oc-plain-dealer 1922-08-08

PACAGE 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. Christ placed all rest, and had no resting place; He healed each pain, yet lived in sore distress; Deserved all good, yet lived in great disgrace; Gave all hearts joy, Himself in heaviness; Suffered them to live, by whom Himself was slain; Lord, who can live to see such love again?—Countess of Pelbroke. Boost California whenever and wherever it will be effective. One way to prolong your life—be careful in traffic. Another way—do not worry. It is the poor, struggling man, usually, who makes the great invention, or the great discovery. Must the experience of this country be to pass from one class struggle into another? There is peril in this course. Alexander Graham Bell will rank as one of the great men of all time. His invention has been and is immeasurably useful. This is the time of year when there is high death rate among the good resolutionists born on the first of January. Some of them succumbed months ago. Does it pay to make others happy? Is there any real satisfaction in it? Does it do one credit to make others unhappy? Is it something of which to be proud? GIFTED POLICE OFFICER RESIGNS POST Those who have read Colonel Roosevelt's "Autobiography," recall his interesting comment on the New York police department and the reforms he instituted while he was police commissioner of the metropolis. One of his proteges, Lieut. George H. Quackenbos, has applied for retirement after 26 years of service. He entered the police service when Colonel Roosevelt, as president of the police board, urged college men to come into the department. Lieutenant Quackenbos is said to be the most versatile man who ever served the New York police department. He is a doctor of medicine, and has been a practicing physician. He is a lawyer, and has practiced law. He has been a professor of mathematics, has taught deaf mutes the sign language and is a radio expert. He reads, writes, speaks and instructs in Mexican, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese and several Indian dialects. Some years ago he was, in turn, a cowboy, a telegraph operator, a train dispatcher and a hotel manager. No wonder that such versatility and strenuosity attracted the attention and elicited the admiration of Colonel Roosevelt. There are bright and talented men in place work all over the country. The common showing of policemen, in pictures and on the stage, as numskulls, is unfair and false. Man for man, policemen are the peers of the average intelligent main. Prejudice against them does not arise from worthy, commendable motives. CLASS AND CLIQUE BODE ILL FOR AMERICA Class and clique distinctions in this country are banal. Classism is not Americanism of the typical brand. Classism on the contrary. WHAT? When the tract the people are for creased car fare system of govern people win the continue to gouge $60,000 a day (Samuel A. Ettie counsel, Chicago, mittee on the jud) Give a politician and he ropes vote ALEXANDER GRAMM BELL will rank as one of the great men of all time. His invention has been and is immeasurably useful. This is the time of year when there is high death rate among the good resolutionists born on the first of January. Some of them succumbed months ago. Does it pay to make others happy? Is there any real satisfaction in it? Does it do one credit to make others unhappy? Is it something of which to be proud? One should have pride and independence enough to form one's own opinions in politics, and to vote one's own convictions. "Be not like dumb driven cattle" in politics or anything else. Weather grumblers never are quite satisfied. Some of them make believe they would like to be at the North Pool in summer and at the Equator in winter. But whatever they may be, or whatever the weather may be, they are not pleased. Railroads and coal mines must operate. The people must be served in vitals. If private interests can not or will not function in these necessaries, the government should step in and exercise its sovereign authority in the name and in behalf of all the people. Use your influence to make traffic conditions safer. If you see any driver indulging in recklessness, urge him to desist—warn him. If he be a flagrant offender, cause his arrest. If you see a pedestrian crossing the street in the middle of the block, or darting into traffic headless of signals, admonish him or her. Feel a sense of personal responsibility in co-operating to enhance the safety of conditions. CLASS AND CLIQUE BODE ILL FOR AMERICA Class and clique distinctions in this country are banful. Classism is not Americanism of the typical brand. Classism, on the contrary, is un-American. It is exotic. It is imported from other lands where class and caste are entrenched in the history and traditions of centuries. Here in democratic America there should be no classism. There should be but two classes—if the term "class" may be used in this connection—the honest, law-abiding, respectable class, on the one hand; the dishonest, vicious, law-despising class on the other. This is the only class distinction