oc-plain-dealer 1922-08-04

PAGE FOUR 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 No sigh but from the harps above Soft echoing tones shall win; No heart-wound, but the Lord of love Shall pour His comfort in. —Anonymous. The German mark is falling below low-water mark. What is there to comfort the soul of the one who denies the existence of God? Arson is a heinous crime. The incendiary is a potential murderer. The offense is dastardly in the extreme. Congress contemplates final adjournment early in October. Bless its heart, let it adjourn! Nobody will get out an injunction to prevent its adjourning. Vital industries should be kept in operation. To paralyze them by strikes or lockouts is to penalize the public more than it punishes those against whom the strikes or lockouts are directed. Perhaps a little more emphasis on scholarship, and a little less on athletics, might set some universities and colleges on a higher pedestal of prestige than they now occupy. The primary purpose of these institutions is to import learning. And the principal thing that should be taught is not how to make a touchdown, or how to bat out a home-run. The baseball player who attempts to reverse the umpire is invariably revered himself. HOMICIDES ON INCREASE ALL OVER LAND The homicidal mania seems to be prevalent yet all over the country. In the large cities it reaches high-tide. But even in smaller communities it is alarming enough. In Chicago, eighty-three murders occurred during the first six months of this calendar year. This is an increase of more than one-fourth-over the same period in 1921, and an increase of nearly one-third over the first six months of 1920. In the month of May there were 22 murders in Chicago alone. Human life is held in too low esteem in this country. Account for it as one may, the fast remains, indisputable. There are too many murders. There are too many slayings which are not warranted. Bloodletting is too frequent. Punishment of murderers in too many cases is wholly inadequate. Reprehension of murder is not what it should be. Homicides are surrounded by glamour by the sensational press. Murderers and murderesses are put under haloes—which is an influence that breeds crime. Tender-hearted persons of poor judgment and of little discrimination coddle murderers. Courts are notoriously slow in trying murder cases. There are frequent mistrials. These, and other circumstances and conditions, coupled with laxity in moral standards in some quarters, contribute to the development of shocking crimes. U.S. FOOD EXPORTS HUGE AND VALUABLE There has been a great decrease in value of American foodstuffs exported during the last fiscal year, as com- Perhaps a little more emphasis on scholarship, and a little less on athletics, might set some universities and colleges on a higher pedestal of prestige than they now occupy. The primary purpose of these institutions is to import learning. And the principal thing that should be taught is not how to make a touchdown, or how to bat out a home-run. The baseball player who attempts to reverse the umpire is invariably reversed himself. Why do they try it? Umpires make mistakes in decisions—but they stick to their decisions nevertheless, in virtually every instance. It must be this way, or the game would be all confusion. Neither the players nor the public would have any confidence in an umpire who constantly reversed himself. There is no excuse today for any man or woman, boy or girl, being uninformed. The means of information, enlightenment and culture are within reach of all. The newspaper, the magazine, the book from the public library—all these may be had by the poorest and humblest. From these all may keep well-informed as to current events, and well-informed as to the history of the past, as well as become conversant with the best in literature. Ignorance today is a shameful, inexcusable thing. U. S. FOOD EXPORTS HUGE AND VALUABLE There has been a great decrease in value of American foodstuffs exported during the last fiscal year, as compared with the year 1921. This falling off is due principally to the drop in price of breadstuff grains. The quantity of wheat and corn exported from this country is enormous. Shipments of wheat abroad aggregated 208,000,000 bushels. Exports of corn totaled 176,000,000 bushels. Europe is using more corn than formerly. During the famine years, European peoples for the first time became users of corn-bread. The United States holds its place as the granary of the world. Europe looks in this direction for replenishment of its foodstuffs. This country does not fall the tens of millions overseas who depend upon it for surety of their daily bread. They are talking about wool in the senate. That is what they try to pull over the eyes of the public. A New Telephone Directory For Orange County Will Go to Press August 10th Please arrange for any change you may disisre in present listings or advertising as soon as possible and not later than August 10th. Will Go to Press August 10th Please arrange for any change you may deisre in present listings or advertising as soon as possible and not later than August 10th. The Pacific Telephone and and Telegraph Company Special Sale 32x4½ Cord Casing $20.00 Limited Supply George Dunton FORD LINCOLN FORDSON SALES AND SERVICE 320 No. Los Angeles St. Anaheim Telephone 263 NEW YORK LETTER One of the most significant combinations made in New York for many months was recently effected when the Authors' League of America, the American Dramatists, and the Actors' Equity Ass'n joined hands—and invited the Producing Manager Ass'n to join with them in a movement to bring about a clean theatre and so obviate the necessity of political censorship in the theatre. There are 1800 writers, 275 playwrights and 16,000 players