oc-plain-dealer 1923-03-12

THE ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DEALER in Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday R. W. ERNEST, Manager PAUL V. HESTER, Editor DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Thy beaven is mine—my very soul! Thy words are sweet and strong; They fill my inward silences With music and with song. —William C. Gannett. The first airship flight to the North Pole will not be made by Dr. Cook. Ohio would be pleased to negotiate a perpetual lease on the White House. Many who try to see themselves as others see them, are not flattered by what they see. While the East is blanketed in snow, California is bathed in sunshine of summer warmth. It is true yet, as it has been for a long, long time, that Turkey lives in the jealousies of Europe. It will be a long, long time, from present indications, before California becomes built up to its housing needs. Man never will be able to conquer the air completely. There are atmospheric forces which, to mankind, are unconquerable. The next Congress threatens to be deadlocked by "bloes." The usefulness of the "bloe" in legislative bodies is open to serious question. The seven-state compact for control of the Colorado River should be ratified as expeditiously as possible. Time is precious in a great project like this. There is a chance to show how broad-minded Californians can be, by agreeing upon reapportionment upon terms fair and equitable to all parts of the state. ELIMINATE MANY FROM FEDERAL PAYROLLS In the systematic effort to effect retrenchment in the cost of administrating the federal government, an important feature is the eliminating of useless employees. Nearly 100,000 have been dropped from the Nation's payroll within the last two years. And yet there are more than 500,000 left in the employ of the federal departments. Amid the strenosities and confusion of the World War period it was inevitable that a great many unnecessary employees should get into the national service. Mr. Harding's administration has taken up the task of weeding out the unneeded, and so to combine bureaucats and divisions of departments that duplication of effort may be prevented, and a reduction of working forces may be effected. In one government department—the postoffice—it has been necessary to increase rather than decrease, the number of employees and attaches. Business of the Postoffice Department increase steadily, from year to will require—additions to its working forces. But this is in the interest of the public, and is to be regarded as an essential expense, irreducible. PEACE FOR EUROPE SOON IS PREDICTED The year 1923 will see "definite restoration of peace in Europe." This is the cheerful prediction of Louis Locheur, former cabinet minister of France and regarded as being available Premier material. These words are not to be taken lightly. They come from a man of huge affairs—a man of great wealth, a captain of industry. It was M. Locheur who conferred with leading German capitalists and staved off, for a long time, the crisis over reparations. He is intimately conversant with the undercurrent of events in Europe, and our way o' short skirt coffer th' girls skirts in th' day at night. Mr. uncle's newspapar out in North Dale he lost a prairier, a small nine big soft h PUBLIC SPACE One needs bus from Southern towns to be in favorably with cues of public space. Public in The next Congress threatens to be deadlocked by "blocs." The usefulness of the "bloc" in legislative bodies is open to serious question. The seven-state compact for control of the Colorado River should be ratified as expeditiously as possible. Time is precious in a great project like this. There is a chance to show how broad-minded Californians can be, by agreeing upon reapportionment upon terms fair and equitable to all parts of the state. President Harding's visit to California, within the next few months, will be made the occasion for a fine demonstration of appreciation and esteem for the President and the man Warren G. Harding. Whatever men and women may think of Mr. Harding's policies as President, they admire his fine character and his suavity and serenity of manner. IS PREDICTED The year 1923 will see "definite restoration of peace in Europe." This is the cheerful prediction of Louis Locheur, former cabinet minister of France and regarded as being available Premier material. These words are not to be taken lightly. They come from a man of huge affairs—a man of great wealth, a captain of industry. It was M. Locheur who conferred with leading German capitalists and staved off, for a long time, the crisis over reparations. He is intimately conversant with the undercurrent of events in Europe, and his prediction that peace is coming deserves serious consideration. Perhaps a reasonably happy solution of the grave problems of Central Europe may come more swiftly than any one at present dares hope. Great movements