which should be made in this country. Let Americans resolve themselves into classes and cliques, and disaster would befall the Nation. What is needed is an intensive Americanization of spirit that would weld all good patriots—rich and poor, influential or humble, capitalist or workman, farmer or urbanite—into one common bond of Americanism—the kind of amalgamation and cooperation which prevailed during the dark and stirring days after America entered the World War. Alexander Graham Bell's death creates a gap in the ranks of the great scientists of the age. It is amazing that, within the span of one life, the telephone should reach such phenomenal evolution and become such an integral and indispensable part and factor of modern life and its diverse activities. UNIFORMITY Every gallon like every other gallon. Every drop capable of vaporizing rapidly and uniformly in the carbu- UNIFORMITY Every gallon like every other gallon. Every drop capable of vaporizing rapidly and uniformly in the carburator, and being consumed completely in the cylinder at the jump of the spark. That's "Red Crown." That's quality in gasoline. Use "Red Crown" and nothing else, and your car will develop the maximum power that its makers designed it to give. Fill at the Red Crown sign—at Service Stations, garages, or other dealers. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) 100 power RED CROWN GASOLINE NEW YORK LETTER NEW YORK, Aug. 8. You can almost notice the falling off in our city population as you walk along the streets these days—so large a delegation of our prohibition agents have gone to Saratoga Springs to help out the local force which is trying to keep the place dry during the races. It was just too much of the regular Saratoga allotment of officials, and New York City is stripped of much of its law-enforcing power for the time being. Of course the favorite joke of the season is spelling it Saha-ratoga. The long distance radio traffic of the world today centers in New York City. A message broadcasted from here may be read, a fraction of a second later, in 28 countries. This means, among other things, that America will not be handicapped in world communication by the fact that other points may have the cable advantage. This city also maintains the most powerful and completely equipped radio stations of any city in the world. It works effectively with stations 10,000 miles away and keeps up continuous communication—day and night—with places 5,000 miles away, traversing the polar regions for short cuts to Europe and Asia. It is the only city in the world with a long-distance radio station in the very heart of the business section—an office in Broad-st. The old world, superficially viewed, seems to have gone awry. There is unrest, and tumult, and violence, and threatenings, and distress. It is a sorry spectacle. And yet underneath it all there is a substratum of quiescence, and over it all "God's in His Heaven." The world is not careering madly to perdition. There is good—a vast deal of it. But the good is not exploited and published broadcast, as is the evil. Violence in industrial struggles is out of place in this country, and yet once more our ears are to be exposed to the critical world. Ears are not becoming to most of us, but what does fashion care for that? And none of my hats will fit if I do away with my present ear-puffings. I have had some relief, however, in inside information, that for daytime, I could go on covering my cars with permanent waves which I have found so much better looking than my ears themselves. You know ears aren't pretty, in spite of the poets. In the evening only, must we conform to this new insistence upon cars decollete. "For evening, you must draw your hair up so that it comes clear above the ears and wear it high." I was informed by Mr. C. Nestle, Manhattan's one final authority on matters of colfures. "Don't think this means that you are to wear it drawn straight back. It is o be waved and dorned but it must be high and it must not drape the ears. The permanent wave will be more popular than ever, if that is possible, because high coiffures are trying to most women and require the softening effect of the wave in order not to add years to their appearance. With soft waves, and the sheen which proper waving gives, you will soon become as attached to this new style as you have been to the low-draped looks. And for evening wear it is essential." There is the word of the country's chief authority on waves and tresses. The Theatre Guild has acquired for production at some future time, a German play by Paul Apel; "Hans Sunseraper's Trip to Hell." It is a dream-play, a comedy, and the title role will be played by Joseph Schildkraut who is a member of the Theatre Guild's regular company for another two years. Mr. Schildkraut played the title role in "Lillion," which was unlike this new Apel play. TOWN IN REVIEW WHAT'S THIS? When the traction companies win the people are forced to pay the increased car fare under our present system of government. When the people win the traction companies continue to gouge the people out of $60,000 a day (by injunctions.)