oc-plain-dealer 1922-09-12

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Make not the consequence of virtue the end thereof. Be not beneficent for a name, or cymbal of applause; nor exact and just in commerce, for the advantages of trust and credit which attend the reputation of true and punctual dealing; for these rewards, though unsought for, plain virtue will bring with her. —Sir Thomas Browne. NATIONAL BANK GROWTH Strependous growth in resources of national banks and of their deposits and loans and discounts is shown by an analysis of official reports at the time of the last call, last June 30. Resources of the national banks of the country have reached the enormous total of almost $21,000,000, and increase of $529,000,000 over the call of May 5. Total deposits in national banks on June 30 were more than $13,000,000, an increase since May of $554,000,000, and a gain over June 30, one year ago, of $1,478,000,-000. The Comptroller of the Currency reports that national banks are "in a strengthened position and abundantly able, in fact, are in a better position to take care of the requirements of commerce and industry made upon them than they have been at any time since the signing of the armistice." The people trust the banks, and the banks trust the people. This has much to do with the flourishing condition of banking institutions and reflects furthermore, the strong elements of prosperity throughout the country. VAGRANTS OF OPULENCE Begging and vagrancy have been reduced to a shrewd art in the United States. It is estimated that there are 1,000,000 vagrants in this country. Some of them are victims of misfortune and are unfitted to earn a livelihood. But great numbers of them are able-bodied and could work By Robert Quillen Happiness isn't so much a state of mind as a stomach condition. After 11 p.m., the average husband is either in bed or in bad. Class consciousness is something you get at the paying teller's window. The only part of the nation's food supply raised by the middleman is the price. When the vamp's soft arms lose their appeal, she can always rely on her firearms. Europe has her faults, but she doesn't make an ass of herself over a titled America. If the nightshirt is returning, we trust it will have some attachment to keep it from rolling itself up about one's neck. Even a soda fountain might put on the bum's rush if you tried to buy a milkshake on credit. Mexico should take kindly to the Ford. She is accustomed to oil troubles and internal combustion. After all, the division of America into groups is merely a further development of "plendid isolation." A woman may talk books and art, but she really has a better time when talking about the pain in her back. There are two classes of people: Good people and bad people. And the classifying is done by the good people. The portion of the country that is tired of prohibition is the only portion that isn't tired of prohibition jokes. VAGRANTS OF OPULENCE Begging and vagrancy have been reduced to a shrewd art in the United States. It is estimated that there are 1,000,000 vagrants in this country. Some of them are victims of misfortune and are unfitted to earn a livelihood. But great numbers of them are able-bodied and could work at something useful if they would. In New York City there are beggars who go to and from their begging in automobiles of their own and who wear fur coats and jewels in their hours of ease. The public, in other words, is outrageously imposed upon by these conscienceless mendicants. A nation-wide movement has been started to suppress this shameful imposition upon the generous impulses of the public. The intention is to ferret out the swindlers among these beggars and compel them to go to work. This manifestly is the proper thing to do. From shameless cancery many a vagrant graduates into criminality, thus becoming a double menace to the public. A crusade against vagrancy, stressing the shame and disgrace of it when the one practicing it is able to work and earn a livelihood, should be conducted. New motorless plane stands still in the air. This will help in arguing with traffic cops. Ninety degrees below zero has been registered at Verkloyanak, Siberia. Lawsuits and surgical operations cost at least twice as much as you figure on. When you are touring, the easiest thing to find is a bum hotel. The world's area is 196,940,400 square miles. At 20 she says she wouldn't marry for the world; but at 30 she marries for a small portion of it on a good residence street. We shouldn't be too harsh. Adam might have lied to protect Eve if there had been any chance to get away with it. When one neighbor plays a saxophone and another a phonograph, one reflects sadly that one might be happy with ether. The style makers say the short skirt isn't worn so much now, and this view can be sustained by any casual observer. A wife doubtless has mental reservations when she has finished a day's hard work and expresses sympathy for her poor tired husband. There are many unsophisticated girls in the rural districts, but they probably won't stay that way after they reach their 'teens. HAT WE TRIED TWO WEEKS. WE COULD HAVE ANSWERED NO BETTER O. When a man is engaged to a girl, does each call the other "fiance?" A. There are two forms of the word. Finance is the masculine, and flance the feminine form. They are both pronounced fee ahn say.