oc-plain-dealer 1923-06-01

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS How this is planned,—Or that I may not understand; I am content, my God, to know—That all times are in Thy hand. —Mary Bradley. FLOOD MENACE GROWS WORSE ALL TIME Menace of floods increases along American streams, in proportion to the development of cities, towns and rural districts along these waterways. Quite naturally, havoc is greater as the country along the rivers and creeks becomes built up and developed. The reasons, therefore for checking floods multiply proportionately as development proceeds. It is becoming more and more apparent, to persons who thoughtfully consider the matter, that the only way to deal with the flood menace effectually is to establish scientific systems of flood control. It would be a great stroke of economy to institute betterments of this kind all over the country. The savings would more than offset the cost of installing flood protection systems. The graduates are coming forth buoyant and ready and eager to conquer the world. Some of them will put back from the skips of conquest. Others will go forward. From these graduates the future generation will be recruited. Far be it from any one to sneer at or to be little that special training which students get in high schools and other institutions of higher education. PROGRESS IS EVIDENCED IN SOUTHLAND That Southern California is making gratifying progress is evident to the most casual observer. Building construction on a vast scale is in evidence all over this section. Not only are new residences being built by hundreds, but many substantial business blocks are being erected. New factories, too. Development of this section is symetrical. There is expansion of housing accommodations for homes and business. And there is corresponding development of manufacturing. PROGRESS IS EVIDENCED IN SOUTHLAND That Southern California is making gratifying progress is evident to the most casual observer. Building construction on a vast scale is in evidence all over this section. Not only are new residences being built by hundreds, but many substantial business blocks are being erected. New factories, too. Development of this section is symmetrical. There is expansion of housing accommodations for homes and business. And there is corresponding development of manufacturing. Commercial enterprise, too, is forging ahead. Foreign and coastwise shipping from ports of this section reaches enormous tonnage, and is increasing steadily. Southern California, in a word, is an empire in and of itself, economically self-sufficient. Petty pride, state jealousy or mercenary considerations should not stand in the way of that proposed damming of the Colorado River and development of power and irrigation systems. The benefits from this will be generally and generously distributed among the states and among the people of this section, that it should be the concern of everyone living in the Southwest to urge and to work for its early consumption. HIGHWAY BETTERMENTS ARE PROJECTED Permanent highway construction in California is to be given great impetus during the next two years, under legislation enacted by the last legislature. There is to be considerable new construction, and much mileage is to be repaired and reconstructed. This will put great sums into circulation and add to the general prosperity. It also will be of great material benefit to the state to have its highways improved. California has made no better investment than in bettered highways. These have contributed greatly to the economic development of the commonwealth. Other improvements of this nature will add correspondingly to the benefits derivable from excellent roadways. This state should keep its highways in the best of condition. It is good business to do this. It is a profitable investment. Corrupt practice by any one in authority, particularly any one who is charged with the enforcement of law, is depressing in the impression it creates as to the perversity and untrustfulness of human nature. It should be remembered, however, that defaulting on the part of men in authority is exceptional, not the rule. Faith should not be lost in all peace officers because a few are found wanting in the test of honor and straightforwardness. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING IS LOVE DECADENT? Berkeley (Cal.) Gazette ...A French writer named Gerard Baurer laments that "love is no longer what it once was," and "ideal love is buried in the graves" CONVICT-LEASE OURAGES New York Evening Post Shocked by an atrocious tale of torture and death, Gov. Hardee of Florida has asked for abolition of the system of farming out county convicts to private contractors and COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING IS LOVE DECADENT? Berkeley (Cal.) Gazette ...A French writer named Gerard Baurer laments that "love is no longer what it once was," and "ideal love is buried in the graves of those long dead." "A man may conquer a woman's love, says the writer, but he cannot keep it." Boredom and lack of sympathy take the place of the grand passion, men and women today have but one aim, and that is to find entertainment and pleasure in great enough variety to prevent ennui. The real passion today is for luxurious living, and in competition with it the emotions are smothered. Life turns into an economic war, and man in the struggle to live and attain luxury loses the finer passion of love, and the women must often engage in a veritable fight for a man who can guarantee the certainty of a comfortable existence. All of which is very sad indeed—if you believe it. Whether or not it is true in France, the ordinary normal American will not believe a word of it. The "grand passion" dead? Ask the young, to whom life and its emotions are as strong as they ever were, and something quite different from literary material. Human nature does not change in a year, or an age. Ask the old who have not lost the power to see life as it is. The writer's notion of an ideal life seems to be one in which people live without working and devote their time to the art of lovemaking. That