—Samuel A. Ettelson, corporation counsel, Chicago, before house committee on the judiciary. Give a politician enough cigars and he ropes voters in. All boys are born bare- WHAT'S THIS? When the traction companies win the people are forced to pay the increased car fare under our present system of government. When the people win the traction companies continue to gouge the people out of $60,000 a day (by injunctions.)—Samuel A. Ettelson, corporation counsel, Chicago, before house committee on the judiciary. Give a politician enough cigars and he ropes voters in. All boys are born bare-footed, and naturally hate to wear shoes. Senator Myers Thinks a Few Thunks I want an organization to elect men to congress to represent the interests of the farmers would be, whild not in accordance with the spirit of our institutions, and our form of government, much less objectionable than the efforts of an organization to abolish marriage and institute free love, or to promote open race track gambling.—Senator Myers, Mont., before senate committee on the judiciary. SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, FRANK Facts have their place in the laboratory and in the kitchen. But we are neither microbes nor cooks. We are human beings.—Dr. Frank Crane in American Magazine. FALSE ALARMS ED HOWE, county editor, observes that America is running too strongly to false alarms. A petty difficulty frequently masquerades as a crisis. After running ourselves out of breath, following the fire engines, we usually find that it's a small blaze or a false alarm. This tendency toward false alarms is a natural result of the public nervousness that follows every big war. And generally, the things we fear most are imaginary. Time will cure. An English scientist is experimenting to find out what kinds of colors a mosquito doesn't like, so that folk can find protection by wearing clothes of those colors. But, hang it, the mosquito does his worst in the dark, when it can't see the colors. Be that as it may, the Heywood Co. in Buffalo manufactures reed chairs. Geraldine Farrar has sued her husband, Lou Tellegen, for $9600, which she says he borrowed from her. A man who can borrow that much from his wife has no business on the stage. He should be minister of finance in Russia. A New York man, who doubted that old Uncle Johnny Shell of Greasy Creek, Ky., was 133 years old when he died, looked up the census records and found that in 1860 Uncle Johnny had told an enumerator The old world, superficially viewed, seems to have gone awry. There is unrest, and tumult, and violence, and threatenings, and distress. It is a sorry spectacle. And yet underneath it all there is a substratum of quietence, and over it all "God's in His Heaven." The world is not carcoring madly to perdition. There is good—a vast deal of it. But the good is not exploited and published broadcast, as is the evil. Violence in industrial struggles is out of place in this country, and yet there has been much of it within the last few months. The spirit which provokes or fosters violence is a dangerous spirit, repugnant to American ideals. Every power and influence of government and of public sentiment should be arrayed against it. The young should be taught the horror of it all. Campaigns of education should be conducted to incinere in all classes abhorrence of the spirit which would resort to bullet and bludgeon. The menace of these things does not stop with the violence, but extends through its baneful influence to the young. This is a land in which reason and lawful methods should prevail at all times. The spread of the spirit of violence is one of the most disquieting, ominous signs of the times. WISE AND WITTY: A rich man's fame generally ends when he does. All that you get out of one war is a reason for another one. The old idea that is vulgar to work is more popular now than ever. Religion, like nations, has to undergo periodical reforms, or it will perish. Start looking for something, and everybody who comes along will help you try to find it. There seem to be a lot of people whose pleasure comes from doing things they know are wrong. Rich men succeed in almost everything except raising children and having good health. One reason why civilization makes so little headway is because we keep on teaching what was taught us. The Land of Dreams The surging tide of olden dreams. Breaks luminously on the night. To thrill the twilight hour with gleams. Of unforgotten lands of light, O Memory, what lovely years You don't realize how fast time files until you give a sixty-day note. The thing most needed in government is plain business sense. The talk you hear about things is usually much bigger than the things themselves. Authority goes farthest when it is not overworked. STEINWAY The Best is the Cheapest. Easy Terms. F. SIEGEL 422 West Center Street Geraldine Farrar has sued her husband, Lou Tellegen, for $9600, which she says he borrowed from her. A man who can borrow that much from his wife has no business on the stage. He should be minister of finance in Russia. A New York man, who doubted that old Uncle Johnny Shell of Greasy Creek, Ky., was 133 years old when he died, looked up the census records and found that in 1860 Uncle Johnny had told an enumerator he was 37 years old. But the New York man forgets we have been living a lot faster since 1860 than before. SOME politicians say it with arsenic. We're with the Calif. Realty boys who want to give franchise powers to the st. r. r. commission. Think of the initiative petitions t would save! HOUSEHOLD HINT Abandoned army posts make good Ku Klux Klan headquarters. They Won't Have to Sell This Ranch for Taxes Right Away, Anyway Ranch assessed for $5160 sells for $120,000.