oc-plain-dealer 1923-02-17

TRAGEDY IN REAL LIFE AS MARRIAGE FILS Many treat with levity and ribaldry the shipwrecks of matrimonial barks. In too many instances principles themselves treat the institution of matrimony lightly. They enter it frivolously and leave frivolously. To them there is no semblance of sacredness in entering, or tragedy in quitting a relation which they never should have entered. But to those who have loved depily and sincerely; those who appreciate the sacredness of this relation to them, the breaking of marriage is indeed a tragedy of the soul. They may conceal their wound from the world; they may nurse it in secret, and outwardly appear to have forgotten; but the wound never completely heals. The bolt of sorrow, thus driven into the soul, never is withdrawn completely. Judge not lightly and hastily those to whom marital shipwreck has come. For many such shipwrecks cast souls, upon dreary desert islands of existence, there to languish thru the long years. SELFISHNESS PUNISHES ITSELF USUALLY Selfishness usually has its reactions, with disaster to itself. In other words, instead of attaining unto its selfseeking ends, selfishness often-fines defeats its own grasping purposes and loses, instead of gains, in material things. Nothing worth while is gained by indulging in selfishness. A great deal worth while is lost by the most valuable gems of character are sacrificed when one put aside the sparkling virtues of generosity, thoughtfulness, consideration for others, and self-abacation. The gains which selfishness brings are more appatient than real—they are guady gems with no intrinsic value, paste diamonds, as it were. Selfishness is a plague. It brings unhappiness and misery in its wake. It blesses no one, it curses all who come under its malign influence. PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Correct this sentence: "My husband and I argue at times, but we never quarrel." Europe's inability to understand us isn't unique. Neither do we. Courtship is a means of getting married; marriage is a means of getting acquainted. This hope springs eternal in the human breast: "Let me get mine, and deril take the rest." We now have with us a dry official named Early. Very likely he is the bird that gets the copper worm. As proof that too much money is ruinous, the father may point his son to Russia and Germany. In the old days, fewer husbands were shot. For that matter, fewer wives were half-shot. Our dictionary is an old one and defines legation as a deputation instead of a potation. Old age creeps on, and soon the war grafters will go to their graves unwept, unhonored and unhung. The easiest way to rid a minority of its wild and radideal schemes is to let it become a majority. When Greek meets Greek, somebody's dinner is spilled from the platter. Columbus died poor, being wholly ignorant of the lecture possibilities in the country he had discovered. PHONE THE Try to make headache of words from blanks: "To compute surtax on any amount come in excess of $A Find in column A which is less than the of the net income tax. Second: Find the corresponding surtax. Third: To surtax found as an amount computed as tract from the net income found in column A and remainder by the rate next line below in sum of the two amounts." The ESSEX Coach Recently Reduced $100 Genuine automobile satisfaction depends upon the performance reliability and economy of the chassis. That is a famous Essex quality. When you buy an Essex Coach you get satisfactory automobile performance as well as all closed car comforts. For All Year Use And you will be proud of your Essex Coach because of its good looks and its fittings that provide every essential utility. New Prices Lowest Ever For Essex Touring - - - $1045 Cabriolet - - 1145 Coach - - - 1145 (Freight and Tax Extra) TOWNSEND & MEDBERY, INC. G. C. GRIFFIN, MANAGER 226 So. 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Third: To the amount of surtax found as above add an amount computed as follows: Subtract from the net income the sum found in column A and multiply the remainder by the rate shown on the next line below in column B. The sum of the two amounts is the total COMMENTS OF THE PRESS WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING GOOD BUSINESS INTO GOOD ROADS (Kansas City Star) The proposal of the Missouri highway commission to speed up the road building program in the state simply calls for the handling of a big business in a businesslike way. The proposal, as expressed by Theodore Gary, chairman of the commission, in recommendations to the legislature, involves the issuing of 15 million dollars in road bonds for each of the next four years, instead of the 5 million dollars authorized by the existing road law. Under this plan, Mr. Gary points out, that it would be possible to complete the state system in four years, thus giving the state its hard roads six years earlier than is contemplated in the present program. The recommendations hold out to the state benefits of vital and far-reaching importance. No single improvement can do as much to aid the farmer, the small towns and the cities as a system of highways linking up all the counties in the state. The increased value of farm lands, city and for intercity traffic which good roads bring about are not fancies or theories; they are demonstrated facts in numerous communities and in state after state. The sooner, therefore, that good roads are available on a large scale in Missouri, the sooner will these desirable changes come. Economics involved in the shorter system of road building are convincingly enumerated by Mr. Gary. They include the saving in overhead expense, which is bound to be heavy through 10-year period; the lessened expense that is always possible where buying and contracting are undertaken on a large scale; the lower cost of supervision, and the general efficiency that may be practiced in the big enterprise more readily than in the small or piecemeal process of taking credit. FATHER, BE-PAL TO YOUR SON Berkeley (Cal.) An organized movement is on foot to interest fathers in their sens. Students of social problems are discovering that one of the principal causes of crime among boys and young men can be traced to absence of early training due to ignorance or indifference on the part of fathers. Those heading the movement for greater intimacy between fathers and sons are asking questions that have seen many good male parents to thinking more seriously of their duty to their sons. As a father, if you were asked how many hours a week do you give to your son, what would your answer be? Not one out of a hundred, probably could answer the question with any degree of accuracy, but if asked why he did not give more time to his son, any one of them could give a hundred reasons, any one of which would satisfy the father was sufficient to explain his dereliction. Most of them would say they were too busy. Too busy doing what? Attending to the business of earning a living or stacking up dollars for the boy to squander later without any knowledge or any care for the effort expended in obtaining them. If a father had to choose between giving up his business or his boy, he would undoubtedly let the business go—that is, if he were an average father. If told that he was losing