oc-plain-dealer 1922-08-29

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS The toll of brain, or heart, or hand, Is man's appointed lot; He who God's call can understand, Will work, and murmur not. —T. W. Freckleton. The train-wrecker who causes deaths should be put to death. Congress should act immediately to prevent profiteering in coal. Baseball must be made and kept as clean as the proverbial hound's tooth. Anyway, Sir Thomas Lipton is quite successful in connection with lifting the Americas tea-cup. There are days, even in mild-summered California, when one longs to be a polar explorer for a few hours. Preaching or practicing violence should be suppressed and public sentiment should support the authorities in suppressing it. One vote may not decide an election, but one vote multiplied by one thousand or by ten thousand may decide it. The one vote is important. Be sure to vote in the state primary. Government is not thoroughly representative if there is not full vote of good citizens. For a good citizen deliberately to neglect to vote is bad citizenship and is to be deprecated. His enemies are striving to bring about Senator Lodge's political death. But the veteran sage of the Bay State insists that he is not ready for the services of the political undertaker. Pacification of China has been accomplished, Dr. Sun reports. It is to be hoped that some "man of the hour" there will keep it pacified well as has President Okregon kept peace in Mexico. PASSION PLAY BECOMES COMMERCIALIZED So sorbid, greedy and commercialist have become the conditions in connection with the Passion Play performance at Oberammergau, the Pope has signified his disapproval of the spectacle as presented. Conditions and methods at Oberammergau have robbed the Passion Play of the air of sacredness which it once had. The orgy of greed reigning their is described as sickening. Americans are among those who suffer most at the hands of the greedy. No spectacle of the kind should be countenanced when it becomes saturated with greed. Christian sentiment throughout the world should be arrayed against any such misuse of that which is sacred to every true Christian believer. That such a situation should develop at Oberammergau in shocking to the great numbers of Americans who regarded the presentation with reverence. Those who witnessed the play in its better days were thrilled with the characterization of the Christ by Anton Lang, who has been described as a character, in real life, of rare nobility and sweetness. Better that the whole performance be wiped out than that the spectacle should be robbed of its sanctity, and be made a vehicle for the machinations of sorbid plunderers. TALKING IS BANEFUL IN CONGRESS Somebody, over east, has started a campaign for "Andy" Gump, on an independent ticket, for Congress. Nobody knows from what district the familiar figure of the popular cartoon hails. But the candidacy is treated more or less seriously by Washington correspondents who are familiar with conditions and methods in Congress. Mr. Gump has one outspoken opponent—the same being Frazier Edwards, correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Library. NEW YORK, Aug. 18 In the place of Pelican sounds as if we were singing upa na more heroes what is predicted for next year. The smartly dressed upa na more heroes will sing a full-sized raccoon leash and calling it all given to lap dogs in regular raccoon ranch tables down west square, and the owner doing a thriving bus clares. "Quiet, decoy affectionate, and cleanliness he gives them, aside for points out how much a woman's costume. He well get ready to adorn out city lives. Edith Wharton's new Glimpses of the Moon," be the phenomenal best day. You hear discuss the way from luncheon to Ritz to the diners in the rooms. The publishers announced that re-order sellers for the novel week at the rate of 2,000 a dollar later they had to run later mentions retracting their orders having revealed a average of 3.214 copies only. You know ested the world is in the smart society, and not Wharton on the inside. Glimpses of the Moon," with extraordinary facts of the social world in the city here we are ested in the novel's rule of the Fifth-ave folk papers are asking on the pages is high society or good citizens. For a good citizen deliberately to neglect to vote is bad citizenship and is to be deprecated. His enemies are striving to bring about Senator Lodge's political death. But the veteran sage of the Bay State insists that he is not ready for the services of the political undertaker. Pacification of China has been accomplished, Dr. Sun reports. It is to be hoped that some "man of the hour" there will keep it pacified as well as has President Okregon kept peace in Mexico. Interests of the whole people are more to be considered than the special or preferred interests of one group or class. No group or class should be permitted to enjoy special privileges and advantages to the detriment of the whole people. There is no denying or evading the fact that extreme classism is rife in this country; that class alignments are becoming more sharply marked; and that group action is becoming more highly organized and more insistent, even taking hold upon the very citadels of government. It is a grave condition, with which the country must reckon. Definite plans for the upbuilding of the American merchant marine must wait, in Congress, it seems. But the subject should not lapse into the general indifference which prevailed before the World War. This Nation's merchant navy should be upbuilt to proportions commensurate with the power and commercial importance of the United States. By O. P. AUSTIN Statistician, The National City Bank of New York Just 131 years ago the Congress of the United States was bidding adieu to Wall Street, where it had associated with the "money power" for a five-year