oc-plain-dealer 1923-03-09

DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS The silence of the soul, where all is at rest, all silent before God, can not last long in this life; but let us at least, having spoken to God, listen for His voice. —Jacques B. Bosquet. Congress rests. Likewise the country. California climate remains in the superlative degree, year after year. All those who delight to pay income tax please say "aye." Why this deep silence? Strict obedience to law is the course which true patriotism and good citizenship dictate. Is this an economical Legislature? The legislative course at Sacramento soon will answer. They are laying the wires for the Presidential campaign of 1924. When will politics become wireless? Italy seems about to enfranchise its women. The light of the new freedom is breaking in every civilized land. The atmosphere is tortured by what they are saying by radio. There is no such thing as tranquility in the air, any more. Take romance out of life and it is as though the sweetness were taken out of honey and the fragrance out of the flower. The world needs more daylight, sunbright diplomacy. The dark, mysterious intriguing brand should be relegated. In remembering the farmer, to aid him do not forget the consumer. He DEMOCRACY SPREADING ALL OVER EARTH The last ten years has been a sorry decade for absolute monarchs. This period will rank in history among the most notable for the overthrow of absolutism in government and for the expansion of democracy. Some of the oldest and most famous dynasties in the world have been overthrown—the Hohenzollerns in Germany, the Hapsburgs in Austria-Hungary, the Romanoffs in Russia. In Turkey the Sultan practically has been deposed. China has become a republic. In Japan the government has been liberalized. In Italy, Greece and Portugal the democratizing of government has proceeded notably. The autocrat in government has been banished from the earth, it is to be hoped forever. Intelligent self-rule is being established by all civilized peoples. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" has not "perished from the earth," but, on the contrary, is flourishing everywhere. Democracy is adding to its triumphs all over the globe. TELEPHONE GROWTH IS MARVEL OF AGE Growth and expansion of telephone service in the United States, is one of the marvels of this age of marvels. One company—the Bell—has more than 14,000,000 subscribers. The gain in users during the last year was more than 600,000. This denotes widespread prosperity. More families can afford to install the service. The telephone is an indispensable factor in modern business. Its evolution has kept pace with the expansion of trade and industry and the social life of the nation. One does not realize how important the telephone is in everyday affairs, until one is cut off from the service for a few hours. Billions of calls are given, in the course of a year, and business transactions of great pith and moment hang upon the use of the telephone. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING GRAND MARCH OF ORATORY (New York Evening Post) Lamentations over the death blow inflicted upon the spoken word by he written word are again proved to be premature. Was Lincoln's birthday made the occasion for a flood of pamplts or political verse? Let the headlines answer: "Edison at Seventy-six Talks;" "Harding Says"; "Pepper Warns"; "Beveridge Assails"; "Foss Assertes"; "Coolidge. Speaking"; "Admiral Plunket Scores Navy Limit"; "Should Hold Ruhr, Says General Edwards"; "Representative Yates Says." There may have been little genuine oratory in all this speechifying, but then there is little genuine excellence of any kind in the vast mass of written words. What Lincoln's birthday showed and what Jackson Day a few weeks earlier always shows and what Washington's birthday showed is that man is still a talking animal. He may, never have been the purely economic creature which the Adam Smiths pictured or the merely political animal of Aristotle or the 100 per cent sex monster of the Freudians, but from the day when the serpent talked to Eve and Ecce talked to Adam, and God said something to both of them man, not to say woman, had been a talker. Carlyle made a plausible point when he called man a laughing animal, but man talks more than he laughs. What is stranger, he fails to laugh at much of his talk. The more obvious a speaker's remarks the mort solemnly his audience looks at him instead of bursting into a roar as it ought to do. If audiences would only keep a straight face at a speaker's poor wit and laugh at his platitudes, there might be fewer speakers, but the standard of public speaking would rise to surprising heights. White Star's "Ear-Busting" Neighbor The tanks at Parkford's Santa Fe Springs Syndicate No. 1 under an 8500-barrel rush of high-gavity oil! Wednesday night this monster roared in from the Meyer park feet from White Star No. 2. Santa Fe's newest and biggest gusher drilled out the cement ago. White Star No. 2 drills out Saturday. Just 24 days ago what that means? Production at this rate is $12,750.00 per month, or a return of $76.50 per month on Star interest. Think of that! A whole lot of people DO realize it. That's why the price Star No. 2 is moving up so swiftly on the open market. Call us for information on the well, and accurate "dope" on JORDAN & MARTIN Orange County Representatives White Star Oil Syndica Hotel Valencia DEALER Accept Monday TER, Editor EDITORIAL DING TH been a sormonarchs, history the overgovernment democracy, most famous been ormas in Geraustria-Russia. In nally has become a government by, Greece using of notably. ment has it is to gent selfall civilit of the people" earth," nourishing adding to obe. TH IS telephone is, is one of mardell—has abscribern, last year This dey, More l the serspensable its evoluexpansion the social not realphone is, ne is cut hours, In the less transmoment telephone, Abe Mallin TOWN IN REVIEW Fertile mindat grow healthy fruit, the heart will nourish it and the soul will transplant it. Adeptness often means to imitate others without originality. Passing fancy may leave a lasting sting. Your deeds are the breath on the mirror of your soul. If all that appears to be foolish notions are discouraged, simple inventions would cease. Germany, says a paper, defied the French steam roller. Yes—by lying in front of it. Spring has reached Cincinnati, O. Man arrested there for marrying twice in 11 days. EDITORS ARE ALWAYS