oc-plain-dealer 1923-06-26

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher WORLD COURT URGED BY MR. HARDING President Harding's World Court plan has gone before the people. His St. Louis speech will become memorable in the political annals of the country. While some believe that Mr. Harding's political suggestions will be taken up by the Senate and adopted, at the next session, without drawing of strict party lines, yet there is every likelihood that the World Court and America's adhesion to it will be a very lively issue in the 1924 national political campaign. President Harding makes very clear, in his St. Louis pronouncement, that he would have the World Court dissociated from the League of Nations and would have such reservations made that the United States could enter upon the same terms as other powers. It is upon this point that the issue may be drawn, in part, next year. There may be insistence from some party or element, that the United States enter both the World Court and the League of Nations. And there doubtless will be an "irreconcilable" movement which will oppose strenuously any adherence of the United States either to the World Court or the League of Nations. This great question is before the American people to be settled by the arbitrament of reason. It is well that it be studied from all angles, by all the people, so that when the time for decision comes, next year, the verdict of the people may be intelligent and mature. About the best way to make an enemy is to agree with a man when he says he looks bad. BILLS AGAINST CRIME BECOME LAWS By receiving the signature of Governor Richardson several measures which originated in Los Angeles County, designed to curb criminality, have become effective law. These enactments effect several reforms which should tend to facilitate the administering of criminal law. One of the measures approved by Governor Richardson provides that a defendant may waive preliminary examination, which would expedite the processes of justice and at the same time effect savings for taxpayers. Abuses which result from probation and parole are to be corrected by legislature which would tend to stiffen the actual time served by criminals before they become eligible to conditional release. There are other reformative enactments constituting BILLS AGAINST CRIME BECOME LAWS By receiving the signature of Governor Richardson several measures which originated in Los Angeles County, designed to curb criminality, have become effective law. These enactments effect several reforms which should tend to facilitate the administering of criminal law. One of the measures approved by Governor Richardson provides that a defendant may waive preliminary examination, which would expedite the processes of justice and at the same time effect savings for taxpayers. Abuses which result from probation and parole are to be corrected by legislature which would tend to stiffen the actual time served by criminals before they become eligible to conditional release. There are other reformative enactments, constituting a series of reforms which should help to stay the crime waves which periodically sweep this state. But above and beyond these legal measures, should be the spirit of the people, devoted to the enforcement of law; to the combatting of crime and vice; and to the upholding of peace, order and sound government. Mixing your drinks is dangerous. A man has been arrested for selling milk and water mixed. TO THE POLE BY MOTOR Well folks, we'll soon be off to the north pole in our motor car. Believe it?. It's true all right. The chief of the weather bureau in Sweden, J. W. Sandstrom, has invented "a Pullman car for polar explorers" that runs as easily and as smoothly as this quotation runs off the tongue. It is fashioned after the tank with caterpillar treads. More than that, it has a motor capacity of 36 horsepower and can tote a three-ton cargo over soft snow. Inside the bus are folding beds, patent kitchen, table, dark room for photograph work, and other comforts of a home. The machine has been tried in the rough ice section of Sweden and it has made good. Thus, we are coming to the near day when the reverberating honk of our speeding flivvers will warn the walrus and the polar bear that we are on the way, and the oft-sought pole will be but a mere marker to tell us when to "turn to the right and bear south." Won't that be fine. And, isn't it too bad that Dr. Kane, De Long, Greeley, Amundsen, Peary, and all the others, did not await this glad day instead of wallowing around up there on foot and starving and getting frost-bitten, as they did years ago. They had no vision, it seems. Well, wrap up a few sandwiches, fill the old thermos bottle with hot coffee, and let's go. CARE AT CROSSINGS IS IMPORTANT The grade crossing peril is here, and will persist for an indefinite period. While it is here—while it persists—it behooves all to exercise extreme care in passing over crossings. Those