oc-plain-dealer 1923-06-25

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher MAKING A HUSBAND GOOD Mrs. Marie Ubelerboer had her husband haled before a Chicago court. She complained that he drank red liquor continuously, and, also, that he never had given her flowers or candy during the 35 years of their married life. Here was a telling clarion call for exact justice, and the court rose to it. No, Ubelerboer was not sent to the electric chair, as his sins of omission and commission seemed to warrant—nothing as soft as that—but he was punished. The court sternly ordered him to remain away from his wife for one week and to send her candy and flowers every day. Can you think of anything more terrible to visit on a booze-fighter than to compel him to be decent to his family? Rather, alomst, would he prefer the gaol or the guillotine. Undoubtedly, Justice occasionally peeps from behind her eyebandage and sees her duty more plainly than the written law sets it down. She did so in this case. One citizen of Chicago will have to be good for a week, no matter how painful it may be. Dr. Sun says he will build 1200 miles of railway in China. That should help the bandit business KILLERS ALL The greatest inventor of small arms the world has produced—a mormon—has just developed a repeating cannon that will hustle two heavy missiles a second over a distance of seven miles. The army now has several new war tanks. They weigh 40 tons each. Experimenting with them, officers sent them against a grove of trees in which 12-inch trunks were not infrequent. The tanks bowled the trees over as a threshing machine lays the grain. Great advances have been made by experts in the development of poison gases for battle use. Some of these, accurately applied, are capable of killing thousands in a few moments. Killers all. But those of us who really value human life and believe it is something to be enhanced and beautified rather than The army now has several new war tanks. They weigh 40 tons each. Experimenting with them, officers sent them against a grove of trees in which 12-inch trunks were not infrequent. The tanks bowled the trees over as a threshing machine lays the grain. Great advances have been made by experts in the development of poison gases for battle use. Some of these, accurately applied, are capable of killing thousands in a few moments. Killers all. But those of us who really value human life and believe it is something to be enhanced and beautiful rather than destroyed, find it difficult to enthuse over these developments. Compared with the awful possibilities that in them lie, inferno at its worst is a pleasant picnic in congenial surroundings. We hope Jackie Coogan can keep out of one of those Hollywood scandals for a year or two. THIS BUMPER CROP OF COLLEGE GRADS We have now arrived at the month of brides and baccalaureate sermons and graduation orations. Before lovely June has passed in history, the 578 universities and colleges of this country will have issued beautifully engraved sheepskins to no less than 45,000 young men and women of this country, sheepskins which in the form of scholastic degrees will express to their own minds at least that they now belong to the intelligentia of the U.S.A. The other day Prof. Charles Mills Gayley, retiring dean of the Department of English of University of California, speaking before a gathering of the alumni of that great institution said: "Our mass system of education is a menace to the educational life of the nation. This university spent over $200,000 last year teaching college students many of the rudiments they should have learned in high school. One third of the present student body here are misfits for college degrees and one half the remaining two-thirds should be eliminated." That's pretty severe talk, isn't it? If a newspaper editor were to get off anything like that he'd be regarded as "sensational," would he not? But President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University, one of the most heavily endowed institutions in the world, says that Gayley is right! Both Gayley and Wilbur place the blame on the doting parent, who, not content with putting his child through high school, seems determined to force him through college for no other purpose than to get a degree which can be pinned on him like the badge of a small town reception committee. What are we going to do with these 45,000 young college grads? Few of them will care to become bricklayers or stone masons or plumbers or electrical workers or even carpenters! Fewer still will care to take position as cooks or steel mill workers or locomotive firemen. Fact is, most of them couldn't qualify for any of these jobs. Yet the world is greatly more in need of good men for these jobs than for doctors, lawyers or writers, and the pay is better—at least it's surer. How about it? If you want a man to feel at home, let him pull of his shoes and kick about the grub. LOW FARES FOUR ROUTES EAST Through, fast service every day to Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, New Orleans, with direct connection for New York and other eastern cities. —Back East round trip excursions daily until September 15. Stop-over privilege in each direction. Go one way, come back another if you wish. —Round trip fares every day to Pacific Coast resorts at notable reductions. Go somewhere this summer via Southern Pacific Lines G. D. Maltby, Agt. Tel. 123 RES Sunday Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer