oc-plain-dealer 1923-06-15

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS When once the soul is rightly opened toward God, and draws its life from His spirit, it does not need to go hunting the world for happiness—seeking it in nature, in science, in art, in money, in pleasures, in fashion, in changes, and crying, "Who will show me any good?" It has its blessedness within, and is so full of the spirit of good, that it sees good in everything, and does good to all. This is the fountain within that never fails.—Dr. Joseph P. Thompson. Crossing the ocean by airplane soon will be almost as common as crossing the street. Damming the Colorado River would be one of the wisest and best investments that could be made in the Southwest. In your quiver of words, keep many kindly ones, and shoot them with unerring accuracy at those whom they would comfort and help. California crops of fruits, grains and vegetables bring into the state enormous sums of new riches. This is produced wealth—new, created, actual addition to the produced riches of the commonwealth. The volume of riches coming from these soil products is a barometer of prosperity, an indicator of the state and extent of thriving. Memoralizing its great men and women does credit to America. The country should be stream with monuments and memorials to those who have given noble service. Criminality is a great problem, to this state, as it is to every state in the Union. California should deal with this problem rigorously and progressively. This state should become noted for its adherence to law and order. Floods will ravage as long as they are not controlled scientifically. To control freshets in streams is practical and economical. The country far better can afford to control floods than it can afford to permit them to run wanton and destroy life and property. The eligible American voter who condemns the government of the United States is condemning himself. For the government is what the voter makes it. Should the quality of government in this country deteriorate, the voter will have no one to blame but himself. The diversity of fruits and other soil productions in California is remarkable. There is nothing which can be grown in the temperature Floods will ravage as long as they are not controlled scientifically. To control freshs in streams is practical and economical. The country far better can afford to control floods than it can afford to permit them to run wanton and destroy life and property. The eligible American voter who condemns the government of the United States is condemning himself. For the government is what the voter makes it. Should the quality of government in this country deteriorate, the voter will have no one to blame but himself. The diversity of fruits and other soil productions in California is remarkable. There is nothing which can be grown in the temperature and the greater part of the torrid zone which cannot be produced successfully here. Frequently an addition is made to the already large number of varieties of horticultural products. This keeps on swelling the number successfully grown here until California as a whole profits immensely from these various big crops of fruit, grain and vegetables. CONTROL OF FLOODS IS ECONOMICAL Flood news comes from different parts of the country with distressing frequency. Lives are lost. Property is ruined. Large areas are devastated. Worst of all, this ghastly story of lives lost and property ruined is a serial. Installments come at shockingly brief intervals. They will continue to come and they will be more and more shocking, until definite and effectual steps are taken to control floods by scientific means. The more this subject is studied, the more the thoughtful citizens is convinced that it would be genuine economy to institute systematic control of waters to prevent destructive inundations. Flood losses clearly are preventable. The millions of dollars which are sacrificed annually in floods should be saved to the country. There should be constant and vigorous agitation in favor of flood control, until the beginning of this great work is effected. Once the beneficial results are seen, the country would doubtless come over quickly to the support of flood control, just as, when the advantages of permanently improved roads became manifest, public sentiment went strongly for highway betterments. CHARACTER IS MAINSTAY OF DEMOCRACY The chart of a democracy would not be worth the parchment on which it is written if it did not have behind it the exalted character of a great people. The standards of a people determine the standards of government. And the standards of national life depend upon the standards of individual life. Given a country peoples with individuals whose moral character is without blemish; whose virtues are rugged and whose redness of blood is manifest in all things, and that country will have splendid government and excellent institutions. As is the character of the masses, so is the character of the nation. Democracy could not endure if it were not grounded upon solid rock of individual character. This is well demonstrated in this country. The exalted ideals of this Nation have been maintained, from generation to generation, by the sturdy character of its people, strong with vigorous virtues. Do you enumerate and appraise your Providential blessings? They who do this find occasion to thank God for many things. Indeed, there should be a perpetual thanksgiving in the hearts of all—turning to God to a loving father, in hours of grief and stress. One of the glories of California is its bird life. Each and every season brings its merry songsters and melodious warblers. There are myriad singers and twitterers by day and the mocking birds makes the night cheerful and romantic with his varied imitative notes. Lend your aid to the protection of these lovely little creatures of the air. AJAX TIRES LEADING motor car manufacturers use them as original