in charge of steam or electric trains are under deep obligation to be on the alert at all dangerous crossings, to conserve human life. And all who traverse crossings, either in vehicles or afoot, should be extremely vigilant. If this spirit of carefulness prevailed more generally, there would be fewer tragedies at crossings. The responsibility rests heavily upon all who travel about over streets and highways to cooperate in behalf of safety. If this cooperation were general pronounced and persistent, the menace of the grade crossing would be lessened. Meantime, the public should agitate or the abolishment of all crossings. This is the one and only real remedy—abolishment. It is realized, however, that this process, even though undertaken, would require a long period to consummate. For this reason, the beginning of the elimination should not be delayed. Attractive Home Features Built of Redwood, painted or not, stands the weather. —Best for Shingles —Best for siding. —Best for exposed surfaces. —Always sound, solid and economical. —We add our endorsement to California Redwood. GIBBS LUMBER 801 E. Broadway — Phone 801 Anaheim THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer TU Subscript Entered HOW PUNY IS MAN! PAR By Southern winter com darkies're f A free co everybody t a personal l A closed h help much, ed season f Dumb-bell through the port of you "Clothes ly a typog the author To err is you begin t calf in you Of course year. It t the gallon. Passive r Tolstoy, and and the Sta It's fair r furnishes m minority do A man t seldom so o of anything about. Still, if th how would d ceal the poo One way y get even w All of the e ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BY ROY K. MOULTON ANOTHER MARATHON In a Long Island port town, The men have every year, An eating contest And it is a gala event And a rather expensive one. Men come from far and near To try their appetites And the winner gets a prize. It was held the other day And the brawny sons of toil Gathered at the tables One man who succeeded in Eating a whole leg of mutton, Two roast chickens and eggs To the number of three dozen Was declared the winner, He was escorted home in triumph But said to his companions: "Don't tell my wife about this Or she won't get me any supper." The Turkish army hasn't been paid in five months, and the soldiers are all fighting mask. It looks like a poor time for Greece to start anything. "Not much of a place! You don't seem to have any murder spots," said a jocular member of a party of tourists to a native New York State guide. "In the last village we stopped at now, they showed us a place where a man had lain in wait for his sweetheart and her four sisters, and murdered them, one after another, with a fiendish gusto." The guide had really never heard of this remarkable crime but his professional jealousy was aroused. "That is quite true, sir," he nublushingly bore witness; "but you perhaps, are not aware that the murder made his escape in this direction and you are now standing on the very spot where he threw away the blood-stained gusto with which he committed the fearful deed!" Every time we hear of an Indian these days he has just fallen heir to four or five million dollars' worth of oil wells. "Not much of a place! You don't seem to have any murder spots," said a jocular member of a party of tourists to a native New York State guide. "In the last village we stopped at now, they showed us a place where a man had lain in wait for his sweetheart and her four sisters, and murdered them, one after another, with a fiendish gusto." The guide had really never heard of this remarkable crime but his professional jealousy was aroused. "That is quite true, sir," he unblushingly bore witness; "but you perhaps, are not aware that the murder made his escape in this direction and you are now standing on the very spot where he threw away the blood-stained gusto with which he committed the fearful deed!" Every time we hear of an Indian these days he has just fallen heir to four or five million dollars' worth of oil wells. It is queer that the Digger Indians didn't run across those oil wells hundreds of years ago. There are a lot of funny looking hats going into the presidential ring this time. One is a 6 7-8. If it is true that the United States owes the Sioux Indians $750,000,000, we will have to let them sloux for it. A man in Indiana has a good silver dollar with the eagle on both sides. He has kept it twenty years—which is the really remarkable thing about the dollar. A Milwaukee man insists that he heard the voice of his dead wife talking to him over the telephone. You simply can't stop 'em. Why can't somebody write a song entitled "The Moss-Covered Bucket Shop?" Houdini can make an elephant vanish. If the present administration isn't careful, it may do the same thing. We are looking forward to the day when Munsey will buy the "Congressional Record" and scrap it. PERHAPS YOU ARE RIGHT Report says 