period, returning temporarily to its scenes of former activity at Philadelphia, whence it was to finally remove to the new capitol to be established on the Potomac. Few of the thousands of people who pass the historic spot at the corner of Wall and Nassau streets, but a few feet from the doors of The National City Bank of New York, are mindful of the stirring events which occurred during the five years in which it was the abiding place of Congress. New York Eighth Capitol It was in 1785 that the Congress of the Confederation, after a decade of wandering in search of a permanent abiding place, established itself in the modest old City Hall, which then stood at the corner of Wall and Nassau streets. During the period of its existence, which began at Philadelphia in 1785, we have seen how much this time had, of course, occurred under the Articles of Confederation, which, however, had proven unsatisfactory, and when the ninth state ratified the proposed Constitution, in 1788, the Congress, then in session in New York, hastily passed a measure requiring that the vote for the President, provided by the new Constitution, should occur on "the first Wednesday in January, 1789," that the electoral votes check having revealed only 2,000. You know ested the world is in smart society, and not Wharton on the inside, Glimpse of the Moon with extraordinary facts of the social world in the city here we are ested in the novel's rush of the Fifth-ave. folk papers are asking on the pages is high society in praved as the Wharton it to be? What do you suppose our close pastime on our closest summer? Bridge; or Not enough long, cold the winter to be devotee enough dull afternoons far at bridge tables as Dr. scends upon us. No, we bathing suits this summer beside the luring waves cross our feet and play how nothing has depressed so much as the sight of girls and women bleating hearts," while the ooze temptingly at their verge got no response. If imitation means all supposed to mean, Manhattan tainly doing obeissance city of the Pacific coast third person who starts seems overwhelmed with of its name. Of course Hollywood garages in Hollywood apartments, millinery shops, flower... New York Eighth Capitol It was in 1785 that the Congress of the Confederation, after a decade of wandering in search of a permanent abiding place, established itself in the modest old City Hall, which then stood at the corner of Wall and Nassau St. During the period of its existence, which began at Philadelphia in 1774, it had held session in no less than seven different cities and towns, thus making New York the eighth capitol of the United States, while Washington became in its turn the ninth capitol. Kept on the Run The peripatetic life which Congress had led during the decade before settling down in New York had been in large degree due to the necessity of hurried moves to prevent the Capitol and the Congress falling into the hands of the British. The first movement from the original meeting place, Philadelphia, occurred in 1776, when the British were preparing to move upon that town, and the December session of that year, 1776, was held at Baltimore. With the danger of an immediate occupation of Philadelphia temporarily removed, however, the Congress returned to that city in March, 1777. But with another movement of the British in that direction, it hastily removed to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where it remained but for three days, removing thence to York on the opposite side of the Susquehanna River in which Washington was Key Forge. Returns to Old Quarters Phila. evacuation of Philadelphia on the British in 1778, Constitution amended to its old quarters in 1783 remaining there until standing to some misunderstanding with the Philadelphia to Princeton New Jersey. At and the time created its session creation deleted its plan for the cities, opting for a permanent capitol Potomac located on the Delaware River. Inauguration is Delayed With the limited facilities of communication and travel which characterized those days in which the telegraph, the wireless, the railroad or the flying machine had not yet been dreamed of, the official report of the election did not reach General Washington at his home in Virginia until April 14, 1789, and because of the time occupied by his Journey thence to New York, his actual inauguration did not occur until April 30, 1789. Meantime, the enterprising citizens of New York, realizing that the dignity of Congress and President under the new Constitution required more suitable surroundings than those offered by the old City Hall, had contributed $32,500 for the improvement of that building, and it was re-named "Federal Hall" and thus became the meeting place of the First Congress under the Constitution and the place in which Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States. Why Congress Moved It was during the second session of that first Congress under the new Constitution that the events occurred which resulted in the departure of the Congress from New York and the establishment of the permanent capitol of the nation at the spot now designated as the District of Columbia and the city Congress removed to New York, where it was granted the use of the City Hall. All of the meetings up to this time had, of course, occurred under the Articles of Confederation, which, however, had proven unsatisfactory, and when the ninth state ratified the proposed Constitution, in 1788, the Congress, then in session in New York, hastily passed a measure requiring that the vote for the President, provided by the new Constitution, should occur on "the first Wednesday in January, 1789," that the electoral votes should be cast on "the first Wednesday in February," and that the President should be inaugurated on "the first Wednesday in March." As it happened that the first Wednesday in March fell upon the fourth day of that month, the date "March 4th," as the beginning of the term of the President and Congress was thus permanently established. The American Congregation in 1800. The by Mr. Austin. The 8. Carpenter's Hall, 10. Independence Hall, 1790-1800. 