oc-plain-dealer 1923-01-20

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS As carefully as a mother arranges the room where her child will pass the day, does God prepare each hour that opens before me. Whatever has to be done, it is His will that I should do it; and, in order that it should be done well, He provides the necessary time, intelligence, aptitude, and knowledge.—Gold Dust. California would benefit immensely by having more business and less politics in its government. Los Angeles is waging war on crime. Which should embrace warfare on conditions which breed criminality in the young. It should be possible for the legislature to reapportion California without anything like a civil war developing from it. The grippe is no respecter of persons. It attacks the president in the White House, the same as the humble man in the hovel. France must be convinced, by this time, that it has made a bad situation worse by invading Germany and arousing war-like venom. Europe's crisis is self-made. The United States had no part in making the critical conditions. This country cannot lift the crisis unless Europe helps itself to the utmost. No lynching is justifiable in this country. There may be great provocation, and public feeling may become greatly inflamed over a hideous crime but mob passion never should supplant the law. President booms are springing up like mushrooms in damp, dark places. Some of these booms will live about as long as the fragile mushroom. MILLION MORE HOMES NEEDED IN U.S. America is short about one million homes, according to Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce. In making this estimate in connection with the "Better Homes in America" campaign, Mr. Hoover said: "In cities, such as shortage implies the challenge of congestion. It means that in practically every American city of more than 200,000 from 20 to 30 per cent of the population is adversely affected, and that thousands of families are forced into unsanitary and dangerous quarters. This condition, in turn, means a large increase in rents, a throw-back in human efficiency and that unrest which invariably results from inhibition of the primal instinct in all of us for home ownership. It makes for no-mads and vagrants." It is estimated that $7,000,000,000 will be spent in new building construction in the United States during 1923. According to President Frazier O. Reed, of the California Real Estate Association, more than $375,000,000 to $400,000,000 of this immense national building outlay will be expended in new California buildings and homes during the present year. One dollar out of every 20 spent by a nation of 115,000,000 people, will be spent in California, President Reed predicted. In 1922 California cities and towns expended about $300,000,000 in new buildings and homes. Nature is taking cognizance of the slogan, "Meet Them With Flowers," and is supplying blossoms in abundance and extremely beautiful, here in California, this winter. Use of motion pictures in school rooms does not mean that schools are to be turned into picture theaters. Textbooks are not to be No lynching is justifiable in this country. There may be great provocation, and public feeling may become greatly inflamed over a hideous crime but mob passion never should supplant the law. President booms are springing up like mushrooms in damp, dark places. Some of these booms will live about as long as the fragile mushroom. Political forecasting for 1924 is decidedly heavy just now. There is nothing more despotic than the spirit of the mob. Its motto is, "Rule or ruin." Sometimes it both rules and ruins. This land should have no rule of the mob. Rule should be by the orderly processes of law. The law is the safe haven for all classes of honest citizens. Mob rule is safe for no class. Nature is taking cognizance of the slogan, "Meet Them With Flowers," and is supplying blossoms in abundance and extremely beautiful, here in California, this winter. Use of motion pictures in school-rooms does not mean that schools are to be turned into picture theaters. Textbooks are not to be—should not be—discarded. Pictures are to be only auxiliary to textbook instruction. Every war fraud should be punished severely, no matter how influential the guilty person or corporation may be. Justice in such cases as in all other infractions of law, should be blind to power or distinction in the accused. Exide Batteries Authorized Service Station For AUTO LIGHT—WESTINGHOUSE—BLJUR ELECTRIC SYSTEMS CONNECTICUT—ATWATER-KENT IGNITION SYSTEM EISEMANN MAGNETO—TILLITSON CARBURETOR DELCO AND REMY ELECTRICAL SYSTEM U. S. L. BATTERY G. H. Ennis Automotive Electric Co. 243 So. Los Angeles St. Phone 155 Values That Count—$1145 Until Essex brought out the Coach a closed car on a first rate chassis could not be had at a moderate price. It gives all essential advantages of the fine closed car. It is sturdy and comfortable for year round service. 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On the surface of this water there were some whitish flecks of material in some of which a little motion could be discerned. By use of the microscope these flecks were seen to consist mainly of several little shrimp like animals (copepods) with many long projecting appendages. Two of these appendages attached to the head were extremely long and slender. Some of the animals were already dead and the air entangled amongst their appendages helped to give the whitish appearance already mentioned. Others were still moving feebly while one or two were more vigorous. All had been caught in the surface film of the water and they were dying there. What is this deadly surface film? It is merely the surface portion of the mass of water, a layer microscopically thin, and its character depends upon the attraction of the particles of water for each other. Every one knows that if a drop of cold water be placed upon an oily flat surface or a smooth piece of glass it keeps to an almost spherical form. The attraction of the particles of water just beneath any part of the surface is reinforced by the attraction of particles nearer to and below it. Huge as the Hippodrome's, it was forced to turn away crowds from its doors the other day during the funeral services of Amy