oc-plain-dealer 1922-12-04

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR SAVE ALIENS FROM BAD READERS Let patience have her perfect work, and bring her celestial fruits. God to weave in your little thread into the great web, though this pattern shows it not yet.—George Macdonald. Selfishness is the curse of the age. Ohio has some Presidential timber which it thinks outmatches the sequels in size, if not in age. Abundance of exercise in the open air has a tendency to ward off disease and to stay the ravages of age. Permitting children to run wild in streets and alleys soon pours upon them the withering influences of vice and crime. There is a contingent in Congress that is doing all possible to drive the administration's ship subsidy plant on the rocks. The cause of France is not going to be helped in this country by scolding, nagging or abusing the United States for its course since the World War. Another year may find President Harding using the "Big Stick" in dealing with Congress. Beware the gold suave man when he becomes aroused! Every miner who goes underground to labor should have every safeguard that human ingenuity can devise and humane care can suggest. There should be no gambling with the lives of mine workers anywhere. There are more than 10,000 deaths. Immigrants admitted into this country are not looked after as carefully and as properly as they should be. It is James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, who asserts this. Mr. Davis holds that Americans not only should welcome those who are admitted as prospective citizens, but government and people should cooperate in assisting these newcomers to become good citizens. (To do this there should be a definite program to learn the foreigners' needs to educate them and to follow their progress. "We should see," says Mr. Davis, "that the foreigner is not permitted to fall in with those who teach radical doctrines of hate and anarchy without giving some protection against the evil effects which such association is bound to have." Mr. Davis himself came to this country as a poor immigrant. He is a splendid example of what can be done with immigrants if they are given the right influence and environment. The foreigner who is permitted to come into the United States to live should not be set adrift to make his own way without any counsel or guidance. There are many pitfalls for him. There are sinister forces which seek to entrap him and enmesh him in their lawless plans. Against the anarchists and the advocates of violence, the foreigner should be warned and shielded. MAKE ANTI-SPEED MOVE PERMANENT The rigorous crusade against speeding in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the Southland will be wholesome and corrective only if it is made constant and consistent. It must be just and equitable, too, else it will fall of its purpose. Those who are Another year may find President Harding using the "Big Stick" in dealing with Congress. Beware the gold swave man when he becomes aroused! Every miner who goes underground to labor should have every safeguard that human ingenuity can devise and humane care can suggest. There should be no gambling with the lives of mine workers anywhere. There are more than 10,000 deaths annually in the United States due to automobile accidents. And yet some persons seem to think too much ado is made over efforts to make the streets and highways safe for traffic. The United States should continue to hold itself aloft from the animosities and prejudices which have scourged the Old World for centuries. This country lives in a different atmosphere with the groughed of overseas countries. Once the Colorado River is check-reined by a great dam, the desert will be conquered over wide areas. Controlling and impounding the Colorado's flood waters will make possible the irrigating and reclaiming of vast areas which now are sterile. MAKE ANTI-SPEED MOVE PERMANENT The rigorous crusade against speeding in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the Southland will be wholesome and corrective only if it is made constant and consistent. It must be just and equitable, too, else it will fall of its purpose. Those who are sentenced to prison should be put in prison and should be made to feel the sting of imprisonment. It should not be such an experience as could be regarded as a lark by the convicted persons. Violators of speed ordinances should be impressed that the authorities are very much in earnest in this movement; that they are going to keep right on being in earnest; and that public sentiment should support them in this. And public sentiment should support them. If reckless speeders felt that the strong arm of the law was against them at all times; and that the stern frown of the public was back of the law's strong arm, they would hesitate about imperilling lives by careless driving. Buy Him a Box of HOSIERY Here's a gift—the desired holiday gift—for few men are known to have too many pairs. Particularly interesting are the Wool Hose, which you may have noted, now being worn more and more, because of man's failing in following milady. They're great with Oxords. Here, too, is a generous selections of silks, silk mixtures, cassimeres and the finer cottons. McCloskey's 219 West Center Street with Oxords. Here, too, is a generous selections of silks, silk mixtures, cassimeres and the finer cottons. McCloskey's 219 West Center Street DURANT Wins A Setting A New World's Re Jimmy Murphy, 1922 speed Champion won yesterday mile race at Beverly Hills driving a Durant Special at an speed of 114.6 miles per hour, shattering all World's L Statement of Victor "Believe me, that Durant is some car. I had it in hand all the the speed out of it I wanted" Orange County Distributor Appleby Motor Car Co Durant and Star 247 No. Los Angeles Street Phone 891 Anaheim 424 No. Birch Phone 600 EDITORIAL COMMENTS OF THE PRESS WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING TOLSTOY'S WORKS COMPLETE—New York Evening Post Bespeaking support for a complete edition of Tolstoy to be issued by the Oxford Press for the centenary in 1928, with Aylmer-Maude as translator, a group of British authors—Shaw, Wells, Bennett, William Archer, Gilbert Murray and others—explains why no complete edition has hitherto been brought out. Tolstoy wished the widest possible circulation for his books. Hence he asked publishers all over the world to print them in such translations as they could obtain, without regard for his moral or legal rights. The demand for his best narratives was so keen that a whole group of publishers fell upon them. While his books have become well known, we are told, "the profits of their publication have been so devided that they have in no instance been able to carry a complete edition on their backs." The British group of authors fears that no such edition will pay even now unless the public is specially asked to support it. While this explanation has great force, it is too much to say that "the means