oc-plain-dealer 1922-08-10

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Dark clouds must clear, and when the clouds are past, One golden day redeems a weary year; Patient I listen, sure that sweet, at last, Will sound His voice of cheer. —Celia Thaxter. Sowing the seeds of factional dissension and bitterness in a community is not a good public service, by any means. In all industrial wars, the public suffers the proverbial fate of the "innocent bystander"—gets most of the hard knocks. The primary election system should not be discarded until and unless some better plan is found. No better plan has been found yet. Be considerate toward the teacher, Her lot is exacting, usually. She is never overpaid, at best. Many faithful schoolroom workers are lamentably underpaid. The dishonorable, objectionable thing does not become honorable and unoojectionable because it is done in politics. The same standards of integrity should hold in politics as in the ordinary affairs of life. The United States army, in the revised scheme of national defense, is to be disposed so that the coasts and southern border of this country will be strongly protected. This is wise and prudent. Particularly should the Pacific Coast be protected well. ISHOULD MAJORITY RULE ON TRIAL JURIES? Recent disquieting experiences with trial juries in criminal cases in this state have given rise to the question: Should not jury verdicts be based upon a two-thirds or a three-fourths vote of the members of the jury, instead of requiring an unanimous verdict? There are so many mistrials in which the vote stands 10 to 2 or 9 to 3. These involve heavy expenses to taxpayers and in many instances, effectuate miscarriages of justice. For the accused may have two or three trials and escape scot free eventually, even though there may be no shadow of doubt as to some measure of guilt. The sanctity of human life and freedom, of course, must be maintained. No accused person should be railroaded to conviction. It is well to remember, too, that majorities are not always right — that minorities sometimes are in the right and are the very bulwarks of justice. But it does seem that there should be some way to obviate mistrials in so many cases where the jury comes within two or three votes of an unanimous agreement. SHORTEN THE BALLOT! VEXES VOTER Pleas for a shorter ballot are heard occasionally. They are pertinent. The ballot here in California is unreasonably long. It confuses the voter. It does not give him or her sufficient time to mark it with care in the voting-booth, if there is a rush of voters, as oftentimes is the case. In one state, "back yonder," the ballot this year is so long that it took a newspaper reporter, with training in doing... The dishonorable, objectionable thing does not become honorable and unojectionable because it is done in politics. The same standards of integrity should hold in politics as in the ordinary affairs of life. The United States army, in the revised scheme of national defense, is to be disposed so that the coasts and southern border of this country will be strongly protected. This is wise and prudent. Particularly should the Pacific Coast be protected well. It is on this side that the country has reason to fortify itself. It is from this side that peril would come, if peril came. So long as it shall be deemed necessary at all to maintain strong defenses, the strongest should be along this coast. The rights of the whole people are paramount to the grievance of any one class. The whole people are interested in seeing that each and every class is treated justly. But the whole people do not look with favor upon class wars, which punish the public unnecessarily and which, in the long run, bring no good to the class that is waging the war. In industry, there are better and fairer ways to obtain and maintain justice than by strikes and lockouts, which cause great loss and hardships to the public. SHORTEN THE BALLOT! VEXES VOTER Pleas for a shorter ballot are heard occasionally. They are pertinent. The ballot here in California is unreasonably long. It confuses the voter. It does not give him or her sufficient time to mark it with care in the voting-booth, if there is a rush of voters, as oftentimes is the case. In one state, "back yonder," the ballot this year is so long that it took a newspaper reporter, with training in doing such things speedily, seven minutes merely to mark the ballot, giving no time for study as the marking proceeded. This is unfair to the voters and is mischievous in its possibilities. With many proposed constitutional amendments, or initiative or referendum measures on the ballot, in addition to the many candidates, it is utterly impossible for the average voter to give intelligent attention to the whole ballot. In such