oc-plain-dealer 1922-08-11

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR GIVE CAREFUL THOUGHT READERS Too late! come back no vanished hours; But, living and beloved, there still Remain sweet friends. Be ours the will. To strew their paths with thornless flowers! —Anonymous. Europe urges and pleads: "Say it with money, or with credits." The merit system should prevail in filling all public offices. But does not the person who dies eating pie have a pretty satisfactory death? Francisco Villa is so peacefully and bloodlessly good that it don't seem true. The man who would solve Europe's most pressing problem must do it with gold or credit; Give Europe enough time and it should recoup its finances off American tourists. Europe is not pining so much for "the man of the hour" as for the money of the hour. Alvared Obregon's official face should be an easy one for Uncle Sam to recognize. It is well to remember, in the moral crisis of life, that God and one constitute a majority. Men trifle with their health, their most precious asset, as though it were a worthless bauble. TO THE PRIMARY To whatever political party one may adhere, it behooves one to give very careful thought to the candidates and to the issues and records involved in the forthcoming state primary in California. This method of making nominations throws the whole burden of responsibility upon the people. They have every incentive to be thoughtful and to arrive at conclusions based upon opinioned consideration of all the candidacles and of all the issues involved. The people are given abundance of informational material upon which to absejudgment. Representative newspapers of the state report speeches and statements of opposing candidates with impartiality. Through statements of campaign committees and through political advertising the people are given arguments, claims,and records. The observant, studious person is informed as to the respective records of the persons being considered for nomination. Think and decide for yourself. INFLUX OF IMMIGRANT IS CONTROLLED The law of Congress which limits the number of immigrants entering this country, is effectual in barring out an embarrassing flood of immigration. Statistics for the last fiscal year show that the nations of southern Europe sent to America the full three per cent permitted under the restriction law. But northern Europe sent comparatively few immigrants. Some countries in the north contributed to the year's immigration only about one-half the permitted limit. Until economic conditions become better in this country and through Europe is not piling so much for "the man of the hour" as for the money of the hour. Alvaro Obregon's official face should be an easy one for Uncle Sam to recognize. It is well to remember, in the moral crisis of life, that God and one constitute a majority. Men trifle with their health, their most precious asset, as though it were a worthless bauble. Good intentions avail nothing if from them there does not spring up a crop of good deeds. The people have in their own hands to determine the quality of men sent to Congress. The way to better films is to better them. And the way to encourage better films is to patronize the good ones. If the child is taught obedience in its early years, it is unlikely that it will develop into a lawbreaker in later life. Europe would not be half so sick, if it would purge itself of its suspicions and hatreds and take an emetic to rid itself of militarism. The financial doctors of Europe are meeting in consultation. The patient is in desperate condition—in need of oxygen treatment. "Waves of crime" would be stayed if they were met by counter-waves of legal hangings for all murders and long imprisonment for every outbreaking act of lawlessness." Voters are giving would-be political leaders allopathic doses of independent thought and action. The sovereign elector cannot be programmed this year, or led to the chariot-wheel of any politician. No disabled veteran of the World War should suffer or be in discomfort or be inconvenienced as to proper hospital facilities. The national government should look with sedulous care to the comfort of these gallant men. The law of Congress which limits the number of immigrants entering this country, is effectual in barring out an embarrassing flood of immigration. Statistics for the last fiscal year show that the nations of southern Europe sent to America the full three per cent permitted under the restriction law. But northern Europe sent comparatively few immigrants. Some countries in the north contributed to the year's immigration only about one-half the permitted limit. Until economic conditions become better in this country and throughout the world, the United States feels constrained to safeguard itself against a high tide of immigration. This limitation is best, not only for Americans, but for those aliens who would come to this country in embarrassingly large numbers. With so much involuntary unemployment in this country, as conditions are, the situation would be made worse and there would be hardships for immigrants, as well as for Americans seeking work, if there were hosts of foreigners here, dependent upon their work for a living. Buy of your home merchant for your own material good, as well as for the good of the community. Patronize those who pay taxes