adopted by Tolstoy to secure the widest possible circulation for his books had just the opposite effect." Probably no steps the Russian writer could have taken would have made the English speaking world much more eager to buy his less popular book, separated as they are by such a gulf from works like "Anna Kerenina," "War and Peace" and "Sebastopol." Turgeniev was equally open to all publishers in England and America, for Russia had no international copyright agreements. Some of the first and most popular of his volumes were brought out by Holt, and those published by Dutton have sold widely. That has not stood in the way of practically complete library sets by Seribnets and Macmillan. Tolstoy the novelist and Tolstoy the moralist and philosopher are viewed as two different persons by the general reader. For a hundred who care for the former, only one is interested in the latter. Hence the fact that for even so important a philosophic book as "On Life" that is no more satisfactory translation than Bolton Hall's free paraphrase. That we are now to have a complete edition, and from so competent a hand as Tolstoy's friend Mr. Maude, is cause for rejoicing. PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillon) Chorus of Allies: "The plays the thing; darn what happens to Greece." Europe might get along with few per- NEW YORK, Dec. 4, Nowhere, except in this city of do-as-you-please, could a perfectly dignified TOWN IN REVIEW A settin' hen never bothers the neighbors, says Josh Wise. Its hard also, says J. W. to teach old dogs to forget old tricks. PARAGRAPHS ("By Robert Quillon") Chorus of Allies: "The plays the thing; darn what happens to Greece." Europe might get along with fewer reverses if she wasn't quite so perverse. First act: National aspirations. Second act: Grand row. Third act: American relief. A republic is a place where everybody agrees that something ought to be done about it. Few things in life are more pathetic than a very young writer's effort to be a wicked cynic. Hearing it by radio is just as good, unless you enjoy watching the tenor twist his face that way. We look forward to January 1 with misgivings. There are so few things left to swear off of. About all you can say for any political upheaval is that it makes a new set of grouches. Never despair. If you are dull, stupid and dumb, you may get a reputation as a good listener. It appears that a burning issue in Europe is something that makes it hot for the little fellows. You can say one thing for Lunch No. 2 on a dinner. It makes you glad you didn't try No. 2 or No. 1. If ever the stork visits Doorn, will they call the new arrival crown prince of the imaginary empire? The Bohemian is much like other people, except for his habit of parking cigarettes where they will burn the table edge. Correct this sentence: "He made an immediate and remarkable success, but he made no increased use of the pronoun I". International influence appears to be impartially divided among the British lion, the French figer, and American bull. NEW YORK, Dec. 4, Nowhere, except in this city of do-as-youple, could a perfectly dignified business man leave his home each morning and walk to the subway, eating a large slice of toast and jam as he walk. That is what V. M. McAllister, of 503 W. 175th street, does every morning and nobody minds, not even his wife, much less the public he meets on the way. It is entirely possible for young people to be engaged and break their engagements nowadays with complete and sustained friendliness on both sides. Miss Enid Wentworth, a stenographer in a downtown house, perhaps has a record for this, but there may be a good many other instances almost as convincing, if we only knew them. Miss Wentworth is to be married shortly to one of her employers. She has been in the office for ten years, although she is now only 26, and during that time she has been engaged at one time of another to every male employee on the staff—thirty in all. They are all to be at the church to wish her goodwill, and the thirty returned engagement rings have been set in a clock which the firm is presenting to her as a reminder of how much they all think of her. It remained for Brock Pemberton to go to the Italian for the most advanced piece of stage writing yet brought to the stage this season, or any other, for that matter. "Six Characters in Search of an Author" is written by Pirandelle, but is undoubtedly of more value to our own dramatists than any manual of play making or work shop or any other so-called stimulus known in the craft. It deals with the subjective and objective characterization of play puppets in two incisive manner as to shame ninety-nine percent of the population of the world in its effort to explain life through the medium of plays. Mr. Pemberton has assembled a cast which is almost uncanny in its fidelity and sympathy with the aims of the author. It includes Moffat Johnson, known for his work with the Guild, Margaret Wycherly, who has an intelligence only exceeded by her histrionic skilf, Florence Eldridge, a chit of a girl, so good that you feel uncomfortable about it, and S. M. Cossart, who does no well showing what the siege should not do that you forgive its old mistakes. TOWN IN REVIEW A settin' hen never bothers the neighbors, says Josh Wise. Its hard also, says J. W. to teach an old dog to forget old tricks. FASHION NOTES These heavy ear-rings the girls are wearing are artistic, and besides they keep the ears from flapping. Jack Johnson, expugillist, has announced that he will play Othello. When Jask played Romeo the last time he was egged out of the country. He Doesn't Like a Baptist Great interest is being shown in the revival at Cwannanoa Baptist church. Rev. W. B. Sprinkle is doing the preaching.—Hendersonville (N. C.) News. WHEN YOU SLEEP Sir Basil Thompson, former head of Scotland yard detectives, has solved many mysteries of crime. None of them was a millionth as mysterious as sleep. Clapereador had a theory that nature makes us sleep to prevent us from killing ourselves by exhaustion. The Coriat school of physicians believes sleep is simply a relaxation of muscles, necessary to rid our bodies of poisons accumulated when awake. Dr. Boris Sidis' theory is that monotony causes sleep. When life is no longer interesting enough to keep us awake, we chloroform ourselves with slumber. It is one of the baffling enigmas of nature. Also one of the greatest forms of wealth. Dollars and fame lose their lure when natural sleep is denied chronically—as witness Jack Britton, former welterweight champion, offering $10,000 to anyone who will make him sleep normally. He hasn't had a good sleep for a year. Considering the joy with which we close our eyes and rest our weary bodies and tired brains at night, it is a trifle strange how man dreads the final sleep, death. A Low Level, We Presume "New level of artistry reached by cinema with coming of super-picture."—Headline in L.. Examiner. 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