oc-plain-dealer 1923-06-07

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper, Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS TALK ABOUT CHANGING TIMES! They're started an aeroplane line to take folks from Washington to Mount Vernon, where visitors see Washington's home from the air only. It may be more thrilling, but it's not our idea of a quiet pilgrimage to pay reverence to the Father of his country. AFTER THEY DIE Speaking of Abraham Lincoln, one of the leading New York newspapers said editorially in its issue of May 19, 1860: "The Republican convention at Chicago has nominated Abraham Lincoln of Illinois for Presidents of the United States—a third rate Western lawyer, poorer than Pierce. The conduct of the Republican party in this matter is a remarkable indication of a small intellect growing smaller. They passed over Seward, Chase and Banks, who are statesmen and able men, and they take a fourth rate lecturer who cannot speak good grammar and who to raise the wind, delivers his hackneyed, illiterate compositions, at $200 apiece. Our readers will recollect that this peripatetic politician visited New York two or three months ago on his financial tour, when, in return for the most unmitigated trash, interlarded with coarse and clumsy jokes, filled his empty pockets with dollars coined out of Republican fanaticism." Five days later a leading Philadelphia newspaper said of Lincoln: "There is not in all history of his life any exhibition of intellectual ability and attainment fitting him for the high and responsible post for which he has been nominated. His coarse language, his illiterate style and his vulgar and vituperative personality in debate contrast very strongly with the elegance and classical oratory of the eminent senator from New York." In wilder moments some of the leading papers and political haranglers called Lincoln a "freak," a "baboon who had escaped from the morass of Illinois," a "vulgar clown" and a "low-bred village politician." Lincoln, when he ran for the presidency, stood about as much ridicule and unmerited slander as any political candidate in our history. However, he looms greater and greater with the passing of years. His greatness lives on while most of the newspapers that vituperated him have died of dry rot. You contrast Lincoln's standing in history with the things they said about him when he was alive. There never was a better illustration that the importance and historical worth of a man cannot be judged by the generation in which he lives. It takes death and the perspective of time to "place" him properly. In wider moments some of the leading papers and political marmen called Lincoln a "freak," a "baboon who had escaped from the morass of Illinois," a "vulgar clown" and a "low-bred village politician." Lincoln, when he ran for the presidency, stood about as much ridicule and unmerited slander as any political candidate in our history. However, he looms greater and greater with the passing of years. His greatness lives on while most of the newspapers that vituperated him have died of dry rot. You contrast Lincoln's standing in history with the things they said about him when he was alive. There never was a better illustration that the importance and historical worth of a man cannot be judged by the generation in which he lives. It takes death and the perspective of time to "place" him properly. Most of the prominent people who rank highly now will be gone and forgotten within half a century. And the ones who survive time's shifting process and emerge truly great will be, in many cases, individuals who are underrated today. The ultimate position of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt in history, for instance, will not be known for at least 50 years. Although the world court is only a dream so far, Bill Borah says it "is controlled by manipulation." Bill must be a crystal-gazer for fair. SERVICE IS THE THING The president of the American Railway Association says the railways, from January 1 to May 12, this year, handled 17,029,946 cars of revenue as against 14,278,847 cars in the same period last year—a freight gain of 2,751,099 cars. Further, he says there is now no car shortage, but there is a shortage of labor. Millions on millions have been added to wages by various roads. Looks good. Apparently, the roads have decided to cease their attempts to talk government ownership to death. Service, they rightly opine, is a better weapon to use. It should have been used long, long ago. It would have been more effective. "More News of Byron", reads a newspaper headline. Has that man been defeated again? WINS BY A PUSH In Toledo, Ohio, a bright woman manages a cafeteria. She caters not only to the physical palates of her patrons, but to their mental appetites as well. The mental food is purveyed free of cost, in carefully prepared and displayed placards. She dished this up the other day: "Wheelbarrows have done more for mankind than automobiles." Pretty good. And true, too. No man ever mortgaged his home, and went broke otherwise, in order that he might own a wheelbarrow. No woman ever bartered her reputation and her soul for a joy ride in a wheelbarrow. The good, old one-wheel utensil has been a pusher from the beginning, but it never was the vehicle of affluence, armours, arrogance or assininity. Pretty generally it has delved in dirt, but its reputation has remained unsold. But getting down to the meat of the cafeteria lady's assertion, we find that, in our early days—the days when we, as a country, were trying to develop, the wheelbarrow was on the job and making tracks that spelled progress. It was, outside its side kick, the homely spade, the chief vehicle in the construction