—News item. The Land of Dreams The surging tide of olden dreams Breaks luminously on the night To thrill the twilight hour with gleams Of unforgotten lands of light, O Memory, what lovely years Upon thy besom wake from sleep. Winnowed at last from ancient tears And folded where Time's roses sleep. And like a silver moon that fills With silence in the purple air, The Long Ago in quiet thrills Down dim sequestered hides of prayer. The rumors of the day's defeat Come not to this unfevered spot; But in the dusk the heart may meet Like healing of forget-me-not. The brook-like voice of lyric flocks Of days that wore the morning's grace— The daisies and the hollyhocks, The wonder of a Mother's face. Watch and jewelry repair, Witman's. Baldwin Refrigerators saved ice. Stroup-Barnes Furniture Co. Ralph J. McFadden OF ANAHEIM CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF OF ORANGE COUNTY Primaries Aug. 29, 1922 COMMENTS OF THE PRESS WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING Punishing The Innocent——Pittsburgh Leader The facts of everyday life continue to compete with the fancies of fiction in some of its phases. They attract less attention because encompassed usually by circumstances that make their appearance forbidding, instead of attractive, to the reader. The latest instance of strange happenings is the pardoning of a man in one of the state prisons of Michigan by the governor of that state. The prisoner served eleven years of a life sentence for murder before his innocence was discovered by the exposure of the real murderer, who, through a strange kink in the laws of Michigan, is immune from punishment. The man just pardoned was accused of the brutal murder of a little girl. When arrested, popular excitement over the child's death was running so high, and public demonstrations were so booththirsty, that the suspect, to escape what he supposed to be, and probably was, a lynching, made a confession of guilt. His one desperate hope was that if his life should be spared he might live to establish his innocence. Fortunately, he was given a life term and now after eleven years it is known that the father of the little girl was the murderer. The pardon followed as an inevitable consequence. And it was not until the murderer was found to be other than the "lifer" that he was even questioned about his confession. Then he explained why he had fastened guilt upon himself, and in the light of all the circumstance at the time of the crime, it seems to have been a quickly formed strategy which has finally succeeded. Ordinarily, when a man pleads guilty the public drops consideration of the case except for extraordinary details of certain crimes. But there is no quibbling about the prisoner's guilt. Yet this is the second case within recent years in which innocent men have confessed to guilt and later had their innocence established entirely outside their own efforts. The other was the case of a young man in New Jersey, who, on advise of his attorney, pleaded guilty when identified as a robber by a number of people. He knew himself the victim of mistaken identity, but the lawyer believed him guilty, hence the advice. The real robber was discovered later by accident and the innocent man pardoned. No "Race Suicide" Menace Here—Berkeley Gazette Talk of "race suicide" in this country is deceptive and, according to any broad view, untrue. The so-called "upper classes," the "old families," the "aristocrats," are having fewer and fewer children, to be sure. But not for that reason does society stop its progress or a nation necessarily deteriorate. Is there any race suicide among the poor? None that you can notice. And the middle classes are certainly reproducing themselves. And if you will observe in school and in college, in industry, business and professional It is these and their children who will be the leading citizens of the future, and in turn develop into "old" and "aristocratic" families, and then, having expended their energy, drift into the "race suicide" class and pass from sight, as their predecessors have done. It has always been so, in free and democratic countries, with equal opportunity. Society is a sort of plant that is always dying at the top and growing up again from its roots. Here in America, the process is especially noticeable. The roots are sound and their vigor is unfailing, and 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. 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