oc-plain-dealer 1923-05-26

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Whoever would be sustained by the Hand of God, let him constantly lean upon it; whosoever could be defended by it, let him constantly lean upon it; whosoever could be defended by it, let him patiently repose himself under it—John Calvin. Believing in spirit communication Sir Arthur Conan Doyle unquestionably is sincere. When a man of his standing and of the standing of Sir Oliver Lodge, and others of eminent talents, believe strongly in spiritualism, the faith that was once ridiculed becomes even more respected, even though this faith may not be accepted by the generality of mankind. Study and inquiry into things spiritual should develop many truths which have been hidden from men, because men have not put themselves in position to receive these truths. One of the most ungracious aspects of human nature is ingratitude toward Providence. Every human being receives blessings from Diety, and for these blessings there should be thankfulness. The thankful heart is treasured in Heaven. The Bible is full of allusions to the blessings which come more abundantly to those who are of thankful spirit. EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF THE PHOTOPLAY The blackboard and the textbook will be supplanted in the schools, ultimately, but the moving picture, according to views of Thomas A. Edison. The great inventor thinks that the screen is only on the threshold of its useful evolution. Visual education is to go on to amazing development, is the belief of Mr. Edison. He has made experiments himself with children, and has found that the screen gives vivid impression and leads itself admirably to educational training of children. Evolution of the film into a recognized factor in education is one of the great problems before the producers of motion pictures. The film has developed into one of the most remarkable influences of the age, touching and affecting directly millions of men, women and children. The moral quality of pictures is of the utmost importance. Not only should pictures be above question in morals, but their artistic and aesthetic values should be maintained. The most useful legislator is the one who represses all impulse to de-luge the halls of legislation indiscriminately with legislative measures. Not the number of enactments he may get is the true test Evolution of the film into a recognized factor in education is one of the great problems before the producers of motion pictures. The film has developed into one of the most remarkable influences of the age, touching and affecting directly millions of men, women and children. The moral quality of pictures is of the utmost importance. Not only should pictures be above question in morals, but their artistic and aesthetic values should be maintained. The most useful legislator is the one who represses all impulse to de-luge the halls of legislation indiscriminately with legislative measures. Not the number of enactments he may get is the true test of a legislator's service, but the quality of his measures. The people should be more insistent for quality in legislation. American envoys of good will in Mexico are telling the Mexicans some plain things as to the character of the relations which must be established between the two countries. If the United States is to give full official diplomatic recognition to the government of President Obregon, this union insists upon bona fide friendliness between the two countries of each by the other. Mexico, to be accorded full recognition, must comply with the request of the United States as to security of interests of Americans in Mexico, and equitable treatment of American claims. GRADUATES COMING BY REGIMENTS The University of California has graduated its largest class, numbering 2318. This is larger than the total enrollment of many institutions of higher learning. This exceptional turnout of graduates is impressive and significant. It indicates that the young men and the young women of today, the country over—and particularly here in California—are bent upon attaining unto the highest and best education. The number who takes college and university courses constantly is increasing. So is the number who are graduated from high schools. The impulse to go far in acquiring an education is strong. Intelligence and specialized training are keynotes of the age. The uneducated person is handicapped in many ways. He or she may be honest and of good character. But honesty and good character, per se, will not win like honesty and good character plus an education. More numbers, in graduating classes, do not necessarily signify much. It is the quality of educational training which is imparted, rather than the mere numbers given diplomas which is highly significant and impressive in the onward march of education. Support the schools generously in all their activities. See that they are provided with ample housing and adequate equipment. Memorial Day should be observed in becoming spirit. It should be the pleasure of the people to do this without special urging. The call of the Open Road is rociferous these days. Locers of Nature cannot be mistaken about it. Many of them are heeding it. It is developing that some of those who have to do with keeping the Los Angeles County Jail would not be out of place inside that institution as involuntary inmates. There is too much bad blood among owners of Pacific Coast League baseball clubs. The public would appreciate more attention given to improving the quality of the game, and less to factional wrangling. Whenever and wherever there is disaster, the American people are ready and eager to give aid. No suffering community in this land goes It is developing that some of those who have to do with keeping the Los Angeles County Jail would not be out of place inside that institution as involuntary inmates. There is too much bad blood among owners of Pacific Coast League baseball clubs. The public would appreciate more attention given to improving the quality of the game, and less to factional wrangling. Whenever and wherever there is disaster, the American people are ready and eager to give aid. No suffering community in this land goes without assistance in its hour of extremity. San Francisco is to have spirited competition in its quest of the 1924 Democratic national convention. Cleveland and New York are hard after the big political event. All loyal Californians, of whatever political faith, should support the Bay City in its efforts to get the great assemblage. