oc-plain-dealer 1923-06-27

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher RAILROAD IS COMPLETE IN ALASKA Of general interest is announcement of the completion by the United States Government, of the standard gauge railroad through the heart of Alaska, from Seward to Fairbanks, a distance of 470 miles. It has taken several years to construct this line and many notable engineering feats were involved. The road is ready for passenger and freight traffic. President Harding and his party will make the trip over the entire line, when they reach Alaska. Building of this line should be of immense material benefit to Alaska. It should give adequate service and at fair rates. And its service should be for all shipping interests, without invidious distinctions and discriminations. The natural resources of Alaska are not exhausted by any means. On the contrary their development scarcely has begun. The railroad under control of the United States Government should be instrumental in furthering the symmetrical development of the great northwest, and in placing within reach of the American people the important products of Alaska. There may be a new plot in moving pictures. But if there is the producers seem to be guarding it with extreme care and keeping it from the public. A STORY THAT HITS HOME One of our leading agricultural papers tells us of a French farm that has been successfully worked by one family since 1023—almost a thousand years. It is a farm of 200 acres, and today, it is producing crops and giving content to those who cultivate it. There is a message to American farmers in this story. It is that there is little in the theory that constantly cultivated soil becomes entirely worn out. It becomes impoverished only when improperly cared for—when it is not fed. Those thousands of tillers who fled from eastern farms "because the soil was worn out" made a big mistake. If the soil of France is good for a thousand years and more, so is ours. And we have agricultural colleges a-plenty to tell us all about it. Times are so bad with some people they won't buy a single new automobile this summer. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING THE TRUE COLLEGE EDUCATION San Francisco Journal The Journal recently took the position that the study of Latin and Greek is not without its usefulness even in the prosaic business of raising hogs, because the better the man the better may be the hogs. That is another way of saying that an appreciation of the classics does not necessarily stand in the way of successful agriculture, and it may furnish to the farmer the medium through which he may lift himself above sordid surroundings and furnish the key to an understanding of the past. This viewpoint, like all others, must be taken with moderation. It does not mean that the hog raiser's primary food should be Greek roots and Latin conjugations, or that it is more important to him to know how to translate Virgil than to build a silo. Nothing can substitute for practical knowledge in practical affairs. No one would think of trying to caulk a leaking boat with classical information. At Berkeley the question of what to do with the large registration of students is becoming one of political economy rather than education. It is costing the state millions of dollars to add a coat of artificial jap-a-lac to the high school graduate that will spoil him from being a good salesman, carpenter or farmer. President Campbell has declared in favor of restricting the use of the classrooms of the university to those who make a proper use of them to their own advantage. There is a great deal of nonsense spilled on the subject of higher education. There is no virtue in trying to make a doctor of philosophy out of material that nature designed to be a first class salesman or mechanic. If it is the other way around and fate makes a house painter out of stuff fit for a larger pattern, he will be a better house painter for it until opportunity gives him time to adjust himself. Under our present system there is more danger of misfit education than ther is of under-education. The true interpretation of the hog editorial is that the polished education need not unfit one for the humbler tasks of life nor make him feel too good to perform them. In this aspect education is looked upon as the instrument to add harmony and joy to life and not to furnish a polish that is too good for its surroundings. If a classical scholar wishes to call his chickens in Greek there is nothing to prevent his doing so. The mistake is made when we begin to teach that success in chicken raising is dependent upon proficiency in Greek. Bring Your Money to Anaheim —July 1st is moving time for accounts. Being the end of an interest payment period, accounts may be transferred be- Bring Your Money to Anaheim —July 1st