oc-plain-dealer 1923-06-06

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Alas! what profit is it, if succeed—To one sweet day employed in hallowed ways Six spent in worldiness, and sloth, and pride?—Caroline A. Mason. BATTLESHIP HOLDS ITS PRIMACY The battleship has been fighting its way, in naval equipment, for supremacy for a long time. The submarine beneath the water and the bombing airplane over the water, with the mines planted, in time of war, in waters usually traversed by warcraft, the life of the battleship, so to speak, is anything but a bed of roses. But experts of the United States navy are not ready to concede that the day of the battleship, as the backbone of naval power, is past. Quite the contrary. For, with the development of potential menaces to battleships, there has come destroyers and anti-aircraft guns which give protection to the great fighting monsters. Evolution of naval fighting craft has been of great interest, of recent years. Ever since ironclads supplanted the old wooden vessels, advancement has been rapid in adding to the strength and formidability of warships. Then came the submarine and later the bombing plane. These developments have necessitated readjustments of naval equipment and many notable changes. Whether or not, eventually, the ponderous battleship, with its mammoth guns, shall be put out of commission, as it were, as a practicable, defensible fighting unit, remains to be demonstrated. Being President of the United States is anything but experiencing one joy after another. There is much that is disagreeable, annoying, exacting and nerve-racking in the experience of the Nation's chief magistrate. AMERICA AND ASIA WERE JOINED ONCE A notable scientific expedition into the Desert of Gobi, in northern Asia, has found conclusive proofs that North America and Asia were once joined in one vast stretch of land. What gigantic upheavals separated the two can be conjectured only, although the geologist and paleontologist in time may be able to rewrite the whole physical history of find part in shaping and reshaping the physical body of the globe. AMERICA AND ASIA WERE JOINED ONCE A notable scientific expedition into the Desert of Gobi, in northern Asia, has found conclusive proofs that North America and Asia were once joined in one vast stretch of land. What gigantic upheavals separated the two can be conjectured only, although the geologist and paleontologist in time may be able to rewrite the whole physical history of had part in shaping and reshaping the physical body of the globe. Central Asia seems to have been the center for dispersion of huge mammalian animals. Fossil remains of some of these have been found in the Rocky Mountain states. The physical world has had a wonderful history. Its development has been marvelous. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, actions of floods and waves, winds and ice and heat—all these great elemental forces have had part in shaping and reshaping the physical body of the globe. America and Asia once were joined, physically, scientists hold they should be joined sentimentally. China is the traditional friend of the United States, and this country has shown its friendship for that ancient land and people. RAILROADS ARE BETTER EQUIPPED NOW All the big railroad systems are adding hugely to their rolling stock. The Western roads, in particular, are stocking up to meet the requirements of greatly augmented volume of transportation. Added to this is the industrial tranquility in railroad circles. There are no strikes and no serious labor troubles, as there were last year. The West, as to its perishable products, requires ample accommodation facilities and quick accommodation. It is to be the material advantage of the railroads to supply this. With satisfactory transportation, producing of fruits and vegetables and perishable soil crops in California and other states of the West would be fostered greatly. PRESIDENT'S JOURNEY IN LINE OF DUTY President Harding, on his forthcoming trip, is not to have a continuous round of rest and pleasure. While he will get rest and recreation on the way, yet it will be strenuous two months for him. The speeches he will make will draw upon his nerves and energies, because of the exceeding delicacy of his position with reference to the 1924 campaign and its issues. But beyond the speechmaking, President Harding is to study, in Alaska, the whole political and economic situation and to inform himself preparatory to instituting reforms there. The President, too, is to return by way of the Panama Canal and Porto Rico, and investigate conditions there with reference to improved defenses for the canal and government reforms in Porto Rico. The trip, all in all, will be replete with strentious work and perplexing study by the chief magistrate. Volume of building in the United States during the last five years has been the phenomenal event of the age. The grand total cost of this immense activity in construction runs far into the billions. It has been and is a source of great prosperity to the country. Royalist plots in France, designed to overthrow the republic, are being dealt with sternly, as they should be. It is unthinkable that a country so enlightened and so progressive as France is, should resort to monarchic government. Volume of building in the United States during the last five years has been the phenomenal event of the age. The grand total cost of this immense activity in construction runs far into the billions. It has been and is a source of great prosperity to the country. Royalist plots in France, designed to overthrow the republic, are being dealt with sternly, as they should be. It is unthinkable that a country so enlightened and so progressive as France is, should resort to monarchic government. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING WE'RE ON OUR WAY—Long Beach Telegram Americans are the most restless people on earth. They are champion travelers. They are always on the go, more or less indifferent, apparently, where they go, or how they go, just so they be on their way. Their idea of pleasure is to go. And they surely do. Comparative statistics tell the story. The population of the United States has increased by one-fifth in the past 20 years. In that same period the volume of railroad transportation, freight and passenger, has increased 15 times as much. Taken by itself, the growth in railroad travel is remarkable enough. It is astounding when we think that in the same two decades the motor vehicle equipment has expanded from zero to 12,000,000, which, of itself, is provision for transportation on a prodigious scale. There has also been an energetic growth in electric railway traffic which is now represented by 85,000 cars and 48,000 miles of track. Even this does not complete the tale of our country's vast demand for more power and more transportation facilities, since 20 years the number of horses and mules has increased by 10,000,000, or about three times as fast as the relative growth in the number of people. With all these gains in steam railroad, automobile, electric railway and animal power, we are constantly in a state of famine in the matter of transportation facilities. No other people at any place in any time approached America's activities in extending such facilities. Local markets, local production and local consumption are all insignificant compared with those which require shipping or moving about. The California man reads a New York magazine and the New York man eats a California raisin. The distance even such trifles must be carried in the slightest degree prevents the man who wants something from buying it. It is the same with the typical American when he sees on the map a place he likes the look of. He buys a ticket or "gas" and goes. Hence, the growing transportation statistics. RES Sunday Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW DAILY NEWS DETECTIVES AND POLICE GUARD KILLER'S OLD HAUNTS - ALL AVENUES OF ESCAPE ARE CLOSELY WATCHED - THE NET IS CLOSING ON THE FUGITIVE - POLICE BELIEVE HIS ARREST ONLY A MATTER OF TIME - NEW TRAIL PICKED UP BY DETECTINEWS DISCRIPTION OF CRIMINAL BROADCASTED OVER ENTIRE COUNTRY GAS STATION R.R. STATE CLUE POEMS THAT LIVE PATIENT WITH THE LIVING Sweet friend, when thou and I are gone Beyond earth's weary labor, When small shall be our need of grace From conrade or from our neighbor, Past all the strife, the toil, the care, And done with all the sighing, What tender ruth shall we have gained, Alas, by simply dying! Then lips too chary for their praise Will tell our merits over, And eyes too swiffe our faults to see Shall no defect discover. Then hands that would not lift a stone Where stones were thick to cumber Our steep hill path, will Scatter flowers Abore our pillowed slumber. Sweet friend, perchance both thou and I, Ere lore is past forgiving, Should take the earnest lesson home-- Be patient with the living. Today's repressed rebuke may save Our blinding tears tomorrow; Then patience' e'en when keenest edge May whet a nameless sorrow It's easy to be gentle when Death's silence shames our claimour, And easy to discern the best Through memory's mystic glamour; But wise it were for thee and me Ere lore is past forgiring, To take the tender lesson home-- Be patient with the living. NEW YORK LETTER (By LUCY JEANNE PRICE) There is one boy in New York who will never grow up with a fear of the police. When eight-year-old Leslie Pafroth was hit by an automobile the other day, Policeman J. A. Water saved him. And when they had carried him to the hospital to set the broken bone of his head on fire, he was found dead. --HERE AND THERE-- No wonder our foreign policy is weak. Borah's nagging never gives the poor thing a chance to rest. That Ruhr invasion would indicate that France is obeying the injunction to take no thought for the morrow. There can't be tranquillity while half the world thinks of Germany as a doctor and the other half as customer. 100% H 35% Which WH Oil an —Let's assume that White Star nancing is completed. (Every W this.) That is a profit of 35 p NEW YORK LETTER (By LUCY JEANNE PRICE) There is one boy in New York who will never grow up with a fear of the police. When eight-year-old Leslie Pafroth was hit by an automobile the other day, Policeman J. A. Water saved him. And when they had carried him to the hospital to set the broken bone of his leg, he begged his recuerter to stay and hold his hand. Clinging to that sturdy fist, the boy endured the operation without an anaesthetic; and the policeman has visited him every day since. Thirty thousand children make quite a party. And there were 30,000 of them at the May party in Central park the other day. All of them lived east of Third avenue, between Fifty-second and Eighty-fourth streets, and all of them struggled valiantly for the 100 prizes distributed for various kinds of honors, ranging from the most children in a family to the most freckled boy. Vito Grecco never aspired to be an officer of the law. He operates a hack stand down at Center and Canal street and is on cordial terms with the traffic cop at that busy corner, but that was his closest approach to the arm of the law until last week. Then the policeman was absent from his post for the sake of taking part in a parade. Vito watched traffic jam up around his corner, hopeless without the directing force of the absent official. Into the maze of it stepped Vito, and without a whistle or any other vestige of authority other than his personality, he had it all running smoothly within ten minutes, giving over his own business for the day, and working both hands like a windmill because of the lack of a whistle. This is the day of youth, of course. We've all heard enough about that. But we had an idea that youth was taking things into its own hands a bit more in this country than across the ocean. Here is Rene Inizan, however, of Paris; France, five years old, who landed here the other day, after completing his first ocean trip, and all alone. Now he is on his way to the Pacific const, still unaccompanied. He had sailed from Cherbourg, where his grandfather put him aboard. In New York the Immigrant Aid Society looked after him and put him on the