oc-plain-dealer 1923-01-24

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS For the calamities of mortal life Exists—one only; an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howeer Bad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being, Of infinite benevolence and power, Whose everlasting purposes embrace, All accidents, converting them to good. —Wordsworth. The law is the friend and protector of every honest man. Mob rule is rule that is dangerous to every element of society. Liberty under the law—but no license overriding the law. If the horrors of the World War will not incline Europe to maintain peace, what would? Militarism is hateful and obnoxious, wherever it may show itself and in whatever form it may manifest itself. Traffic tragedies multiply alarmingly. Streets and highways must be made safer, or traffic will become more deadly than warfare. Against conscienceless greed in every form the people should be protected, in so far as it is possible to extend protection under wholesome laws vigorously enforced. Activity in building is in response to actual demand for more housing. It is not a boom bubble, soon to burst. It is stupendous volume of construction done on business basis. The name "California" should be blazoned from one end of the country to the other, in systematic promotional advertising. No part of the CONTEMPT FOR ALL LAW TOO COMMON Disrespect for law is becoming startlingly common. From the example of elders, the young are taking up contempt for statutes and ordinances. They who, in the fullness of adult knowledge and experience, are so reckless of consequences as to set this example of contempt of law, are sowing dragon's teeth, which may even in their lifetime, rise up and devour them. For the inevitable fruitage of this deriding of laws will be the breeding of criminals. It is fallacious for any good citizen to proceed on the theory that he can violate or evade one or more laws and ordinances and yet be "chemically pure" as a citizen and entitled to be regarded as law-abiding. The violator of law is a violator of law, and all that differentiates one violator of law from another is the degree of the offense. The boy who hears his elders swaggeringly boast that they have outwitted the police and violated or evaded a law or ordinance, is imbibing the poison of criminality. The boy or girl who hears sympathy or admiration openly expressed for a murderer is excessively influenced, and from such influence may be bred a future murderer. Another very pernicious influence, chargeable, in some measure, against the screen and the stage, is the caricaturing of policemen. To represent the police—as is so often done in comedies—as numskulls and to put a halo about the "bad boy" or "bad man" who out wits the guardians of the law, sows the seeds of contempt, in plastic minds, toward the law and those who are its constituted guardians. These depictings of dumb policemen are shamefully unfair anyway—a libel upon men who, as a rule, are keen and alert of mind and notably courageous—men who are ready, day or night, to risk their lives for the protection of the public. Against conscienceless greed in every form the people should be protected, in so far as it is possible to extend protection under wholesome laws vigorously enforced. Activity in building is in response to actual demand for more housing. It is not a boom bubble, soon to burst. It is stupendous volume of construction done on business basis. The name "California" should be blazoned from one end of the country to the other, in systematic promotional advertising. No part of the country should be given a chance to forget California. Teach the children to protect trees. Teach them the value of forests and the great importance of saving the timber of the state from fire and greed and ruthless destruction from any source. Wallace Reid's untimely death should be the means of saving the life and health of many a talented young man and young woman from the baleful clutches of the illicit traffic in drugs. The Panama Canal is a great business success, besides being of inestimable value in facilitating the world's commerce. The most sanguine predictions and expectations as to its benefits and advantages are being realized. The careless smoker causes many a destructive forest fire. For every case of flagrant recklessness with fire, there should be severe punishment. This growing menace to life and property, in California, should be dealt with sternly. The name "California" should be given a square deal. Congress should look to the interests of these wards of the nation and should protect them against rapacious greed. The injustice which Indians have suffered should not be compounded. LACK OF CONSISTENCY IN WAR ON SPEEDERS Los Angeles justice courts, it would seem, are not checking the speeding peril as should be, because of lack of consistency in treatment of speeders. For a time violations of speed ordinances are punished with extreme severity. Then there is lapse into more lenient treatment. Then, suddenly, comes another period of austerity. A consistent, well-deined policy of dealing with speed-law violators would be better, it would seem. Make the punishment uniformly severe for flagrant and dangerous disregard of speed ordinances. Let the policy be well established. This would have a deterring influence upon speeders, it is reasonable to believe. But a fast and loose course in dealing with this offense does not inspire thoroughgoing respect for the processes of law enforcement. 