oc-plain-dealer 1922-07-12

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 We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.—Longfellow. The average man usually thinks he's above the average. Co-operate with the authorities in breaking up reckless driving. Nothing is said in the Bible to the effect that "the Lord loves a cheerful giver" of pain. Conserve the boys and girls, above all other conservation. Look well to their companionship and environment. Congress, in the face of the big problems before it, is fully as orderly as a herd of cattle in stampede before a prairie fire. "Class consciousness" is but another term for intensified selfishness. What this country needs is more broad co-operation and less narrow group selfishness. Men who are thoroughgoing Americans do not resort to violence in strikes, or in any other situation. True Americans restrain themselves and use peaceful, lawful methods to attain their ends. Congress is without influential compelling leadership. Its course is sigrag and pell-mell and, quite logically, it is taking a great deal of time to accomplish a little. Lack of superior statesmanship is to be deplored. Reclamation of young offenders against the law is of the greatest importance to society. Prison reform is GREAT TRUNK ROADWAY, COAST TO COAST There is promising prospects that the proposed transcontinental trunk highway from Jacksonville, Fla., to San Diego, with its connections to border points, will be established and constructed as a great national military road. It is regarded as "an essential element in the plans being formulated by the War Department for national defense and should be completed without delay according to the best Federal standards for road construction." This great highway would be constructed so substantially as to be capable of carrying heavy traffic and especially designed for military use in national emergency, but open to general traffic in times of peace and security. This Old Spanish Trail system embraces all the border defenses from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Military, naval, air and cavalry bases along the southern fringe of country would be connected up by this great highway. The states through great highway. Plans have progressed so far as to indicate definite, constructive action on the part of the national government. The states thru which the route extends are co-operating, and the success of the great enterprise is assured. Los Angeles county and all southern California would benefit directly from establishment of this important trunk roadway across the continent. It would undoubtedly be extended up the coast from San Diego, to connect with coast defenses in this county.. There probably would be a direct line through from Yuma to Los Angeles to accommodate travel not desiring to go to San Diego. The whole project is of big importance to California and the Southwest. EARS MAY BE SEEN SOON ON AMERICAN WOMEN Ears for girls and women—real Congress is without influential compelling leadership. Its course is sigzag and pell-mell and, quite logically, it is taking a great deal of time to accomplish a little. Lack of superior statesmanship is to be deplored. Reclamation of young offenders against the law is of the greatest importance to society. Prison reform is eliciting much attention from philanthropists and welfare workers and deserves the hearty co-operation of the public. Through peaceful arbitration and conciliation, differences between labor and capital should be settled, if they cannot settle them directly. Strikes and lockouts are hurtful to both interests, and also are harmful to the public. America is the friend of every well-disposed nation and people on the face of the earth. No country and no people, doing the right thing and pursuing the path of peace, has any reason to fear the United States at any time or in any circumstances. Every outbreak of violence, in a strike, hurts the cause of labor, even though those guilty of violent method may not be members of labor organizations. It behooves the responsible leaders of organized labor to denounce violence strongly, to disavow that such "arguments" are not countered. Forest fires are disasters which inspire terror. Human life oftentimes is the toll; animal life is taken ruthlessly before the devastating flames; and timber and other forms of property are destroyed in enormous quantities. If anything should inspire carefulness, it is reading about the horrors of conflagrations in forest areas. Activities in politics is to be lauded, provided it is the right kind of activity. It is gratifying to note that there is more of the right kind of activity now than there has been in the past—activity which concerns itself with educative, persuasive influence voters, not by corrupting, coercing or demoralizing them. Campaigns of education are to be welcomed. EARS MAY BE SEEN SOON ON AMERICAN WOMEN Ears for girls and women—real honest-to-goodness, visible ears, soon may be the fashion in this country! Which note of hope will be hailed with satisfaction by mere man. There are few men with good taste for beauty in women who do not deplore the fact that where ears should be seen, there is a coil of hair. The hirsute adornment is beautiful in its place, but the average man does not believe that its place is over a woman's ear. It may be argued, quite logically, that woman's ears and hair are their own to do with as they please. Granted. No man with a spark of gallantry in him would attempt to dictate as to whither feminine ears shall be seen or unseen of men. But secretly, silently, inwardly, admirers of beautiful women hope for the best—for the appearance of ears, which add greatly to the personal charms of women. Paris girls and women are showing their ears. Which is the reason enough, it would seem, for American women to do likewise. Indeed, Irene Castle Tremaine, dancer and screen star, just back from Paris, promises—or threatens—to expose her ears rightaway! Should she do so, and should bother women noted for personal charms lead the way, a crop of attractive ears might be expected to come forth quickly, all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific. None can succeed without being expert in making promises and offering excuses. 