oc-plain-dealer 1922-08-23

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS What was Christ doing in the carpenter's shop? Practicing. Though perfect, we read that He learned obedience, and grew in wisdom and in favor with God. Do not quarrel, therefore, with your lot in life.—Henry Drummond. The community that makes public improvements makes good investment. The coal profiteer should be deprived of all privilege of doing business. California banks are thriving. Their condition reflects the status of the people of California. The public is being given the impression that Congress is becoming a debating society and an indolence club. Political conventions should be based upon intelligence derived from open-minded study of issues and candidacies. California is ideal for outdoor sports of all kinds. Climatic conditions are favorable here at all seasons. The spirit of sportsmanship is in the very air. One match, carelessly thrown, might start a forest fire that might take several lives and entail heavy monetary losses. Be extremely careful with fire. Teach the child to abhor crime. The boy or girl given proper moral teaching from early years is reasonably secure against a career of crime later in life. CALIFORNIANS STAND BY THEIR BANKS The number of depositors in state banks has increased 1,000,000 in California in the last five years. The number of depositors in national banks in this state also has grown prodigiously. There are now 2,531,624 depositors in state banks. These are official figures from Jonathan S. Dodge, state superintendent of banks. They show that Californians are thriving and that they have confidence in the banks. This confidence in the financial institutions doing business in this state is a tremedous asset in the economic life of California. It tides the state over many a period of stress and strain. The number of banking institutions in California is increasing. A total of 180 new banks have been established in California in the last five years. Assets of the banks have expanded greatly, and deposits and loans and discounts have mounted to huge figures. Californians display sound judgment in trusting their banks and in entrusting their money with them. Banking is conducted conservatively safe lines in this state. Bank failures in California are so rare as to be a negligible factor in the economic life of the state. Banks are worthy, the confidence that the people of California repose in them. THEATRICAL FOLK VERY GENEROUS A great deal is made of the frailities and faults of stage and screen folk. Not enough is said of their good, generous qualities. During the World War they proved themselves to be consummately patriotic. They took leading part in "Drives" for the sale of Liberty Bonds and for furtherance of war projects. And since the war they generously have donated their services as entertainers in benefit performances for disabled Lifters "There are two said Director Vizing the director Auzsa Irrrigati self-confidence initiative and his selves and rejoice other people." The other kindently timid dence and thus always looking One match, carelessly thrown, might start a forest fire that might take several lives and entail heavy monetary losses. Be extremely careful with fire. Teach the child to abhor crime. The boy or girl given proper moral teaching from early years is reasonably secure against a career of crime later in life. President Harding's attitude toward the industrial crises, as expressed in his message to Congress, will appeal favorably to the public, particularly as to its sentiments. It is gratifying to Californians to contemplate the fact that people are not dying of extreme heat in this state. There are days of high temperatures in California, but not deadly, humid heat. Uncle Sam has high standing now, commercially, with the republics of Latin America. Trade between this country and the southern republics is heavy and bids fair to be permanently so. When the coal and rail strikes are settled, California will have no obstruction in its way to realization of economic normality. This state has bright prospects for a prosperous fall and winter. Some constitutional way should be found to suppress child labor, in its unjustified form, in this country. An evil so patent should be brought under the prohibitional ban of national and state laws. All artificial aids to Cupid and Hymen fair, sooner or later. They are not needed, in most cases. The two interested parties usually find ways and means to meet and to bring the fateful question to an issue. There is vast difference between irresponsible sensationalism and responsible, accurate news. The public notes the distinction and there is more and more demand for real news, undflicted and untainted with tawdry sensationalism. THEATRICAL FOLK VERY GENEROUS A great deal is made of the frailities and faults of stage and screen folk. Not enough is said of their good, generous qualities. During the World War they proved themselves to be consummately patriotic. They took leading part in "Grives" for the sale of Liberty Bonds and for furtherance of war projects. And since the war they generously have donated their services as entertainers in benefit performances for disabled veterans. When distress falls upon a community; when disaster comes, theatrical folk are among the first to give generously and to plan benefit performances and to assist substantially in raising relief funds. Orphanages and other institutions for the care of waifs and the aged and helpless also receive their helpful attention. These things should be remembered by critics of the stage and screen. A great many entries should be made on the credit side of the ledger in balancing the accounts—in estimating the character of those engaged in theatrical pursuits. SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING IN CALIFORNIA Many structures are going up in California cities and towns which are very substantial and which are ornate additions to the improvements of the state. Some of these are public buildings—city halls, libraries, and county buildings. Many of them are business structures and manufactories. It is gratifying to know that structures of substantial type are being erected. Cities and towns are vying with each other in the character of buildings they are constructing. Some of the most sightly and imposing buildings in the west are going up in this state. That improvements made here are of such