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Heying's Pharmacy "On the Corner" EDITORIAL Abe Marlin PARAGRAPHS ('3y Robert Quillen) Two national aspirations can't live as cheaply as one. An optimist is a married man who thinks he is boss. Splendid isolation doesn't seem so darned splendid when you can't sell goods. An orator is a man who regrets that he has but one tongue to give to his country. Two can't live more cheaply than one, but a wife can be kept more cheaply than won. The degree of illness required to knock a man but depends on whether he is an employee or the boss. The objection to a radio concert is that there is nobody's foot to beat time back of your opera chair. No one man can know it all; but he can be interviewed a few times and get the notion that he does. Of course it isn't done to dodge taxes, but it's funny that stock dividends became so popular all at once. You can estimate a country's birth rate by the relative number of touring cars and roadsters seen on the highway. Another good mentality test is figuring out away to make one salary place shoes on seven pairs of feet. That cold light in our grocer's eye probably means that he would like to advance on our Ruhr basin. Kindness pays. Give the blind beggar a dollar and he won't run over you the next time he's driving. Twenty-five Million for Other National Resources: Half a Million for Child Welfare and Education Recent statistics from Washington inform the public of great strides constantly being taken forward along lines of conservation and improvement of natural resources and animal production. The division of animal industry states that the second national pig survey is under way; experiments have proven so successful that instead of making a big national survey of pigs only once a year, in the future it will be done twice. There has been spent for purpose of securing and distributing facts about our natural resources by the different federal departments $25,000,000 per year. Six million of this amount goes for better animals. On the other hand, the appropriation of the children's bureau and of the bureau of education combined is only $500,300 per year. This striking contrast brings the following expression from Mr. Roland E. Dye, scout executive of Orange-co Council, who says: "I do not begrudge one penny that is being spent by our government on conservation of natural resources and improvement of the animal industry. The country needs it, and it is decidedly beneficial to all mankind. But from study of conditions that affect youth it seems a decidedly deplorable fact that our government cannot do more for the investigation of conditions which surround our children. The one thing that the discerning public needs presented today is not slushy sentiment about making better boys and girls, and the sanctity of the American home, and the beautiful parental relations that should exist, etc., but they want and need to have cold, business-like, concrete facts." COMMENTS OF THE PRESS PUT COMMON SENSE IN LAWS Sacramento Bee An excellent example of how respectable, law-abiding citizens can be made technically law breakers by the passage of a law-impossible of honest COMMENTS OF THE PRESS PUT COMMON SENSE IN LAWS Sacramento Bee An excellent example of how respectable, law-abiding citizens can be made technically law breakers by the passage of a law-impossible of honest enforcement, is furnished in an anti-noise ordinance just drafted in Berkeley. This ordinance states that hereafter it shall be a misdemeanor to maintain or emit, between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m., any noise produced by human, animal or mechanical means which by reason of its being of a raucous or nerve-racking nature shall disturb the peace or comfort of any person. Like some other attempts to regulate everything from digestion to act of God, this ordinance sounds good, but has certain serious defects, chief among them being the fact that it will not work. If strictly enforced, a man might be arrested for blowing his nose under some one's window; he might be fined if his motor car popped off in the muffler on a cold night; if his dog barked at a burglar he would be liable; if even smoked in an apartment house with the thin walls that obtain in these days of economy, he would be a law-breaker. Naturally, a certain liberality is to be expected in the interpretation of such a regulation. But it is not the business of law-makers to pass laws that have to be interpreted as liberally as this will have to be. When Berkeley comes to attempt the enforcement of this anti-noise law, it will find that like certain grammatical rules, which Mark Twain noted in the German language, there will dividends became so popular all at once. You can