oc-plain-dealer 1922-08-15

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Blessed are the ears that gladly receive the puises of the divine whisper. Blessed indeed are those ears that listen, not after the voice that is sounding without, but for the truth teaching inwardly.—Thomas a'Kempis. California is gaining steadily in population. It holds its gains. Thirty measures on the California state ballot is about five times too many. The crucial condition of the times demands superior statesmanship at Washington. A barricade of sawedoff shotguns should be pretty effective in turning back a "crime wave". The American public needs staunch courageous, statemanlike friends at Washington in this crisis. The strenuous, courageous voice of the lamented Colonel Roosevelt would be welcome in this crucial period. There is abundance of vinegar and vitriol in California politics; has somebody neglected to pass the sugar? The grade-crossing continues to exact its toll of human lives. It always will be so, until grade crossings are abolished. The present is a time of travail for the world, but from this should come the birth of better conditions and a happier state of human existence. See California first. See it often. There is no more beauty, grandeur or sublimity to be found in the world than exists right here in the Golden State. Bring up the child to be a law-abiding citizen. How can you expect the child, when grown, to obey laws, if it has not been trained to obedience LAW REFORMES OPPOSE THE READY PISTOL Ninety per cent of the murders in the United States are committed with pistols. This is the finding of the law enforcement committee of the American Bar Ass'n. "The pistol serves no useful purpose in the community," according to this report. Laws prohibiting the carrying of firearms or deadly weapons "are ineffective—in fact, they work to the benefit of the criminal rather than the law-aboding citizen." The committee, for these reasons, recommends the prohibiting of the manufacture and sale of pistols and of cartridges and ammunition designed to be used in them, "save as such manufacture may be necessary for governmental and official use under proper regulations and control." This is a subject worthy of thotful consideration. The ready pistol unquestionably plays a big part in the crime annals of the day. That deadly weapons should be kept out of the hands of criminals and desperate characters, there is no gainssaying. If the manufacture and sale of pistols to the public be not wholly prohibited, it should be regulated, to prevent criminals getting hold of instruments of murder. PROFITEERING IN COAL TO BE CHECKED Those coal-mine operators who are not co-operating with the federal fuel organization to prevent exorbitant prices may find themselves denied cars to transport coal. The interstate commerce commission is vested with emergency powers by which it could shut off cars from any offending operator. It is intimated that this weapon will be used against conscienceless profiteers who would take advantage of the extreme shortage of fuel due to the coal strike, to extort unreasonable prices from consumers. Every legal means possible should be used against this profiteering. That a spirited antagonism to the profititters may be expected, is indicated by the fact Herbert C. Hoover is instigating the fight against The present is a time of travail for the world, but from this should come the birth of better conditions and a happier state of human existence. See California first. See it often. There is no more beauty, grandeur or sublimity to be found in the world than exists right here in the Golden State. Bring up the child to be a law-abiding citizen. How can you expect the child, when grown, to obey laws, if it has not been trained to obedience in the home? Manifest direct interest in the schools. Give personal attention to the work that is being done in the schoolroom. Be frank to criticize defects. Be equally ready to praise that which is praiseworthy. The United States has more laws and more lawlessness than any other country on the face of the earth. It would be far better if there were fewer laws of better quality, and a much more rigorous enforcement of laws. PEACHES FOR SALE Elberta, Hale and Blunett free store varieties... Satsuma Plums and Pears. Get your fruit fresh at the orchard. The best fruit will be ready Sunday, Aug. 13, and will last through the week. Five miles west on County Road, one-fourth mile south on Western, watch for our sign on the County Boulevard directly where to come. S. HUFF Anaheim Merchants Use Plain Dealer for RESULTS Prove the Circulation Anaheim Merchants RESULTS Prove the Circulation Use Plain Dealer for Five Automobile Routes Reaching the homes of the ranchers on more miles of Orange County Highways. Carry the Plain with your advertising message into this fertile market one reason why Plain Dealer advertising brings re PLAIN DEALER: "Not distributed with, enclosed in, wrapped about or in connected with a Los Angeles paper." NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—The ship reporters