oc-plain-dealer 1922-07-11

Tuesday, July 11, 1922 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 And yet thou canst not know, And yet thou canst not see; Wisdom and sight are slow In poor humanity If thou couldst trust, poor soul, In him who rules the whole, Thous wouldst find peace and rest; Wisdom and right are well, but trust is best. —Adeliae A Proctor. It is the part of wisdom and safety to be cautious at crossings. Europe must invoke the sanest possible course and do a vast deal of self-helping to bring itself back to economic normality. There should be no rule of violence or coercion in industry. There should be the same freedom of action in industry that there is in any other legitimate enterprise. Enormous losses to the whole country from big strikes, with no corresponding gain for the people or for any class, demonstrative once more that a better way of adjusting industrial disputes must be found. Members of the judiciary should be selected with extreme care. Judges who have given able, conscientious, acceptable service, should be kept on the bench so long as they will consent to hold judicial position. That Muscle Shoals contract should go to the highest bidder measured by business standards. There should be no politics in it, and no venting of personal spleen. If Henry Ford's proposal is the best, he should win the award. The numebr of serious railroad accidents in this country is greatly diminished. Stressing of carefulness in railroading, and perfecting of safety devices have improved conditions. GOVERNMENT TO REFORM YOUNG OFFENDERS The United States government has given and is giving much attention to the reclaiming of arid land. Which is well and good. It is to be hoped that even more attention will be given in this important form of reclaimation. But the national government has been woefully recreant in the matter of reclaiming youngsters who have stepped aside from the path of rectitude. The Department of Justice is seeking, however, to institute a program of redemption for young offenders. It is proposed to segregate federal prisoners, between the ages of 17 and 30 years, and place them in the model reformatory which is projected, there to receive instruction in the common branches of an English education as well as in industrial training, intended to enable them to obtain self-supporting employment and to become self-reliant members of society when they leave prison. This reformatory is to be established on the military reservation at Camp Grant, Ill. It is not to the credit of the national government, to say, as the facts warrant, that it has no reformatory where discipline is correctional and designed to save young offenders from becoming habitual criminals. This condition should be remedied, and will be, if legislation pending in Congress should be enacted, providing for the establishing of a reformatory, as outlined herewith. CARELESS AUTOISTS ARE GIVEN WARNING The careful motorist can be not only an exampler to the reckless, but also can fill him with fear by watching his dererictions and violations of The numebr of serious railroad accidents in this country is greatly diminished. Stressing of carefulness in railroading and perfecting of safety devise have improved conditions greatly as to immunity from transportation accidents. Prisons should be commodious enough to accommodate prisoners in comfort and sanitary conditions should be acceptable. To crowd the incarcerated into disease-breeding cells smacks of barbarism. Every county in the state should have adequate prison facilities. Industrial peace should be possible without jeopardizing the just interests and equities of either capital or labor. Peace with justice and equity should be the rule in the realm of industry. Neither employer nor employee should have undue and inequitable advantage over the other. Once the industrial conflicts are settled andwork is resumed in coal mines and on railroads, the country will go forward with a bound toward economic normal. Other conditions are favorable, and the hopeful, optimistic frame of mind of the people is all that could be desired. If strikes affected only capital and only labor, the public would have no need to concern itself about these industrial struggles. But the people pay, and pay dearly, for these clashing interests. Because it is the chiefwier, the public has a right to defend that it be not injured thus without its consent. When men give way to panic in the face of danger, they become veritable animals, and trample each other, or even women and children, in their mad efforts to reach safety. It is not a pleasing thing to contemplate. On the other hand, the most consplicious and admirable heroism often times is shown by men and women when confronted with dire perils. It is to the best interests of labor to discourage hurtful strikes which entail great hardships upon the people. Labor cannot afford to alienate the public. The sympathy and support of the people are vital in any industrial struggle. The people cannot reasonably be expected to support labor when it pursues a course that brings untold hardships upon the masses. Complaint is made that the quality of statesmanship in Congress is at low ebb. But tracing this back to history where discipline is correctional and designed to save young offenders from becoming habitat criminals. This condition should be remedied, and will be, if legislation pending in Congress should be enacted, providing for the establishing of a reformatory, as outlined herewith. CARELESS AUTOISTS ARE GIVEN WARNING The careful motorist can be not only an exampler to the rockless, but also can fill him with fear by watching his derelicions and violations of laws and ordinances, and by sending him warning or reporting him to the authorities. Under the auspices of the safety bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California, a vigilance committee of 100 responsible automobile owners of Los Angeles have given