oc-plain-dealer 1923-05-24

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher Hold Thou my hands, These passionate hands too quick to smite, These hands so eager for delight, Hold Thou my hands. William Canton. CALIFORNIA DEFENSES FOUND DEFECTIVE California's coast defense works are not what they should be. Secretary of War Weeks, with his first inspection after entering this state, pronounced the defenses at Fort Rosecrans, San Diego, obsolete. The official inspection up and down this coast will show fortifications to be lamentably inadequate, it is believed. This condition should receive the corrective attention of Congress without delay. So long as it is necessary, for the national safety, to maintain defenses, they should be strong enough to insure the country against successful attack. It would be folly indeed to stop short of adequacy in defenses. Why have defensive works at all, unless they are sufficiently formidable to deter potential enemies from attacking this country, and sufficiently strong to repel any foe if this country were attacked? Coast fortifications are of the utmost importance in any comprehensive scheme of national defense. For any attack upon this country by a first class power must come from the sea. Mexican authorities are proposing to clear the border cities of the gambling evil. This reform will be welcomed by the rightly disposed on this side of the border. LUTHER BURBANK GIVEN SIGNAL HONORS Luther Burbank came to California fifty years ago. He was in quest of health. He also was in search of work to keep his body and soul together while he was regaining his health. His trade was of carpentering. He began life in Santa Rosa as carpenter's assistant. Today, fifty years later, he is famous throughout the world, the most wonderful producer of plants the world has known. Santa Rosa and Sonoma County are celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Mr. Burbank's coming to Santa Rosa. Jubilees of various kinds are being held. Well LUTHER BURBANK GIVEN SIGNAL HONORS Luther Burbank came to California fifty years ago. He was in quest of health. He also was in search of work to keep his body and soul together while he was regaining his health. His trade was of carpentering. He began life in Santa Rosa as carpenter's assistant. Today, fifty years later, he is famous throughout the world, the most wonderful producer of plants the world has known. Santa Rosa and Sonoma County are celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Mr. Burbank's coming to Santa Rosa. Jubilees of various kinds are being held. Well may Californians jubilate. For the fame of this genius of plants is shared by California. Luther Burbank is a fine example of a self-made great man. He started life in obscurity. He had this ambition—to improve plants for the benefit of humanity. His contribution to the welfare of the human race are truly remarkable. He has made his ambition a devotion. Bringing into his effort that fine New England brand of conscientious effort, Mr. Burbank literally has given his life to the service of his fellow-men, denying himself the diversions which a man might take were he more selfish in his disposition. Crop reports from the orchards and grain fields of the state are encouraging. There are unfavorable conditions, here and there; but on the whole the situation is quite promising. FATHERS WERE FOES BUT SONS... ARE CLASSMATES The son of the late Maj-Gen. Frederick Funston is to be a classmate at West Point of a son of Don Emilo Aguinaldo, former insurgent leader in the Philippines. Thus does fate play queer pranks. It was the distinguished father of young Funston who affected the capture of Aguinaldo by as clever a piece of strategy and as daring an adventure as has been accomplished in modern times. The story of General Funston's feat is too fresh in the public mind to need recounting. That the sons of former foes should become cadets in America's great military academy is indicative of the rapid dissipation of enemies and the march of peaceful progress. Aguinaldo, senior, no longer is an enemy of America, but its friend. He is a pacific and wise counsellor among his people and is doing much now to foster peace between Americans and Filipinos as he once did to stir up strife and insurrectionary war. As wards of Uncle Sam, these sons of fathers who once were pitied against each other, will be trained to give patriotic defense military service to this Nation, should necessity require. The true greatness of colleges and universities cannot be gauged by the largeness of their enrollment or the big numbers in classes. The whole state should support San Francisco in its efforts to get one or both of the big national political conventions in 1924.. Advantages from having these great assemblages would affect all parts of the state, not San Francisco alone. It adds to the prestige of the whole state to have these conventions meet here. The tragedy of a schoolhouse fire in South Carolina should stir public sentiment in the smaller towns and rural communities to insist upon better protection against five in school buildings. In the larger cities as a rule, safeguards against fire are adequate, and pupils are given frequent fire drills. This never should be neglected. The Pacific Fleet is a great asset to this coast in many ways. Not The whole state should support San Francisco in its efforts to get one or both of the big national political conventions in 1924.. Advantages from having these great assemblages would affect all parts of the state, not San Francisco alone. It adds to the prestige of the whole state to have these conventions meet