6. Baltimore. Decem9. Court-house. Land. 2. Court-house. York. 1. Nassau Hall. Prin3. State-house. Anna5. Court-house. Trenof Washington. One of important questions laid Congress had been that summation by the Governor existing debts of the Conand those which he created during his revolufore debt amounted t NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—Raccoons in the place of Pekingese! That sounds as if we were, indeed, entering upon na more heroic age. But it's what is predicted for us this coming year. The smartly dressed woman, so we are told, will shortly be leading a full-sized raccoon about on a leash and calling it all the pet names given to lap dogs in the past. A regular raccoon ranch has been established down west of Sheridan square, and the owner is already doing a thriving business he declares. "Quiet, decorous, playful, affectionate, and clean" is the praise he gives them, aside from which, he points out how much they dress up a woman's costume. So we may as well get ready to admit them into our city lives. Edith Wharton's new novel, "The Glimpses of the Moon," continues to be the phenomenal best-seller of the day. You hear discussions of it all the way from luncheon parties at the Ritz to the diners in the quick lunch rooms. The publishers the other day announced that re-orders from book-sellers for the novel were pouring in at the rate of 2,000 a day. Two days later they had to run large advertisements retracting their statement, a check having revealed that the re-orders received to date struck a daily average of 3.214 copies instead of only 2,000. You know how interested the world is in the doings of smart society, and not only is Mrs. Wharton on the inside, but in "The Glimpses of the Moon" she shows with extraordinary frankness the facts of the social world. Of course, in the city here we are much interested in the novel's ruthless picture of the Fifth-ave folks. The big papers are asking on their editorial pages is high society really as de- Editors can write plays. "Fools Errants!" by Louis Shipman, editor of Life, proves this. It is an "eternal triangle" story, but it isn't hackneyed in spite of that, and it pulls on your sympathies in more than one direction at once, which always seems to me a test of the drama. The production might have been announced as an "all star cast," without any difficulty. Alexandra Carlisle, Lucille Watson, Vincent Serraano and Cyril Keightley are enough to justify that, if almost any four people would be, I should say. "Fools Errant!" is at the Maxine Elliott Theater. There are times when even a governor has no comeback to the comment of a mere woman; and governors as well as aldermen just have to become accustomed gradually to the realization that women can muster up considerable power nowadays. Mrs. Henry O. Havemeyer, widow of the sugar king, drew as women in her audience the other evening when she told of an interview with a governor of this tsaree. She was urging upon him the importance of a certain measure. "My dear woman," said he, "you never could get a man to pass that law." "We don't want men to pass it." Mrs. Havemeyer retorted. "We want women to pass it." For the first time in many years, Reginald C. Vanderbilt will miss the Newport Horse Show. He is ill with subscripting. 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IF YOU ASK US Dear Sir: Why is it a man will spend hours talking to his dog and vane? It h attend kind naturo laws been to ment ter. It that nhibition the st This violator parathy make volume duce. By Prohibi What Wright are begin is it to forma paper of organ Mr. order l A check having revealed that the records received to date struck a daily average of 3.214 copies instead of only 2,000. You know how interested the world is in the doings of smart society, and not only is Mrs. Wharton on the inside, but in "The Glimpses of the Moon" she shows with extraordinary frankness the facts of the social world. Of course, in the city here we are much interested in the novel's ruthless picture of the Fifth-ave, folks. The big papers are asking on their editorial pages is high society really as depraved as the Wharton novel shows it to be? What do you suppose is the popular pastime on our close by beathes this summer? Bridge; of all things! Not enough long, cold evenings in the winter to be devoted to it; not enough dull afternoons for us to pass at bridge tables as December descends upon us. No, we get into our bathing suits this summer, get out beside the lurking waves, and then cross our feet and play bridge. Somehow nothing has depressed me quite so much as the sight of whole row of girls and women bidding "two hearts," while the ocean purled emptily at their very toes and not no response. If imitation means all that it is supposed to mean, Manhattan is certainly doing obeissance to the film city of the Pacific coast. Every third person who starts a business seems overwhelmed with the charms of its name. Of course, there are Hollywood garages in New York, Hollywood apartments, Hollywood illinery shops, flower stores and TOWN IN REVIEW As we understand the railroad strike, both sides are using the block system. IF YOU ASK US Dear Sir: Why is it a man will spend hours talking to his dog, and then have never a word to say to his wife at dinner?—Mr. Oxmeatre. Ans.