of the Erie canal. Through the latters agency, the waters of the Great Lakes were made to flow into the Atlantic, and Chicago and the central west were put in commercial touch with Europe. Railways, then, were largely a dream, but later they came, and the wheelbarrow led the way for them clear across, and up and down the continent. It still is serving in all kinds of construction work. But getting down to the meat of the cafeteria lady's assertion, we find that, in our early days—the days when we, as a country, were trying to develop, the wheelbarrow was on the job and making tracks that spelled progress. It was, outside its side kick, the homely spade, the chief vehicle in the construction of the Erie canal. Through the latters agency, the waters of the Great Lakes were made to flow into the Atlantic, and Chicago and the central west were put in commercial touch with Europe. Railways, then, were largely a dream, but later they came, and the wheelbarrow led the way for them clear across, and up and down the continent. It still is serving in all kinds of construction work, although much of its former employment has been shifted to more modern, more speedy and more powerful inventions. That fellow Stillman certainly lived up to his name for a long time, but listen to the noise now, will you! COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING UP THE GOLDEN STAIR—San Diego Sun America has joined the League of Nations, the United States Senate nevertheless and notwithstanding. J. P. Morgan and associated American bankers—who get their money from the American people—are joining the league of powers—Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Czeko-Slavia, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Spain and Switzerland—in the task of saving Austria. "This is the first step in the rehabilitation of Central Europe," says Morgan, as he prepared to chip in $25,000,000 of a $120,000,000 loan to the stiften nation. Now there's no kick against America helping rehabilitate Central Europe. The collapse of Austria would precipitate another dangerous crisis in a Europe which already menaces the world with another war. Anything which lessens the danger of war and promotes world peace we are for. But if we can work with the league to save Austria, why can't we work with the league to save the world, including ourselves? Why the holler when President Harding suggest our joining the world court? Does Kenny Cabot Lodge, Senator from Nahant, Mass., raise his voice against this manner of joining the league? Loud silence from Nahant. Not a Cabotian whisper stirrs. Not a protesting gurgle. Not even a reservation. Joining the league to make money and joining the league to make the world safe from war are obviously different things. In the one case the profit is in dollars and cents and goes to Wall Street. In the other the profit is in tranquil heartstones, peace and security, and goes to plain folks everywhere. Anyway we're joining the league—not by the back door, and not by the side door, and not through the cellar—but up the golden stairs. TURES Except Sunday and Publisher Plain Dealer READERS started an aerat Vernon, where only. It may be milgrimage to pay reading New York , 1860: ominated Abraham States—a third rate of the Republican of a small intellect and Banks, who are rate lecturer who wind, delivers his Our readers will York two or three the most unmitis, filled his empty politicism." r said of Lincoln: of intellectual ablisponsible post for his illiterate style the contrast very eminent senator and political haranescaped from the village politician." about as much ridistate in our history. lossing of years. His vituperated him the things they said her illustration that be judged by the ce" him properly. BLOOD MAY FLOW IN SQUATTERS' RENT WAR Give up the homes in which, as squatters, they have lived for years? Absolutely not. That's the reason Pavia Bozkl, who migrated to the great northwest from Jugo-Slavia a year ago, and Mrs. Susie Sabako, eighty years old, originally from the same country, are guarding their gate in the Little dohemia of Minneapolis. The dispute has taken on the proportions of a war with the people of Little Bohemia on one side claiming squatters' rights and the police and a crowd of lawyers and landlords on the other demanding ejectment of the payment of rents. They defied officers of the law when the latter demanded they vacate the squatter homes by obtaining an injunction in the county court to prevent the police from ejecting them and their baggage. This after the lawyers in behalf of landlords had obtained ejection demands from the police. Little Bohemia is in the river bottoms where each spring the Mississippi flood forces the people to seek refuge in the upper floors of a few buildings. They are used to battling for their homes. NEW YORK LETTER (By LUCY JEANNE PRICE) Now we have to wear spectacles to niatch our clothes, unless we prefer to have them match our eyes—or our earrings. Ordinary tortoises are quite out of fashion and amber, white, pearly, gray, yellow, black or some other shade must be dunned to suit one's own coloring or that of the costume. Imagine the complications when we want to wear our rose-colored dress some day, but have to be satisfied with our yellow sport suit, because our rose-colored glasses have just been broken. The shake-up of Europe is going to add to the musical history of the world, according to Alexander Savine, opera instructor at the Institute of Musical Art here. Dr. Savins, who is Roumanian, declares that Jugo-Slavia, that group of former little countries most of them belonging to Austria in the past, is for the first time having an opportunity to put forward and develop