enduring nature, is welcome phase of California development. It is not flimsy. It is not of a kind to make Californians blush and apologize. Quite the contrary. Every city and town in the state can "point with pride" to handsome public buildings, and private business blocks, hotels and residences. North Dakota perience with the people common League, widen on the "Lifters' ran the star $500,000,000 Wittitutional Amendment of the Ion on the "Lifters' posed since then the breed of blazed the way by the builder edifice. Shall we to the "Leaner 1922?" LOCK To prevent theft from automobile vented that can valve nipples. Death is the so get a good while you can. Most of our plished while CSION. Enjoy "the scenic route" back east Beautiful vistas in the cool mountain canyons of California, Utah and Colorado—the majestic expanse of the Great Salt Lake—the verdant plains of the Middle West—these are some of the scenic attractions of a trip back east over the Union Pacific. Reduced fares to the principal eastern and mid-western points on sale every day to August 31. Return limit, October 31. Liberal stopovers and choice of routes. Straight Through to Chicago In 68 Hours. Around the World Tickets via All Lines UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM OVERLAND UNION PACIF DEALER except Sunday STER, Editor EDITORIAL TOWN IN REVIEW Coming Across to Vote, Probably Headline: "Armed Band of Mexicans Invade U. S." The nickel cigar is back. The rest has improved its strength. THEN. HURRAY FOR THE TRAMP SHIP Representative Davis, Tenn., in Cong. Record: "One witness, a representative of the Philadelphia organizations, made the statement that the tramp type of steamer occupied about the same relation to the merchant marine service that the doughboy does to an army." Maybe some radio fan will invent a way to broadcast freight. BACK EAST Old King Coal is a scarce old souand a scarce old soul is he. EASY Hundreds of big business men band together in an organization "to study the human factor in American business and industrial life." The purpose is to lessen friction between employer and employee. Meetings will be held, long speeches made, committees appointed, investigations started, et cetera. Of course the effort is worth someththing. But why go to so much fuss, when all's needed is a mutual practice of the golden rule? Failing to live up to that rule is the cause of nine-tenths of life's problems, maybe more. Abe Martin 5 SIDE DINES, WIN 217 GUINNER New York Letter New York, Aug. 23—Our nerves are getting sensitive here in Manhattan after crimes, explosions and various other little irritants. So the other day, an excited woman reported the collapse of a building and got out the fire truck and an ambulance. When they arrived, they learned that the building was still standing and apparently quite undisturbed by the reports of its going-on. Some repair work was being done on the roof, and the woman had seen a few bricks fall down. We get queer shiploads in New York harbor every once in a while. The countries of the world send their riches, and if a particular land's riches are wild animals, why they send those. One hundred thousand dollars worth of them came into port the other day—tigers, monkeys, snakes, Hons, and on down to canaries. Some of them went to the Bronx Zoo and some to an animal farm down on Long Island. It would seem that Mr. Walter Bauer, president of the Pyrene Manufacturing Co., would have to apply his well known extinguisher to his letters before sending them out. But for the sake of our own enjoyment, we hope he will do that, if necessary, rather than modify them. At this time of year, with the air full of humidity and politics, we get some refreshment from the spurring up of a man who doesn't mind defying whatever powers there be in words which none may misunderstand. Corporation Counsel O'Brien wrote Mr. Bauer that the matter of pyrene and the suburbs. Lifters and Leaners "There are and always have been two people in this world," said Director W.A. Jones in addressing the directors' meeting of the Auzsa Irrizating Co. "One kind has self-confidence, courage, thrift and initiative and like to do things themselves and rejoice to co-operate with other people who are doing things. The other kind of people are inherently timid and usually lack confidence and thrift. Such people are always looking for some form of government." Lifters and Leaners "There are and always have been two or people in this world," said Director W. A. Jones in addressing the directors' meeting of the Auzsa Irrigating Co. "One kind has self-confidence, courage, thrift and initiative and like to do things themselves and rejoice to co-operate with other people who are doing things. The other kind of people are inherently timid and usually lack confidence and thrift. Such people are always looking for some form of government that promises to take the responsibilities of life from their shoulders and enable them to share in the productions of the kind of people who undertake and accomplish Ella Wheeler Wilcox has classified these people as 'Lifters' and 'Leaners' and describes them in this clever couplet: "The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift, and the people who lean, And oddly enough, you will find, too, I ween, There is only one lifter for twenty who lean." North Dakota has just had an experience with 'Leaners'. They were the people comprising the Non-Partisan League, which saddled the burden on the 'Lifters' while the 'Leaners' ran the state on the rocks. The $500,000,000 Water and Power Constitutional Amendment is another attempt of the 'Leaners' to put it over on the 'Lifters'. California has proposed since the day of '49 because of the breed of pioneer 'Lifters' who blazed the way and were followed by the builders of our ever worthy edifice. Shall we turn California over to the 'Leaners' on November 7th, 1922?" LOCK FOR TIRES To prevent the theft of spare tires from automobiles a lock has been invented that can be fastened to their valve nipples. Death is the price paid for living, so get a good run for your money while you can. Most of out progress is accomplished while Congress is not in session. Bauer, president of the Pyrene Manufacturing Co., would have to apply his well known extinguisher to his letters before sending them out. But for the sake of our own enjoyment, we hope he will do that, if necessary, rather than modify them. At this time of