and are in the forefront in promoting the growth and progress of the city in which you live. Caution should sit at the driving-wheel. Everyone who takes an automobile into a public thoroughfare is under serious responsibility—the responsibility of safeguarding human lives. The careless driver is a public menace. But everyone has reason to rise up and call the careful driver blessed. This is a time demanding a high order of statesmanly ability and moral courage in Washington. The country must be saved from disastrous halting of vital industries and activities. It must be protected against repacious profiteering. It must be steered on safe course toward economic normality and sushigh-class statesmanship in national councils. SOMETHING NEW IN OIL! You Can Share in 5 acres- SOMETHING NEW IN OIL! You Can Share in 5 acres3 wells-at the Cost of Drilling a Single Well $150,000 If this sounds too good— if there is a Joker in the proposition anywhere—the joke must be on us. Call at the (4S) office and in vestigate this oil investment. Any question in your mind will be answered. This is oil investment on a business basis—something NEW. Better call today. You can share in FIVE ACRES on the famous South Slope of the Santa Fe Springs Oil Field, THREE WELLS TO BE DRILLED, and compare the capitalization with anything—in any field. There will be NOT ONE CENT OF PROMOTION STOCK! You pay for drilling the first well—and you get 75% OR OUR TOTAL NET PRODUCTION. Could anything be fairer than that? The 4S SYNDICATE Fiscal Agents MORGAN SALES ORGANIZATION 428 Granger Street San Diego, Calif. F. A. GORDON R. E. BELTZ Anaheim Representatives 133 So. Los Angeles Phone 878 NEW YORK LETTER NEW YORK, August 11.—Anyone who ever has doubted the value of woman as a helpmeet in any enterprise would do well to consult Louis Corini, of 27 Cherry street, as to his opinion. Louis is a shoe-shiner, with a stand in City Hall circles. His young sister was on the job the other day with results calculated to impress the greatest scoffer. In knickers and with bobbed hair flying, thirteen-year-old Katherine, employed her time simply in marching customers up to her brother's chair. She had a keen eye for picking out of the crowds those gentlemen who had dust on their shoes and she made for them. "Hey, mister," she would say in low persuasive tones, "You can't go home to your wife with your shoes looking like that." The gentleman addressed would waver and then agree. Then up to the proper place, Katherine escorted him, and Louis reaped in the dimes while the unistered competitors groaned in envy. Writers for the films are at last going to be placed on the same basis with playwrights and authors in that they are to be given royalties for their work. This is an entirely new thing in the world of motion pictures and scenario writers are perking up considerably in consequence. The question of royalties has been raised at various times by the most courageous of them, but there has been nocks of agreement from the producers. But now the Palmer Photoplay Corporation has announced the innovation. The Palmer Company is now in the producing world. It has functioned exclusively as a school, in the past, for scenario writers, but because of the success of its students, it has established a large production department for the production of the work of thousands of its pupils. The corporation, whose offices are in this city, will move into its building in Hollywood, Cal., in the early fall, when studio arrangements will have been completed and production under war M Wormhill secrets just in time and took the gunman to the police station, with Ursactti going along as witness. Then victim and robber discovered that they lived in the same building. There are angles of New York life which are never given publicity, as are its White Light activities, and never quite realized as a part of New York's real self. One of these is the astonishing number of people of all faiths who attend church every noon downtown. While sightseers are walking through the interiors of churches, reading inscriptions and noting the furnishings of the pews where famous personages have worshipped, people who work in nearby offices keep coming quietly into the place, making brief devotions in entire silence. Probably there is no city in the country where there are so large a number of week-day churchgoers, even in proportion to the size of the city, and as for the small towns—I don't believe this kind of church attendance exists there, as it does in New York. We have one more organization born. But this one is not to prorsulgate anything; it is to do away with a much-practised promulgation. It's the Society for the Refusal of Honorary Degrees, started by New York clergymen who believe that American public men, especially those of their own profession, are too prone to accept "honors" by having large sections of the alphabet attached to the ends of their names, thus cheapening degrees which ought to mean something definite in the way of achievement. Another censorship war is on. John S. Sumner, secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, has asked all of the publishers and the Authors' League to co-operate in a plan to establish a volunteer board which shall read all manuscripts before they are published. Miss Emma Gillett Dean Washington College of