transcontinental limited for San Diego, where his mother is waiting for him. A tag on one arm giving his destination is his only care-taker. —Let's assume that White Star financing is completed. (Every Woman this.) That is a profit of 35 per cent Convertible Preferred later on at a basis of $66.67 per share for all White Star offerings have profit! —Isn't that enough reason for action know that we already have the 10-acre loading site acquired at refinery and tank farm secured; that site to Santa Fe Springs, and from the plant at Vernon, at a haunt. —The wide-awakers are deluging basis. Write out YOUR check to 2 share 8 per cent Converge 2 shares 8 per cent Converge —Make your check payable to White Star at this address. S. A. R. White Star O 702 Loew's State Bldg. Phone WEDNESDAY, JUNE SIXTH, 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. THE LAW PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Celebrity: Anybody can frisk an American crowd for lecture tickets. The Turk has one diplomatic advantage. He has no friends to cramp his style. The third party seems to have too many leaders and not enough followers. The Klan is an invisible government but has one good feature. It can't levy taxes. When money talks about America's duty, it seems to have a slight foreign accent. Where the South left off as boss of the country, that's where the West begins. And what is it the height cf as a policeman parks his car in front of a fire plug. The objection to a closed car is that there isn't room enough inside for a wasp and a driver. It isn't certain that the next year will cost as much. There may not be any dollar a-year men. Don't overdo your bluff. The larger the diamond the larger probability that it is glass. Still, the K. K. K. is no more annoying than the ad. man who spells it Klarsky Kliessy. GROWERS GET NEWS OF PEST CONTROL The latest information on citrus pest control will be presented to the growers assembled at the So. Calif. Citrus Institute to be held at Fullerton, June 15th and 16th. The much discussed subject of spraying vs fumigation will be presented by practical men who have made field observations on the efficiency of the two methods of controlling citrus scale. W. M. Mertz, Supt. of the Hewes Corporation, El Modena, and J. K. LaFollette of Covina have been assigned these subjects. H. J. Ryan, Horticultural Commissioner of Los Angeles county has made an intensive study of fumigation work and spraying in citrus sections of that county, which he will review at the institute. Charts will be shown depicting in a clear, concise manner just what the pest situation is this year. The hazards of pest importations will be handled by Lee Strong, Chief of the State Quarantine Service, who will tell the growers of the dangers constantly lurking at shipping points in California. The citrus industry today is dependent on the thorough interception of potential pests which may be brought in by every vessel from the tropics. The "Bug eat bug" campaign which has made considerable progress during the past year in Orange County, is also featured on the program. A. A. Brock, Orange County Horticultural Commissioner, who has charge of the County Insectary will submit a complete report of the work done by his department, and summarize the results of biological control in the county. M. B. Rounds, Entomologist of the Azusa Foothills Orchards, will also handle this subject for interior conditions. A special effort has been made by The objection to a closed car is that there isn't room enough inside for a wasp and a driver. It isn't certain that the next year will cost as much. There may not be any dollar a-year men. Don't overdo your bluff. The larger the diamond the larger probability that it is glass. Still, the K. K. K. is no more annoying than the ad. man who spells it Klassy Kollege Klothes. Some parents have perfect small children who never lie to them, and some are not so gullible. The remarkable thing is not that the bootleggers keep it up, but that the patrons keep it down. A traveler says you can scrape an acquaintance in ten minutes at an fashionable resort. You can, perhaps, if you are a barber. You can raise a boy on love, but there are times when you must apply it to the seat of his pants. LOS ANGELES FIFTH IN USE OF PHONES Topping cities like Detroit considerably larger than itself. Los Angeles stands fifth in the United States in the number of its telephones. San Francisco, which is sixth, also is well up in line, according to an announcement of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. The figures are as of Jan. 1. Detroit and St. Louis which stands next. Pittsburgh follows St. Louis and then come Washington, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Buffalo and Newark. $50,000 FOR GREENHOUSES SACRAMENTO, June 6.—Governor Richardson today signed Senate Bill 585, appropriating $50,000 for building greenhouses at Burlington for the college of agriculture. 100% PROFIT OR 35% PROFIT? Which Are You After in WHITE STAR Oil and Refining? WHITE STAR Oil and Refining? me that White Star Oil and Refining shares go to $135 when fiampled. (Every White Star issue to date has done better than is a profit of 35 per cent to those who wait and buy 8 per cent Preferred later on at par. BUT—if you buy NOW, you come in at $66.67 per share for Preferred and Common. If your shares go, Star offerings have, to $135 and more, you get over 100 per cent enough reason for acting RIGHT NOW? Especially when you already have the casinghead well along toward completion; the site acquired at the harbor; the 30-acre site for our immense tank farm secured; completing rights of way for the pipeline from Santa Fe Springs, and already turning out White Star Gasoline at Vernon, at a handsome profit. Awakers are deluging us with orders for stock on this ground floor out YOUR check for stock on the basis of 8 per cent Convertible Preferred, par $100 8 per cent Convertible $200 check payable to Bank of America, Trustee and mail it to me S. A. RATLIFF, Organizing White Star Oil and Refining Co. State Bldg. Los Angeles, Cal. Phone 66670: 823992