—Harrisburg (Pa.) News. New things are not always improvements. A bathhouse chaperones. Nowhere kind have to offer and personal possessions that blase person always hangs in their which this led, wallet that I held twenties and but which contains fare home—all or but business to looker keys. But Brighton had a rather day. A woman looking man checks He explained that the time before we in swimming. The second balcony cent theater tickets their own again. ere have announced this luxury while the free lunch counter amenities of life war. Fifty cents price in that second cents for mid-week. Houses on wheels ordinary sight in the ing motorists who comforts of home. But, an automobile sight, at least for one way down to with the clergyman his church acting outward appearance the car was a reed with a seating car persons. It bore WE state it as our honest belief that for the price asked, Chesterfield gives the greatest value in Turkish Blend cigarettes ever offered to smokers. Liggett & Myers Tobacco EDITORIAL PANTOMIME By J. H. Striebel TOWN IN REVIEW Saturday was Admission day. We'll admit we didn't know it until we tried to break in a bank with the old pay check. CIRCUS. YOU KNOW Today is another admission day. Four bits. After looking at the fall fur coats we believe the old saying that there is more than one way to skin a cat. SHE'S THE CAT'S PAJAMAS Rather than the bee's knees, mouse's antlers, snake's hips, or any of the other whatnots you mentioned, I'd rather be known, categorically, as the kitten's galoshes.—LIL' MEE OW Nothing makes a cow hungrier than a man in an old straw hat. Fall styles are making beauty only knee deep. NEW YORK LETTER NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—New York is accustomed to fires; it passes automobile accidents with only a patient smile; it doesn't even get much excited over a big explosion. But a runaway horse in the famous words of Montague Glass, "That's some things else again." When Joseph Rollins, the peaceable driver of a milk wagon lost control of his horse on Broadway the other day, you would have thought the Woolworth Tower was falling. Thousands of office workers gave up employment completely for ten minutes to watch it from their windows and traffic stopped. When the horse overturned the wagon at the end of several blocks, their enjoyment was complete. Few thrills like that had been accorded Broadway lives. cense plate, inscribed with the words, "Church of the Holy Bible." If amusements, merchants, and all sorts of interests carry their product to the people in this direct way, why not the church? When a professional sign painter engaged to paint a sign up near the top of the Park Music Hall on Columbus Circle failed to show up the other afternoon, the manager of the theater called for a volunteer artist from the chorus. Elsa Mavos, one of the principals, agreed to undertake the job. She slid down a rope from the roof to the scaffold suspended 150 feet from the ground and went to work with her brush while the chorus and the street crowd cheered her from below. IN THE REALM OF THE IMAGINATION From Occanside News: The Baptist church of Oceanside was very sorry and much surprised to hear that a rumor was circulated that they held a mass meeting or allowed a meeting at the church, just prior to the primary election, at which meeting a political candidate appeared and stated that Mr. G. W. Westfall, candidate for supervisor, drinks, and that resolutions were passed at the meeting. In reality no such imaginary meeting was ever held, either at or in connection with the church, or anywhere else, to our knowledge, or by anybody else, and so no political candidate appeared at the imaginary meeting and no imaginary report was given and no imaginary resolutions were passed. A bathhouse checker has many experiences. Nowhere else does mankind have to offer up its most prized and personal possessions as it does to that blase person. The locket that always hangs inside her blouse, garter which this mad age has jewelled, wallet that look as though they held twenties and even "centuries" but which contain no more than car-fare home—all of those things are but business to the keeper of the locker keys. But one checker out at Brighton had a new experience the other day. A well-dressed careful-looking man checked his glass eye! He explained that he