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS AND SAYING WASHINGTON AS ART CENTER—New York Evening Post The opening of the Freer Gallery yesterday adds to the weight of Washington's claim that she is one of the important art centers of the Nation. That claim has until recently resided upon the Corcoran collection, which was given to the city in 1869, the same year that the Metropolitan Museum was founded and a year before the establishment of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The Corcoran Gallery began with a valuable nucleus, and its endowment was sufficient to allow the expenditure of $25,000 annually for additions. The Corcoran collection was strong in American art, and most of the income has gone for American paintings; its biennial exhibitions of contemporary paintings have been famous. But in time the capital began to fall behind larger cities whose collections benefited by more numerous gifts, until it had nothing to equal the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, Boston, or Chicago Art Institute. Simply because it is the capital it ought to stand in the van, and the rapid growth of the National Gallery, of which the Freer collection is a part, nos promises to keep it there. This increase in the number and value of American art museums is really a proud page in the country's history. Those of importance could have been counted on the fingers of one hand when the Centennial Exposition gave an impulse towards the study of art. Now even our smaller cities, such as Sacramento with her Crocker collection and Indianapolis with her Herron Art Institute, boast them. They are to be numbered not in scores but literally hundreds. It would not be fitting for Washington to fall into the ruck. Hundreds of thousands from other parts of the country visit annually while to Europeans it is an indispensable part of a tour. The National Gallery has a large American collection, and the Freer gift, with its unequalled Whistler paintings and engravings, supplements it as some of its weakest points. In spite of talk about beings ruled man side by on it. A whole day's schedule, a passenger steamer deprived benefit of taken ill till the liner re-erating takes no general look into those who along those read our them and coming to moving rrepeats we interested theror, for exeand women there in rreto the Musiof music r"music joys requires ceditors, hards and art loft up to her own injuries. I begin about the how little sufficient last drop was demo aboard one wittingly term those injured pay and makes me mean on-lookers the milder in a baggy the crowd pay any day on it immens his business crowd. I how to say ES anday bisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer PAY! PAY! PAY! ACH! WOE ASS ME!! ALLIES' REFORMATIONS DEATHS! BILLY AM-MEBBY GOOT NEWS YET FROM UNCLE SAM! U.S. BILL OF WAR CLAIMS AGAINST GERMANY- $1,479,064.313.92 POEMS THAT LIVE IT IS NOT ALWAYS MAY. The sun is bright—the air clear, The darting swallows dart and sing, The bluebird prophesying spring, So blue your winding river flows, Its seems an outlet for the sky, Where waiting till the west wind blows, The freighted clouds at anchor lie. All things are new, the buds, the leaves! That gild the elm tree's nodding crest, And even the nest beneath the eaves;— There are no birds in last year's nest! All things rejoice in youth and love The fullness of their first delight! And learn from the soft heaven above The melting tenderness of night. Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh it is not always May! Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, To some good angel leave the rest; For time will teach them soon the truth, There are no birds in last year's nest. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. NEW YORK LETTER BY LUCY JEANNE PRICE In spite of our "machine-made world", which we have come to talk about in deprecating the "good old days", when human beings ruled instead of electricity and set schedules, the human side of life seems about as strong as ever, if we check up on it. A great American liner landed here the other day, one whole day ahead of time, having clipped those 24 hours off its schedule, in a magnificent and successful effort to get a girl passenger to the hospital. Every officer and fireman on the steamer devoted himself to racing across the Atlantic for the benefit of that one passenger, Marie Hawthorne, who had been BY LUCY JEANNE PRICE In spite of our "machine-made world", which we have come to talk about in depreciating the "good old days", when human beings ruled instead of electricity and set schedules, the human side of life seems about as strong as ever, if we check up on it. A great American liner landed here the other day, one whole day ahead of time, having clipped those 24 hours off its schedule, in a magnificent and successful effort to get a girl passenger to the hospital. Every officer and fireman on the steamer devoted himself to racing across the Atlantic for the benefit of that one passenger, Marie Hawthorne, who had been taken