year, with the air full of humidity and politics, we get some refreshment from the spurting up of a man who doesn't mind defying whatever powers there be in words which none may misunderstand. Corporation Counsel O'Brien wrote Mr. Bauer that the matter of pyrene and the subways was "too important to be settled in private meetings or conferences in your offices." That gave Mr. Bauer the opening of his life. "All right," he replied, in effect. "Come on into the subway and we'll settle it there." He proposed that he and the Mayor and Mrs. O'Brien take an extinguisher into the subway and try it out. "We will meet all expenses of the demonstration, and let use of pyrene stand or fall as the result of the test. Make it as exacting as you can. We will supply the persons necessary to carry it out." Mr. Bauer wrote the Mayor to the same effect, saying him that there would be no personal danger to his honor in witnessing the demostration. Bernard Shaw has definite ideas as to the breadth of a translator's duties and powers. Lawrence Langner, a director of the Theatre Guild, who has just arrived home from Europe, has brought with him for production by the Guild, "Gitta's Atonement, among other piays. It is 'translated' by Shaw from the German of Trebitsch, but Langner explains that the play is 75 per cent Shaw and 25 Trebitsch. "This is the way Shaw explained it," he says, "Trebitsch has spent his life turning my pals from English into German. It seemed high time that I reciprocated. The first difficulty was that I didn't understand German—but I overcome that. Then I found that the play, when translated, wouldn't do at all for the British public. It was a serious situation, until I decided that a translator must adapt as seems best. So I made 'Gitta's Atonement,' originally a tragedy, into a comedy." Which certainly sounds like Shaw. New York is going to have a citizens committee, which will try to see if something can't be done to prevent the recurrence of innocent men being locked up ad held for trial for weeks and then discharged without any recompense for the trouble and the loss which came to them undeserved. The case of John S. Porfires, former last driver, and his imprisonment for 60 days before the discovery of his innocence, has spurred a group of prominent lawyers to action on the whole situation. Porfires looked for work; unsuccessfully, for four months after his reelase. Meetings will be held, long speeches made, committees appointed, investigations started, et cetera et cetera. Of course the effort is worth something. But why go to so much fuss, when all's needed is a mutual practice of the golden rule? Failing to live up to that rule is the cause of nine-tenths of life's problems, maybe more. Tom Sims says: If we all got what we are worth, there wouldn't be enough. Politicians: Do your alibi-ling early. You're going to be busy next week. Travel broadens a man, but flattens his pocketbook. Our our way, the disgusting thing about paying rent is it won't stay paid. Lots of people not in "Who's Who" can tell you what's what. DEEP! DEEP! Cider is back, but it must be hard to sell. Anyway, the twin strikes aren't triplets. You can always put the balme for a poor garden on the weather. A good night's sleep works wonders with a fellow's disposition. Pullman car windows beat chewing gum in the matter of sticking tight. In the midst of ever-changing New York, one district remains undistime. In 1676, the city tanneries were congregated around John and Ann-sts., and the blocks included in the immediate district were called "Shoemakers' Land." In the next 20 years, it moved as far up as Beekman-st., and there, 226 years later, it now remains. The tanneries, themselves, and their unpleasant odors have moved from the heart of the city, but the leather trade district is still right there. It gives one a feiing of comfortable permanence to come across something of that sort occasionally. THEATRES Jackie Coogan is seen again today at the California in "Oliver Twist." This film is attracting a great deal of attention, being the pictureization of the story of the same name from the pen of Charles Dickens. There are also other features. 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 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23RD 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 COMMENTS OF THE PRESS WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING WOMAN PURIFIER IN POLITICS—Berkeley (Cal.) Gazette "The women will rule the nation," says George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post. He does not agree at all with those who say that woman suffrage has merely doubled the national voting power without any appreciable effect on the political situation. Women are changing the situation, he maintains, right along. And they are doing it by the infusion of a moral element which was lacking when they entered politics. "The woman is voting her convictions," he explains. "Any question with a moral issue is getting the general support of the women." If woman is really voting her own convictions instead of voting according to party tradition, or at the behest of party leaders, after the Preserve Local Color — New York Evening Post One Schlesinger, owning property on West Peachtree-st., Atlanta, proposes that the name that thoroughfare be changed to Fifth-ave. He has looked upon our own Fifth-ave, and finds his own street not inferior in width or in character of business. To his mind Fifth-ave, connotes dignity, wealth and enterprise. It suggests a metropolis. Peachtree is a lovely name, though rural. It stands for something real, since it is the sort of name one could not make up deliberately. Its homy syllables are as much a part of Atlanta as Coen-Cola and the Ku Klux Klan. Let them stay undisturbed by the march of progress yet a little while. This is a world where beauty passes; the time may come when usual manner of male voters, there certainly will be a change. And there are evidences of that very thing in recent elections and primaries, if one looks for them in the light of Lorimer's suggestion. Woman ought to infuse a superior morality into politics, anyway. It is what she has always stood for in private life. It need not be inferred that women are going to swarm into Congress and usurp all the gubernatorial and judicial jobs, with a drive for the Presidency. That is not woman's way. 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