Subsc Enter SOMEBODY HAS TO STAY AT HOME AND TEND THE LAMP G.O.P. ISSUES ENTHUSIASM NATIONAL LIGHT HOUSE HUGHES ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT If, as the Shipping Board says, the Leviathan belongs to all of us, why not let us all take turns giving parties to our friends aboard her. Our friends, as well as Chairman Lasker's, would appreciate a free ocean trip, no doubt, if the Leviathan is to be a pleasure yacht. PLEASURE IS ALL YOURS: Dear Roy:—On the Grafton road, going eastward from Troy, N. Y., may be seen a sign which reads: "Pleasant Valley. Dangerous Curve." THE NEWS FROM HOPPERTOWN Uncle Ezra Harkins of our town has received word that his brother out in Wyoming has had another narrow escape from death. The State Board of Pardons got busy on his case just in time. Amos Butts, livery, feed and sales stables, also undertaker, is about disgusted as there ain't a doctor in the place and nobody has died for eight months. T. Egbert Peavy has got two pairs of white soxs and is all ready for his summer conquests among the fair sex. Lem Higgins autosed over to Peavy Junction Tuesday and walked back. He had to buy a tire over there and they kept the car as security. Elmer Spink is getting to be a dude. He wears garters now and carries a white handkerchief. What's the lady's name, Elmer? We often wonder where all the tortoise come from that are used for making tortoise-shell glasses. A lot of literary people nowadays are running entirely on the rims. Isn't it cheering when you've been on a vacation two weeks and just returned with a big suit case and a khaki-colored tan that cost you $175, to meet the elevator man in your office building and hear him ask, "Are you going away?" Only one point remains to obstruct the recognition of the Obregon government of Mexico by the United States, according to a Washington dispatch. Probably this point is whether the We often wonder where all the tortoise come from that are used for making tortoise-shell glasses. A lot of literary people nowadays are running entirely on the rims. Isn't it cheering when you've been on a vacation two weeks and just returned with a big suit case and a khaki-colored tan that cost you $175, to meet the elevator man in your office building and hear him ask, "Are you going away?" Only one point remains to obstruct the recognition of the Obregon government of Mexico by the United States, according to a Washington dispatch. Probably this point is whether the Obregon government shall be recognized. Judging by recent oil reports, the Sick Man of Europe is apparently on the mend. A Little Talk On Thrift By S. W. STRAUS President American Society for Thrift Vacation time is here, and for the next two or three months the question of how best to spend this period of rest and recreation will engross the attention of millions of people throughout the country. In the days of our forefathers, vacations were of small consequence and were looked upon as a form of indulgence that could be enjoyed only by the chosen few. Tim spent in absolute idleness and money utilized in mere pleasure seeking were frowned upon generally by serious minded persons who regarded such experiences as unjustifiable examples of idleness and waste. But viewpoints change with progress. We are living more scientifically and with broader vision in such matters now than was the case fifty years ago. The vacation, if rightfully made use of, is a form of thrift thoroughly in keeping with the rightful standards of current life. But to come within the scope of this definition, one's vacation must be spent either in complete rest or in time given to physical and mental upbuilding. Travel, if kept within the bounds of one's finances, is a splendid type of vacation because it gives a change of environment, gets the mind away from the usual routine and broadens one's educational equipment. On the other hand, the man who takes his everyday problems with him and keeps his mind still riveted on the questions that are before him during the entire year cannot gain much benefit from such a vacation. One's fitness for work throughout the year depends to some extent upon choosing the right kind of vacation. Therefore, to arrange and carry out one's plans for the annual relaxation period with the same prudent consideration given to all important problems of life, constitutes a very good example of thrift. MONDAY, JUNE TWENTY-FIFTH, 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 A conservative is a man who is afraid it will affect his profits if it happens. "Chloroform used on blooming flowers." If only we could use it on blooming idiots. That have-you-left-anything sign in a hotel room isn't an invitation to take the other towel. It isn't so very difficult to get to Easy Street if you can pay the price at the toll gates. Children are an educational force, at that. No parent could keep up with the new slang without them. If you are free to hold it, it is a mere belief; but a little persecution at once makes it a principle. Savages: People who have not yet learned to rob, slay and cheat each other scientifically. It isn't Uncle Sam's money Europe, needs so much as the peaceful disposition that enabled him to make money. One reason why imported movie stars fail is because no human being could live up to the advertising they get. Indications are that England slowly will approach aridity as more Americans get seats in the House of Commons. 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