oc-plain-dealer 1923-07-06

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester PLAN AIRSHIP JOURNEY AROUND WORLD Circling the globe by airship may be accomplished first by aviators of the United States Army. Under directions of Secretary of War Weeks an aerial route around the earth is being surveyed. Available landing places are being studied on the Alaska coast, and in the Aleutian Islands, Japan and Australia. From Alaska the proposed flight would take the trail made by English aviators in flights from England to Australia. It is not fully decided to undertake this momentous feat at this time. But the survey will prepare the way, should American aviators essay the big undertaking later. It is to the credit of American aeronautics that several very notable aerial achievements have been made by them, in pioneering unconquered air flights. It would be a notable feat indeed for American aeronauts to be the first to circle the globe by air. CUBA PLANS MEMORIAL TO COL. ROOSEVELT A noble monument to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in the City of Santiago de Cuba is planned. This is to commemorate the Colonel's part in Cuba's fight for independence. The Rough Riders' Association is in charge of the movement. Quite fitting is it that Cuba should memorialize Colonel Roosevelt. He was the consistent, influential and useful friend of that island. He not only bore prominent part in the military and naval campaign which loosed Cuba from the tyrannous grip of a European power, but he was Cuba's friend in the trying days succeeding the war with Spain. Colonel Roosevelt, as President did not hesitate to interpose in Cuba with armed force when trouble-makers inaugurated a reign of terror there. Colonel Roosevelt's prompt and decisive interposition kept Cuba free from internecine strife. His vigorous policies, at the very time when Cuba needed steadying and stabilizing were invaluable. It was Colonel Roosevelt who instigated sanitary cleaning of Cuban cities, which converted Havana and other municipalities from the worst disease breeders on the Western hemisphere into cities model for cleanliness and healthfulness. of a European power, but he was Cuba's friend in the trying days succeeding the war with Spain. Colonel Roosevelt, as President did not hesitate to interpose in Cuba with armed force when trouble-makers inaugurated a reign of terror there. Colonel Roosevelt's prompt and decisive interposition kept Cuba free from internecine strife. His vigorous policies, at the very time when Cuba needed steadying and stabilizing were invaluable. It was Colonel Roosevelt who instigated sanitary cleaning of Cuban cities, which converted Havana and other municipalities from the worst disease breeders on the Western hemisphere into cities model for cleanliness and healthfulness. CONDITIONS IMPROVE IN EUROPE General economic conditions in Europe are not so bad as generally supposed. According to Wilbur K. Thomas, executive secretary of the American Friends' Service Committee, who has made a tour through Austria, Poland, Germany and Russia, betterment is noted in all countries except Germany. Austria, in particular, is taking up the work of re-construction and is making substantial progress. In Russia, too, outside of the famine belt, industry is improving rapidly and the agricultural resources of that country are given development attention. Europe needs only to relieve itself of the incubus of militarism. It needs only to turn its attention from war to the arts of peace. Then the streams of economic reconstruction will begin to rise. This is the goal toward which Europe should set itself. TOLLS FROM CANAL VAST AND IMPROVING The Panama Canal once again has demonstrated its successfulness as a business enterprise. Commercial traffic through the canal during the fiscal year ending June 30 showed a gain of 50 per cent over any preceding year. Toll receipts for the year were more than $17,000,000. That the canal would become very renumerative, soon or late, has been the conviction of all close students who have studied the situation with reference to the development of the great waterway. Tonnage through the canal was huge. The year, in many ways, was quite prosperous for the Panama Canal. As business venture it is proving to be immensely successful. EDUCATION FOSTERING WORLD PEACE Great impetus should be given to cause of universal peace by the discussions which have taken place in the World Conference in Education and the National Association in San Francisco. Definite proposals have been brought forward to institute training in schools to promote peace. This movement, begun and carried on in all civilized countries, should result in bringing the nations of the world into closer understanding and should foster peace sentiment everywhere. There is much that may be and should be taught in the home and in the school to incline children toward peace thoughts and peace ideals. This can be incubated without destroying the spirit and effectiveness of patriotism. Indeed, it should be the aim and object of all patriotic plans and purpose to promote concord—to keep this Nation at peace with all the world. Visit Yellowstone National Park As a vacation region its supremacy is unchallenged. Hotels and camps provide every comfort and convenience. You may ride horseback, motor, fish, climb mountains—or spend every daylight hour in the never ending joy of