sometimes proceed on lightning wings, although too often they move like glaciers—very slowly. In the lowering clouds may come a rift ere long. Heaven grant that this boon may be hastened. BIG WEEK IN LONG BEACH ANNUAL HARBOR INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LONG BEACH AUDITORIUM March 12 to 17 Inclusive Over 200 Display Booths in the Big Municipal Auditorium Grand Band Concert Twice Daily By Long Beach Municipal Band Elaborate Entertainment Program Daily Fashion Show Every Afternoon and Evening with Living Models and Special Music TUESDAY, MARCH 13, IS ANAHEIM DAY Don't Miss It—Excursion Rates Elaborate Entertainment Program Daily Fashion Show Every Afternoon and Evening with Living Models and Special Music TUESDAY, MARCH 13, IS ANAHEIM DAY Don't Miss It—Excursion Rates. ATTENTION FOLK Your Opportunity to Share in the Profit of BURTNETT BRUNEL PISTON VALVE WONDER MOTO AT $1.25 PER SHARE IS FAST GOING ACT BEFORE IT IS TOO LAST Demonstration and Lecture Open 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. Until Allotment for Anah CALL OR MAIL YOUR CHECK TO REPRESENT Automotive Valve Co. AT PACIFIC IMPLEMENT CO. Cor. Los Angeles & Chartres St. EDITORIAL NEW YORK Letter NEW YORK, March 12.—Anyone who has had to ride in the subways twice a day for even a month or two is qualified to speak with heartiness on the nerve devastation of its rattlesnake bang. But probably no one of those thousands have ever given a thot to the nerves of the poor guards involved in eight hours a day of it. Down in the Isle of Samar, the Philippines, is one Max Roesen, former subway guard, who has lived there as a hermit for two years, revelling in the quiet which he rushed half across the world to find. Sailors on the steamship Presno brot his story back to New York the other day. "I had no home ties in New York," he told them, "and so I was free to go anywhere, and I tell you I had to go some place that was quiet. People in New York don't think much of the subway guards, but when you get back there, tell 'em to give them all a sympathetic that once in a while when the noise seems particularly bad during a 15 minute ride." Kissing a horse doesn't seem so tremendously disorderly to me. I did it often as a child. But things are different in a city, it seems. Anyhow, Patrolman Wandling thinks so, and preferred that charge against James Ryan whom he saw administer the kiss to a gentle steed. Trial marriage is not new in theory, but we haven't yet quite come to it as a matter of practice. Trial separation, on the other hand, never has been much talked of and here it is as an actual fact. Emma West- PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) The last words of some of our famous men are too long delayed. The boys down on the farra include those who control Wall Street. They call it the Dearborn Presidential boom, but no doubt they mean still-born. The smaller the town, the less is required to produce a violent case of swell head. Germany and France couldn't feel more suspicious of one another if they were allies. The thing that impresses the layman is not the king in that Egyptian tomb, but the jack. Home is a place where you stumble over children's shoes at night. Next time the nations will know enough to require enlistments for the duration of the peace. About the only thing that can be raised in all agricultural sections is the interest rate. It was Adam's conscience that hurt when he ate the apple. So of course it wasn't a green apple. The pulling of teeth is less barbarous, but the dentists show little sympathy when they pull your leg. A man may be proof against all other flattery, but his vanity wiggles with delight when you ask his advise. The world isn't really growing better. It just seems that way because fewer people pronounce it "athaletics." PUBLIC SPIRIT MUCH IN EVIDENCE HERE One needs but look over the news from Southern California cities and towns to be impressed deeply and favorably with the manifold evidences of public spirit in this virile section. Public improvements almost without number, and of diverse form, are being made. And building of homes, construction of business blocks and opening and intensive development of agricultural and orchard lands is going forward in phenomenal volume. Every community has it live-wire, hustling civic and promotional organizations. These are doing excellent service to Southern California. They are wideawake and ceaselessly vigilant in promoting and upbuilding. This city is in the van of these progressive communities. Evidences of growth and expansion and wholesome development are numerous here. Britain's bye-elections to Parliament are in the nature of good-bye elections to the British ministry. Bonar Law is having trouble, just as David Lloyd had his troubles. Murders increase startling. The number of brutal crimes is horrifying. Definite, determined steps to check this plunging into desperate criminality should