her antive music, and that the world will be the richer because of it. There are geniuses writing music there, he tells us and before long the world will recognize Jugo-Slavian music as they do that of Poland, or Russia, or Germany. Thirty-six lively to his credit is the record of "Buck" O'Neill, dockmaster at the Battery. He added the thirty-sixth when he pulled Cler Steward William Halleck from the water the other day; although the Chief weighed 250 pounds and "Buck" is past fifty years of age now. The only thing that bothered him was having his wife hear about it; for Mrs. O'Neill is definitely opposed to her husband's jumping off the Battery so often just to save somebody's life. Psychology long ago intruded into the business world. Now it has gripped the farmers. A fruit-grower from upstate inserted this ad in a New York City paper the other day: "WANTED: Girls with peaches and cream complexion, for picking berries and fruit on Ulster County farm." One inquiring person has a store than academic interest in such complexions himself, but hadn't connected them with advantages of labor for... Psychology long ago intruded into the business world. Now it has gripped the farmers. A fruit-grower from upstate inserted this ad in a New York City paper the other day: "WANTED: Girls with peaches and cream complexion, for picking berries and fruit on Ulster County farms." One inquiring person has more than academic interest in such complexions himself, but hadn't connected them with advantages of labor for fruit-gathering, got hold of the farmer to learn his reasons. Psychology! That's what directed him. That and a seemingly experienced knowledge of feminine vanity, "If a girl has a good fresh skin, she wants to keep it," he said. "She wouldn't take the risk of eating all the strawberries and huckleberries on the place. Maybe a man can work harder and pick more fruit, but he eats most of it, so I'll gamble on a pretty girl to have more to show at the end of a day. If Manhattan seems to lose its head occasionally and cut up a bit wilder than some of our sister cities, blame it on youth. It is an actual fact that we are younger here by several years than either Chicago or Philadelphia. More than half of us are under thirty, and that's pretty young nowadays and more than one-third of us, under twenty. The new census proves it. Of every 1000 New Yorker 274 have not yet reached twenty, and 573, are not yet in the thirties. Two problems which the women of the country ought to concern themselves with at the present time, according to Mrs. Philip North Moore, President of the National Council of Women, are motion pictures and land settlement for soldiers. Mrs. Moore is in New York just now enroute from Washington, where the Board meeting of the National Council has just been held, to London, where there will be a gathering of the officers of the International Council. It is inactivity that is important just now as concerns the motion picture, she says. "Club women have been hearing speeches and passing resolutions on the film industry", she said. "But now the U.S. government is investigating it, and until the Federal Trade Commission has completed its hearings and returned a vordict (it is most important for the club women to take no further action). It is important, however, that they give time and attention to the recent land settlement project for veterans of the World War. A national organization, the U.S. Veterans' Land Settlement Association, is working to provide land and homes for ex-service men who want to go in for agriculture, and the club women of every community ought to give their aid to the movement. It would mean productive occupation for the soldiers and the much needed increase in the country's agricultural development." More Causes Charge that up to Vibration causes prematurely by racking destroying the "meet parts, loosening up causing squeaks and costly repairs are the The Studebaker Battery from vibration than proximate size or weight This has been acco by a complete machine shaft and connecting faces—a practice used exclusively on cars found only on a very whose selling prices ten times as high There are 61 precincts the manufacture of alone, 40 of which r Power THURSDAY, JUNE SEVENTH 1923 Subscription Rate—In No. Orange co. Per Yr. $3; 6 Months. $1.7 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as 2nd. class matter. PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) No man ever lives to be as old as he feels at twenty-one. The first essential to success is labor; the second is spotlight. The church a man belongs to is the one he goes the fartherest from for his Sunday outing. Work will minimize the worries of all people except those who worry because they have to work. As we understand Mr. Johnson, the two present needs of America are isolation and Mr. Johnson. These "epic" movies are getting to be little more than interesting sub-titles, with illustrations. A man never realizes how inadequate his vocabulary is until he steps on a marble at 3 p.m. A nation's aversion to a world court is in direct proportion to its ability to lick its neighbors. You can tell the approach to Easy Street by the easy marks that lie trimmed at the side of the road. Good manners alone will take you to many places, including the tail end of the line at the box office. The difference between a swimming suit and a bathing suit is that the water doesn't spoil a swimming suit. Correct this sentence: "I never really enjoyed working in my garden," said the man, "until the sun gets hot enough to blister my neck." No author seems brilliant when he must compete with the sheer DINNER STORIES A landlord in a certain town found it no easy matter to