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Phone 217 Tickets to and from Europe—All Trans-Atlantic Steamship Lines THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DEALER, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA We don’t believe anybuddy wuz ever too good t’ be a clerkin’, even if lots o’ them do act like it. We kin remember when a woman wuz satisfiied t’ be known as th’ wife o’ sumebuddy. Town in Review MOB HYPNOTISM UNDER THE INFLUENCE of that peculiar form of psychology known as “nob hypnotism,” it takes the average person about 30 seconds to throw off the mask of civilization and revert to the lowest form of savagery. The other day in Cleveland, an auto driver speeding 50 miles an hour through congested streets was pursued by motorcycle police. Other auto drivers joined in the chase, like small boys chasing the fire engine. By the time the reckless driver was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated, the pursuing autos numbered 50, and cries of "Lynch him!" were ringing forth. There might really have been a gentle citizen who have come to look upon New York taxi drivers as dangerous men to be held in awe may get a bit of satisfaction over the abject fear into which the regular highwaymen have thrown those monarchs of the cruising cabs. A New York couple going home from a dance the other night were just stretch of Washington Bridge when the cab was suddenly drawn up to the curb. The driver sprang from his seat and pulled upon the door. The girl clutched her escort’s arm, and both gazed nervously at the driver, expecting a gun to be thrust at them. "I was hold up on this very bridge once," the driver stammered, "and I don’t expect it to happen again if I can help it. I'm telling you folks now that all I've got is $3.85, an imitation gold watch and this here phoney diamond ring." An Italian theatre may be established in New York, subridized in part and supported by the Italian government. This news comes in a letter from Fortune Gallo, who is now in Rome. It is planned to give Italian dramas and comedies in the proposed theatre. New York chemists are coming to the defense of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in its claims for America's own products. Political and economic questions are bound to involve all sorts of other matters before they are finally decided, and our national pride is frequently attacked during the contests. The most recent instance of this is the matter of potash, an uninteresting sounding thing, unless you are talking to a farmer or a chemist when it becomes exceedingly alive. Along in the tariff discussion somewhere, somebody said that our potash wasn’t as good as Germany's. Excitement followed, and New York, as the research center of the country, is awrought up about it as Washington. The Department of Agriculture launched its broadside giving the re- Letters From People By CHARLES H. RANDALL Prohibition Congressman, 1915-'21 Convinced against his will, still rebellious and disgruntled, one manufacturer in the United States yet confesses the truth about prohibition and its results. He says in a letter written in reply to an inquiry: "While I am not a believer in prohibition, particularly in the way it was first saddled on the country, and secondly in the way the administration of the law has been carried out in the past two years; however, there is no question in my mind that it has been a great help to industry as a whole. Very few men are now absent after a pay-day, whereas, in the old days we used to count on a fairly large percentage of absentees. This money is undoubtedly being spent in a wiser manner than it was in the past, and I believe it will be for the ultimate benefit of the country to have some sort of prohibition in effect." The writer of the above is D. C. Bakewell, president Duquecne Steel Foundry Company, Pittsburg, Pa. From faraway Australia comes an emissary, Dr. Gifford Gordon, with instructions to find out the real truth about prohibition in America. His country sent him, because it wants to profit by America's experience, and therefore prohibition is a failure here. Australia does not want it, but if it is a success she is ready to adopt it. Australia is more like the United States than any other country on the globe. The name of every great industrial and manufacturing company of America is almost as familiar in Australia as here. Hence Dr. Gordon landed on our shores ten months ago, and has studied the effects of the Eighteenth Amendment from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and he told the City Club of Los Angeles about the results this week. Without exception every manufacturer and industrial plant head told of beneficial results to their men and to their business since prohibition. Most striking was his assertion that he traveled on tram cars, subways, ferry boats and in great office buildings in New York City, where the crowds were greatest, for eighteen solid days, and during that time did not see a single person un- the continues be exten Diego, in this should be a uma to ravel no The stance to by the time the reckless driver was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated, the pursuing auto numbered 50, and cries of "Lynch him!" were ringing forth. There might really have been a lynching if the chase had been longer and no cops were present. A mof transforms quickly into a blood-hunting hypnotic state. THE ATROCITIES of the recent mine massacre in Illinois were committed by men who probably never would think of committing murder while alone. The mob spirit hypnotized them. These fits of mob or social insanity