is moving time for accounts. Being the end of an interest payment period, accounts may be transferred between July 1st and 10th without loss of interest. —If you have money deposited in another city and are making Anaheim your home, you will find it more convenient to have your funds near at hand. Deposited here they will help to promote the prosperity and upbuilding of the community you have chosen as your home. —There is no charges for transferring accounts and all changes made before July 10th draw interest from the first. Let us arrange it for you. 4 Per Cent Interest on Savings FIRST NATIONAL BANK AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK of Anaheim PLAIN DEALER THE ORANGE COUNTY WEL Subscri Entere HIS "GREAT ADVENTURE" WORLD COURT SPEECHES PRES HARDING·WEST BOUND·NON POLITICAL SPEECH MAKING TOUR HE WILL VISIT ALASKA BEING THE THIRD PRESIDENT TO LEAVE THE U.S. WHILE IN OFFICE ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BY ROY K. MOULTON A LITTLE SLICE OF LIFE She stood on the roof Of the house opposite Drying her hair in the sun. Her locks floated in the Breeze. Being romantic, I imagined That I was in ancient Spain. This was perhaps Aberiada. Her beautiful face and hair Upset my commercial mind. Her figure was wonderful And her gestures as graceful As those of a professional dancer. I gazed at her a long time. Determined to find out Who she was. I haunted The block all that day. Late in the afternoon She came out with a baby carriage. She was the janitor's wife. How could she have married him? But, she did. Marcel Steinbrugge. "You're losing your petticoat, aren't you Henry?" The prominent man not understanding, gazed intuitingly at the banker, who continued: "What's that white things hanging below your trouser legs?" The man looked down. His face colored and he stepped back into the direteor's room. When he came out he walked briskly past the bank president, who called: "Here why don't you explain?" 11 AELLY VIEWS "FAST TALKING RUINS OUR ENGLISH," CRIES PROFESSOR Good conversation is declining in America and both our readers and writers need new inspiration; according to Dr. Henry van Dyke, professor of English literature at Princeton university. Dr. van Dyke, while discussing the subject, also ridiculed the idea of creating an "American language." He said, In part: "The native language of these United States is English. Our forefathers and foremothers helped to make it in the old country and they brought it with them in this land in pretty good condition. True, they did not write it extensively. They were too busy chopping down forests, building houses, fighting off Indians and making states to have much leisure for the production of belles-lettres. But they talked English with considerable fluency and vigor, preserving some of the old words and phrases, (such as "I guess" in the north, and 'I reckon' in the south), which foolishly were lost by the modern British. Some early Americans, like Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin, even went so far as to write English with a clearness and pungency which have been admired by competent judges. Good Conversation Scarce. "But for the most part English was kept alive and propagated as the heritatic language of this country by vocal use. In that I include not only preaching, public speaking, school teaching and play acting, but also conversation—plain, intelligent and entertaining talk. This seems to be declining in the fierce speed and abominable racket of modern life. It is hard to find good conversation in America, and perhaps something of premise W. Anah after an complaint illness direct caress this being about the Mr. Ew St. Joseph the age and state and later work often took early devil to California later went In 1872 Jane Kellet little late Anahelma adena, life boom of turned to beet rais! In conde he studied was conscient subject. Mr. Ew Guatamala ouest tribe one being month and himself fatal illu to the joie He is s Louisa J Mrs. Alice Iowa; Dr dena; Mrs and Mrs. heim; six sell, Law all of An Evans, of ers also." are Good Tires -and "USCO" confirms it! YOUR enthusiasm over "USCO" performance won't surprise the motorist who knows the fabric tire field. Every 30 x 3½ tire user recognizes "USCO" as a value to be respected and to be investigated. The users of "USCO," know it as a money's worth that came before the public as a leader and that has maintained its leadership. "USCO" is made by the same people who make Royal Cords. Where to buy U.S.Tires ANAHEIM A. ANTON, Highway Supply Store RFD No. 2, Box 238. M. ANTON, RFD No. 2, Box 222 L. J. EVANS, (Five Points Service Station). HUGH LARUE, Cypress, RFD No. 2. CHARLES H. MANN, 210 Sq. Los Angeles St. C. H. MYERS, (Myers Garage). R. J. REDDEN, Route No. 2, Box 307. HARRY D. RILEY, 151 S. Los Angeles