Law, lington, D. C., celebrated her birthday anniversary July 30 dinner was given in her room August 5th by prominent women years and club women of Winton. Miss Gillett is the only Dean of a law school in the city and is a senior member of the LINCOLN'S JOURNEY TO WASHINGTON On the 11th of February, 1861, with his family and some personal friends, Abraham Lincoln, who had been elected president of the United States, left his home in Springfield, Ill., for Indiana, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The city of Washington was surrounded by territory opposed to Lincoln and his principles, and he was compelled to pass through Baltimore, where the spirit of non-interference with the system of slavery was most marked. From the time of his election to that of starting for Washington, there had often appeared in the press and elsewhere threats and menaces that he should never be inaugurated, nor reach the capital alive. Little attention was paid to these threats, yet some of the president's personal friends, without his knowledge, employed a detective, who sent agents to Baltimore and Washington 'to investigate. The detective ascertained the existence of a plot to assassinate the president-elect as he passed through Baltimore. The first intelligence of this conspiracy was communicated to Lincoln at Philadelphia. On the facts being laid before him he was urged to take the train at night on the 21st of February, by which he would reach Washington the next morning, passing through Baltimore earlier than the supposed conspirators expected. Having already made appointments to meet the citizens of Philadelphia and raise the United States flag over Independence Hall on Washington's Birthday, and also to meet the legislature at Harrisburg, Lincoln declined starting for Washington that night. Finally his friends persuaded him to accept "honors" by having large sections of the alphabet attached to the ends of their names, thus cheapening degrees which ought to mean something definite in the way of achievement. Another censorship war is on. John S. Sumner, secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, has asked all of the publishers and the Authors' League to co-operate in a plan to establish a volunteer board which shall read all manuscripts before they are published into book form and eliminate those which are not in accordance with his society's ideas of what a book should be. A howl of protest has gone up from a good many publishers and a good many members of the League, and the battle seems to be on. About the time we get a board to read each paragraph before it can go into any newspaper, we shall be thoroughly organized along censorships, and we are going to miss a tremendous amount of understanding of life about that time, I fear. Lincoln afterwards declared: "I did not then, nor do I now believe, I should have been assassinated had I gone through Baltimore as first contemplated, but thought it wise to run no risk when no risk was necessary." Mr. Lincoln was accompanied to Washington only by Pinkerton, the well-known detective, and Ward H. Lamon. The start was made from Philadelphia at 11 o'clock at night, and the president-elect arrived in Washington without even the officers of the train knowing he was aboard. Mr. Lincoln's friends and officials at the capital were unaware of the time he would arrive, and the following story is related by Eilhu B. Washburne, who was at the station on the morning of the 23rd. There were very few about the place. He stood behind a pillar awaiting the train, cautious that no one should observe his interest. Mr. Lincoln slowly emerged from the last sleeping car, wearing a soft, low-crowned hat, a muffler around his neck, and a short bob-tailed coat. Mr. Washburne walked up and accosted the president-elect, and after exchanging congratulations, they walked to the front of the depot where a carriage was waiting. They drove to the Willard Hotel, entered on Fourteenth-st before it was fairly daylight. The first person call was Governor Seward, who arrived... California State Fair Sacramento, September 2 to 10, inclusive 1922 One Great Inspiring Panorama of the California Wonderland BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER More Than $100,000 in Prehispics and Purses California's One Big Week of Enlightenment and Entertainment Agriculture Horticulture The Greatest Livestock Show in All the West Power-on-the-Farm Manufacturing Vocational Education and the Three R's. Poultry Mining The State's Unbounded Natural Resources Exploited From every corner of the Golden State are gathered the finest and best examples of its products and resources so that our citizens and our guests may gain some idea or the potentialities which lie under a surface so far only scratched. Seven Nights of Big Horse Show Fast running and harness races daily. Full entertainment program. Pacific Coast invitational field and track championship meet under the auspices of the A. A. U. EXCURSION RATES ON ALL RAILROADS CHAS. W. PAINE, Secretary-Manager. H. A. PASTRO, Pres. NAHEM, CALIFORNIA August 11, 1922 TOWN IN REVIEW One of the dry leaders has given out a recipe for home brew. He's a year or so too late. Teapot Dome vacated when Marines oust Mutual Oil Co. Sort of a tempest in a teapot, as it were. Please tell me what a cutting remark is.