has never been the ideal of any class of society. Millions of men nowadays as formally find it quite possible to earn their living and at the same time indulge in fine, enduring human love. As for women, he couldn't have even more completely wrong if he had tried. The ability and freedom to earn their economic independence now is their secret protection against having to marry for a mere living, so they used to. CONVICT-LEASE OURAGES New York Evening Post Shocked by an atrocious tale of torture and death, Gov. Hardee of Florida has asked for abolition of the system of farming out county convicts to private contractors, and the legislature is reported ready to hurry the measure through. The state has little excuse for failing to take this step years ago, for the abuses have long been common knowledge. Only one southern state, Alabama, still allows the private lease of state convicts, but the evils of county leases are equally great. Southern history for a generation has shown that cruelty and murder are not occasional, but inevitable concomitants of the convict lease system, state or county. Governor Donaghey, of Arkansas, in his campaign against the county lease system a decade ago collected instances of convicts beaten to death or shot by overseers and dogens of examples of outrageous sentences imposed for trivial offences in order that the county and the contractors might have more labor to exploit. Sentences of years were meted out for petty larceny; negroes were convicted practically for life for stealing a few quarts of whiskey, and one case of a white boy flogged to death from his sick bed to die in the sun parallels the Florida case. Michigan and Delaware among the Northern states allow county convicts to be farmed out, and the evils there are also palpable. Abuse of prisoners is common enough even when responsible state officers are charged with their care. When they are formed into slave gangs and put in the hands of employers who gauge by personal interest the amount of labor they shall perform, the food they shall get, and the most of them are underfed, overworked and beaten. The movement to give convicts outdoor work is sound, but whether it be on the highways or farms, it should be done for the public authorities and under their oversight. The prime aim, moreover, should be working for the convict, not working the convict. URES t Sunday Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer THE MODERN "JACK, THE GIANT KILLER" DARE DEVIL AIRMAN GIANTS "SPEED" AND "TIME" LIMITS GIANTS, ENDURANCE AND HEIGHT LIMITS GIANT "GREAT DISTANCES" GIANT "VAST UNEXPLORED SPACES" AVIATION ALL OLD LIMITS AND OBSTACLES OVERCOME AND RECORDS BROKEN POEMS THAT LIVE WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY. When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say "Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free." But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again. "The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs aplenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty, And, oh 'tis true, 'tis true. —Alfred Edyard Housman. NEW YORK LETTER (By LUCY JEANNE PRICE) Bernard Tausey is only seventeen but he knows what it means to be a hero. It was revealed in court the other day that he had pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and robbery in order that his older brother—the guilty one—might go free. The other brother has confessed, however, and Bernard will not serve his sentence. "For Value Received", a new play at the Longacre by Ethel Clifton, has in it some of the best acting we have seen this season. David Hanaford and Augustin Duncan make "this story of a girl who "sold herself" a very real and poignant thing, and would make the play quite worth seeing even if it were not as well written as it is. It is a well-trained pup that guards Irene Castle these days. Always as he trots at her side or lies at her feet, he keeps his guarding eyes on one spot—the band of pearlhand diamonds which the dancer is wearing on her left ankle. It makes no difference where she is or how honest the appearance of those about her, the chocolate colored Pomeranian never takes his eyes off that ankle. It is a well-trained pup that guards Irene Castle these days. Always as he trots at her side or lies at her feet, he keeps his guarding eyes on one spot—the band of pearls and diamonds which the dancer is wearing on her left ankle. It makes no difference where she is or how honest the appearance of those about her, the chocolate colored Pomeranian never takes his eyes off that ankle. Can you kill a cow with kindness? That's what the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals wants to know. Six hundred inventors have submitted models and drawings for the society's $10,000 prize contest for the best device which will slaughter the cows in the most humane manner. A LITTLE TALK ON THRIFT By S. W. STRAUS, President American Society for Thrift. It is unfortunate that many persons look on thrift merely as a miserly attitude toward life. It is deplorable that this false and harmful conception of thrift is often given encouragement by those who mean well but who are unaware of the ill-effects of such teachings. It is well to bear these thoughts in mind, particularly at this time when one hears occasional references to a "buyers strike." Ruskin's famous analysis of economy is appropo. "Economy no more means saving money," he wrote, "than it means the spending of money; it means administration of a house; itsewardship; spending or saving; whether money or time, or anything else, to the best possible advantage." This is advice that can well be taken at this time. Economy is always advisable, but only harmful effects can result from a system of economy that merges into miserliness. The question of correct spending as well as correct saving is one of far-reaching importance because, while the elimination of waste and extravagance are always desirable, the general cutting down of legitimate expenditures to the point where the general business of the country would be adversely affected, the wheels of industry stopped