St. S. R. WALTERS, (Anaheim Vulc. Works), 156 S. Los Angeles St. Good Conversation Scarce. But for the most part English was kept alive and propagated as the heritary language of this country by vocal use. In that I include not only preaching, public speaking, school teaching and play acting, but also conversation—plain, intelligent and entertaining talk. This seems to be declining in the fierce speed and abominable racket of modern life. It is hard to find good conversation in America, and perhaps not as easy to fin it in England as it was in the time of Johnson and Goldsmith. "The real word is not a thing spelled but a spoken thing. The letters are only a symbol (in English sometimes an obscure symbol), of the sound. Poetry loses half its power unless it is recited or read aloud. The best written books are those in which the writer hears his words as he writes them. Americans Not Alone. One of the chief dangers to our rich and vivid language today is the slovenly way in which it is spoken, not only in the streets, but also in the pulpit, on the stage and even in the classroom. Dialecte and local accent—bogue and burr—are the spice of talk. But lazy, unintelligible, syncopated speech is like a dirty face. America may be the chief offender in this, but, if my memory does not fail me, I have this year heard some folks talk in Lunion who were hard to understand and whose voices were perceptibly nasal—quite as much so as the voices of Noo Yawk. The proposal to make a new American language to fit our enormous country may be regarded either as a specimen of American humor or as a serious enormity. The natural style of the persons who gravely make the proposal gives rise to frightful dreams of the kind of new language which they would probably make if they were let loose on the Absolutely Free: One Auto Strop Razor and Strop. Read Heying Pharmacy ad Absolutely Free: One Auto Strop Razor and Strop. Read Heying Pharmacy ad WEDNESDAY, JUNE TWENTY-SEVENTH 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 One nice thing about suburban property is that a yard is more than three feet. There always is a brighter side. Popular songs seldom remain popular very long. The chief obstacle in the way of progress, now and always, is feathered nests. Whatever else the critic of modern bathing suits may be, she isn't a perfect thirty-six. The cheerful loser merely insults the winner by pretending that victory wasn't worth much. A boob is a man who reads that the cashier shot himself and wonders why the poor fellow did that. If his telephone voice mimics the roar of the lion, you are safe in assuming that he wears a No. 13 collar. Thrift is the art of resisting the blarney of the man who offers you something on the easy payment plan. It is a queer world that erects statues to wholesale killers and none to the men who made the world laugh. With the steady multiplication of her air craft, it won't be long before the French zone of control is the ozone. ABE MARTIN Of all th' nut question, askin' a aviator what time he'll be back is th' worst. What's gettin' th' matter with th' automobile 'specially th' coupes, we see so many o' them stalled at night? POEMS THAT LIVE The World is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! PIONEER RESIDENT OF ANAHEIM DEAD Lumis A. Evans, a pioneer realtor of prominence, died at his home in W. Anaheim this morning at 1:30, after an illness of a few days. He complained three or four days ago of illness similar to influenza; but the direct cause of death was apoplexy, this being an attack second to the one about three years ago. Mr. Evans was born in Centerville, St. Joseph-co, Mich., Nov. 8, 1854. At the age of 18 he moved to New York state and located on a farm. He later worked on the Erie canal and often told interesting stories of its early development. In 1876 he moved to California, then to Anaheim and later went to Los Angeles. In 1878 he married Miss Louisa Jane Kellogg, of Napa, Calif., and a little later began ranching at West Anaheim. In 1881 he located in Pasadena, lived there through the early boom of that city, but in 1892 returned to Anaheim and engaged in beet raising. In connection with his ranching he studied soils of the county and was considered an authority on the subject. Mr. Evans was a member of the Guatamala Syndicate, making frequent trips to that country, the last one being terminated about one month ago. He had not felt quite himself since his return, although fatal illness was in no way attributed to the journey. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Louisa Jane Evans; four daughters, Mrs. Alice Barker, who resides in Iowa; Dr. Orilla May Bigelow, Pasadena; Mrs. Carrie Lou Sutherland, and Mrs. Jennie Butler, both of Anaheim; six sons, Leonard, Frank Russell, Lawrence and Benjamin Evans, all of Anaheim; and Bayard H. Evans, of Los Angeles. Three brothers also survive, Louis, of Cudahy, POEMS THAT LIVE The World is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the Moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything we are out of tune; It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleas ant lea, Hace glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. —Wordsworth. ROUND UP ALLEGED L. A. BANDIT GANG (L. N. S. Staff Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, June 27.—Following a sensational gun battle on downtown streets between alleged bandit leaders and a one police officer, in which two paroled convicts were shot to death and Police Sergeant Arthur W. Bethel probably was mortally wounded, police today launched a strenuous drive to round up other members of the alleged bandit gang. Mr. and Mrs. E. Blinham, L. H. Anderson and James McArthur were jailed as suspects, while others are being sought. The battle was fought as Sergeant Bethel was compelling Edwin Frohn and Melvin Bayes, at the point of a pistol, to drive him to the police station, where they were to be arrested on a charge of burglary. Frohn was shot dead at the wheel of the car as sped down an incline. A pedestrian sprang aboard and guided the automobile to the station door. THREE HURT WHEN FLYER HITS AUTO LOS ANGELES, June 27.—As the result of an unusual accident, occasioned when an airplane crashed into a string of automobiles, C. P. Dryden, his wife and mother, all of Van He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Louisa Jane Evans; four daughters, Mrs. Alice Barker, who resides in Iowa; Dr. Orilla May Bigelow, Pasadena; Mrs. Carrie Lou Sutherland, and Mrs. Jennie Butler, both of Anaheim; six sons, Leonard, Frank Russell, Lawrence and Benjamin Evans, all of Anaheim; and Bayard H. Evans, of Los Angeles. Three brothers also survive, Louls, of Cudahy, Jesse, of Pasadene, and Freeman, who resides in the east. Mr. Evans assisted in the organization of the First Christian Church in Anaheim and has been one of the most dependable members. Funeral services will be conducted at the Backs, Terry & Campbell chapel Thursday afternoon at 2:30. Rev. Leon L. Myers, officiating. Mrs. J. M. Hitchcock will sing "Nearer My God, to Thee" and "No Night There," accompanied by Mrs. C. A. McCullah. Pall bearers will be George McGuire, F. T. Edmiston, Wm. M. Welliman, A. M. Wright, Frank Meredith and Jerome Wallace. Interment in Anaheim mausoleum. RICHARDS WINNER (By International News Service) WIMBLEDON, England, June 27—Vincent Richards, 20-year-old Yankers, N. Y., tennis star, this afternoon won his second round match in the men's singles of the world's lawn tennis championship, defeating S. M. Jacobs, captain of the India Davis Cup team in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3, 8-6. William M. Johnston, the California star, advanced thru the second round, heating Ri D. Watson, a veteran English player in straight sets 6-1, 5-2, 9-7. JOHNSON AT HAGUE (By International News Service) LONDON, June 27—United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California, departed today for The Hague to study the workings of the international court of justice and arbitration at close range. The court is now in session hear ing cases involving the Kiel Canal. THREE HURT WHEN FLYER HITS AUTO LOS ANGELES, June 27—As the result of an unusual accident, occasioned when an airplane crashed into a string of automobiles, C. P. Dryden, his wife and mother, all of Van Nuys, today suffered from serious injuries. Physicians say they will recover. The plane, piloted by Al Makepeace of Pasadena, was participating in a Kiwanis celebration when it became uncontrollable and swooped down on the spectators' machines. The plane and two cars were smashed. BRITISH TO CREATE HOME EAIR DEFENSE By DAVID M. CHURCH, (I, N. S., Staff Correspondent) LONDON, June 27—"The British government has decided to create a home air force adequate to defend the country against the strongest air force within striking distance." Premier Stanley Baldwin announced in the House of Commons this after noon. In outlining the new British air policy, Premier Baldwin said there would be an increase of 25 British air squadrons, giving Britain a total force of 52 squadrons for home defense. TAKES 2 DAYS TO GET JACOBS JURY SAN DIEGO, June 27—At least two more days will be required to select a jury to try Dr. Louis Jacobs, Camp Kearny army physician on the charge of murdering Britial Mann, dancer, according to District Attorney Kempley today. All of Monday was taken up with examination of veniremen, twelve being excused because of their attitude on circumstantial evidence and for fixed opinions regarding the case. Paul Schenck, heading the defense council, has indicated that he will attempt to keep women off the jury.