circumstances objectionable men or measures might be carried to triumph, whereas such thing would be impossible if the ballot were shorter and if the voter were given a fair fighting chance to read and to digest his ballot. Los Angeles has a quiet week occasionally, in which no mystery murder occurs. Ralph J. McFadden OF ANAHEIM CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF OF ORANGE COUNTY Primaries Aug. 29, 1922 Don't Forget That The Ever-Ready Truck & Transfer Co. Is still able to do your hauling of any description. Contract hauling a specialty. Get our price. O. J. LINNARTZ, Prop. Residence 211 E. Sycamore St. Don't Forget That The Ever-Ready Truck & Transfer Co. Is still able to do your hauling of any description. Contract hauling a specialty. Get our price. O. J. LINNARTZ, Prop. Residence 211 E. Sycamore St. ANNOUNCEMENT The Anaheim Creation Announce the Opening of Their New Haven 120 W. Chart Anaheim A complete line of all dairy products will be available at milk, buttermilk, Cottage cheese, cream and butter. M. Del Giorgio & M. Proprietors NEW YORK LETTER William W. Sewell, the late Theodore Roosevelt's famous Maine guide, was the second person to inscribe his name in the guest book of the Women's Roosevelt Memorial Ass'n, at Roosevelt's birthplace, 28 East 20th-st. He visited there one day last week as a guest of honor. The first name on the book is that of Marshal Foch. There seems absolutely no limit to the things some people can do and say and remain unscathed. I was in an office building elevator with a man frind of mine the other day. Besides us stood a distinguished looking man with graying hair. My friend turned to him with a most admiring f smile. "Your hair is exactly like a silver fox isn't it?" he asked. The man smiled and blushed a little and stammered. "Why, perhaps it is." "Who was that man?" I asked when we were out of the car. "I don't know," was the unabashed reply. "I never saw him before." There is a store proprietor up in the north end of this city who surpasses most of us in the trust he places in humankind, and he does find this trust justified. The other day, during one of our sudden thunder showers, he lent umbrellas to seven strangers caught in the shop by the storm. By noon of the next day, every umbrella had been returned to him. A combination of natural magnetism and sticky fruit juice makes it hard for as honest-intentioned man. Louis Levy, of 190 Glenmore avenue, for instance, had a difficult experience just because of those things. He was taken to the police headquarters charged with having stolen a gold watch and three dollars in cash from a man on the subway train. "They simply stuck to my fingers," he protested. "I'd been waiting around the park and eating orange and lemon ices while I waited. You know how interest and sympathy for the little Island, it turned out that the stranger had done service in the English army, and that they did have a number of mutual friends overseas. But how did the stranger know it and can a quiet sympathy show up in a man's exterior? Grace George will be on Broadway next season and we are all glad in consequence. She will star in "Amer," a play by the author of "The Nest." Her husband, William A Brady, will produce it. Mr. Norman Trevor and other excellent actors will be in the cast with Miss George. CYPRESS NEWS CYPRESS, Aug. 9: (Spl.)—Little Robert Ledford while playing felt from a tank-stand and fractured his right arm. The arm is mending nicely and it is thought that the little one will soon regain the use of it. Mrs. C. Lanier has returned from the Artesia hospital where she underwent an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Lanier is able to be up and walk about the house. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Sconce have just returned from a two weeks' outing in the Yosemite. They report a very enjoyable outing. Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilcox motored to Los Angeles Sunday and visited with the F. Large family. Mr. and Mrs. H. Penhall and Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Hunt left this morning on a motor trip to Pismo Beach. Mrs. E. Daniels and small son o Fort Worth are visiting with Mrs Daniels' brother, Carl Smith, this week. Ralph La Rue is home from Berkeley eley for a few days. Ralph is glad to be back in the land of sunshine. He says that the sun has shown just one day in the past six weeks in Berkeley. Mrs. E. Cutter and son, Arthur... Any knowledge that does not increase a man's usefulness is apt to increase his vices. Early fruit trees need the most watching. Somehow or other, you can't depend upon men who are always in a hurry. Wisdom is something you are apt to get after the chance to make money on it is gone. When anything comes easy, there is something