—E. R. S. An old saw is a cutting remark. Says Lil' Sip Sip, the office thirst: "One thing more helpless than a pretty girl is a pretty boy." And As We Understand It, Mr. Wingo Is a Member of This Wild Crew Cardor compels me to admit that the gentleman from Wyoming deserves considerable sympathy on account of the difficult situation in which he finds himself. If this house should adjourn tonight I will sincerely congratulate him on his escape, even for a few weeks, from the unpleasant task of leading the Republican majority in this house, the most unruly bunch of "wild asses" that ever "came out of the green corn."—Rep. Gingo (D.) Ark. Wm. Allen White's sign said he was 51 per cent for the strikers. Here's our sign. "We are 49 per cent for the railroads." Now let's see what Gov. Allen does to US. The Iowa republicans in solemn convention are brookhart, progressive nominee — the senate. The Iowa voters, how hard they didn't fail to mention him at a recent primary. QUESTIONING THE REY CANNOT VIOLATE Do they allow bit judges in a bench show? T. I am told by against the law to stone a train on my about stoning a peach?—A. What kind of deer is the saw buck? And of what kind of wood is a tadpole made?—D. H. McT. How much water will a circus tumbler nold?—J. F. P. Why don't railroad companies have drying rooms? If they did, they would never be bothered with a washout, would they?—B. B. GREY'S HOUSEHOLD HINTS Never throw away an old butcher knife. It may come in handy in bobbing your hair. A company is about to begin the manufacture of rubber garbage cans. Linoleum can be brightened up by cleaning with silver polish. Scratches can be removed from glass with fine sandpaper. Never throw away an old rubber tire. Anybody with a little-bit of skill can make it up into galoshes, rubber heels or pencil erasers. Ask an owner of a Ask an owner of a Brunswick if the Brunswick is the best phonograph on the market today. That's what they all tell us,—see what they tell YOU Schmidt's Music Store 171 W. Center, Phone 890 Anaheim, Calif. Citizens of Orange County Closing Out Sale of Over 100 Lots EASY TERMS OR 10% DISCOUNT FOR ALL CASH Sale Dates--August 12th, August 19th and August 26th or every Saturday for the balance of this month These lots are in the very heart of development at West Newport and lie within from 5 to 10 blocks of the business end of the harbor channel you voted $500,000 to develop and where a large sum of money is to be expended by the county for wharves, warehouses, etc. Well Located Inside Lots $295.00 DATE—August 12th, August 19th and August 26th or every Saturday for the balance of this month These lots are in the very heart of development at West Newport and lie within from 5 to 10 blocks of the business end of the harbor channel you voted $500,000 to develop and where a large sum of money is to be expended by the county for wharves, warehouses, etc. Well Located Inside Lots $295.00 Ocean Front Lots, $295, $365 and $445 Inside Water Front Lots Connecting with the Harbor, $550 All subject to recent improvements. IN THESE LOTS ARE GONE—NEVER AGAIN WILL YOU HAVE SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY in Orange City, to buy valuable beach and harbor property in the midst of extensive development, at such low prices. In 1916 Orange County Produced over $40,000,000. Think of it! In 1921 Orange County Produced over $91,000,000. Think some more! An Increase of over $50,000,000 in five years. What does it mean? It means that you are digging a commercial highway at Newport to take care of a production that is easing to such tremendous proportions that the wildest imagination of a few years ago would not have detected. CAN YOU GRASP THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS PHENOMENAL PRODUCTION? Can you see that as time goes on, this commercial highway is bound to become a very hive of industry? Can thing stop it? Surely it is good business to invest in the immediate vicinity of this commercial property is, to remain useless and valueless? Can you? Ask it. Can you expect property situated satisfactorily yourself that this property right now, if you will take it seriously not! Then come down Saturday your investment. When I sold Balboa out in 1905-6 you lot! Los Angeles people have the cream of business men several blocks of this property. Why did they buy sold to Balboa real state dealers reasons why that if you will only come down and see a few it by the block? Well—there are so little of the practical business sense that has made the citizens of them with your own eyes and use get yours too—and get all you can of it. The time to buy this property was not 17 years ago, nor ever. Those who bought years ago, made a profit, just as surely will those who buy through me at Balboa fit. Though I cannot guarantee this, I firmly believe that this through me at West Newport now, make non sense will tell you the same thing and the reason why. Will be the result, and that your own So come Saturday and come early. My car, when not busy showing property, will be parked at corner of 36th St. and Coast Blvd. on the dates of sale, right showing property, it by the children's $8,000 bathing pool. At 151 Anaheim, or you may see the tract agent at any time in advance of sale dates, phone Mrs. at 127—38th St., West Newport. C. L. Chamberlain room at Plain Dealer Office. 124 W. Chartress St.