oc-plain-dealer 1923-06-04

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Christianity is a spirit flowing through every channel of action, consecrating all we do, making every day holy, and every spot sacred.—E. H. Chaplin. SAID IT WITH FLOWERS TO PRESIDENT This is indeed a democratic land—a land in which the humblest is the peer of the most exalted in all that spells liberty and opportunity. A picturesque demonstration of the democratic spirit of this land was witnessed in Washington. It took place at the baseball park—which is almost the cradle of democracy in this country. President and Mrs. Harding were there and several thousand school children were participating in Music week exercises. A few hundred kindergarten children gave a drill in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Harding and after the drill were grouped on the ground around the Presidential stand. This was too much for the older boys and girls, who were held back by Marine Guards. Then the American spirit of democracy asserted itself. Those kiddies were determined to get near the President and his estimable wife. So they made a grand rush upon the Marines, ducked and dodged, until the guarding lines were broken and the youngsters rushed, shouting, across the field to be near Mr. and Mrs. Harding, to shake hands with them. Someone threw a bouquet to the President. Then a veritable bombardment of flowers occurred, with President and Mrs. Harding smilingly shielding themselves. This is a beautiful and significant episode, when one analyzes it thoughtfully. In the first place, the Presidency is a democratic office. The President is not an austere potentate, shut off from the people. He is approachable to the humblest man or women, boy or girl, in the land. Furthermore, children respect the Presidency and their little hearts yearn to express their admiration and respect for any President. This is a fine spirit. It is not fetish worship of pomp or power but simple devotion to government and the Flag and the great office which symbolizes the power and majesty and lovability of the democratic system of government. The season is at hand where extreme danger prevails in handling fire in forest reserves. The time is at hand for the sensible citizen to use his good sense and the thoughtful, humane citizen to use his training and his humanity to prevent forest fires, which endanger lives and property and wreck great havoc. Do not wait for the law to make you be careful—be careful from choice. The season is at hand wherein extreme danger prevails in handling fire in forest reserves. The time is at hand for the sensible citizen to use his good sense and the thoughtful, humane citizen to use his training and his humanity to prevent forest fires, which endanger lives and property and wreck great havoc. Do not wait for the law to make you be careful—be careful from choice. DRAW ON ALL RESOURCES IF WAR COMES "Let us strive for the assurance that we shall have none of war." This worthy sentiment from President Harding in his Memorial Day address, was associated with another sentiment which is praise-worthy. Should war come again, despite this country's efforts to avert an armed struggle, Mr. Harding urged that "we will not alone call to service the youth of the land, but will draft every resource, every activity, all of wealth, and make common cause of the Nation's preservation." Then followed this elaboration of this suggestion of common devotion to the country: "It will be a more grateful Nation which consecrates all to a common cause, and there will be more to share the gratitude bestowed. More, there will be finer conscience in our war commitments and that sublimity of spirit which makes a people invincible." This is the kind of patriotism that should prevail among all classes. Every resource and interest of the Nation should be thrown into any future conflict. There should be no "slackerism". Each and every person, each and every group or interest, should go into the struggle—God forbid that another war should come!—in the spirit of common devotion to all that is noblest and best in ideals, traditions and achievements. The political campaign of 1924 is throwing its shadows before—and it has more shadows than should be thrown before. There is no rhyme or reason in putting the country into turmoil over a Presidential election eighteen months before the date of the election. HEROES OF ALTRUISM ARE HONORED Chivalrous services of American workers connected with the Near East relief during the refugee evacuation of Asia Minor have been awarded posthumous honors by the government of Greece. These war crosses represent the grateful appreciation of the heroic Americans who gave their lives in the service of their fellowmen. Accompanying the award was this fine expression of sentiment: "This is a role of honor without precedent. The American effort in behalf of the refugees of Asia Minor is the most outstanding act of organized altruism in history." This is a splendid tribute indeed to the heroic quality of the services rendered in the name and cause of humanity by devoted Americans. When the story of the Near East Relief is written, it will rank in unselfish heroism and noble humanitarianism, with the services of Herbert C. Hoover and his aides in Belgium during the dark days of the World War. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING STRIKE IN UNION OWNED MINE San Francisco Journal COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING STRIKE IN UNION OWNED MINE San Francisco Journal Union miners recently struck in the Coal River Colliery Company, a coal mine owned by members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The strike was called because the mine was being operated on the open shop basis. Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, is chairman of the board of directors of the mine. The mine is located in non-union territory, but Stone had been quoted as saying that the miners would be allowed to organize if they wished to do so. Instead of carrying out this promise on open shop policy was announced by the directors and this led the union miners to strike. If this is the true state of affairs it will have a marked influence upon the attitude of union labor when the engineers get into trouble that calls for union cooperation. They will be asked why they did not help out the union coal miners. But it illustrates something else. It shows that when union men become employers they very speedily acquire the employer's way of looking at things. When the cost comes out of their pockets it is altogether a matter of whose ox is being gored. The check-off, and other regulation, have an appearance which is materially altered, depending upon whether you are looking out or looking in. When a union gets control of an industry its first care is to abolish the union. Although this does not happen very often, because unions do not go in for controlling unionized industries, it throws a strong light upon one of the fundamental difficulties of adjusting the labor question. While human nature remains what it is today there can be found no satisfactory middle ground which depends for its justice upon the generosity or good-heartedness of either side. When capital gets the unrestricted upper hand there will be abuses