warning to nearly 10,000 offenders against traffic regulations within the last year. The common offenses are: Cutting corners, failure to give the proper hand signals, speeding, and passing stopped street cars. The influence of the work of this committee has been good. It should be the concern of every careful motorist to co-operate in warning reckless ones, and to assist in prosecuting those who are flagrantly careless. Inasmuch as the stigma of recklessness falls more or less upon all drivers, therefore the careful prudent driver should help to curb the reckless, to conserve his own reputation for careful driving. The people rightfully are demanding that political parties perform what they promise. The Pacific West is no longer regarded or treated as the political reardoor of the Nation. Its prestige in national politics has been well-established since 1916, when California decided the Presidency. The Colorado River some time will become one of the most useful assets in the whole Southwest. Once dammed and controlled that stream will become a perpetual blessing and never a bane to this section. See California! It abounds in natural wonders, beauties, sublimities. One might spend years in sightseeing and yet not see all that the God of Nature has placed here to delight the eye and inspire the soul of man. There should be restriction of immigration into this country. But it should be reasonable and just to unobjectionable aliens. When restrictions upon this type of aliens are made, they should not be humiliated or be put to needless expense or trouble. It were better if the exclusion were made through American consuls in the countries whence immigration originates. The wiser, safer course would be for the United States to hew close to the line of that 5-5-3 naval agreement, and confine its efforts for a It is to the best interests of labor to discourage hurtful strikes which entail great hardships upon the people. Labor cannot afford to alienate the public. The sympathy and support of the people are vital in any industrial struggle. The people cannot reasonably be expected to support labor when it pursues a course that brings untold hardships upon the masses. Complaint is made that the quality of statesmanship in Congress is at low ebb. But tracing this back to original causes, is there not serious defect in the quality of citizenship of the average American. If the good citizen at all times evinced good citizenship, an abler type of men would be sent to Congress from many districts which now are misrepresented by medicores. There should be restriction of immigration into this country. But it should be reasonable and just to unobjectionable aliens. When restrictions upon this type of aliens are made, they should not be humiliated or be put to needless expense or trouble. It were better if the exclusion were made through American consuls in the countries whence immigration originates. The wiser, safer course would be for the United States to hew close to the line of that 5-5-3 naval agreement, and confine its efforts for a smaller navy to trying to induce the other great naval powers to join in making another reduction. There is a safe and a sensible way of promoting a good cause, and there also are unsafe and unwise ways which do not really promote the good cause at all. Low Fares Back East Round-trip tickets to be on sale Daily until August 31. Stopovers in both directions Boston $158.32 Chicago 86.00 New Orleans 85.15 New York 147.40 Philadelphia 144.92 St. Louis 81.50 St. Paul 87.50 Washington 141.56 There are similar reductions to 46 other destinations. MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW Also low round-trip rates to Pacific Coast resorts every day until September 30. D. G. MAL/TBY Consult your local agent for fares, reservations etc. Telephone 123 Southern Pacific Lines THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DEALER, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA New York Letter July 11. NEW YORK, July 11.—One hundred years is no age at which to rush lightly into matrimony. There is to much time ahead in which one might repent. Therefore Mrs. Francola Le Vapresco, of Staten Island is giving careful consideration to the prosposal of marriage she received the other day. To be sure, the proposal is from a friend of her childhood, F. Lindsay, of Baltimore and so it isn't like any sudden acquaintanceship; and as he is 103, their years are quite suitable. Still, it's a serious matter at best, and Mrs. Vapresco is pretty busy doing family washings and almost hates to be interrupted with outside matters like proposals. She'll decide after proper reflection, she says. One music house, just one, in the New York City is said to have sold 1,465 saxophones, cash and easy payments, in a single month. When you consider the number of music houses in our town and the number of months in a lear, you can grasp some months in a year, you can grasp something of what jazz is doing to us and one reason why we don't notice howling cats in our would-be-sleeping hours as we used to do. Our old friend "Ben Hur" is anything but dead. The copyright on it has just been extended for another fourteen years. The certificate of extension was issued to Henry L. Wallace, son of the author of the famous story Gen. Lew Wallace, who has been dead for many years. Mrs. Wallace has transferred his interest, so far as it relates to dramatic and moving picture rights to Erlanger, Dillingham & Ziegfeld. The theatrical firm is said to have paid more than $1,000,000 in return. When you are in politics it seems of dominating importance. When you are out, it's comparatively easy to let some phase of it slide. Here is "AI" Smith, less than a year ago. WOLVES OF THE SEA W. E. ALLEN California Biological Feature Service In fable, story, narrative and song wolves have become celebrated for ferocity and for relentless attack upon their prey. It is not strange, therefore, that the name of wolf