oc-plain-dealer 1923-05-28

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Nothing without nor within should cause any fear to the child of God. By faith the wilderness can become the suburbs of Heaven, and the woods the restibule of glory.—C. H. Spurgon. STATUS OF BUILDING IS PROSPERITY KEY The building industry is the governing influence in the economic life of the country at this time, experts hold. As one authority on building conditions expresses it, "upon the intelligence, team work and vision of American builders now depends the immediate continued prosperity of the Nation." Something must be done, it is generally agreed, to keep the cost of building down, or a "buyers' strike" will be invited. If this year is tided over without a serious slump in building construction, there is every reason to believe that improvement in foreign trade will carry the country along in continued prosperity. It is a time for the exercise of sound business judgment in these things. By foresighted co-operation and unselfish consideration for the general welfare, this year may find the building industry without a serious slump, but moderated so as to bring down the cost of construction, which rapidly is becoming prohibitive. Memorial Day, by common consent and concurrence should be observed with the utmost respect and reverence. Which mean that all festivities, sports and boisterous pastimes should be eliminated from the observance of the day. BUSINESS IS ON SOUND BASIS IN GENERAL The Nation's business is on basis of sound prosperity. Such is the finding of high officials of the War Finance Corporation. They have toured the country and they find conditions very satisfactory everywhere. Not only is prosperity actually being experienced, but the people are in confident mood. The country's business psychology is quite favorable. A vast deal depends upon this psychology. So long as the people maintain a cheerful, optimistic frame, the pitfalls of the economic pathway will not catch them. Prosperity is won and held oftentimes through BUSINESS IS ON SOUND BASIS IN GENERAL The Nation's business is on basis of sound prosperity. Such is the finding of high officials of the War Finance Corporation. They have toured the country and they find conditions very satisfactory everywhere. Not only is prosperity actually being experienced, but the people are in confident mood. The country's business psychology is quite favorable. A vast deal depends upon this psychology. So long as the people maintain a cheerful, optimistic frame, the pitfalls of the economic pathway will not catch them. Prosperity is won and held oftentimes through sheer confidence and faith on the part of the people. Without confidence no state of thriving would endure long. In truth, a state of confidence is the condition upon which all genuine prosperity is predicated. Going forward, in good faith, optimistic as to the present and the future of business and industry, the American people, by exercising good sense and prudence, may hope for the continuance of prosperous conditions for an indefinite period. Stanley Baldwin finds that forming a cabinet is no child's play. The West will greet President Harding as he wishes to be greeted. There are some so-called Americans who are less American in spirit than some foreigners who are in this country. There are spots in California which would be positively beautiful if the signboards were removed so they could be seen. Giving kindly, helpful service to others redounds to one's own happiness in life. There is no real pleasure in selfishness. When will the blessed day dawn when Clara Phillips' name will not be heading the columns of the first page of the newspapers? War never again should be the sport of kings and ambitious schemers. The common people in every land should control the issues of war and peace. When the outgo looks down defiantly on the income, from a higher level, there is trouble brewing for the producer of the income and of the outgo. Conquests of the air are common and notable. Developments in aeronautics are astounding. Today's near-miracle becomes tomorrow's common-place feat. It is the open season for tornadoes, "back yonder," and they are gruesome busy. It's a dull day, climatically, when one or more of these visitations is not reported. California's per capita wealth is the greatest of any state in the Union, according to income tax payments and other federal revenue receipts. This is a distinction of which to be proud. Violence is out of place in industrial disputes—a development in American industrial life which should be discouraged by the law-biding elements of labor itself, as well as by the general public. Loss of life by fire in Mexiculi denotes the presence, in the California's per capita wealth is the greatest of any state in the Union, according to income tax payments and other federal revenue receipts. This is a distinction of which to be proud. Violence is out of place in industrial disputes—a development in American industrial life which should be discouraged by the law-biding elements of labor itself, as well as by the general public. Loss of life by fire in Mexicali denotes the presence, in the border town, of dangerous firetraps. Had buildings there been of construction less inflammable, the tragedy would not have been so great. Beware swindlers. They come in many guises. They deal in many and diverse things. Their words are honey. Their arguments and representations seem to be sound, on the face of them. But they will not bear investigation. Invest in nothing until and unless you have investigated it thoroughly and have sought competent advice. American commercial interests are said to be neglecting trade opportunities abroad, in that they do not fill foreign orders, however pressing, but cater to domestic trade. This policy, persisted in, would lose a vast deal of profitable trade. Foreign market openings should be nurtured it would seem, for the permanent upbuilding of American trade abroad. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS AND SAYING TIRES ARE SHRINKING Berkeley (Calif.) Gazette Thirteen years ago the tire made as standard for a much used car was 36 by 3½. Now it is 30 by 3½. In those days tires 30 by 4, 40 by 4 and 44 by 5½ were common. Automobile drivers felt the need of all tires they could get under them, and tire-makers supplied the larger sizes as a matter of course. Now the trend is toward ever smaller sizes, even on the highest priced cars, and there is talk of smaller wheels. Some automotive engineers predict that 18-inch rim diameters are in sight, while most agree that 20 inches will presently be regarded as ample. Good roads have done it. Within the period 1910-1923, more than six billion dollars has been spent in road improvement in the United States, and every year sees a greater volume of work to this end. The fact of the matter is that we ride on smoother pavements than we used to know, and what we spend for paving and surfacing, we save in comfort and tire costs. The trend toward smaller cars is apparent, too. It is hardly to be expected that the American public will some day ride in such diminutive automobiles as are popular in every European land, with a 3-foot tread pattern seating. That cannot be looked for until the last of our improved roads are gone, for a car with narrow tread could never venture into highways accustomed to farm wagons. There is how driving for rakiishers of appearance which tends always to a decrease in size and weight. A smaller wheel will not hurt any automobile's balance and better highways will make it run as well as any larger one. PLAIN DEALER THE ORANGE COUNTY M Subscribe Entere "HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN!" ONCE A POPULAR GOD--NOW THEY WANT TO "OUTLAW" HIM LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS INDORSE "WORLD COURT" PLAN TO PROMOTE PEACE AND OUTLAW WAR! GOD OF WAR NEW YORK LETTER (By LUCY JEANNE PRICE) NEW YORK, May 28—For generations wealthy men and their secretaries have been trying to find some form of acknowledgement of begging letters which would dampen the ardor of the senders and quell their efforts to reach them. Mere refusals are vain. They lead to more efforts at interviews in order to argue the case. One New York business man who is a philanthropist as well, seems to have hit upon the most effective plan known to date. He cannot subscribe to every charity, personal and public. And so this is the letter he sends to those which he classifies as the less deserving: "Dear Sir: I have your letter of such a date. It gives me just the information I want. Yours very truly." The letter is so disturbing if there is any fakery in the request, so mystifying in any event, that it works like a charm. Its recipients have been silenced completely. Sex distinction has at last been done away with in the Hall of Fame at New York University. When the first elections to this coveted honor were made in 1900, it was apparently assumed that famous people must be masculine. No provision was made for women. Four years later, our status had so changed that it became necessary to take notice of the greatest of us and a separate Hall of Fame was decided upon for women's adjoining that for men. Finally, it was impressed upon the trustees that even this was not in keeping with the trend of the times, and new tablets have been cast to be placed in the main hall. The unveiling of these seven tablets to women will take place late this month. The seven honored women are Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Lyon, Emma Willard, Alice Freeman Palmer, Frances Willard, Marie Mitchell, and Charlotte Cushman. A poor lost dog succeeded in drawing a crowd of a thousand people the other day down at City Hall Park, by the peaceable and passive act of sitting in a taxi driver seat. For one hour and forty-five minutes, he sat there, a lonely --HERE AND THERE-- (By GEORGE G. BENEDICT) Too much leisure is a hot-bed for mischief. Gold and silver are the approved medium of barter and many a man will sell his soul for it. Do not expect success to come to you but trap it when you meet it. Access is readily gained to the chambers of contentment, not by contention but by desire. Were it not for the observance of outward decency many a man would run wild. The pitfall's lure is yawning deep, Then gauge its depth before you leap. We may expect more optimistic news from Europe now. The annual flock of American tourists is just beginning to arrive. for women's adjoining that for men. Finally, it was impressed upon the trustees that even this was not in keeping with the trend of the times, and new tablets have been cast to be placed in the main hall. The unveiling of these seven tablets to women will take place late this month. The seven honored women are Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Lyon, Emma Willard, Alice Freeman Palmer, Frances Willard, Marie Mitchell, and Charlotte Cushman. A poor lost dog succeeded in drawing a crowd of a thousand people the other day down at City Hall Park, by the peaceable and passive act of sitting in a taxi drivers seat. For one hour and forty-five minutes, he sat there, a lonely but determined collie, which had jumped to the seat when the driver left his taxi for a moment. The combined efforts of the chauffeur and two policemen were in sufficient persuade him to leave. Finally, his master appeared from somewhere and with a tremendous bark, he jumped down and trotted happily away. I like the Equity Association. Not only does it stand for the best principles in the conduct of the American stage as concerning the most important element in the theatre, the actor, but it also gives nice parties. The Maytime Revel staged the other night at the Astor was one of the loveliest events of my experience. Everyone whom you have loved on the stage and screen was there to push and nudge you while you were all crowding up alike to see the splendid entertainment