of this city had a proposal en masse the other day—a cerious proposal of marriage, from a comely girl, too. Not only did the offer include matrimony but a bonus of $100 it came from Miss Rose Poch, of 100 West Eighty-ninth street, who has lived here for ten years but went back to Germany this summer, only to find when she tried to land the other day that our immigration laws kept her out of the country, however sincerely she had adopted it as her own. Marriage to an American citizen was her only seemingly hope, and marriage she decided it should be. She promised furthermore that to the American who might rescue her in this way, she would never look for support. But the days of gallantry are over—or else every ship reporter was married, and respectful of the anti-bigamy laws. Then, in the same calm class is Mrs. Maxwell Miller, whose home at Hollis, Long Island, has been infested with a perfect drove of snakes, come from no one knows where. "Mr. Miller killed eight the other day," explained her husband in a matter of fact way, "and we're doing a pretty good job today, too. No, we don't mind them—nuch. Of course, they are somewhat of a nuisance, but they will get away pretty soon. They have come very fast for three years. We don't know why. Before this siege of snakes, Mrs. Miller used to be very nervous. Now her nerves are as perfect as could be." Business men here are intensely interested in the scientific tariff measure to be introduced shortly by Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey. His bill will take the tariff out of politics and create a tariff commission with powers to do everything—except pass the bill. This method will prevent months of fruitless debate and avoid the huysen, and it is expected that their influence will be felt in Washington. Is there NO limit to the field and the power of the up-to-the-minute vamp? One would expect a blind man to be safe from their wiles. But Mrs. Maragaret Grantzow declares that her blind son, Andrew, took care of her in comfort on $75 a week he made out of the industrious occupation of begging. Then along came a "vamp", and recalling—so Mrs. Grantzow insists, the well-paying condition of that profession, she cultivated him and is getting it all, in consequence. Southampton, L. I., is always the scene of some of our smartest summer weddings, but not all season has there been one which attracted more attention and held the interest of the place more fascinated than that of Rosa Stephens and Pete Moit, Jr., which was celebrated last week. Rosa is the nineteen-year-old daughter of Sancho Stephens, chief of a tribe of gypsies, and her husband is a gypsy prince. The gowns of Southampton brides are always described in detail in our society columns and they are always quite worthy the space, but Rosa's wedding gown was above the vagaries of style. She walked in the dignity of wearing the same costume which would have garbed her great-great-grandmother, and generations back of that, at a similar ceremony. The flaming raiment of the gypsy bride is decreed by tradition as old as civilization itself—voluminous skirts of scarlet and peacock blue, waist of heavy white silk, scarf of rainbow radiance, and weighted down with necklaces of gold coins. Have you any papers to identify you as a citizen of this country? I am sure I haven't and I am a perfectly shocked once in a while to learn of the terrible things which might happen to you if you are not named. Back the same day, and no hotel bills to pay. Being a protest from J. R.: We hope there are no more Pick-fords, male or female, to be married. We hope there are no more Pick-fords, male or female, to be divorced. We hope the next legislature "passes a law" sending to the pennitary the owner, editor, reporters bookkeepers, clerks, solicitors, manage, printer, stereotypers, pressmen and auto drivers of any newspaper that prints the name of Pickford. THE REPORT THAT WOMEN HAVE EARS HAS BETN VERIFIED. QUESTION A TWO—CENT stamp now carries your letter to any one of 50,000 American post offices or half a hundred foreign countries. How much would it cost you if a private corporation were handling the mails? Be that as it may, the Geo. M Swindler who spoke at a mass meeting at Long Beach the other night is not an oil promoter. Old King Cole was a merry old soul. A fact that is not known; He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl. And he called for his radiophone. Zone system for saxophone and trombone players is favored here How about politicians? Population of Los Angeles, large They have come very fast for three years. We don't know why. Before this siege of snakes, Mrs. Miller used to be very nervous. Now her nerves are as perfect as could be." Business men here are intensely interested in the scientific tariff measure to be introduced shortly by Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey. His bill will take the tariff out of politics and create a tariff commission with powers to do everything—except pass the bill. This method will prevent months of fruitless debate in Cogress and avoid the charges of lobbying now filling the press. Senator Frelinghuysen has given more study to the tariff, probably, than any other Congressman, with the avowed intention of solving this vexing problem and there seems to be strong sentiment in favor of his proposal for a scientific tariff against the present political process. Manufacturers, business men and importers here are much concerned over the tariff situation and feel that practically anything would be preferable to the present condition. It is said that they are practically unanimous in their support of Senator Frelinghuysen. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING FARM PRICES AND DISCONTENT — New York Evening Post "High prices probably make 100,000 radical votes among farmers." said Moody's Investors' Service last month. It certainly makes radical votes, for the extraordinary rise in the price of farm products early this year has by no means wiped out the farmers' conviction that they are unfairly treated. What prices have fallen since May and corn prices have been stationary, while the prospect for a rise in wheat is dubious. Last week's government report estimated the crop at 817,000,000 bushels, which would leave a comfortable surplus for export; and the export market does not now appear strong. The oats crop, now being harvested, is one of the smallest in recent years. Prices for neither—July wheat has been around $1.15 in Chicago and oats around 34 cents—are enough to make the farmer feel very prosperous. An index of rural opinion in the Middle West is furnished by a standing column in Wallace's Farmer, which presents the ratio between present and pre-war prices. Recent issues show that the farmer who sold No. 1 northern wheat was getting 105 per cent of pre-normal prices; if he had No. 2 red wheat he got 95 per cent; corn fetched 86 per cent, and oats only 68 per cent. This would be a disheartening situation even if the farmer was working under conditions similar to those before the war. But the costs of production are materially higher. Iowa farm lands are worth 160 per cent of the pre-war normal; farm hands, badly paid as they are, get 132 per cent this year, and the general cost of living is about 160 per cent. It is evident that the farm owner is getting little interest return on his capital and the farm renter little return on his labor. It is true that livestock growers are doing better. Whereas the farmer who sells his corn outright gets 56 per cent of the pre-war price, the farmer who feeds his corn to hogs gets over 130 per cent. Cattle are selling at between 110 and 115 per cent above the old normal rate. But, accepting the Wallace's Farmer figures as accurate, it can be understood that a considerable basis for discontent exists. Freight rates from Iowa to Chicago are about 150 per cent of pre-war normal, which helps back that, at a similar ceremony. The flaming raiment of the gypsy bride is decreed by tradition as old as civilization itself—voluminous skirts of scarlet and peacock blue, walst of heavy white silk, scarf of rainbow radiance, and weighted down with necklaces of gold coins. Have you any papers to identify you as a citizen of this country? I am sure I haven't and I am a perfectly shocked once in a while to learn of the terrible things which might happen to you if you are not properly certified in that way. Here is Cleo Vanderbilt, an actress, who says she was born in this city 26 years ago, but she has no papers to that effect. Consequently, she has been denied admittance to the United States, this last time she has returned from a trip to Europe and is held at Ellis Island. Of course, she isn't a citizen of any other country, so she can't get papers from anywhere and unless somebody in the proper governmet department gets a glimmer of an idea about what to do it looks as if she would just have to stay aboard ship indefinitely, a woman without a country. We extend .0001 per cent sympathy to... Babe Ruth Breckenridge Long Initiative circulators Politicians. Tom Lipton is coming over soon to arrange another race for the American can cup. Tom is either a glutton for punishment or publicity, we don't know which. YE CORRESPONDENT PRESENTS FOUR ALIBIS Hoytville is still on the map, although you have heard nothing from the bustling town for the past two weeks in the Flag. The reason we have been so quiet is because we have been planning for our Eleventh Annual Home Coming, our Second Fair, having a setto with the Electric Light Co. over light rates, and between times fighting the flu, that we have become somewhat negligent. We hope to do better in the future—Hoytville correspondence, Dashle (O.) Flag. Money seems to go further when you are after it. S Prove the Truth of Circulation Statements Prove the Truth of Circulation Statements Mobile chers on more than 160 Carry the Plain Dealer fertile market. This is advertising brings results. wrapped about or in any way It is true that livestock growers are doing better. Whereas the farmer who sells his corn outright gets 85 per cent of the pre-war price, the farmer who feeds his corn to hogs gets over 130 per cent. Cattle are selling at between 110 and 115 per cent above the old normal rate. But, accepting the Wallace's Farmer figures as accurate, it can be understood that a considerable basis for discontent exists. Freight rates from Iowa to Chicago are about 150 per cent of pre-war normal, which helps to explain Brookhart's success in a campaign attacking the transportation act. Factory wages in this state are not far from 190 per cent of the pre-war normal. The farmer is much better off than it year ago, but he does not feel satisfied yet. 