should be applied to marine animals showing such characteristics. Of these the most conspicuous not only because of the ferocity, but because of the size and agility as well, is one of the smaller toothed whales generally known as orca or "killer." Killers usually have a length of about fifteen or twenty feet so that, if it were not for their still larger kindred the whales, they would be regarded as very large animals. They hunt mainly in schools or at least in groups of from three to five, and it is evident that large quantities of food must be found to satisfy such large animals. They are seen most frequently in Aritic or sub-Arctic seas, partly because great quantities of food may be most readily available there and partly because there are in such regions more people favorably situated for seeing them. But it is also possible that they may be abundant in other localities at times. They feed on larger fishes, such as cod and sea bass, on their smaller kin, such as the common porpoise, on their larger kin such as the California grey whale and on seals, VVarious observers comment upon the extreme ferocity of their attacks upon whales and seals. Some of the most interesting of this comment is found in a book entitled "Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera," by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History. Whales are evidently pursued mainly for their tongues, although the killers do not scruple to bite off chunks of fin and flesh. When orcas appear near them California gray whales act like sheep in the presence of wolves, rushing frantically about, huddling together or even turning on their baiks and floating helplessly at the surface of the water. This latter act is probably performed in a desperate effort to save the whale's tongue from injury. In When a man isn't contented with his lot he can build a service station on it, says Tom Sims. BADGES The Atchison Globe digs up this interesting fact: "The first dress-suit that ever came to Kansas came with the 'aid' from Boston during the dry summer of 1860. Some rich man in the east contributed it, having outgrown it, and a farmer named Paswell, in Kapioma township in this county, plowed corn in it all summer." This is probably the only occasion in history on which a dress-suit was ever put to a really useful purpose. The dress suit, like the silk hat and the gold beaded cane, originated as a badge of display or ability to pay. They are passing out. The modern badges are big autos and Scotch whiskey. Strange things happen. A woman arrested as a pickpocket claims she has never been married. THOUGHT FOR TOMORROW MORNING Very few dollar bills have ever been in the collection plate. Thirty senators oppose the bonus. Thirty are up for re-election. It is not the same thirty. Lil Gee Gee, the office vamp, writes down from Fresno, where she is on her vacation: "Some people up here cuss the weather as if they expected winter this summer." WISE AND WITTY It is a terrible calamity for any woman to be under obligations to a vulgar man. Some men's idea of greatness is to be met at the depot by a brass band and a delegation wearing plug hats. It is easier to understand a crowd of women than any single one. A woman will overlook almost anything except your failure to close the screen door. There is quite a difference between real conversation and garrulty. Patriotism doesn't stand much chance when competing with two ball games the same day. Everybody has pride, the only difference being that some conceal it, while others put it on dress parade. When you are in politics it seems of dominating importance. When you are out, it's comparatively easy to let some phase of it slide. Here is "Al" Smith, less than a year ago, Democratic Governor of our state, now managing attrucking corporation in which the chief owner is Fred Upham, treasurer of the Republican national committee. Other owners in the company are friends of Mr. Upham in Chicago—also Republicans And the business goes harmoniously on! There's a man's side, too, to this matter of a wife's citizenship and its dependency on her husband's. For the past few years, women's organizations have declared the arrangement entirely unfair; a woman should be able to choose her flag as independently as does her husband, they insist. At last there is a man who agrees with them. He is a Russian named Maier, who wants to be an American. But Justice E. R. Finch has decided that since a woman must follow her husband's flag under our present laws, she must give her consent to the adoption of the flag. Therefore, when he is about to naturalize any foreigners, he sends word to their wives to come along and agree to the process. Maier's wife objected. Since his naturalization would make her an American citizen, she declared that he couldn't be naturalized with her consent; and the judge wouldn't let him be without it. So poor Maier is seriously contemplating divorce for the sake of swearing allegiance to the Stars and Stripes. Shoe-shinning in City Hall Park is as exciting and uncertain for the owners of the shoes as it is for the shiners. The boys have no permits to shine there and are consequently outlaws from the police. They often leave a customer with one brilliant shoe and one muddy one at the sign of a "cop", "meet me 'round the corner', they pant to the statied customer, as they scoot for the shelter of the Federal building. A New York girl will captain the team of American women athletes who will go abroad to participate in the first international track team for women in the Pershing Stadium, in Paris on August 20. It is Miss Florida Datson, Rosemary Hall alumna, and holder of the American record in the high and low hurdles. Junkmen must weigh their bells hereafter in this city before they ring them. A great many theatrical folks reside in the district of Poinsettia Theatre. A woman will overlook almost anything except your failure to close the screen door. There is quite a