equipment. They are also the choice of thousands of prominent car dealers. AJAX CORD, ROAD KING, PARAGON JAMES, THE VULCANIZER 223 N. Los Angeles St. Anaheim, Calif. ATURES Except Sunday r and Publisher Plain Dealer PRESIDENTIAL "TIMBER" (?) COUNTRY NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING CONTRACTS IMMENSE FACTORIES UNLIMITED PATRONAGE FORD INDUSTRIES FORD FORTUNE COAL MINES STREET-CARS FERTILIZER PLANTS RAIL ROADS FORD MOTOR CAR INDUSTRY THOUSANDS OF WELL-PAID EMPLOYES ON HIS PAYROLL COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING WHICH IS WHICH Long Beach Telegram Senator Royal Copeland, Democrat from New York City: "Do you know that today women's garments, hand made, are being imported and sold in New York at a profit for $40, which would cost $70 to make here. These imported garments are made by women of Czecho-Slovakia who are getting one cent a day. All kinds of building material is coming in from abroad. Bricks made in England, which it would cost $28 to make on this side, are being laid down in New York for $22." The Senator thinks the tariff can not touch such situations, while his Democratic colleagues think that the tariff is too high. The senator thinks we ought to restore Europe. With imports increasing 47 per cent under the Fordney-McCumber law it looks as if Europe was in a fair way of being restored, even under the protective tariff policy. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT Many European nations are looking for the balance of power when what they really need is the power of balance. Out our way there is a family that moves in very refined society and it doesn't own an automobile. REAL HORRORS OF WAR The last one was pretty tough in spots, as we all know but now Europe is experiencing war in horrors undreamed of in the old days. France and Germany are at it now, hammer and tongs, violently immersed in the worst musical war history probably will ever be called upon to record. Anybody who has attended grand opera, either as a penance or to pay an election bet, knows what this war is liable to develop into, and to make matters worse, it is being fought out by radio. The first battle is being fought between the operators in the highpower station on the Eiffel Tower in Paris and those of the Lorenz broadcasting station at Eberswalde. REAL HORRORS OF WAR The last one was pretty tough in spots, as we all know but now Europe is experiencing war in horrors undreamed of in the old days. France and Germany are at it now, hammer and tongs, violently immersed in the worst musical war history probably will ever be called upon to record. Anybody who has attended grand opera, either as a penance or to pay an election bet, knows what this war is liable to develop into, and to make matters worse, it is being fought out by radio. The first battle is being fought between the operators in the highpower station on the Eiffel Tower in Paris and those of the Lorenz broadcasting station at Eberswalde, Germany. But this is only the opening skirmish, heavy programs crashing against heavy programs, and the air is being filled with the confusions of another Verdun. It is difficult to see how the French have a chance against the Germans in this music war. German music is brutal and excels all others in downright frightfulness when it gets to going good. An opening attack with several batteries spouting "Gotterhamerung" should overwhelm all French resistance, and if it doesn't there will be overpowering reinforcements of "Willian Tell," "Lohengrin" and "Tannhauser," all heavy artillery, Big Berthas, as it were, of tremendous carrying power. The French can reply only with light field pieces such as "La Boheme," "Manon," Mignon" and "Pal Masque" but may be able to do considerable sharpshooting. It is likely that the French will secure the assistance of the Italians, who have more operas than France and Germany combined. At any rate it promises to be the most terrible war that the innocent bystanders ever had to listen to. America's isolation saves us. Pasadena now has 7,000 widows. That's no place for a rich bachelor to spend a vacation. Jazz musicians want $15 a day instead of $10. We are willing they should have it if they promise not to ear it by making $5 worth more of noise. During the past year there were 1,000,000 marriages in this country, but it is only fair to say that some of the film people voted three or four times. Maude Adams, we see is coming back to the stage. There never was a better time for somebody to come back to it. FRIDAY, JUNE FIFTEENTH 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. PARAGRAPHS By Robert Quillen Another excellent and popular endurance contest is life. Chinese bandits retire to a mountain. Over here they retire to a country estate. And so the Reds are praying for Lenin. Ah, Well; it's fair enough. He prayed for them. If we become what we eat, hash probably isn't a recent invention Paul was all things to all men. You never know whether a liberator is going to establish a new aristocratic line or a new bee line. These educated apes, while human enough to be interesting, are not quite human enough to be offensive. We note by the magazine advertisements that a man isn't considered well dressed unless he has on a collar that makes him look funny. Another amusing thing about the new-rich is their obvious ignorance taxes. Man spends half of his life cuasing the old fogies and the other half worrying about the rising generation. Some drivers trust to brakes and some trust to dodging. Either method works if the pedestrian is a mind reader. ABE MARTIN Have you ever noticed that Bryan never suggests anybody for th' Democratic presidential nomination that could beat him 't it? This must be th' high ole time we've allus heard so much about. If a man tells his wife everything, it may be that he loves her. And then it may be that he merely loves a fight. 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