ill two days out of Hamburg. Within half an hour after the liner reached the Twentieth street prior, she was on the operating table, and her condition is reported as favorable. The people who seem to take joy in lamenting that there is no general interest in the arts in this country would do well to look into the subject before they express themselves freely to those who are keeping close touch with our American progress along those lines. A few years ago, for instance almost no one read our musical journals, except the artists who advertised in them and music students who felt they must. Today, they are coming to be periodicals of interest to the great public. They are moving rapidly out of the class of "trade journals", and it speaks well for the whole country that this is true. I was interested the other day, in the new offices of the Musical Monitor, for example, to look over their list of new subscribers. Men and women of no possible professional interest were represented there in remarkably increasing numbers. And the contributors to the Musical Monitor are authorities of standing in the world of music and the arts, contributors who would have thought the "music journal" of the past to be outside of their realm, which requires culture and appreciation. Marie De Voe, one of the editors, has gone ahead on the assumption that this is a music and art loving country and it looks as if we were going to live up to her idea of us. I begin to believe what some of the new books are saying about the forces of personality. No matter who you are, or of how little consequence, if you just choose the right time and put sufficient conviction in your voice and manner, you can be the last drop in the solution which crystallizes results. This fact was demonstrated to me in a very simple happening. I was aboard one of the municipal buses, the driver of which had unwittingly torn off half the coat of a heedless "jay-hawker", as we term those who cross the streets in the middle of the block. The injured party was too frightened to do anything but expostulate and make futile attempts to get the number of the bus. In the meantime, there was a tie-up and the customary number of on-lookers gathered. No one seemed to know what to do, when the mildest lad I have even seen of about eighteen years, dressed in a baggy blue serge suit and a soft shirt, pushed his way thru the crowd and approached the driver and said, "go ahead". Don't pay any attention to him." As if by magic the driver stepped on it immediately, and we were off, the young man going about his business without so much as a glance at the wondering crowd. He knew his piece, and whats better, knew when and how to say it. SATURDAY, MAY 25TH, Subscription Rate—In No. Orange-co. Per Yr. $3; Six Months $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as second class matter. PARAGRAPHS By Robert Quillen And yet archaeologists find no more petrified skulls than employers. The member of the household who runs things isn't the one who runs the lawn mower. The world isn't such a bad place after all, and white shoes never are as large as they look. The movies retain their popularity in spite of every effort to prove that Hollywood isn't wicked. A Pekinese dog may be just as good in some particulars, but it does not get you a $400 tax emption. Another dangerous curve is the one above the shoe top that tempts car drivers to turn and look. Speaking of friendship, men respect the bee for two reasons: because he was a weapon mounted aft, and because they can frisk him. Now times change. In the old days only the king's messenger had the right of way privileges now enjoyed by the common truck. While he is content to sing notes he remains an optimist but, when he begins to sign them he becomes a pessimist. A boob is one who hopes to find in the magazine something as satisfyingly naughty as the picture on the cover. The intolerant Russians make it almost as dangerous to teach religion over there as it is to teach evolution over here. So live that it never will be nec- ABE MARTIN Why pick on the sugar profiteers when everthing else, "includin' a bunch o' young onions, has doubled in price? There's allus some ketch t', a cult, or anything else, where hair an' whiskers are allowed too much freedom. On Spur of Moment We will mention it once and then for the rest of the season. Now is the logical time to swat the fly. In order to please the ladies, the State auto license authorities we understand, will furnish license tags in shades to match the color of any car. They say a New York lawyer lost a case the other day and doesn't dare report it to the police. The latest dance interesting the cafe hounds is said to be the Oliver Twist. While he is content to sing notes he remains an optimist but, when he begins to sign them he becomes a pessimist. A boob is one who hopes to find in the magazine something as satisfyingly naughty as the picture on the cover. The intolerant Russians make it almost as dangerous to teach religion over there as it is to teach evolution over here. So live that it never will be necessary to carry your head high and scorn the opinions of your narrow-minded neighbors. And yet the crisis and great events of our time will figure in history only as unsettled conditions following the war. Scientists say there is no life on the moon, and it may be that it gets full once a month in a futile effort to liven things up. You can tell whether it is genuine cut glass by the way it rings when you swat a fly on it. In order to please the ladies, the State auto license authorities we understand, will furnish license tags in shades to match the color of any car. They say a New York lawyer lost a case the other day and doesn't dare report it to the police. 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