HARD TO PLEASE No deaths, no births, nobody got married, nothing doing but visiting and ye Editor won't print that—Baker Creek correspondence, St. Paul (Ark.) Mountain Air. Before this collem gives its support to Henry Ford for president we insist on knowing whether he can play golf good enough to hodl down the job. The warden of the Mass. pen where Penal is wintering, reports his health good. If it remains so they may have to feed him soap to get a pardon, too. nA author says all that women want is contentment. If he only knew some of the girls we know! SHORT AND PITHY Any kind of wood kept perfectly dry, will not rot. Rubberized paper has recently appeared in England. About 4,800,000 axes made each year in the United States. Fur of the jack-rabbit is extensively utilized for felt hats. World's largest hotel, with 3,000 rooms, will be built in Chicago. Animal names for stars are those of animals mentioned in the Bible. Locomotives consume as high as four pounds of coal per horsepower. Hashis, the narcotic of the East, is made from parts of cultivated hemp. Nearly 5,000 people are employed in the saw industry in this country. New York was the first city of the world to have a passenger street railway. Four per cent of all babies, or 105,000 a year die in the first month. Cooling of the earth will reduce the temperature 18 degrees F in 100,000,000 years, according to Tait, late Scottish physicist. Romans as early as 500 B.C. pasted on the eyelids of blind optics hollow earthenware cups, on which eyes were painted. THE TRAGEDY OF CHRISTENDOM When a man gets tight, his morals are loose. Too many people run behind keeping up a front. Film flam the film fans. It is hard to say, but easy to do. All children develop faults. The only model child is a 1923 model. A cynic is a man who can't believe that anybody is more decent than he is. Still, you have to be a little evil-minded in order to keep yourself respectable. A wife is a person who wonders how in the world you manage to jerk off so many buttons. Some men are knightly and rescue damsels in distress, and others dodge jury service. The stars were millions of years in the making. You see, they had no press agent. About the only thing that has made a great success without a slogan is the divorce business. Once its tonic effects were advertised, yeast established new records in the making of dough. If France keeps on this way, she may lose friends; but if she gets by with it she won't need many. Business colleges teach double-entry bookkeeping. More double bookkeeping is taught by the income tax. True philosophy is the quality that makes a stout woman reach cheerfully for another piece of cake. There is something polignantly pathetic about an old maid's disapproval of the way modern girl's kim. Radio is to broadcast the roar of Niagara. And we thought all the time that was what made our sound that way. Before this collem gives its support to Henry Ford for president we insist on knowing whether he can play golf good enough to hodl down the job. The warden of the Mass. pen where Ponali is wintering, reports his health good. If it remains so they may have to feed him soap to get a pardon, too. nA author says all that women want is contentment. If he only knew some of the girls we know! Julian Eltinge, female impersonator, arrested for carrying a flask on the hip, disappointed the officers who arrested him. They probably expected to find it in his stocking. BABY The most interesting news from Europe for several weeks is the rumor that ex-Kalser Bill expects another heir. If true, and if it's a boy, the birth may be tremendously historic. For when the boy reaches manhood, about 1944, it is conceivable that the Germans might be ready for another emperor and the boy's older brothers all dead. The odds are against that. But the baby would be a big stake in the international lottery. You never can tell what any baby will grow up to be. That's half their charm. Will somebody please explain to us why an expert makes an intelligence test by asking children foolish questions? A great many men puzzle a great deal over how to make an income tax return. What puzzles us is how to pay it. A Genuine $ A. NELSON Bean Dealer Buena Park Phone—Anaheim 762-J-3 —Fullerton 178-R-1 Proof PRODUCTS Star's Resting" Labor Syndicate No. 1 are shaking off from the Meyer pay—just 450 ed out the cement three weeks y. Just 24 days apart! Rearate is $12,750.00 per day, 50 per month on each White that's why the price of White the open market. accurate "dope" on the market. RTIN resentatives Syndicate Phone 514 Proof PRODUCTS Piston Water-Spar Varnish Water-Proof Even little Miss Mischief can't harm the floor because it's finiished with Water-Spar, the durable, water-proof floor varnish that won't turn white or blister, even under boiling water. Look for the proof in our window—a varnished wood panel submerged in an aquarium month after month. Water-Spar is the long-lasting water-proof varnish for furniture, floors, woodwork. Use it everywhere. B. F. SPENCER Water Spar-Sun Proof Paints 166 W. Center St. Anaheim GLYCEROLE LOBELLA Curve Coulis Quickly. No Opines Absolutely safe for infants, children and adults. 500 and 91 bottles. Recommended and sold by Heying's Pharmacy Ask for list of JOYNER REMEDIES FRIDAY, MARCH, 9TH, 1923 Subscription Rate—In No. Orange-co. Per Ex. $8; Six Months $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anabeim, Calif., as second class matter. PANTOMIME by J. H. Striebel THE "SWEET" YOUNG THING Our half-dollar was authorized in 1752 and coinage started in 1794. Best substitute for turpentine is resin spirit. First practicable submarine boat was made by David Bushnell of Westbrook, Marne, in 1775. If the people want lower taxes, they should not elamor for large unnecessary appropriations by Congress or State Legislature. Reduced taxes will come only by cutting expenditures to the minimum, and eliminating all waste and extravagance in government, and placing governmental operations on businesslike footing. THE TRAGEDY CHRISTENDOM Free Public Lecture By Geo. F. Forsythe "Under the Auspices of L. B. S. A." 3rd Floor Odd Fellows Bldg. 133 W. Center St. 7:30 P.M. Sunday March 11 CORDIALLY INVITED NO COLLECTION A Genuine A-2 Columbia Phonograph $19.50 while they last also Columbia’s Newest Records They Have no Surface Scratch Austin Music Co. They Have no Surface Scratch Austin Music Co. 8 E. Center St. Anaheim YOU! 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