and unemployment precipitated would, most assuredly be a false example of thrift. Ruskin's analysis correctly places as much importance on correct spending as on correct saving. Success and progress are not the results of penurious practices. True thrift its progress. Hence those who are truly thrifty keep business on the go because they spend wisely as well as saving carefully. The money which comes into their hands does not lie dormant; neither does it go for purposes that are not upbuilding. Through the careful administration of the thousands of ourthrifty people money is kept flowing through channels that mean national progress as well as individual development. FRIDAY, JUNE 1ST, 1923 Subscription Rate—In No. Orange co. Per Yr. $3; 6 Months, $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., an 2nd. class matter. PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) No man is quite so unimportant as he feels in a strange city. Some people find soft soap a great help in cleaning up a fortune. The poet who asked if spring could be far behind didn't know this one. Another prolific cause of matrimony is a little experience in a boarding house. You seldom find a man-who is good both at making progress and making excuses. Among other late frosts is the party where the guests expected something more than ginger ale. The appearance of the first robin is less significant than the appearance of the first mashie. A good American is one who is offended when an alien talks about his government the way he talks about it. For teh sake of family pride, it may be a good thing that some of the ancestors people boast about are safely dead. Still, European statesmen didn't begin it. Samson took the final count for the joy of smashin his enemies. When a man begins to talk about the narrow provincialism of his town, he means that the gossips have caught him at last. If you wish to know how Americans would react to the decisions of --TOWN IN REVIEW-- May flowers bring June weddings. Statistics show very little unemployment. This is great news for June college graduates. Texas wind which carried a country store to town may have been one of these trade winds. Some neighbors will take anything except a hint. Artificial bait may not catch fish, but it catches fishermen. Burn spring cleaning rubbish. Do not sell it to cigar makers. They call it strawberry shortcake because it doesn't last long. Time for propheteers to predict a small cantaloupe crop. What's worse than a one-armed man trying to tell about how a big fish got away? Many an amateur gardener grows nothing but disgusted. In our funny language, the ball team which ranks the lowest is the rankest ball team. "I have lost three husbands," a reader had written, confidentially, to an editor, "and now have the offer of a fourth. Shall I accept him?" The editor dipped his pen in the ink. This was the last straw. "If you've lost three husbands," he wrote, "I should say you are much too careless to be trusted with a fourth." We see that Ed Morrell, last of the California band of outlaws, who was recently released from life con- For teh sake of family pride, it may be a good thing that some of the ancestors people boast about are safely dead. Still, European statesmen didn't begin it. Samson took the final count for the joy of smashin his enemies. When a man begins to talk about the narrow provincialism of his town, he means that the gossips have caught him at last. If you wish to know how Americans would react to the decisions of a world court, listen while they address the umpire. It isn't a decrease of courtesy that makes men touch their hats instead of raising them. It's an increase of baldness. Some farmers make little money, and some have an idle team and a mud hole that traps the passing cars. The chap who says he has money enough and just stays in harness for the fun of it doesn't fail to kick about his income tax. Serious and solemn writers console themselves with the thought that the test of a popular novel is the kind of people it is popular with. (Protected by Associated Editors) "I have lost three husbands," a reader had written, confidentially, to an editor, "and now have the offer of a fourth. Shall I accept him? The editor dipped his pen in the ink. This was the last straw. "If you've lost three husbands," he wrote, "I should say you are much too careless to be trusted with a fourth." We see that Ed Morrell, last of the California band of outlaws, who was recently released from life confinement addressed the Rotary Club at its monthly dinner on the subject: "What Shall We Do With the Ex-convict?" We suggest that the best answer to this question is to let the ex-convict go on addressing Rotary clubs. THE BLOSSOMS Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past But you may stay here yet a while To blush and gently smile; And go at last. What! were ye born to me An hour or half's delight. And so to bid good night? Tis pity Nature brought ye forth. Merely to show your worth, And lose your quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave; And after they have shown their pride Like you a while, they glide into the grave. Stroup’s Quality Meat Market 115 North Los Angeles Street Free Delivery Phone 300 Saturday Special Saturday Special We Have Purchased For This Big Special Sale 1000 Lbs., Milk Fed Veal Roast, per lb. ..... 10c 1000 Lbs., Boneless Beef Roast, per lb. ..... 10c 500 Lbs., Boneless Corn Beef, per lb. ..... 10c 500 Lbs., Fresh Chopped Steak, per lb. ..... 10c 500 Lbs., Fancy Skinned Hams, per lb. ..... 23c prices are way below cost we reserve the right to limit quality abone sold to dealers. If this market isn't packed all day Saturday, be badly fooled, you can't duplicate the above prices by 100% else- A Guarantee Market sells only, No. 1, Steer Beef, Baby Spring Lamb, Milk Fed pain Fed Pork, No Cows Meat Sold Here. All our meats are carelected by us from a pin stricken packer, our large buying capacity is to sell No. 1, meats for less than you pay elsewhere for old cows. Give away Free at 9 P.M. Saturday, 3 very valuable presents ask that serves you. O. L. CAREY, Manager