collect his rent with unfailing regularity recites London Ideas. One woman was particularly trying in this respect, and he thought himself lucky if he received part of the rent due. One morning when he called at her house she offered him a half dollar. "Is that all you've got for me?" he inquired with a scowl. "You're so much in arrears." "Go on now and be satisfied," was the reply. "You wouldn't have that if my old man had not sold the back door." A farmer in the middle west conceived the idea that onions would be profitable to raise, and on strength of it he produced a big crop for the east side New York market, says the Los Angeles Examiner. When asked how much money he made he shrugged his shoulders and remarked disgustedly. "De ducks got 'em." That sounded interesting and he was asked to explain. "Well, it was like this. I shipped them to de commission man and he send me a paper which said how much he got for dem; den he de-ducks his commission, he deduck a freight rate, he deducks spoilage, he deducks cartage, he deduck some oder tings, and me I get $1.72. You say vot you do with de onions—I say de ducks got 'em." Esther was much interested in fashions and continually pored over the fashion magazines. When she was to have a new dress she had remarkable clear ideas how she wanted it made, says the Los Angeles Examiner. One day a friend said to her: "Why Esther, can you make your Street by the easy marks that lie trimmed at the side of the road. Good manners alone will take you to many places, including the tail end of the line at the box office. The difference between a swimming suit and a bathing suit is that the water doesn’t spoil a swimming suit. Correct this sentence: "I never really enjoyed working in my garden," said the man, "until the sun gets hot enough to blister my neck." No author seems brilliant when he must compete with the chap who writes the stuff on the book’s jacket. Almost any modern would have been hailed as a great-man centuries ago if he hadn’t been hanged for heresy. America’s appreciation of art isn’t waning. It’s just that moderns have so little time to make that kind of sofa pillows. Under the blessings of civilization and learning, man has become reconciled to almost everything except man. The man who is “good for it, but mighty slow pay” is just a dead-beat without the courage of his convictions. Esther was much interested in fashions and continually pored over the fashion magazines. When she was to have a new dress she had remarkable clear ideas how she wanted it made, says the Los Angeles Examiner. One day a friend said to her: "Why Esther, can you make your own clothes?" "No." she answered thoughtfully. "I can make up their looks, but I never sew on them. I do not need the illusions to recall That age-old time, nor ever in my thoughts Their fragrance lies; Remembering is such an easy thing When nights of spring sing silent songs of love; Those days have gone, but when the springtime lifts Again her petaled hands to softly strew Sweet fragrance o’er the morn, my lips repeat Old memories—our memories. The honeymoon is over when he begins to borrow from her household money to complete the payments on the engagement ring. Men are creatures who cut down great trees to make room for a city, and then plant little saplings to make it beautiful. STUDEBAKER LIGHT-SIX TOURING CAR $1190 More Cars Shake Themselves to Pieces Than Ever Wear Out Charge that up to vibration. Vibration causes cars to grow old premature/ by racking their chassis, from one-quarter thousandth to one thousandth of an inch. The Light-Six motor embodies the More Cars Shake Themselves to Pieces Than Ever Wear Out Charge that up to vibration. Vibration causes cars to grow old prematurely by racking their chassis, destroying the "metal life" of vital parts, loosening up their bodies and causing squeaks and rattles. Frequent, costly repairs are the result. The Studebaker Light-Six is freer from vibration than any car of its approximate size or weight yet produced. This has been accomplished largely by a complete machining of the crankshaft and connecting rods on all surfaces—a practice used by Studebaker exclusively on cars at this price and found only on a very few other cars whose selling prices are from three to ten times as high as the Light-Six. There are 61 precision operations in the manufacture of the crankshaft alone, 40 of which range in accuracy from one-quarter thousandth to one thousandth of an inch. The Light-Six motor embodies the most advanced design known to automobile construction. And no chassis at any price is built to more exacting standards of materials and workmanship. Aside from its mechanical excellence and its consequent long life, the Light-Six is handsome in design, extremely comfortable, sturdy, and we believe the most economical car to buy and operate ever offered at $975 or anywhere near this figure. Its substantial all-steel body, one-piece, rain-proof windshield, ten-inch cushions upholstered in genuine leather, cowl lamps—these are among many features heretofore to be had only in higher-priced cars. For 71 years the name Studebaker has stood for integrity, quality and value. Power to satisfy the most exacting owner. Model and Prices f. o. b. Orange-co. Light Six pass., 112 in. W. B., 40 hp. touring $1190 roadster 3 pass., 119 in. W. B., 50 hp. coupe-Rdstr. 2 pass., 1440 dan $1795 Special Six 5-pass., 119 in. W. B., 50 hp. Touring $1525 Roadster 2-pass., 1495 Coupe 5-pass., 2275 Sedan $2375 Big Six 7-pass., 126 in. W. D., 60 hp. Touring $2040 Speedster 5-pass., 2135 Coupe 5-pass., 2935 Sedan $3155 Terms to Meet Your Convenience STUDEBAKER HARRY D. RILEY Angeles and Chessnut Sts. Anahima, Calif. THIS IS A STUDEBAKER YEAR