—The dog will listen. Headline: "Robbers Take $12 and Victim's Girl." If the victim was taking the girl out to dinner he saved $3. And once last week a man opened a bottle of olives without cutting his hands. WISE AND WITTY It is just as religious to have good health as to have good morals. The successful professional man is always a successful business man. Why try to pick winners when it is so much easier to pick losers? What you deserve you get, whether it be big honors or a swift kick from the rear. Advertising tells people what you can do, and thus gives you a chance to do it. Things would improve a whole lot if the people had a little more power and the government a little less. DO MILLES OF THE SCREEN Good Swiftly, And at times A trifle course. Thousands are coming to California from the east this winter to escape the coal famine. Any renter caught telling his landlord this will find something in his coffee some morning. Many a man with creases in his pants is glad he has the pants. TOM SIMS SAYS: Distance doesn't lend much enchantment to freight rates. CONGRESS MET IN WALL STREET After five years in old Federal Hall it was packing its bags. Just 131 years ago to move to Philadelphia, thence to Washington. The American Congress had ten meeting places up until the time it was permanently located in Washington in 1800. The pictures reproduced here are from rare old prints and original drawings collected by Mr. Austin. They are listed below in the order in which the buildings were occupied by Congress: 8. Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, 1774. 10. Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 1775, 1777-78, 1790-1800. 6. Baltimore, December, 1776. 9. Court-house, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1777. 2. Court-house, York, Pennsylvania, 1777. 1. Nassau Hall, Princeton, N.J., November, 1783. 3. State-house, Annapolis, Md., 1783. 5. Court-house, Trenton, New Jersey, 1784. 4. Old City Hall, New York, Wall and Nassau Streets, 1785-88. 7. Federal Hall, New York (reconstructed City Hall), Wall and Nassau Streets, where the first Congress under the Constitution met, and President Washington was inaugurated. 11. First Capitol building at Washington, D.C., 1800. of Washington. One of the first important questions laid before the Congress had been that of the assumption by the Government of the existing debts of the Confederation and those which the states had created during the revolution. The foreign debt amounted to $12,000, 000, the domestic debt of the Confederation $42,000,000 while the debts of the various states incurred during the Revolutionary War aggregated $26,000,000 making the grand total of $80,000,000, a sum which then sounded large, no matter how small it seems to us these days in which we count governmental appropriations in terms of billions. Hamilton's Three Proposals The proposition submitted to the Congress by Hamilton included: first, the assumption of the foreign TUEUSDAY, AUGUST 29TH, 1922 Subscription rate—In No. Orange-co. Per yr. $3; six months $7.99 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Cal., as second-class matter. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING ALREE ACTS WISELY (Washington Herald) President Albee of the Keith theatre circuit has set an example which should be followed by every theatrical manager in the United States. He has issued an order against "prohibition jokes" on the vaudeville stage. It has been almost impossible to attend a variety performance of any kind lately without hearing some ill-natured quips on the national dry laws. The spirit of the stage has been to treat the prohibition amendment as a subject for amused chatter. It has been taken for granted that nobody sympathizes with prohibition and that everybody violates the statute at every opportunity. This, of course, is not true. The violators of prohibition are comparatively few—even if they do make up for small numbers by the volume of noise they are able to produce. But the theater, unworthy though its performance of the duty may be at times, should be a true mirror of life and thought of the times. It forms, with the pulpit and the newspaper, one of the great triumvirate of organs for public expression. Mr. Albee doubtless issued the order because he believes that the Volstead act should be upheld as well as any other laws of the land. He does not favor allowing the stage to enlist itself in aid of outlawry in American cities. The head of the Keith circuit may, however, have been influenced by other considerations. He may have noticed the steady drift of public opinion in support of the prohibition laws. He may have foreseen the day, a few years hence, when the actor who cracks a joke or sings a song ridiculing this American institution will be hissed and not cheered by any audience which appreciates the tremendous benefits brought to the United States by the absence of liquor. We are not concerned, howeevr, with Mr. Albee's motives. We do not care whether his order was actuated by moral or business considerations. He has been quick to grasp the changing spirit of the times. He has been quick to appreciate the growing seriousness with which the American people consider a law which has transformed misery to happiness, saved lives and made America cleaner and better. Sooner or later all theatre magnates will follow his example—although some persist still in the silly idea that prohibition is a joke and that the American people want it repealed. Should Harmonize Calif. Law with Constitution By CHARLES H. RANDALL. Prohibition Congressman, 1915-1921 What is the Wright law, or the Wright enforcement act, of which we are beginning to hear so much? Why is it to appear on the ballot in California this year? How shall we vote into the California statute books. It goes even further and provides in the event the Volstead law is changed in any way, the California law will automatically follow these changes. This disarms every possible objection to the California statute books. Should Harmonize Calif. Law with Constitution By CHARLES H. RANDALL. Prohibition Congressman, 1915-1921 What is the Wright