had lost one the time before when he had been in swimming. The second balcony is back. Fifty-cent theater tickets have come into their own again. The Equity Players have announced the restoration of this luxury which vanished with the free lunch counter and those other amenities of life driven out by the war. Fifty cents is to be the top price in that second balcony, with 25 cents for mid-week matinees. Houses on wheels have become an ordinary sight in these days of roaming motorists who fix up all the comforts of home on top of a Ford. But, an automobile church is a new sight, at least for Manhattan. I saw one way down town the other day, with the clergyman in the dress of his church acting as chauffeur. In outward appearances, the body of the car was a real church building with a seating capacity of about 12 persons. It bore a Pennsylvania li- When a professional sign painter engaged to paint a sign up near the top of the Park Music Hall on Columbus Circle failed to show up the other afternoon, the manager of the theater called for a volunteer artist from the chorus. Elsa Mavos, one of the principals, agreed to undertake the job. She slid down a rope from the roof to the scaffold suspended 150 feet from the ground and went to work with her brush while the chorus and the street crowd cheered her from below. "Wild Oats Lane," the new play at the Broadhurst, is melodrama, rather old-fashioned, perhaps, but holding its eternal appeal. Jack Arbuckle plays the role of "Father Joe," the great-hearted vicar, who specializes in assistance to the pleasing riff-raff of his parish. He gives a splendid impersonation. The most thankless task in this whole city, according to a policeman in one of the cheap rooming-house districts of Manhattan is rescuing would-be suicides. "We risk our lives for them just as much as we do for victims of accidents," one told me, "and never a word of thanks do we get. And if we ever seen them afterwards on the street, do you suppose they give us a cordial word? No, indeed. I sometimes want to go over and chat a bit and find out if things are going better for them, but they won't have it. They rush around a corner or into a building and pretend not to see us. I suppose maybe it's natural, though. If they want to die badly enough to go to so much trouble about it, they probably don't feel very thankful at being saved. No, they certainly dont." COMMENTS OF THE PRESS AMERICA IS GREATLY BLESSED Forbes Magazine We kick and we complain and we strike. We fume about high rents, dear coal, the oppressive cost of living. We rebel against working more than eight hours a day, and we fight for time-and-a-half pay for all overtime. We groan over local taxes, income taxes, corporation taxes. In short, we pity ourselves a lot. Yet—well, are we so terribly badly off? How do we fare as compared with, say, our parents and their generation? Is it not the truth that the vast majority of us live much more comfortably than the majority of the people did twenty-five, thirty, forty years ago? Suppose we sit down and calmly compare our lot with the lot of the last generation. Are these not facts, applicable to far more people today than thirty years or so ago? Now Years the Ge We groan over local taxes, income taxes, corporation taxes. In short, we pity ourselves a lot. Yet— well, are we so terribly badly off? How do we fare as compared with, say, our parents and their generation? Is it not the truth that the vast majority of us live much more comfortably than the majority of the people did twenty-five, thirty, forty years ago? Suppose we sit down and calmly compare our lot with the lot of the last generation. Are these not facts, applicable to far more people today than thirty years or so ago? Working hours have been greatly reduced. Housing facilities have been wonderfully improved. Our schools and colleges have multiplied in number and are now within within reach of many, many more people of ordinary circumstances. There are more churches. We have an infinitely wider varriety of food, and immeasurable progresness has been made in insuring its cleanness and quality. There is now one automobile for every family in America. The telephone has added immenselly to our facilities for social intercourse. The finest of music has been brot within the reach of most homes thru Edison's invention of the phonograph. The theater, formerly enjoyed by relatively few, and only in large towns and cities, is nightly open to the inhabitants of almost every hamlet in the land at very low cost, thanks to the movies—another incaculable enrichment of the social life of the people. One could go on and on enumerating the blessings which have been brot within the reach of the majority of this nation during recent times. We verily are a people favored by Providence beyond almost all others. Let any disgruntled, whining American