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 Judge 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 TUESDAY, AUGUST 15TH, 1922 Subscription rate—In No. Orange-co. Per yr. $3; six months $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Cal., as second-class matter DOWN IN REVIEW At last citrus growers of California have the opportunity to send a fellow-rancher to the United States Senate and, with this end in view, they are almost solidly supporting the candidacy of Charles C. Moore for the Republican nomination for United States senator. In him they feel they have a man who understands every phase of this great industry, who will be able to give them full representation in Washington; a man whose wide and varied interests fit him not only to capably help the citrus industry, but all other industries of this great state. At Ethanae, in Riverside-co., and in the center of the great Perris valley, is the Chase Nursery Co.'s large holdings of fruit and grain lands, much of which is in bearing citrus trees. Charles C. Moore is interested in this vast project, and has had a prominent part in its development. Charles C. Moore Co., engineers built here a system of pumping stations to supply water to various portions of this land, and the development water in this section made it practicable to extend the original system to the prosperous city of Corona, making possible not only the wonderful development of the Ethanae district, but of the city of Corona and its surrounding orange and lemon lands as well. This huge improvement claimed Mr. Moore's personal attention, and as a result he became interested in the citrus industry. He has other projects allied with the citrus industry in Southern California, and year by year he has been extending and adding to his holdings, developing lands by his constructive methods, irrigating new tracts and bringing new groves into bearing. He employs many people in this work and in the allied interests, such as irrigation systems and packing plants. You understand the meaning of a kick better when you get it than when you give it. All the morals of all the ages are expressed in the Golden Rule. Low Fares Back East Round-trip tickets to be on sale Dally 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 relications to 46 other destinations. SOUTHERN LINES PACIFIC 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 reservations to 46 other destinations. MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW Also low round-trip rates to Pacific Coast resorts every day until September 30. D. G. MALTBY Consult your local agent for fares, reservations, etc. Telephone 123 Southern Pacific Lines CROWN STAGES The Short Route to Los Angeles via the Safety Bus Starting at 6:20 a.m. cars leave every half hour for Los Angeles up to and including 8:20 p.m.; thereafter, 9:20, 10:20 and 11:50 p.m. Cars for Long Beach and Pomona 9:30 a.m. 12:30, 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. One hour trip to each Close connections at Pomona for Ontario, Uplands, San Bernardino and Riverside. Cars for Orange and Santa Ana, 6:45 a.m. and 7:11 a.m., thereafter, every half hour including 9:11 p.m., 10:11, 11:11 p.m. and 12:41 a.m. Connections at Santa Ana for Capistrano, Laguna Beach, Newport and Balboa and Huntington Beaches. Big Ones Move Closer and Closer to WHITE STAR Big Ones Move Closer and Closer to WHITE STAR wood J. Munger, oil field investigator, reports: "Santa Fe No. 91 now ranks first in producer's column at Santa Fe Springs. His great gusher completed at 3809 started at 3800 barrels a barrel for every foot drilled. This big well has settled down to 3700 barrels and is producing 33.5 gravity oil, the lightest in the field with the exception of Standard's Brown-rigg-Kellar." It is the "dope" supplied by an unbased and conservative authority—and the "91" well is 375 feet from White Star. Producers are closing in all 'round White Star. Drilling Below the Cement are below 2200 feet today and making the same rapid time that opened everybody's before. one interested in the progress of this well or the field in general can secure informa- at any time by a personal call, telephone message or letter. White Star Oil Syndicate 701 Loew's State Building. Phone 66670. Los Angeles, Cal. Open Every Evening Until 9:00 o'Clock Orange County Representatives Pomona Representative MR. HUSSEY At Hotel Avis Orange County Representative MERRS, JORDAN, CRANE, WILKERSON & KING At Valencia Hotel Anaheim Long Beach Representative J. BARTLETT 327 E. Ocean Ave. Phone Main 9424