermillion arms embraces The valleys, buttes, and plains No more, spent Day, slips quietly to rest Upon a ghostly mountain breast— And nothing, nothing remains, Save in the twilight places The ghosts of rains, And dead forgetmenots whose wistful faces Droop where the purple-pollened fir Tinctures the dusk with lavender. —Lew Sarett in Contemporary Verse Up in Denver, a physician pulled down a big laugh on the entire profession when, filling out a death certificate, he signed his name in the blank space after "state cause of death—" "Skirts may get longer, but it will be a long time before they keep shoes shined again," says Li'l Gee Gec, the office vamp. 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