his boy by too close devotion to his business, he would question your statement. But any well informed worker or police authority can prove beyond the question of a doubt that it is the neglected boy, the boy who has never been close to his father, that makes up the majority of our criminal class. Fathers who doubt this should do a little investigating... Come to Independent Battery Station for 1st class car washing. Economics involved in the shorter system of road building are convincingly enumerated by Mr. Gary. They include the saving in overhead expense, which is bound to be heavy through 10-year period; the lessened expense that is always possible where buying and contracting are undertaken on a large scale; the lower cost of supervision, and the general efficiency that may be practiced in the big enterprise more readily than in the small or piecemeal process of tackling an immense task. The fact that the commission's program would call for a slightly increased revenue through the state motor license fees is offset many times by the greater profits that would come through a highway system completed six years ahead of the original schedule. The added revenue would go for maintenance; and for this purpose there must be in sight, whether the speedy or the protracted method of building prevails. The announcement that two thousand miles of road will be under contract in the state by May 1 is enough to stir the pride of every citizen of Missouri who recalls the backwardness of the state in road building only a few years ago. What an example of good business it would be, what an eye-opener to other states, if Missouri should be enabled to put through its entire construction program in four instead of ten years. Why not let the people now on earth have the use of the roads? The program proposed by the commission no doubt will command the immediate attention of the state legislature. It is difficult to see how that program is out of line in any way with the evident sympathy of the legislature for measures of economy and for the enactment of such statutes as will insure the best welfare of the people without increased burdens of taxation. FOR CREDIT ON JAIL TERMS (Birmingham Age-Herald) A bill introduced in the Alabama Legislature providing that time served in jail by persons awaiting a decision on appeals to higher courts be credited to their prison sentences is based on humane and just considerations. Similar relief might well be applied to prisoners who are frequently held in jail for months before they are tried, some of whom are acquitted after they have practically suffered punishment for the crimes they did not commit. The way to remedy that evil is to grant a speedy trial. As for persons who have appealed to the higher courts, it is obviously unjust to keep them in prison for varying periods of time, while they are awaiting a final ruling on their cases, and then start them to serving the sentence fixed by the court. This, in effect, gives them a longer prison sentence than they would If a father had to choose between giving up his business or his boy, he would undoubtedly let the business go—that is, if he were an average father. If told that he was losing his boy by too close devotion to his business, he would question your statement. But any well informed social worker or police autohrity can prove beyond the question of a doubt that it is the neglected boy, the boy who has never been close to his father, that makes up the majority of our criminal class. Fathers who doubt this should do a little invocating before dismissing the idea as tommyrot. Fathers who make the effort to become acquainted with their sons can find great diversion and even entertainment in the new relationship. Most of them will discover a keen interest young mind in their son; some will discover reflections of themselves, their weaknesses or their better qualifications. They will learn where they can save the boy many hard knocks if they can but worm themselves into his confidence and gain his respect and admiration. But the effort of the father must be genuine and he must have the respect and admiration of the boy before he can put over advice. Winning the admiration and respect of a modern American boy is a good task for a man to set himself. It is good, not only for the boy, but for the father. In working to that end he is benefiting himself even more than the boy. If this father and son movement ever takes hold as it should, it is going to be a great thing for the whole Nation. otherwise have to serve. In some cases they might be more severely punished than their offenses warrant, or is specified by the law under which they are convicted. WE NEVER CLOSE Giving You 24 Hours Service STORE YOUR CAR WITH US ENTRANCE Next to Library or on Chestnut Street SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 17, 1923 Subscription Rate—In No. Orange-co. Per Yr. $8; Six Months $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as second class matter. PANTOMIME by J. H. Striebel NEW YORK LETTER Mrs. Anne U. Stillman is going into the millinery business. She is planning to make her own hats and to run her establishment on a wholesale basis. I can imagine that she really enjoys hat-creating, because I remember how she had all of Poughkeepsie wearing large, flappy straw hats turned up in front and adorned only with a bandana handkerchief the summer that she was there, for the hearings in her suit. They tell us now that the bandana craze came to us straight from Deauville, but it didn't; it came from Mrs. Stillman. few months, I am just about ready for a play where the people live and carry out their drama here in a city I know. For some reason, Reginald C. Van derbilt is always the object of general attention and interest. Whether it's because of his wealth and position—but scores of others have those things—or because of his interest in horses or his general good nature, or whatever it is, he is rather looked upon as a national person. Mrs. Anne U. Stillman is going into the millinery business. She is planning to make her own hats and to run her establishment on a wholesale basis. I can imagine that she really enjoys hat-creating, because I remember how she had all of Poughkeepsie wearing large, flappy straw hats turned up in front and adorned only with a bandana handkerchief the summer that she was there for the hearings in her suit. They tell us now that the bandana craze came to us straight from Deauville, but it didn't; it came from Mrs. Stillman. And with $90,000 a year all-money, it must be sheer love of hats that takes her into business. "The House," a drama of New York by Glen McDonough, has been accepted for production by Mack Hilliard, who will head a new producing organization. It will open here the end of this month. A season or so ago, people proclaimed themselves tired of plays in their own locale; but after all of the scenes in Norway, Russia, some mystic Island, and for China that I have seen and tried to understand sympathetically these last few months, I am just about ready for a play where the people live and carry out their drama here in a city I know. For some reason, Reginald C. Vanderbilt is always the object of general attention and interest. 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