difference between real conversation and garrulity. Patriotism doesn't stand much chance when competing with two ball games the same day. Everybody has pride, the only difference being that some conceal it, while others put it on dress parade. When a lawyer gives you advice, he is apt to consider his own interests before yours. You can't be satisfied with an old car after your neighbor buys a new one. Take people as they are, and you can get more out of them than by trying to make them over. FAIRY TALES "About the time a girl loses her faith in fairy tales," said the cynic, "she begins to believe in love." "Yes," replied the optimist, "and although her lover whispers sweet nothings in her ear, she has great hopes that eventually they will mean a great deal." Typewriters The R. A. Tiernan Typewriter Co. wishes to announce typewriter users that they can now purchase or rent all makes of machines locally, from Mr. E. D. Abrams, West Center Street. Abrams Book Store 116 W. Center, Anaheim A New York girl will captain the team of American women athletes who will go abroad to participate in the first international track team for women in the Pershing Stadium, in Paris on August 20. It is Miss Florida Datson, Rosemary Hall alumna, and holder of the American record in the high and low hurdles. Junkmen must weigh their bells hereafter in this city before they ring them. A great many theatrical folks reside in the district of Police Captain Thomas Donahue of the West Forty-seventh street station. They like to sleep late in the morning; and they complained to the Captain that the junkman woke them up with their clanging bells. Captain Donahue got out his book of ordinances over 100 years old limiting the weight of bells to be rung inn the city streets to six ounces and not a shade over that. So he sent a police man out with a pair of scales and gathered in a whole flock of the lawbreakers. Hard times and the h. c. l. are not discouraging the foreign young men among us, whatever they may do to the native born. Two hundred and thirty-one "picture brides" landed in New York the other day, the largest number in many months. These are young girls from Europe who have become acquainted and betrothed to men of their nation in this country, entirely by correspondence and exchange of photographs. Three prospective bridegrooms who met them at the pier with flowers and candy were disappointed, their fiances having changed their minds and become engaged to passengers on the way over. HOW THEY GET THAT WAY What's the connection between long hair on a man and eccentricity?" asked Williams. "I don't know," said Jackson, "but I've often wondered if they wore long hair because they are eccentric or whether they get eccentric by wearing their hair long." Floors Laid, Scraped and Finished Machine Sanders Local Mgr. R. J. Ohlund 610 E. Chartres Anaheim Phone 776-W MOST PICTURESQUE KIDDIES IN WORLD Big brother takes his little sisters to church. A very interesting photo made on the banks of the Zuyder Zee, Holland, that center of windmills and wooden shoes. enemy, man, above it the whales are finding life very difficult and they are well known to be on the road to extinction. But since man is making use of whales in a commercial way, it is to his interest to destroy other enemies and the orca is like a real wolf in the fact that it destroys animals which man wishes to reserve for himself. This conflict of interests is even more evident in the case of seals and sea otters than it is in the case of whales. near the rookeries at least two dozen seals each day. In terms of lash each orca doubtless destroys at least $2,000 worth of Uncle Sam's property in each day of the favorable season. If, as is suspected, the killers also follow the seals when they migrate from the rookeries it is evident that their destructiveness may be carried over long periods of the year. Hence it is probable that an estimate of the loss at-1,000,000 per year is rather low. enemy, man, above it the whales are finding life very difficult and they are well known to be on the road to extinction. But since man is making use of whales in a commercial way, it is to his interest to destroy other enemies and the orca is like a real wolf in the fact that it destroys animals which man wishes to reserve for himself. This conflict of interests is even more evident in the case of seals and sea otters than it is in the case of whales. At a recent meeting of a conservation committee of western scientists Dr. Hanna of the California Academy of Sciences gave an estimate that orcas destroy each year more than $1,000,000 worth of seals. His estimate was based partly on his experience of several years amongst the seal herds of the Pribilof Islands and partly upon the record of numbers of seals found in the stomachs of killers. Eighteen fur seals were found in one stomach and twenty-four in another and it is quite probable that each individual orca destroys when near the rookeries at least two dozen seals each day. In terms of laah each orca doubtless destroys at least $2,000 worth of Uncle Sam's property in each day of the favorable season. If, as is suspected, the killers also follow the seals when they migrate from the rookeries it is evident that their destructiveness may be carried over long periods of the year. Hence it is probable that an estimate of the loss at 1,000,000 per year is rather low. For such reasons Dr. Hanna's contention that special effort should be made to destroy the orcas seems to be fully justified and it may be supposed that it will pay just as well to kill "wolves of the sea" as it does in case of wolves of the land. Since no use has been found for the bodies or carcass no one is willing to make especial effort to hunt them. Hence it is not likely that much can be done against them without subsidy or bounty unless the United States Navy should send some of its smaller vessels to kill them. 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