estimate a country's birth rate by the relative number of touring cars and roadsters seen on the highway. Another good mentality test is figuring out away to make one salary place shoes on seven pairs of feet. That cold light in our grocer's eye probably means that he would like to advance on our Ruhr basin. Kindness pays. Give the blind beggar a dollar and he won't run over you the next time he's driving his twin-six. About the only time when the average man ever gets to feel important is when he puts his lodge uniform. When one girl of a set gets married, the others at least have the consolation of telling the world how old she is. Household money: The fund from which the husband borrows for car fare and tobacco during the last half of each week. You never can tell about the styles, and a few years from now the girls may be buying freckles at the corner drug store. Success is just a matter of avoiding bad habits, laziness, debts—Oh, hang it, just a matter of avoiding the wrong kind of wife. Two classes don't worry: Those who are intelligent enough to know that everything will turn out all right, and those who haven't sense enough to realize that anything is wrong. To merit the approval of the whole world, one must be a saint and then he is crucified. be more exceptions than instances. The result will, of course, be that this law, like thousands of others, will be allowed to lapse into a state of comfortable ination. And the result of this will be just so much more contempt for law in the minds of the good citizenry of Berkeley. The conclusion is unavoidable, human psychology being what it is. All of this would be a small matter, hardly worth more than a joking mention, were it not for the fact that it illustrates a principle which is vitally at stake today oil over the nation. Our law-makers as a whole are just like those of Berkeley. And our reactions to their work are just like those which are to be confidently expected in that city. How can people be expected to respect law when those who make it have no respect for common sense? The country needs it, and it is decidedly beneficial to all mankind. But from study of conditions that affect youth it seems a decidedly deplorable fact that our government cannot do more for the investigation of conditions which surround our children. The one thing that the discerning public needs presented today is not slushy sentiment about making better boys and girls, and the sanctity of the American home, and the beautiful parental relations that should exist, etc., but they want and need and should have cold, business-like, concrete facts. The district attorney of New York-co makes the statement that 70% of the first offenders today are under 21. New York Letter There is such a thing as being too dreasy, in such matters as buttons declare New York policemen. They have started a protest against the order of Commissioner Earight directing them to equip themselves with three new seals of uniform buttons at $2 a set. It is a needless expense, they insist. The snowball is a mighty weapon in the right hands and under proper conditions. One snowball thrown by one kid and the whole street car system of Yonkers, our nearest suburb, was tied up for 12 minutes! The snowball struck the power house hynamo, and caused a short circuit. Can't you imagine the strut of that boy ever since? The Moscow Art Theater, herded a the greatest company of actors in the world, has staggered New York by living up to its reputation. A good many of us were inclined to skipticism. We were to be won by the mystery of everything Russian, we thought, and would no doubt see as good acting as we see by our own fairly good companies and nothing more. But never has such true and tremendous art been seen in our city, according to the critics who have been watching art expressions for the greatest number of years. The Russians have covered themselves with glory, and their audiences don't even feel a handicap to their enjoyment in not being able to understand one spoken word. Words are not necessary. One forgets that they are not being eralized. The action, the expression, every motion, are all so perfect that the story is all there. Roland Young and Estelle Winwood are going to have another opportunity to do as good work together as they did in Madame Pierre last season. They have started rehearsals in Edgar Selwyn's new com- Given Special Attention Saturday bert ing the Rupture ave secured the servTHURSDAY, FRIhere for the express e as it is possible for ings with the famous s expert is competent OPER TRUSS for g filled up, and he we suggest that you your appointment. Advice, armacy All of this would be a small matter, hardly worth more than a joking mention, were it not for the fact that it illustrates a principle which is vitally at stake today all over the nation. Our law-makers as a whole are just like those of Berkeley. And our reactions to their work are just like those which are to be confidently expected in that city. How can people be expected to respect law when those who make it have no respect for common sense? 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