happen in a flash by chance. They also come in waves—epidemics of dancing, freak fashions, madmen's cults and similar phenomena. Most of us are reasonably sane—when alone. But whenever human beings congregate in large groups, something crazy always happens or is started. When people swarm together, a mysterious psychic current is generated and by hypnotism, leads them to do queer things. Thus you see quiet, respectable people make fools of themselves in cabarets. A dignified person at a dance sometimes catches the fever and begins cutting up like a lunatic. Jokers utilize this principle to get men at a banquet to wear absurd tissue-paper dunce hats. And the wearers seem to enjoy it, though they wouldn't wear the hats for $100 except under "the spell" of mob hypnosis. THE TENDENCY that people have of making asses of themselves when they get together in large groups, may explain why we do so many fool things when we get together in the form of government. As voters we back community or national projects based on principles that none of us would think of countenancing in our private lives. Mob hypnotism is what makes a man, who is a genius of economy and practicalness in private life, "fall for" visionary and impracticable projects when serving in public office. Carry the idea on and you understand why, the larger the population grows, the worse the government becomes. China, for instance. ANSWERED BY MR. GREY Please tell me how I can learn to express myself?—A. B. T. Not at all a good idea. Ride as a passenger. BABE RUTH IN ALL HIS LIFE fore they are finally decided, and our national pride is frequently attacked during the contests. The most recent instance of this is the matter of potash, an uninteresting sounding thing, unless you are talking to a farmer or a chemist when it becomes exceedingly alive. Along in the tariff discussion somewhere, somebody said that our potash wasn't as good as Germany's. Excitement followed, and New York, as the search center of the country, is as wrought up about it as Washington. The Department of Agriculture launched its broadside giving the results of its investigation, proving that our potash is just as good; and now Dr. John R. Teepe, of this city, potash expert of the country, has joined the department. "With proper protection against foreign 'dumping,' America can develop her potash and be entirely independent of European producers to whom European rates of exchange give to all intents and purposes, an absolute monopoly of the world's potash," says Dr. Teepe. "Should the American potash remain unprotected during the period of European readjustment the few remaining American plants will have to disappear without any doubt and the foreigner will then be in a position to increase his price until the American farmer shall have to buy this most essential food plant to exhorbitant cost." Motor cars and radio sets have not yet undermined the importance of the family dog, whether they have done to the horse and canary. Edwin Rayfield, from Los Angeles, came all the way across the continent to settle the matter of whether a collie belonged to his family or that of a neighbor. The neighbor, a furniture dealer, had claimed the dog and charged that Mr. Rayfield's mother, who lived in his block, had stolen it. Mr. Rayfield identified the perplexed collie as one he had purchased here while stationed at Pelhan Bay during the war, and presented to his mother on his return to California. Just because he loved horses, Christopher J. Fitzgeld, former president of the Brighton Beach Racing Association, bought a dust-grained painting the other day, in which there were dimly outlined figures of some horses. He paid $450 for it, but an artist friend who was with him, told him that it was probably worth it. After he had taken it home and cleaned it up, it developed that he had acquired possession of a landscape by Isaak van Ostade, Day and Night Service Modern Equipment HUDDLE FUNERAL HOME WALTER S. HUDDLE, Director Two of the most fetching and chic girls to sail from New York harbor the past week were Nora and Rosa Huising, daughters of a former Premier of China. They have been attending Mount Holyoke college and are up-to-the-Occidental-minute as can be imagined. Bobbed tresses mark the most emphatic change from the old days of their native land but lip sticks and other accountments add completeness. Just THE SALE OF 40 Most I Men's W Canvas Oxford LOW HEEL, ALSO INCLUDED IN KHAKI COLOR, EXTRA SPECIAL $128 Kafateria Shoe Store 109 W. CENTER ST. ANAHEIM CALIFORNIA Wednesday, July 12, 1922 From People JULES H. RANDALL Congressman, 1915-'21 against his will, still disgruntled, one man the United States yet truth about prohibition. He says in a letter reply to an inquiry: not a believer in prohilarly in the way it was on the country, and the way the administra-tion has been carried out two years; however, question in my mind that great help to industry. Very few men are now a pay-day, whereas, in we used to count on a percentage of absentees is undoubtedly being easier manner than it was and I believe it will be state benefit of the coun-ome sort of prohibition the writer of the above is all, president Duquesne Company, Pittsburg. THEATRES "The Isle of Zorda," adapted from Jules Verne, is seen again today at the California. There are also other features of interest to movie fans. REASON WHY "Don't you always clean up on Saturday night for Sunday?" asked the unmarried man. "No; my wife saves me the trouble and cleans me out every Saturday," answered the married man. result. His first experience with liquor in America was smelling it on the breath of a policeman in a large manufacturing city. Of course there are violations but in the ordinary avenues of business and travel Dr. Gordon's experience is undoubtedly the usual one. WATCH CHILDREN'S EYES Neglect often means serious defects in vision, education and health. 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