24,300 canteloupes have been received. Surely from this number there should be one good one. In the olden days our neighbors' doings were known through the dressmaker; today they are known through the bootlegger. —Marguerite Tucker. It is quite the usual thing now for a radio station to broadcast an entire opera, but it is not quite so usual for anybody to listen to the finish. One thing about a radio opera is that you can shut it off and go to bed any time you choose. The MacMillan expedition to the artic reports a glacial move southward which presages the beginning of a new ice age. It is believed the glaciers have advanced a couple of inches in the past seventy years, but the MacMillan expedition will make sure about this and will flash us the news in time to lay in a supply of coal and wool blankets. In time it is believed the ice will cover the United States and while it may be a couple of million years, it might be just as well to get ready. It will be inconvenient when it comes, no doubt, but it will at least give us a much needed laugh at the iceman who hangs on our door every morning at 6 o'clock and unhooks a gallon or so of water and leaves it in our refrigerator. At any rate fly screens are good to prevent files from getting out of the house and maybe wandering over to some innocent neighbors', sugar bowl. Mme. Melba may seek election to the English Parliament but has not announced whether she will sing with the government or with the opposition. TUESDAY, JUNE TWENTY-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. PARAGRAPHS By Robert Quillen Southern planter's version: "If winter comes, can the migratory darkies be far behind?" A free country is one in which everybody thinks a no-parking sign a personal insult. A closed season for war wouldn't help much, however, without a closed season for mouths. Dumb-bell: Any man who can't see through the argument used in support of your pet prejudice. "Clothes make the man." Probably a typographical error. Obviously the author mean "bake." To err is human; it is only when you begin to make excuses that the calf in you shows up. Of course we used more sugar last year. It takes about four cups to the gallon, of juice. Passive resistance was invented by Tolstoy, and is used by Ruhr citizens and the State of New York. It's fair enough. The majority furnishes most of the bull, and the minority does most of the beefing. A man may be down, but he is seldom so low that he can't think of anything to scold his neighbor about. Still, if there were no Latin words, how would a very young doctor conceal the poverty of his knowledge? One way for France or Germany to get even would be to act reasonable. All of the enemy would die of shock. ABE MARTIN There's no longer any doubt o' th' superior intelligence o' some animais o' er that o' quite a number o' human bein's when it is known that no photographer has ever been able t' line up a wart hog. Speakin' o' burnin' coal twice, who'd think o' all th' little ways t curb if it wuzn't fer th' rich? POEMS THAT LIVE A SERENADE Ah! County Guy, the air is near The sun has left the sea, The orange-flower perfumes the Passive resistance was invented by Tolstoy, and is used by Ruhr citizens and the State of New York. It's fair enough. The majority furnishes most of the bull, and the minority does most of the beefing. A man may be down, but he is seldom so low that he can't think of anything to scold his neighbor about. Still, if there were no Latin words, how would a very young doctor conceal the poverty of his knowledge? One way for France or Germany to get even would be to act reasonable. All of the enemy would die of shock. There is little cause for alarm. A bull frog and a radical group never are as numerous as they sound. "Grand slam" describes the action of your wife's bedroom door when you criticise the way she played that last hand. With the Atlantic seaboard moist and the South rollid in any case, Al Smith wasn't qualifying as a martyr. One reason why a woman's conscenic doesn't make her despondent is because she is so accustomed to making things over. How much better it would be if people would begin wars in cool deliberation and get enthusiastic when the fiddler's bill arrives. The multiplication of job-holders indicates that eventually all of us will get a living by collecting taxes from one another. POEMS THAT LIVE A SERENADE Ah! County Guy, the air is near The sun has left the sea, The orange-flower perfumes the bower, The breeze is on the sea. The lark, his lay who trill'd all day, Sits hush'd his partner nigh; Breeze, bird and flower confess the hour, But where is County Guy? The village maid steals through the shade. Her shepherd's suit to hear; To Beauty shy, by lattice high, Sings high-born Cavalier. The star of Love, all stars above Now reigns o'r earth and sky, And high and low the influence know— But where is County Guy? —Sir Walter Scott. 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