here. The tragedy of a schoolhouse fire in South Carolina should stir public sentiment in the smaller towns and rural communities to insist upon better protection against five in school buildings. In the larger cities as a rule, safeguards against fire are adequate, and pupils are given frequent fire drills. This never should be neglected. The Pacific Fleet is a great asset to this coast in many ways. Not only does it reassure this section and the whole country as to protection against attack by sea, but it adds greatly to the social life of this section, besides being of great material benefit. The first airship journey to the North Pole will thrill the world. But within a few years trips like this will be commonplace. Daring aviators will be hopping off frequently, in far northern latitudes, for a jaunt across the northern end of the earth's axis. The work of the California Legislature is before the people for their mature judgment. The record should be appraised open-mindedly by the people. The good should be duly commended, and anything that is below par should be criticised adversely. Should California get one of the big national political conventions in 1924, it will be another important acquisition of a kind which no doubt will be common in future. One or more of the great political gatherings eventually will be coming to California every four years. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING WHEN WESTERNERS GO EAST—Berkeley (Cal.) Gazette Frank A. Vanderlip says the "Western college man" in business in New York is superior to the Eastern college man. He would have applied his remark to Western men in general if he had not been speaking to an audience of college graduates. He explains the fact—if it is a fact—by the "natural selection theory." Only western men with sufficient initiative to face the difficulties of a business career in a strange environment, he says come east. Their pioneering tradition may help them. The early struggles of their own families may be in their favor. But whatever the reason "certainly a selective factor that operates by bringing to New York men of initiative and ability does play an important part in their success." Against the general run of eastern men, among whom there has been no such "selective process," he thinks, the western men have an advantage. If this is true, the tables are being curiously turned. It was the same sort of "natural selection", through which eastern men of unusual initiative and energy moved westward, which built up the west. That contribution from a fine, vigorous stock took a great deal out of the east. If return wave of pioneering energy is now rolling back upon the east, it is wholesome thing for the country. Plain Dealer AN ISSUE OF STATE RIGHTS AGAINST THE SUPREMACY OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION NEW YORK LEGISLATURE NATIONAL PROHIBITION STATE ENFORCEMENT LAW REPEAL FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT IS THE INVENDMENT OF FEDERAL CONSTITUTION U.S. POEMS THAT LIVE REMEMBER Remember me when I am going away, Gone far away into the silent lands When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay. Remember me when no more, day by day, You tell me of our future that you planned; Only remember me! You understand It will be too late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for awhile And afterwards remember, do not grieve; For if the darkness and corruption leave A restige of the thought that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile, Than that you should remember and be sad. —Christina Georgina Rossetti TERSELY TOLD Public health legislation began effectively in 1848. Kjerlut—Is that a clothing store 1th street. Astees had a lunar calendar of unusual accuracy. 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GRADUATION CARDS We have a very large assortment of cards ranging in price from 5c up to 50c each 25% Discount On Every Picture in Our Store Weber's Book Store 112 East Center Street THURSDAY, MAY 24TH, 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. DINNER STORIES The crowds in the stores had made hubby a little grouchy and wifey was getting a trifle peevish herself. The tide whirled them into the book department and he picked up a volume. "This book might make a suitable present," said he. "It is entitled Twenty Years a Diplomat." "Written by whom?" demanded the better half. "By some diplomat," he answered. "Uh!" she returned. "Well," he snapped, "what about it?" "I thought maybe it might have been written by some wife." Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming, chairman of the senate committee on appropriations, is serious minded. He never told a story. His pet one is this: "Several years ago, one of the committees of which I was a member had under consideration Indian heirship cases. Particulars about them were stated clearly and fully in the book of estimates and all that we had to do was folly them item by item. One senator, who must have been wool-gathering, spoke up: 'Mr. Chairman, I wish you would explain to me what in the world Indians have to do with airships.'" "Needless to say, the proverbial senatorial dignity was lost." Georges Biddle, the Philadelphia painter of Honolulu belles, said in New York the other day: "I know a Philadelphia who was recently rejected by a pretty girl. The poor chap took his rejection so hard that the girl got nervous. "I hope"—she said, "I do hope, Mr. Sinnickson, that you are not going to do anything rash." "Sinnickson grashed his teeth," according to the Pittburg Chronicle. "Rash?" he howled. "Rash? 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