the matter with it, for good things come hard. Let us say a good word for the fellow who is willing to pay what he owes, but has no money to do it with. It is a great blessing to be too poor to loaf. The best time of the moon to quit a bad habit is right now. You can't get the better of an argument with a man who refuses to talk. It is hard to find a place in any religion where prize fights or horse racing fits in. What we never had we never miss. It is easier to attract attention than to earn respect. You don't notice the silliness in a pretty girl so much as you do in a homely one. Smart men are those who make good use of their experiences and fools are those who don't. A combination of natural magnetism and sticky fruit juice makes it hard for as honest-intentioned man, Louis Levy, of 190 Glennmore avenue, for instance, had a difficult experience just because of those things. He was taken to the police headquarters charged with having stolen a gold watch and three dollars in cash from a man on the subway train. "They simply stuck to my fingers," he protested. "I'd been waiting around the park and eating orange and lemon icees while I waited. You know how sticky they are. Then, too, I'm magnetic—things just come to me. This watch and money did—that—just stuck to my hands, and the man got away before I could tell him. If I hadn't been arrested, I intended to get on the train and go from car to car until I found him." Police are acknowledgedly unsympathetic with anything outside of routine. A Bronx builder who says he owes everything to his mother, and her teachings, has dedicated a block of houses to her memory. A shield suitably inscribed has been attached to the cornice. Are we losing our identifying American look as the result of increased foreign entanglements? One of our realest Americans—a young chap I know who thinks and works in terms of one hundred per cent Americanism, but just happened to go into the world war about three years ahead of his fellow Americans, by joining up with the Canadians—had an experience the other day, which is worrying both of us. He was accosted by a stranger as he was leaving the subway, and asked if he were an Englishman. Now he doesn't look like one, but he has developed a certain COMMENTS OF THE PRESS WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING ABRAHAM LINCOLN MEMORIAL New York Evening Post. Washington never lived in the city that bears his name. He laid the cornerstone of the White House, but John Adams was its first occupant and Jefferson was the first President to be inaugurated in the permanent capital of the United States. It was reserved for Lincoln and the historic events of 1861 to 1865 to charge the city with the memories that render it peculiarly sacred. The threat constantly made against the Nation's capital during the strife between the states was a threat at the Nation's life. Foremost of those who faced this threat stood the sublimely awkward figure of the Railsplitter, looking through the windows of the White House at the beautiful Virginia hills across the city that bears that founder's name, Lincoln laid down his life in the untaken capital. He had saved the Union and, as an incident of the struggle, he had stricken off the shackles of the slave. How rear memorial to such a man for such a triumph? The same problem had been raised of a monument for Washington. His real monument was the Nation. What mere pile of brick or stone could there be which would not seem to belittle rather than to commemorate his immortal achievement? Yet the problem was solved, and the noble obelisk that pierces the sky is a fitting tribute to the American name that leads all the rest. That obelisk made it imperative that the memorial to Lincoln should be as majestic as itself in effect and utterly different in form. This problem has been happily solved Mr. and Mrs. H. Penhall and Mr. and Mrs. Merril Hunt left this morning on a motor trip to Pismo Beach. Mrs. E. Daniels and small son o Fort Worth are visiting with Mrs Daniels' brother, Carl Smith, this week. Ralph La Rue is home from Berkley eley for a few days.. Ralph is glad to be back in the land of sunshine. He says that the sun has shown just one day in the past six weeks in Berkeley. Mrs. E. Cutter and son, Arthun are on a motor tour of the Yosemite. Mrs. J. B. Kister is visiting with relatives in Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morris are entertaining a small daughter who arrived Sunday. The little lady and her mother are doing nicely. Thomas refused to get excited. If it had been a boy, well, it is difficult to determine what would have happened to Thomas. Mervin La Rue visited his father and mother Sunday. He has purchased a Ford sedan. He has a very good ice route in Hollywood. The Priddy's and