oc-plain-dealer 1923-05-30

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS I do not know, the subtle secret of the snow, That hides away the violets till April teaches them to blow, Enough for me—their tender loincliness to see, Assured that little things and large—fulfilled God's purpose equally. Mary Bradley. PRESIDENTS DIRECTLY FROM PEOPLE The people are coming nearer to direct nomination and direct election of President of the United States. In several states there are Presidential preference primaries. There will be a national primary, ultimately, wherein adherents of each and every political party may express their choice for nominees of their respective parties. Then will come direct election of Presidents, with the electoral college—long obsolete—eliminated altogether. The people will vote directly for President and the majority, or plurality of popular votes will win each election. The process of choosing the President of the United States should be as democratic as possible. The choice should come from the people, by direct franchise, without any intermediary process or body to determine the result. It is just as simple, in a way, to elect the President by direct vote, as it is to elect a constable or an alderman. The field and scope of the Presidential election is just larger and more impressive, that's all. The process is the same and the method is simple. General Obregon has done more to parify Mexico and to give it good government than any political leader since Porfiro Diaz. And General Obregon is instituting reforms, which Porfiero Diaz did not undertake. The present administration in the city of Mexico has its faults. But it is infinitely better than the bloody regimes of the last few years. GREAT CARE WITH FIRE NEEDED NOW The time of great danger of fires is at hand. Being extremely careful with fire is indicated as the wise course for all. In the forest reserves especial attention should be given to extinguishing all fires made by campers or hikers. Lighted matches or cigar or ciragette stubs should not be thrown carelessly. In the fields, vacant lots and occupied premises at or near home the same precise care should be exercised. Refuse and inflammable matter should be gathered up and burned under watchful supervision when there is no wind. Dry grass and weeds should be cut down and burned. A vacant lot covered with dry grass and inflammable matter is a standing GREAT CARE WITH FIRE NEEDED NOW The time of great danger of fires is at hand. Being exremely careful with fire is indicated as the wise course for all. In the forest reserves especial attention should be given to extinguishing all fires made by campers or hikers. Lighted matches or cigar or ciragette stubs should not be thrown carelessly. In the fields, vacant lots and occupied premises at or near home the same precise care should be exercised. Refuse and inflamable matter should be gathered up and burned under watchful supervision when there is no wind. Dry grass and weeds should be cut down and burned. A vacant lot covered with dry grass and inflamable matter is a standing menace. There should be thoughtful cooperation in efforts to prevent disastrous fires. California will have this augmented risk during each recurring dry season. It is well for adults to acquire the habit of using prudence with fire and to teach the children to do the same. Politics in Britain has complications not to be found in this country. Line of cleavage among political parties over there oftentimes is not so pronounced as in the United States. There is more of the coalition spirit and process than in this country. KEEP POLITICS ON HIGH PLANE Much criticism and lamentation are heard, at times, about the low standing in politics in the country. Some of this criticism is doubtless just. But the critics too often do not look to the proper source for the cause of the low standards. Truth is the people themselves are blameworthy. Let them fume and grumble and charge it to scheming politicians all they may, but the power lies with them to regulate and to control these things. Political standards will be as high and good as the people can make them; or they will become as low in quality as the people permit them to be. The people make or unmake ideals and methods in politics. They can control the politicians. They can stop all questionable processes. The people are all-powered in these things. IMMIGRANTS COMING, UP TO LIMIT Immigration to the United States is to be as heavy this year as the restriction law permits. The number coming in will exceed last year's record by some one hundred and fifty thousand. About four hundred and fifty thousand alien newcomers are expected to enter this country before the fiscal year ends June 30. Prosperity is bringing them. It is ever so. A period of thriving, in the United States, attracts to this country great numbers of immigrants. On the other hand, a period of depression and hard times takes many aliens from this country back to their native soil. The story of the prevailing good times in this country has sifted through to Europe and it is luring many to seek their fortunes on this side of the Atlantic. Limitation upon immigrants will be maintained. There should be reasonable restriction. This country cannot safely admit aliens indiscriminately and in unlimited numbers. To do so would be to invite social and economic disaster. No sport or postime is worthy of public confidence and support unless it be clean and honorable. Spain is threatened with revolution. King Alfonzo's throne is anything but secure. The Spanish people are ripe for revolt. Spain is one of the few monarchies left in Europe. Overthrow of the dynasty at Mad Limitation upon immigrants will be maintained. There should be reasonable restriction. This country cannot safely admit aliens indiscriminately and in unlimited numbers. To do so would be to invite social and economic disaster. No sport or pastime is worthy of public confidence and support unless it be clean and honorable. Spain is threatened with revolution. King Alfonzo's throne is anything but secure. The Spanish people are ripe for revolt. Spain is one of the few monarchies left in Europe. Overthrow of the dynasty at Madrid would be hailed with satisfaction by republicans, the world over. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING CURBING THE DRUG EVIL—New York Evening Sun There should be just one result of the Porter resolution, signed by President Harding last week, which asks the State Department to negotiate with foreign governments for curtailment of the production of the habit forming drugs. It should bring about a closed co-operation with the League advisory committee on the drug traffic. This body, composed of experts who have devoted their lives to the drug problem, and authorized by all nations belonging to the League, with Germany in addition, to supervise the execution of the Hague opium convention of 1912 and other international agreements upon drug traffic, is carrying out a carefully planned program. Our government went so far last December as to appoint former Surgeon General, Blue as delegate to the committee conference in January but he went only as an observer. If the United States tries to launch an independent program of drug control it will disrupt the program now being developed. If it forgets its silly fears of the League name it can do much to make that program an early success. It need not be said that only a world-wide effort