be taken without delay. Secret diplomacy should be ushered to the world's outer door and put out. Diplomacy should be honest, sincere, straightforward. Diplomatic relations of this character would be conducive to peace. Airship flights to the Poles may be as common, twenty-five years hence, as automobile trips to the Yosemite are today. Aeronautics is destined to develop phenomenally as it has in the last few years. Railroads built from the United States into Mexico and linked up with Mexican lines are "hooks of steel" which bind the two countries securely in bonds of amity, good will and mutual interests. The American educational system is far from perfect. But it can be and should be carried forward steadily toward perfect. Parents and guardians can and should assist in this educational forward-moving. The rudiments of civil government should be taught in the schools and homeshomes of the land. The rights and duties and responsibilities and glorious privileges of citizenship should be impressed upon every boy and girl. Kissing a horse doesn't seem so tremendously disorderly to me. I did it often as a child. But things are different in a city, it seems. Anyhow, Patrolman Wandling thinks so, and preferred that charge against James Ryan whom he saw administer the kiss to a gentle steed. Trial marriage is not new in theory, but we haven't yet quite come to it as a matter of practice. Trial separation, on the other hand, never has much talked of and here it is as an actual fact. Mrs. Emma Westfleming sued for separation recently and the other day, Supreme Court Justice Thompkins granted it but only as a trial. A trial separation of one year was his decision, with strong recommendation that within that time, the couple become reconciled. For many years, Mrs. Ellen Corcoran, a sturdy, cheery-faced little Irishwoman sold papers down in Park Row in front of the Pulitzer Building. She never missed a day, so far as anyone can remember, regardless of the weather overhead or underfoot. Recently she died and now in the Surrogates Court, a battle is on among relatives for the $80,000 estate she left behind. "The Adding Machine," the next production of the Theatre Guild, will open next week. Dudley Digges will have the leading role with Helen Westley. Edgar Stehl and Irving Dillon in the cast. Deems Taylor, whose music added so much to "Will Shakespeare" has written the incidental music for the production. The settings are by Lee Simonson. The "religious engineer" is the latest profession. Rev. Charles E. Bruglier, of Greece Church, Brooklyn, is establishing a religion laboratory, in which he will try to solve spiritual and theological problems by the scientific research method. Several churches have applied for service from his research bureau. "Everything that touches mankind" is the wide-spreading field which he says will be covered by his work. A Seventh-ave motion picture theatre is distributed in its faith in human nature and in its desire always to be fair with the public. The other evening during a performance, a small fire broke out in the projection room. There was no danger to the theatre but the pictures would be interrupted; of course, and eventually smoke would filter into the auditorium. So the situation was explained and the audience asked to stop at the box office and get its money back. The Theatre holds 100 people. Three hundred called at the box office for their money! An old-style diplomat is one who thinks the stork's chief business is to equip the world with buck privates. After eight weeks the bride can detect any lie except the one to the effect that his love hasn't grown less. Progress is just a slow business of wiping out the debts and national boundaries left by an earlier generation. Jackie Coogan may be the only small boy who is greater than his parents. But he isn't the only one that feels greater. Correct this sentence: "There are 3,865,432 public servants in America, none of whom has violated the Prohibition law." Plain Dealer Want Ads Get Results To th Go Millions of dollars is the price Santa Fe Springs or Signal Hill Thousands of dollars for an access less than two years ago. Again and again has this story the "tremendous rewards" posited in now, ahead of the drill, in th The American educational system is far from perfect. But it can be and should be carried forward steadily toward perfect. Parents and guardians can and should assist in this educational forward-moving. The rudiments of civil government should be taught in the schools and homeshomes of the land. The rights and duties and responsibilities and glorious privileges of citizenship should be impressed upon every boy and girl. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS SCHOOL SYSTEM ON TRIAL San Francisco Chronicle A convocation of university professors, business men, Boy Scout workers, labor leaders and others met at the Commercial club the other day and discussed the virtues and shortcomings of our educational system below university grade. Among the questions asked were those in respect to the effect of the social life of the high schools in producing clerks rather than industrial workers; what commercial schools are worth in fitting young men for commerce; and whether the night schools were a "menace" in luring pupils away from the high schools. No conclusions seem to have been formulated, nor do we desire to formulate any here. We allude to the meeting only to draw attention to the fact that from the kindergarten to the degree of doctor of philosophy there is a growing tendency, possibly determination, to inquire very closely into just what the people are getting for what costs them so much. The crucial test of an educational system supported by public money is the extent to which it fits those who pass through it for better and more useful citizenship. Where do we get our money back? Properly directed, the work of a school system should make those who pass through it so much more effective members of society that their better service and increased production shall more than make good to society, in actual cash, all that has been spent on them. Is it doing that? Uncle Sam is not disposed to be a hermit, on the one hand; nor, on the other hand, is he disposed to mix too familiarly in the affairs of other nations. MONDAY, MARCH, 12TH, 1923 Subscription Rate—In No. Orange-co. Per Yr. $3; Six Months $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as second class matter. GRAPHS PANTOMIME by J. H. Striebel "The Horrid Old Thing" SATURDAY NIGHT SUNDAY NIGHT WISE AND WITTY When sweat of brow evaporates, it leaves its benefits behind. Mind's capacity depends on itself. One who applies the lash too heavily on others may have to face the rebound. If there was no luck every acci- The faster a man travels the bigger will be his expense account. The arm of your Nenmesis is as long as the depth of your fall. BREAK 'EM UP QUICK COLD, GRIP, INFLUENZA CAPSULES [Horner] WISE AND WITTY When sweat of brow evaporates, it leaves its benefits behind. Mind's capacity depends on itself. One who applies the lash too heavily on others may have to face the rebound. If there was no luck every accident would be a tragedy. Washington reports that prohibition will cost $30,000,000 this year. Why, that's almost as much as the bootleg booze will cost. The faster a man travels the bigger will be his expense account. The arm of your Nenmesis is as long as the depth of your fall. BREAK 'EM UP QUICK COLD, GRIP, INFLUENZA CAPSULES [Joyner] No (pins or hibit-forming brushes) 50¢ per Recommended and sold by Heying's Pharmacy Ask for list of JOYNER REMEDIES INCOME TAX ROY N. MENDOZA 200 SO. LOS ANGELES ST. Go the Pioneers! Go the Profits of dollars is the price you would pay today for 2000 acres of proven land in either Springs or Signal Hill. of dollars for an acre, that could have been bought for a few hundred, at the most, two years ago. again has this story been told. You know—we all know, that the "big profits," tremendous rewards" possible in oil, come from a discovery well on large holdings. Get ahead of the drill, in the new district. 87½% of All The Oil From 2120 Acres Dasco-Shafter District — Kern County of dollars is the price you would pay today for 2000 acres of proven land in either Springs or Signal Hill. of dollars for an acre, that could have been bought for a few hundred, at the most, two years ago. and again has this story been told. You know—we all know, that the "big profits," tremendous rewards" possible in oil, come from a discovery well on large holdings. Get ahead of the drill, in the new district. 87½% of All The Oil From 2120 Acres Dasco-Shafter District — Kern County The Main Oil Company Offers You 87½% of All the Oil from 2120 Big Acres Western Kern County—a county which has produced over three quarters of a billion (2000) barrels of oil to date. And offers you— statement consisting of, among others, T. H. Minor, who for over 20 years has been drilling in California; the man who brought in the famous "25 Hill" discovery well in the Field; the man who paid the investors who backed him hundreds of per cent profit. ers you— T PAR $1.00 PER SHARE A real chance to share in those "big oil profits" you know come from a discovery well on thousands of acres. It is a speculation, but our own money is backing the finest geological reports we could get. There is oil there now. In fact, in digging water wells at a shallow depth, oil was found in several places on the property. It looks like a cinch, and if we hit, just think of 2120 acres, and think of what a hundred or so invested now will be capable of returning you. "Big profits" is the word. Main Oil Co. Citizens' Bank Building, Los Angeles Phone 820-938 Main Oil Company of California, 437-8 Citizens' Bank Bldg. Without any obligation whatsoever, tell me more about the Main Oil Company. Name Street and Number