sightseeing. Greatly Reduced Fees this summer. Take advantage of them and going or returning, see beautiful Salt Lake City. For detailed information regarding fares and free illustrated booklets, call on or address C. J. KOWE, Agent Union Pacific Plain Dealer PERSONA NON GRATA TO ENGLAND U.S. 12 MILE LIMIT & SEIZEURE LIQUOR PROPOSAL PARA To Flappers keep temptation Ford may President, but People would win God's com a next-door n Being color-misfortune, he are what the Fortunately sumer isn't re he understand If he boast yesterday, you him as a has A rabbit did prisingly effe an amateur t Reasonable agined: "My spender whe A lot of the probably only trast with th As a rule, the ice man m the winter m Unfortunai ways know w movies never attending. If you did summer vaca have time to than five or COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING PARENTAL ADVICE IS WHOLESOME—Minneapolis News When Robert L. Taylor was beginning his term as governor of Tennessee, his father, N. G. Taylor, wrote to him from Happy Valley, January 17, 1887, a letter of encouragement and warning. He predicted that success or failure would come to the son in proportion to his observance of non-observance of certain simple rules. Seven suggestions were made as follows: "Learn all your duties, and then promptly and fearlessly discharge them. In every transaction be governed. First, by the requirements of the law; second, by the demands of an enlightened conscience; third, by the supreme divine code. Let no temptation induce you to ignore the requirements of your self-respect. Let your promises be few and strictly performed. Do not forget that the eyes and ears of enemies are open to all you say or do; therefore think much and let your words be well chosen. In all questionable cases, say and do those things that are clearly right and never doubtful. Place your hands in the hands of the Lord and ask His guidance in every condition of life." In the campaign of 1886 Robert L. ran for governor against his brother, Alfred, the former as a Democrat and the latter as a Republican. Two years ago Alfred ran for governor, and was elected. One of the old neighbors of the family recalled the letter written in 1887, found a copy and presented it to the new governor. Although 72 years old then, he declared that the wishes of his father would become his rules of action, and that it would be his purpose to amitate both his father and brother who defeated him many years before. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BY ROY A MOULTON OUR DAILY SHORT STORY Jim Smith was notoriously slow pay. He owed quite a bill at the grocery for pork. One day as his credit was becoming strained pay for the pork I have had and want some more." Certainly," said the delighted proprietor, as he hastened to wait on his customer. Taking the package of pork, Jim Smith started to go. "Wait a minute," said the proprietor. "I thought you wanted to NEW YORK LETTER By Lucy Jeanne Price NEW YORK, July 6.—Down on Long Island is a gentlemanly, courteous man, whose English is polished as well as correct, sells hot dogs and soda water to the youngsters of the neighborhood, from a little hole in-the-wall. Two years ago, that man was at the head of one of the biggest, and presumably strongest, brokerage houses on the Consolidated Exchange, with a business running into millions annually. The crash came and young' R. D. MacMasters, head of the company, was forgotten when he faded from the Wall street life, as the Street has a habit of forgetting its shining lights of yesterday. After searching for something to do, he took his few remaining dollars in the hot dog place and works away there ten or twelve hours a day. Now we have hats of wood! The latest caprice in the shops on the Avenue are close-fitting., turban-like hats, made entirely of wooden beads. They are strung and crisscrossed on the head much like the pearl caps of Juliet's day, and they come in all colors imaginable. There is nothing fashion can't hit upon when she is really bent on a new achievement. Will Rogers says it's grand thing when you see a motion picture, to be able to say to yourself, "Well, that's a terrible picture, but Will Hays has made the actors morals look a lot better anyway." And pretty soon if the present drift keeps up, we are going to get a lot of comfort out of the thought that "It's an awfully unreal story, but certainly can see a lot of socially prominent people in it." The latest girl of the haute monde to go wholeheartedly into the films is Mrs. James Y. Converse, twin sister to Mrs. Regin- OUR DAILY SHORT STORY Jim Smith was notoriously slow pay. He owed quite a bill at the grocery for pork. One day as his credit was becoming strained pay for the pork I have had and want some more. "Certainly," said the delighted proprietor, as he hastened to wait on his customer. Taking the package of pork, Jim Smith started to go. "Wait a minute," said the proprietor. "I thought you wanted to pay for the pork!" "I do," remarked Jim, as he resumed his homeward way, "but I can't." One of the surprising phases of the bandit wave in China is that the bandits are but armed with flat-irons. Senator Borah believes the League of Nations has failed. Senators do find things out at last if you give them time. You have been wearing straw hats for years, but what do you know about them? Practically nothing. The statistics are just out and they have