law, or the Wright enforcement act, of which we are beginning to hear so much? Why is it to appear on the ballot in California this year? How shall we vote in order to support it, or to oppose its adoption by the state? Answering the first question, the Wright prohibition enforcement act is a law passed by the Jas legislature in compliance with the terms of the eighteenth amendment to the constitution adopting prohibition as the constitutional law of the United States. The eighteenth amendment empowers Congress and the several states to enforce prohibition by appropriate legislation. All states except two including California, have already adopted such laws. California's legislature has twice enacted the law authorized by the eighteenth amendment, but upon both occasions the law was held up or suspended by a referendum petition of those opposed to prohibition. Two years ago this law was known as the Harris act, and was defeated by the voters at the election. Following that defeat the legislature passed the present Wright act, being careful to omit the drastic features of the former Harris law. The Wright law follows the Volstead law word for word, in fact, it simply incorporates the Volstead act into the California statute books. It goes even further and provides in the event the Volstead law is changed in any way, the California law will automatically follow these changes. This disarms every possible objection which was made two years ago to the Harris law because it proposed to make Californiia more arid than the law of Congress did. The Wright act will appear on your ballot this year, and if you favor enforcement law, all cases prosecuted law of your country, by your state as well as federal officials, you should vote "yes." One important provision of this law, which every citizen will favor is as follows: "Sec. 4. All fines and forfeitures collected under any ordinance now or hereafter enacted **** shall be paid into the treasury of the city or country whose (dry) ordinance is violated." Under the present system, while California has no state prohibition enforcement law, all cases prosecuted under the federal law result in the millions of dollars in fines going to the United States treasury, while this state in which the crime is committed received nothing but theodium and the expense caused by the presence of the criminals. Trouble with being lazy is it takes so much time. DEBT OF THE CONFEDERATION; second, the full payment of the domestic debt, which had fallen far below par in its market value; and third, the assumption by the Government of the debts incurred by the respective states during the revolution. The first proposition, for full payment of the foreign debt met with no opposition, and that for the payment of the domestic debt was opposed by many but received a majority vote. Opposition is Aroused The third proposition, that the Government of the United States should assume the debts created by the respective states during the Revolutionary War was bitterly opposed and its final settlement resulted incidentally in the good-bye of Congress to Wall street. The opposition to payment by the Government of the claims of the respective states was bitter and long drawn out, much of the opposition seemed likely to fail, diplomacy got in its fine work. The question as to the permanent location of the Capitol of the Nation was then pending. New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore wanted it. So several other enterprising cities and towns in the middle states and in Virginia. The South, which was opposing measures for the payment of the claims of the states, was solely in favor of the transfer of the permanent seat of government to that section of the country. Hamilton favored the payment of the claims of the states, Jefferson favored the location of the Capitol at the South, and these two experienced men, putting their heads together, worked out a plan which was laid before certain of their colleagues at a dinner at the home of Jefferson, where the details were agreed upon. The next day, to the astonishment of those not immediately participating in the agreement, the hostility of certain Southern members to the payment of the claims of the states mysteriously disappeared. The bill for payment of these claims was passed and a Opposition is Aroused The third proposition, that the Government of the United States should assume the debts created by the respective states during the Revolutionary War was bitterly opposed and its final settlement resulted incidentally in the good-bye of Congress to Wall street. The opposition to payment by the Government of the claims of the respective states was bitter and long drawn out, much of the opposition being based upon the assertion that the claims had been already bought up by speculators and that the assumption by the Congress under Wall Street in the early days of the Republic. The building with the "custom house" sign is on the site of the present home of One National City Bank of New York. that date would not be materially beneficial to the states themselves. Most of these claims were held in the North, and as a result, the members from the northern states favored the proposition, while those of the South were almost solidly against it and succeeded in temporarily defeating tips feature of the measure. How it Was Settled At this juncture, when the sumption of the debts of the states date set for the next session, the first Monday in December, 1790, and remain there until the year 1800 by which time the Capitol buildings and presidential residency would be ready for occupancy. And this is how it happened that 131 years ago Congress was tearfully packing its belongings at the center of Wall and Nassau streets preparatory to the trip to Philadelphia, which was then attended of several days instead of a couple of hours as at present.