take a trip through the countrieof Europe or through the Orient, and he will return with gratitude in his heart for having his lines cast in so pleasant a place as the United States of America. Are we doing all we can to deserve a continuance of so many blessings? every family in America. has 324 women Facts and Figures The annual net earnings of the company before the payment of Federal Income and Profit Taxes from 1912 to 1920, inclusive, have averaged better than 38% per cent on the capital stock. The original investor of $100.00 in Moreland stock now owns $518.19 of stock from stock dividends and has received back $97.69 in cash dividends. Price: $10.00 Per Share Never before in public been in This is not an ordinary stock sale. It is an opportunity to share and established, proven home Compansoldom offered. "The Story of Moreland" Contains full information concerning its history and details of this new stock issue. Mailed to you on request. Fill in name and address today! TEUSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 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 GIRL, 11 DIES IN SAVING BROTHER NEW YORK, Sept. 12. — Finding herself and brother, Reuben, aged 7, directly in the path of a runaway team of horses, Dora Greenfield, 11, gave the boy a push which sent him sprawling out of danger. Dora was killed. PASTOR FALLS DEAD IN FAREWELL SPEECH MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., Sept. 12 — While saying farewell to his congregation and introducing the new minister, the Rev. William Granger, 74, fell dead of a henmorrhage in the First Baptist Chnrer. Greenland is Denmark's only colony. George Bernard Shaw is 66 years old. R. P. TOMPKINS 129 N. Los Angeles St. Quality Tires Tubes. Accessories and Vulcanizing WHEELER SIGNS 211 N. Los Angeles Phone 25 Plaster Sand and Gravel Crushed Rock Hile Rock and Gravel Company Phone 893-W Anaheim Floors Laid, Scrape and Finished Machine Sanders LAFE Bud has built a cheap double house, an' now it's fifty fifty whether he ever works again or not. Th' smile in business wuz introduced durin' th' palmy days o' th' war, an' it begins t' look like th' kind that won't come off. Interstate commerce commission denies application of California grape growers for 20,000 cars in which to shop grapes east. We have no inside information as to what the grapes were to be used for, but we are suspicious that they were to be a substitute for coal. GOOD-NIGHT KISSES Moth—Edith, you stood out on the porch for quite a while last night. Edith—Why, mother, ( I only stood there for a second. Mother—But I am sure I heard the third and fourth. CONCORDIA PARK On Wednesday, Sept. 13, 8:30 P.M. BIG DANCE For Members, Their Friends and Families N'everybody. Finest Hall, best floor in So. California Music by combined Schmidt's and Felling's orchestras You can't help but like it. So let's go. Now Offering–Ten Years of Success to the General Public– We have outgrown our present capital— We are now offering $500,000 Preferred & $500,000 Common Facts and Figures The annual net earnings of the company before the payment of Federal Income and Profit Taxes from 1912 to 1920, inclusive, have averaged better than 38½ per cent on the capital stock. The original investor of $100.00 in Moreland stock now owns $518.19 of stock from stock dividends and has received back $97.69 in cash dividends. We have outgrown our present capital—We are now offering $500,000 Preferred & $500,000 Common Stock. NEW STOCK ISSUE Per Value Common $500,000 $10.00 Preferred $500,000 $10.00 Preferred Stock—This stock is 7% Cumulative, participating and Preferred as to dividends and assets. It is non-assessable after the par value has been paid in full. It is redeemable at the option of the Company on any interest date after four years at $10.50 per share with accrued interest. It participates proportionately with the Common in dividends above 7% to 12% per annum. It is exempt both from personal property tax in California and the Federal normal income tax. Common Stock—The Common Stock is not limited as to dividends. Our earnings from 1912 to 1920, inclusive, averaged better than 38⅓ %. It is exempt from personal property tax in California and the Federal normal income tax. Price: $10.00 Per Share Common or Preferred Terms of Sale: 25% with subscription. Balance in six equal monthly installments. Never before in the history of this organization has the general public been invited to participate as shareholders in its success. This offer has many interesting and attractive features not given in this advertisement. The story of this Company and its development is one of the amazing wonders of the West. MORELAND MOTOR TRUCK COMPANY Securities Department—2325 South Main Street, Los Angeles, Calif. MAIL ME "THE STORY OF MORELAND" Name: Address: Catch out and mail with your name and address