in the three organizations so they ought to have some effect. One or two plays went far enough beyond the justifiable this season to hasten a step of this kind on the part of the people who are truly interested in the theatre. It remained for a rank outsider to point out to New Yorkers the painful fact that their city will be without shade trees within a generation or so if an immediate conservation campaign is not undertaken, Martin L. Davey, former congressman from Ohio, and one of the country's foremost tree experts, recently toured the city parks and open spaces and found that a large proportion of the trees were dying. New York City has about 175,000 trees of which 2500 died last year. Only about 1400 were replaced and that means a loss of more than 1000 trees. At the present rate of increase, a much larger number will die next year and the end of our trees is in sight. As head of the Davey Tree Expert Company of Kent, Ohio, Mr. Davey is thoroughly in touch with the tree question and he is quoted as saying that it would be quite possible to save our trees if an intensive campaign of conservation were undertaken. "The New York air and climate are all right, but the trees are dying from hunger, thirst and neglect. Trees are living, breathing things and require as intelligent care as small children." So great an impression did Mr. Davey make by his address on trees and speech be printed and sent broadcast throughout the country in the hope that public interest might be aroused in national forest conservation. Small boys all through the land would have been thrilled in a sight which we have lately witnessed here. Men and women who walk through the streets between the municipal building and the Tombs recently saw an undersized, inoffensive looking man handcuffed to a stalwart limb of the law and, of course, assumed that he was the latest murderer or the most spectacular hold-up man. As a matter of fact he was a respecable family man, Leopold Unterman by name, who was charged with the offense of being the father of Joseph Unterman, 15, who had been convicted of failing to attend continuation school. The father had been fined and on refusing to pay the fine was sent to the Tombs for three days. When the handcuffs were ordered placed upon him the poor father presented it, disclaiming that he was a murderer or criminal, but the judge held that any father who was the victim of an overlived grown boy and couldn't control him to the extent of making him go to school when the opportunity was given him, should suffer. It is a reversal of the ordinary practice, and undoubtedly would make truancy even more pleasant for the average youngster if the punishment were distributed a bit. Charles Henry Foster, the student globe trotter who has walked almost all over the world and who started last Saturday to walk from New York to San Francisco in 60 days against the record, got a bad start. None other and none more than Irving Cobb in his very big automobile bumped the poor lad off and he is spending a little time in the hospital before he undertakes his journey. Of course it was an accident, and of course Mr. Cobb is sorry, but wouldn't you know he would suffer this... QUANT Old Mexico is both too quaint and too old for youths, according to the juvenile court authorities. Ma Pickford wouldn't let Jack go on his honeymoon, but made him stay on the job making a picture. Jack is a sort of a "vicarious bridegroom." A bandit was killed in a battle with farmers. The wise bandits stay in the city and keep out of trouble. My Annie has a bathing suit. It fits her like a tent, sir; And though she may not be a beaut, She's safe from any censor! The U. S. government announces it has taken over the railroads. The railroads, however, never brag about it when they take over the U. S. government. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. He'll work upon his radio after tea. AFTER THE SPANKING Eddie—Mother, was Adam the first man? Mother—Yes, dear. Eddie—Did he have a papa? Mother—Of course not. Eddie—Gee, but he was lucky. COSTLY Walter F. Koken, representing barbers' supply companies, says he is swamped with telegrams from barbers protesting against high tariff duties on the tools they use. The proposed duties range from 105 to 450 per cent. For instance, a $1 razor might pay a duty of $4.50. Some of the barbers claim such duties are prohibitive instead of protective. FASHION NOTE Ears are to be worn with fall hats. Mrs. Stingy—Dear, the baby has swallowed a penny, what shall we do? Mr. Stingy—Oh, let him keep it. Next Thursday is his birthday, anyway.—Contrib. There may be No free speech In Kansas. But there is A lot of Cheap talk There. JUNK Edison gives to a museum the original models of two of his important inventions—the first phonograph and the first incandescent electric light. Most of us, in his shoes, would have kept these treasures to tickle our van. Charles Henry Foster, the student globe trotter who has walked almost all over the world and who started last Saturday to walk from New York to San Francisco in 60 days against the record, got a bad start. None other and none more than Irving Cobb in his very big automobile bumped the poor lad off and he is spending a little time in the hospital before he undertakes his journey. Of course it was an accident, and of course Mr. Cobb is sorry, but wouldn't you know he would suffer this mishap here instead of encountering a delay difficulty somewhere out on the high road? He says the accident will not stop his hike to the Pacific. WISE AND WITTY True friendship is that quality which enables us to tolerate what others say about themselves and appear deeply interested. The height of style for a lap dog is to have sore eyes. One way to be happy is to set a limit to your wants and