of one kind, and when labor gets the unrestricted upper hand there will be abuse of another kind. There must be checks upon them both to secure the operation of just conditions. Union cooperation is, of course, necessary, just as capital cooperation is necessary. It is the extent to which this action goes and the direction that it takes which are matters of public concern. A way will be found that will equitably protect the rights of all. That is the true end of all genuine social reform. RES Sunday Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer SUBSECT Entertainment SUPPORT 3RD PARTY MOVEMENT HEARST FORD FOR PRESIDENT PRESIDENTIAL TICKET 1924 INDEPENDENT HEARST'S BAND POEMS THAT LIVE TO HELEN Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently o'er a perfumed sea, The weary way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long won! to roam, Thy haycinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brot me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that Was Rome. Lo! in you brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyhec, from the regions which Are Holy-Land! —Edgar Allan Poe NEW YORK LETTER (By LUCY JEANNE PRICE) NEW YORK, June 4.—I can't worry a great deal about the world all going to pot when things like this keep happening: A friend of mine left her bag on a Fifth ave. bus the other day. It had only about three dollars in it and it wasn't a valuable bag; but there was a memorandum book which she needed and her bunch of keys. The next afternoon a woman called her on the phone. "Oh, I am so glad to reach you at last," a strange voice said. "Did you lose a brown leather bag yesterday? Well, my husband found it. He was the conductor on the bus where you left it, and he brought it home because it was too late to take it to the lost and found bureau. I told him you'd probably never ask for it there and that I'd see if I could reach you and tell you about it. Your name was in it and a lot of telephone numbers. I was sure one of them was yours, but I called ten of them before I got the right one. I kept trying because I knew you'd be worried about your keys." No, she wouldn't take any reward; accepted only fifty cents in payment for the ten phone calls she had used. A LITTLE TALK ON THRIFT A LITTLE TALK ON THRIFT By S. W. STRAUS, President American Society for Thrift. At this time of the year our various education institutions are sending their graduates forth into the more practical experiences of life. Perhaps no single aspect of their educational equipment will serve them to greater advantage than such lessons as they may have received during their school and college days along the lines of self-discipline. Whatever may the equipment of any young person, eventual success can only come through self-mastery. It is on this point that one of the greatest benefits of thrift is based. The amount of money one sets aside or even the amount of time gained through the elimination of wasted moments are secondary in importance to the benefits which thrift practices bring in the development of character. The young man or young woman entering the practical experiences of life today will find that success or failure depend a great deal on their attitude toward the little things. The processes of self-discipline work through a series of small conquests. It is not difficult to conquer the trivial tempatations of one's daily routine, and the repetition of these victories brings one eventually onto the broad highway of successful attainment. Above everything else make thrift a habit not a miserly manner, but along the lines of progress. Herein lies one of the secrets of life, and wise is he who learns these lessons in the days of his youth. Although it may require a great effort to accomplish a certain undertaking today, the same accomplishment will be much easier tomorrow and soon the task becomes a customary part of one's daily existence. No greater personal asset exists than the habit of thrift. This truth can be taken to heart by all of us, especially by those who find themselves at this time face to face with the great realities and responsibilities of practical life. MONDAY, JUNE 4TH, 1923 Subscription Rate—In No. Orange co. Per Yr. $3; 6 Months, $1,75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as 2nd. class matter. WHO'S WHO IN THE DAYS NEWS DEMAND FOR SKILLED LABOR INCREASING OVER U. S. SAYS BUREAU CHIEF There is very little unemployment in any part of the United States, and in all industrial centers there is an increasing demand for all classes of skilled labor, skilled mechanics, and farm hands, according to a report made public recently by Francis I. Jones Director General of the Employment Service of the Department of Labor. The report covers the month of April and is based on information gathered by special agents of the government in sixty-five selected industrial centers and involving a study of the business operations of 1,428 concerns, none employing fewer than 500 persons. Thirty-nine of the cities included in the survey report increased employment while in twenty-six slight decreases are noted. "A digest of the reports received" says the report, "indicates that there is very little unemployment in any section of the United States. The predicted shortage of competent farm labor is now already a fact and in many sections of the country the farming interests are being severely hampered by the inability to secure labor for farm work. In the south and southwest they are experiencing for the first time a situation which is causing alarm, as large numbers of men who have always worked on farms have migrated to the larger cities, securing immediate employment in the various industries which are having trouble to find sufficient labor to meet their demands. "Indicative of the country's sound industrial condition is the fact that a large percentage of the public employment offices report that it will soon be impossible to meet the growing demand for certain classes of labor." "Interesting features of the sur- PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Another good way to retain your faith in your fellow man is to make him sign on the dotted line. Every man is philosopher enough to enjoy watching the other fellow's property burn. Aristocrats are much like other people, except for the length of their fingers and cigarette holders. It may be that fat men have more faith than lean ones, but they still eschew belts and cling to suspenders. Another reason why a woman hurries home with a new hat is because she wishes to get there before she changes her mind. vey are the increased activity in the metal mining industry. In the lumbering sections of the country mills are being forced to run on a less than capacity basis because of the inability to secure sufficient workers, and in building and construction lines the scarcity of this class of worker is affecting progress. "Vehicles for land transportation show the largest increase of numbers employed, with every indication of a continuation of increase in demand for this class of workers. Conditions affecting employment in the iron and steel industry continue to improve, and in some of the larger centers shortage of certain classes of this labor are evident." 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