provided by the artists playing in town, gathered around the Maypole in the ballroom massed with peach blossoms. It is rare for these people who give us all so much enjoyment to get together for their own enjoyment, and even then, they had to be crowded out by society, the curious, and the press. It would read too much like a super-circus program to recount the names, but the Equity Queen, Ethel Barrymore presided as only such a queen could. Her ladies and courtiers, numbered the oldest and the youngest, and all with the youth which remains to the happy job. Rose Coghlan vied with the delectable Peggy Wood; Alice Brady was anything but the pathetic heroine we so often see, while Mae Murray was seen in earnest and serious moments with those welcoming her on Broadway. It was my most beautiful party. Speaking of the Equity party, no one in or out of the profession planned on it as did Ernest Almless. He even went shaving in the morning in order to be particularly pretty for it in the evening. No one goes to the Equity ball until after the theatre and Earnest, bent on an all night spree, thought it the better part of discretion to steal a few winks after dinner in order to be his brightest and best self. His downy couch proved too much, for the next thing he knew his illuminated wrist watch told him that it was ten minutes after two. Dauntless Airmless, that he is, he hied himself out and still brags that he got there in time for the two-thirty program of Cortez and Peggy, the dancers. You may be sure he shaved. Nowhere on this troubled globe is it dangerous for a woman, even a young woman, to travel alone, declares Anna Herald Lindsey, 24 years old, of Johnnesburg, South Africa, who has been twice around the world having covered 76,000 miles in her travels by land and sea, and she explains that she never encountered any difficulties, because "a woman's personal conduct is her protection." MONDAY, MAY 28TH, 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. PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) We thought for a little while that winter had gone in for this non-stop craze. An undeveloped people is one that has to depend on natural causes for its death rate. A country full of filling stations has a lot of nerve to complain of Chinese bandits. In the spring an office man's faney lightly turns to thoughts of the chicken business. The fitneys he has made probably won't bring Ford as much support as the enemies he has made. Most of the No. 13 collars are worn by men whose wives have taught them to call a vase a "vaws". Bad news and bad eggs have one thing in common. They should be broken gently. A youth is preparing to amount to something when he begins to wonder why his mother is proud of him. It is to be noted, however, that these decisions against the Drys afford much more hope than hootch. It takes two men to make ambition: one to dream dreams, and another to inspire the envy that causes the dreams. An Ambassador interprets America to foreigners, but there is nobody to interpret the Ambassador to home folks. There was a time when only the bold and naughty went in for chemical lovliness, but now even the good dye young. The difference between humility and servility is that one is inspired ANAHEIM Rejoice, ye citizens, rejoice, For this, our beauteous home sub-lime. And sing its praise with loudest voice Anaheim! Our Anaheim. Thou reared of man; thou blest of God; Thou lily of wealth-laden clod; Memorial of sod. Unequaled Anaheim! fair Anaheim. Thy name is heard the world around; Anaheim! Great Anaheim! From coast to coast let it abound; Anaheim! Oh Anaheim. Thy famous fruits of flaming gold; Thy tons of nuts a million-fold For record price are sought and sold Anaheim; great Anaheim. Send forth thy products to the world; Anaheim! Oh Anaheim! And let thy banner be unfurled; Anaheim! Oh Anaheim! A banner of progressive zeal; Of honest toll for constant weal; Thine aspirations to reveal; Anaheim! Great Anaheim. Within thy bounds we dwell secure; Anaheim! Dear Anaheim. No ill of climate to endure; Anaheim; Dear Anaheim. No frost to blight; no sleet and snow To mar the season's come and go; Each day a day of sunny glow In Anaheim. Our Anaheim. Thy new-built homes—in spotless white; Anahelm! Our Anahelm! With portals wide the world invite; Anahelm, to Anaheim. They come to see; decide to stay And those who do remain alway. A welcome waits for all who may, In Anahelm. Our Anahelm. Smile thou on us, Almighty God. It takes two men to make ambition: one to dream dreams, and another to inspire the envy that causes the dreams. An Ambassador interprets America to foreigners, but there is no body to interpret the Ambassador to home folks. There was a time when only the bold and naughty went in for chemical lovliness, but now even the good dye young. The difference between humility and servility is that one is inspired by a warm heart and the other by cold feet. Americans may be rather provincial, but how can mere world problems interest a man whose home team has dropped three in a row? Much of the kicking is occasioned by the fact that a gallon of fruit juice will remain innocuously virtuous without two pounds of sugar. It may be that the stock exchange was born of necessity, as that economist says. But it was born just once, and it lives on those who are born every minute. Our great problem is not production, but distribution. This strikes a bald man with peculiar force every time he shaves. Another explanation is that the people's representatives have no definite instructions, while the lobbyists have. Correct this sentence: "I would have your good will," said Colonel Harvey, "but not at the price of flattering you." JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE "Sure I killed my husband," said the fair defendant. "Didn't I go home and find him cleaning his pipe with my gold hatpin?" "Not guilty," screamed the twelve jurywomen unanimously. 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