keep them there. Some men don't really begin to go to work until they marry a second time and get an ambitious wife. You can tell whether a pleasure is good or bad by the taste it leaves in your mouth. Married folks who have faith in each other also have sense not to do much snoopin' round. BOYS - BOYS LOOK AT THIS Just received several hundred receivers direct from factory. Regular $10 phone, will sell while they last $6.50 You'll have to hurry. They're going like hot cakes. Holland Electric Co. 119 N. Los Angeles St. Phone 402 There may be No free speech In Kansas, But there is A lot of Cheap talk There. JUNK Edison gives to a museum the original models of two of his important inventions—the first phonograph and the first incandescent electric light. Most of us, in his shoes, would have kept these treasures to tickle our vanity and sentiment. But Edison says he is not interested in old models. He looks ahead, never back, concentrates on the future, is not chained to the dust and petrification of the past. That's a sure sign of an alert mind. Nearly all of us have a lot of traditions and cast-iron prejudices that should be thrown into the ash barrel along with junk that litters up the house. Says Lil' Poof Poof the office whistle: "Long skirts are coming back, they say, but it's the skinny girls that say it." STEINWAY The Best is the Cheapest. Easy Terms. F. SIEGEL 422 West Center Street Day and Night Service Ambulance HUDDLE FUNERAL HOME WALTER S. HUDDLE, Director Corner Lemon and Broadway Telephones 870J—870M HANNAH L. HORWITZ Candidate for JUSTICE OF THE PEACE of Anaheim Township 15 Years' Experience In Judge Howard's Office. Your Vote and Support Appreciated. Primary Election August 29, 1922. You'll have to hurry. They're going like hot cakes. Holland Electric Co. 119 N. Los Angeles St. Phone 402 Saturday Spo Shoes U. S. Army Shoes, solid leather. These are high-grade shoes made to stand hard wear ... $2.98 J. W. Carters—every part solid leather—Dress Shoes; $7.00 value $4.85 Solid Leather Puttees, one piece; $5.00 values ... $3.95 Unde Genuine Bloods Knit $1.25 values ... 8 Well made Athletic $1.00 values ... 5 Work Sox, all color 15c value, pair ... 8 Men's Blue Chambray Work Shirts ... 6 Boys' Overalls cut to ... 6 THE STORE with the ORANGE FRONT The Army & Navy 112 North Los Angeles St. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING TRUTH IN PSYCHICAL RESEARCH—New York Evening Post Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, arriving here to lecture upon spiritualism, referred in his first interview to the propriety of making every allowance for fraud and self-deception. But do he and enthusiasts like the novelist J. D. Beresford, who writes on psychological research in the March Harper's, always make sufficient allowance? This question is prompted by a definite circumstance. Mr. Beresford refers to the large claims made for the ability of the French medium, Mile. Eva, to exude from the facial orifices a substance called "ectoplasm," which takes on human shapes. He says that these claims are "neither ill-founded nor exaggerated." He asserts as a definite fact that Mile. Eva "has been able to materialize the perfect body of a tiny, nude woman, which moved with all the material actions of life." Paris dispatches recently quoted Prof. Richet as subscribing to the same belief in "ectoplasm." As for Sir A. Conan Doyle, he wrote in the Strand 18 months ago an article entitled "The Absolute Proof," describing Mile. Eva's seances, and declaring of the substance she produced that "a personality which is or pretends to be that of the dead takes possession of it." This faith is touching, but is it scientific? The latest volume of the proceedings of the admirable Society for Psychical Research contains a report by a committee appointed to examine Mile. Eva in London. Forty sittings were held under conditions fixed by her and her friend, Mme. Bisson—carefully shuttered windows, a pitch black cabinet, and mere momentary observations by the light of a torch controlled by Mme. Bisson. According to the Saturday Review's summary, the report is an expose. "We have here," it says, "an extremely polite, kindly, gentle, but none the less effectual and conclusive pricking of the great bubble of illusion which has hitherto surrounded Eva and her ectoplasm. For particulars of the ridiculous . . . trifles that after much panting, straining, mouning, slavering, and retching this so-called medium ejected from her mouth, the curious most be referred to the report itself. . . . The plain truth about Eva seems to be that she is what is called a ruminant"—i.e., a person who easily regurgitates swallowed substances. Nothing appeared that could not well have been swallowed, such as paper or wax. It is of unquestionable benefit to really scientific inquiry in this field that the recent craze over it, which resulted in so much extravagance, is disappearing. There will not be much patience with those who assert as unquestionable facts phenomena which are highly dubious or worse. Fred H. Schneider SANITARY MARKET 116 E. Center St. In Daleys Store Fred H. Schneider SANITARY MARKET 116 E. Center St. In Daleys Store THIS IS ON QUALITY MEATS Beef Pot Roast, lb. 15¢ and up Boneless Rolls, lb. 15¢ Short Ribs, lb. 12½¢ Shoulder Pork, lb. 20¢ Home-Made Pork Sausage, lb. 20¢ Hamburger, 2 lbs. 25¢ Bacon, half or whole, lb. 35¢ Smoked Picnic Hams, lb. 22¢ POULTRY AND RABBITS AND FRESH FISH EVERY DAY Another Sale of Coupon Soda Books $1.00 worth of Soda, Ice Cream, Lunches, etc. for 69c There are twenty 5c coupons in each book. Books are good any time. Limit of 10 to one person. On sale Friday and Saturday, August 4th and 5th. at Watt's Soda Fountain in Gibson Drug Store, 165 W. 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