can control the international trade in drugs, and the United States, which initiated the Hague conference on the subject, should be first to appreciate the fact. The common idea that most of the opium comes from India and that the British government could stamp out the trade if it chose is ridiculously erroneous. China, where opium growing has recommenced on a large scale since the civil war began, was declared by the India office in 1922 to be producing seven times as much as India. Persia was then exporting one third more than India, and Turkey normally exports as much Indian production has long been carefully limited and the limitations should be increased. But the true goal is better control of the export and import trade of the different nations and restriction of the manufacture of medicinal opium, morphine, cocaine, heroin, and other preparations. The manufacturers should be held within close limits and international shipments permitted only between authorized agents. RES Sunday Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer "These Heroes Are Dead. They Died for Liberty—They Died For Us." Run Red With Other Wars—They Are at Peace. —Memorial Day NOW emely careful t reserves es ade by camp should not ear home the nable matter when there burned. A is a standing event disasting each rebit of using this country. times is not the coalition E out the low is doubtless source for the s are blameening politie and to conple can make permit them politics. They sole processes. MIT year as the last year's hundred and country before of thriving, in immigrants. takes many story of the Europe and if atlantic. should be reaens indiseriminvite social support unhrone is anySpain is one POEMS THAT LIVE A CHILD'S LAUGHTER All the bells of heaven may ring—All the birds of heaven may sing, All the wells of earth may spring—All the winds on earth may bring All the sweet sound together—Sweeter far than all things heard. Hand of harper, tone of bird—Sound of woods at sun-down stirred. Welling water's winsose word—Wind in warm wan weather. One thing get there is, that none—hearing its chime be done. Knows not well the sweetest one—Heard of man beneath the sun, Hoped in hearen hereafter;—Soft and strong and loud and light, Very sound of very light;—Heard from morning's rosiest height, When the soul of all delight—Fills a child's laughter. —Algernon Swinburne FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT Paris, May 26.—She was known among her friends in New York as Jeanne. She had talent and when she sailed for that mysterious city, Paris, they all wished her success. CHAL NEW YORK LETTER (By LUCY JEANNE PRICE) Captain Irving Patrick O'Hay will have no more difficulty in "eating between ware". Captain O'Hay who is a soldier of fortune and hies himself away to various corners of the world whenever a war looms on that special horizon, happened to remark soon time ago that hod to eat between wars was his chief difficulty in life. Fortunately that casual and plaintive remark some time ago that how to eat between wars was his city, and at a dinner the other night, they presented the roaving and militant captain with a gold card which will enable him to gather food at any time at any one of the 380 restaurants owned by the organization members. Whether long skirts and the fading away of the flapper has anything to do with a general return to the last century, I do not know. But it is nevertheless true that right here is this center of sophistication, the latest sport among men is pitching horseshoes. In twelve Manhattan parks, the city horse-shoe pitching championship is about to be decided. The contestants are divided into two classes, boys under twenty-one and men from twenty-one to 100 years. If this doesn't presage another "Age of Innocence", I don't know what would. There is a particular flair of interest in the fact that our leading lay authority on transportation in this country is a man who traveled 2,110 miles in a prairie schooner before he ever rode on a train. It is Samuel O. Dunn, once of Pratt, Kansas, now of this city, author of three authoritative books on the railroad question, used as college textbooks. Evidently the U. S. Navy has decided that disarmament is going to work, and has settled itself down to looking for other unpeaceful occupations. One of its captains has chosen play-writing. "Not So Fast", by Captain Conrad Westervelt is the latest comedy to see the light of Broadway. It is an intelligent, clever drama and proves that a life of discipline does not dull the imagination. Taylor Holmes plays the leading role, that of a picturesque Kentuckian. His supporting cast is good. Police Inspector Sackett has ordered cheesecloth draperies to be placed on several statues in front of a Coney Island concession and the owner has in consequence painted their faces all rose and cream-colored. "Plain plaster is all right for the face of a statue he explained." But when you have clothes on it, it isn't a statue any more. It's a model of a human being, so those white faces wouldn't do, I got to make 'em look like human beings now." They don't exactly, even now, but Coney Island's art and propriety both seem satisfied with the result. WEDNESDAY, MAY 30TH, 1923 Subscription Rate—In No. Orange-co. For Yr. $8; Six Months $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as second class mailer. PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Crisis: The deadlock that ensues when two diplomats grab for the same plum. A man never knows what real happiness is till he falls in love, and then it is too late. Philosophy, as a general thing, is just the smug complacency of the man whose nest is feathered. The danger of buying spring chicken already dressed is that you can't tell which spring is meant. Allies are nations that are very friendly at internals as they need one another to grind axes. There are more opportunities in a great city but you have to lick more men to get at them. An automobile show is a place where you go to get discontented with your present car. And yet men who attend to their own business never are hoisted to the shoulders of a cheering multitude. The more humble grocers are still willing to sell you a nickel's worth of sugar if you furnish your own bag. Of each one thousand people will ask their friends for criticism, exactly one thousand are fishing for praise. Reformers are nearly always right. The chief cause of their unpopularity is their assumption of superior righteousness. The more humble grocers are still willing to sell you a nickel's worth of sugar if you furnish your own bag. Of each one thousand people who ask their friends for criticism, exactly one thousand are fishing for praise. Reformers are nearly always right. The chief cause of their unpopularity is their assumption of superior righteousness. The sun may be growing cold. And when we see a mouth youngster of 18 who thinks he understands women, we don't care if it does. The difference between the price of products at the farm and in the city indicates that the railroads are making expenses now. When tails went out of fashion, no doubt the old-timers wagged theirs in anger and cursed the bobbin craze. In a little while now the chap who scoffs at women's styles will be wondering why he hasn't nerve enough to take off his coat. PARIS CORRESPONDENT 26.—She was known ends in New York as had talent and when that mysterious city, wished her success. 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