visiting relative visited some of the beach towns recently. The W. C. Millers visited the city of Riverbank Sunday. STEINWAY The Best is the Cheapest. Easy Terms. F. SIEGEL 422 West Center Street HANNAH L. HORWITZ Candidate for JUSTICE OF THE PEACE of Anaheim Township 15 Years' Experience in Judgement Howard's Office. Your Vote and Support Appreciated Primary Election August 29, 1922 I THANK YOU. Day and Night Service Ambulance HUDDLE FUNERAL HOME WALTER S. HUDDLE, Director Corner Lemon and Broadway Telephones 870J—870M Paint and Jefferson was the first President to be inaugurated in the permanent capital of the United States. It was reserved for Lincoln and the historic events of 1861 to 1865 to charge the city with the memories that render it peculiarly sacred. The threat constantly made against the Nation's capital during the strife between the states was a threat at the Nation's life. Foremost of those who faced this threat stood the sublimely awkward figure of the Railsplitter, looking through the windows of the White House at the beautiful Virginia hills across the quiet potomac and asking himself with unremitting anxiety what more he could do to avert the menace that lay behind that peaceful scene. In order that nothing might be lacking to identify the savior of the Nation that Washington founded INCEMENT Sim Creamery Co. Their New Plant Friday, Aug. 11 at Chartres St. Anaheim Will be available at all times, including pastuerized milk, raw butter. gio & M. Faloinella Proprietors TOWN IN REVIEW Los Angeles Ku Kluxera tried to take the law into their own hands. Today the law takes the Ku Kluxers into its hands. A fat profiteer takes up lots of rcom in a church. New York editors, writers and actors (some of 'em at any rate) say they are going to nominate for governor a man who has never been in politics. No use of their nominating a man who has been in. He wouldn't accept the nomination. You might have your own ideas about the business in which H. Brew of Cleveland is engaged, but as a matter of fact he is a machinist. ANSWERED BY MR. GREY Is a diver thorough in his work? —F. H. T. Yes. He has to go to the bottom in most of his work. Is living in an apartment house hard on the feet?—I. J. J. Indeed it is. It has caused many a man to become flat footed. Is there anything harder to beat than a rug?—Mrs. D. S. T. Yes. A china egg. The fire escape where I live is only 14 inches wide. Don't you think it should be widened?—C. L. W. Yes. Narrow escapes are not good for the nerves. BACK AMONG THE OLD FOLKS ONCE AGAIN Leo Gault last Monday morning, with tears in his eyes, bid goodbye to his friends and relatives, to be a long time gone to the sawmill city of Womble. But alas! he returned Sunday, and glad to get back to Spring Creek—Spring Creek correspondence, Danville (Mo.) Democrat. Dry agents plowed up 35 barrels of booze on a farm near Logonton, Pa. Anybody got a plow he will loan or rent? We had a card over our desk saying we were 51 per cent in sympathy with William Allen White, but we've taken it down. LONELY Steamship Tacoma Maru puts in at the island of Tristan da Cunha, far off the South African coast. The Rev. H. M. Rogers, the island's new schoolmaster, mails a letter before the boat leaves. He has discovered that his future home is visited by a ship only once every 14 months. No cables. No wireless. Would you care to join the 140 people who live on Tristan da Cunba? A Word From Josh Wise: Th' man th't has t' clean 'em up don't drop many cigar ashes on th' floor. :-Men's Events:- For your vacation, allow us to make a few sugges- :-Men's Events:- For your vacation, allow us to make a few suggestions: Palm Beach Suits $12.00 Athletic Underwear from ...85c Terry Cloth Bath Robes ...$4.50 Nights Shirts — Pajamas — Golf Sox — Flannel Shirts — Sweater Coats — Trunks—Bags—Suit Cases. We will fill all your requirements, and please you, in quality and price too— Jackson's Men's Wear Shop 'Your Moneys Worth Always' (Old Post Office Building) Anaheim BOOKS CLOSE Tonight at 9 p. m. On White Star Participating Oil Agreement of $75.00 The well stands with 12½-inch casing cemented. Our own and nearby developments have, we believe, justified a considerably advanced price. General Petroleum's No. 91, within 450 feet of our well, came in yesterday and is reported at over 3000 barrels. This is the latest of several large wells close to our property line. Meanwhile, we suggest that you secure the number of agreements you desire, before the closing hour tonight, and before the price advances tomorrow to more than $75. We reserve the right to return all overscriptions. Orange County Representatives Messrs. Jordan, Crane, Wilkerson, at Valencia Hotel, Anaheim. White Star Oil Syndicate 701 Loew's State Building. Phone 66670. Los Angeles, Cal.