Stone, the original "Little Eva" of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The services were held under the auspices of the Actor's Fund of America. Mrs. Stone, who was 86 years old, was probably one of the best known actresses of a generation ago. In a drug store over in the theater district, a highly polished skull rests on the prescription counter. Every time Russell Mack, playing in a nearby theater, goes in there, he gazes at the skull and quotes the lines from Hamlet, "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well." The other day, a stranger in the place remarked to the soda clerk, "I wonder what poor devil that skull belonged to?" "Oh, that!" came from the clerk. "It belonged to a fellow named York. An actor in the show at the Carroll Theater knew him well." One of the interesting and I am sure, significant features of our musical life that has struck me this season is the great number of men one sees at afternoon concerts. Men who scorn theatrical matinees flock to Carnegie and Aeolian halls for symphonies. A few years ago, the sight of a male member in such an audience would have been the occasion for curiosity—almost amusement. This same increase of men is notable in the study of music. I am told. Dr. Frank Damrosch, Director of the Institute of Musical Art, tells me that... PARAGRAPHS (3y Robert Quillon) Another thing that makes girls go wrong is a silly mother. A hick town is a place where you can park your cow on Main street. Still, it's fair enough that a war to end war should be followed by a peace to end peace. When knighthood was in flower, there were not so many vamps to nip it in the bud. If he draws $23 a week, and handles the company money, and his wife has social aspirations, find the shortage. The chap who says he can drink or let it alone isn't bragging about his will power. He's bragging about his money. When a cake-eater feels an urge to express his individuality, he buys a longer cigarette holder. A tactful barber is one who can say "Shampoo, sir?" to a bald man and keep it from sounding sarcastic. A writer says the modern interpretative dancer hasn't anything on the ancients. But why drag in the last two words? At any rate, that New York man who slipped on an ice walk and broke a $3000 vase can't be called a cheap skate. Before petting your children too much, it's a good idea to figure out why weeds are harder than flowers. About the only way to kiss a girl while driving a car is to have a girl who doesn't mind doing the work. In the old days they took a little wine for the stomach's sake. Now they take a little antidote for that purpose. Another thing this country needs is a return to the grand old doctrine that patches are no disgrace. What is this deadly surface film? It is merely the surface portion of the mass of water, a layer microscopically thin, and its character depends upon the attraction of the particles of water for each other. Every one knows that if a drop of cold water be placed upon an oily flat surface or a smooth piece of glass it keeps to an almost spherical form. The attraction of the particles of water just beneath any part of the surface is reinforced by the attraction of particles nearer to and beyond the center in that line. At the same time particles to the side of the point lack that amount of reinforcement and there are no attracting particles beyond the surface. Therefore attraction exerted upon all surface particles is greatest toward the center or the largest mass of water observed. Since there is less room toward the center this means that surface particles are pressed together and held in a state of tension which can only be broken by the exertion of force. The attraction of particles of water for each other is not great enough to require very much force for this breaking, hence the surface film of water will not support very large objects. But it will support very small ones, especially if they have relatively large surfaces in contact with the film. The slender appendages of copepods expose great surface as compared with the little material which goes to compose them. Furthermore, the bodies of the little animals are so small (about the size of the point of an ordinary pin) that they exhibit the same condition. As a consequence if the animal swims too near the surface or if it is thrown into it by waves or by shaking in a bottle it is held suspended by the surface film and its body is mostly out of water. It then soon dies from too much dryness or because it cannot breathe the air directly and so obtain the oxygen to keep it alive. Such tragedies are familiar to all microscopists who handle living microscopic material. Rotifers, small crustaceans, small worms, single cellled animals and many newly hatched creatures are in danger if they get too close to the surface film. There is nothing just like it in human experience. Perhaps drowning approaches it as nearly as anything, at least in a physiological sense. Man drowns (suffocates), because he is kept too long below the surface of the water so that he cannot get oxygen from the air in the only way for which he is fitted. Microscopic things die (suffocate) in the surface film because they are held out of the water in the air from which they cannot get oxygen and because they are solely fitted for getting it from water in which it is mixed. One of the interesting and I am sure, significant features of our musical life that has struck me this season is the great number of men one sees at afternoon concerts. Men who scorn theatrical matinees flock to Carnegie and Aeolian halls for symphonies. A few years ago, the sight of a male member in such an audience would have been the occasion for curiosity—almost amusement. This same increase of men is notable in the study of music. I am told, Dr. Frank Damrosch, Director of the Institute of Musical Art, tells me that eighteen years ago, when the Institute opened, the young men formed sixteen per cent of its student body, and today they make up forty-eight per cent of it. This seems to me proof of the growth of very real mu- Don't WAIT to Come Buy Your Love at The Working There are enough rent receipts that beat load of fortune never landlords. 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