been in preparation for several years by an association of manufacturers. Here are a few of the most spicy, and they will serve to prove to your satisfaction that the straw hat is a much more important institution than you thot. This is the fifty-seventh straw hat season for the United States. The opening of the straw hat season has been shifted from June 1 to May 15 nine times and then shifted back again. Straw hats were first worn by the ancient Romans when they went traveling: A straw hat was then called a "ptasus." They are now occasionally called much worse things than that. The English adopted straw hats in the days of Queen Elizabeth. The queen had a habit of beheading her admirers and several of these gentlemen went to the scaffold wearing straw hats. These straw hats died under the chin, and it is said the gentlemen walked up to the scaffold without a regrettion. About that time Shakespeare immortalized the straw hat in "The Tempest" as follows: "You sunburned sickleman, August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry. Make holiday! You wrye straw hats put on." The value of the output of straw hats in this country this year will reach $20,000,000. Two weeks after they have been put on their total value will be $6,794,89. The center of the straw hat industry in this country is Baltimore, where over 4,000,000 straw hats are made every year. Baltimore is also famous for once having a baseball team called the Orioles. Otherwise it has led a circumnavigational life. Of the total number of genuine Panama hats worn in this country, it is estimated that 3 per cent are made in Panama of Panama grasses. The balance goes made of starch. During the summer of 1922 7,083 straw hats were blown away and never seen again which shows that there is an encouraging side to the straw hat epidemic. It is about time for people to begin requesting Luther Burbank to invent a watermelon with a handle. Will Rogers says it's grand thing when you see a motion picture, to be able to say to yourself, "Well, that's a terrible picture, but Will Hays has made the actors morals look a lot better anyway." And pretty soon if the present drift keeps up, we are going to get a lot of comfort out of the thought that "It's an awfully unreal story, but we certainly can see a lot of socially prominent people in it." The latest girl of the haute monde to go wholesheartedly into the films is Mrs. James Y. Converse, twin sister to Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt and daughter of Harry Hays Morgan. Consul-General to Brussels. Not only is she to be a movie actress but a producer, as well, heading her own company. Never would a jeweler suspect that any one of his customers would be interested in the law and its preservation. That was the standpoint of a well-known Fifth-avenue jeweler, whose wealthiest clients recently received engraved invitations t view the "famous Napoleon pears." One of the recipients, however, while registering her own jewels at the men gave of a buble they had picked from the guter near the Hotel Biltmore, as they torted the string to John Hussey, uniformed attendant at the hotel door. Joseph Mulligan, a valet, looked at the "beads" with Hussey and suggested that they might be valuable. It developed that they were pearls, valued at $10,000 and lost that day by a young woman guest at the hotel. Mulligan and Hussey have each received a check for $250 from the insurance company and somewhere in New York are two young men who will never again toss away a string of beads, whatever their nature, if they happen to have heard the story of this aftermath. Ben Holtzman vouches for the authenticity of this story. An actor of the old school was holding forth at the Players' Club one evening last week on the glories of the never-to-be-forgotten days. "I tell you Shakespeare brings home things to you that you have never seen before," he said; whereupon a flippant youth interrupted him with "who does my laundry." FRIDAY, JULY THE 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 To Flappers: An onion a day to keep temptation away. Ford may not be too rich to be President, but isn't he too useful? People would try much harder to win God's commendation if He were a next-door neighbor. Being color-blind isn't such a great misfortune, however, now that shoes are what they are. Fortunately, however, the consumer isn't required to pretend that he understands the tariff bill. If he boasts of the thing he did yesterday, you are safe in classifying him as a has-been. A rabbit digging a hole seems surprisingly efficient until you watch an amateur golfer. Reasonable statement, easily imagined: "My friend Tom is a good spender whenever I've got it." A lot of the great men of the past probably only seemed great by contrast with their fool constituents. As a rule, the summer manners of the ice man are just as irritating as the winter manners of the coal man. Unfortunately, the people who always know what the matter with the movies never verify their findings by attending. If you didn't begin planning your summer vacation till now, you won't have time to change your mind more than five or six times. ABE MARTIN "I've often walked more'n a mile for part of a cigar, but cigarettes never seem't bit th' spot," declared Pony Mopps t'day. Mrs. Em Motts, has been missin' for several days; 'phoned her daughter this mornin' that she'd finally found a parkin' place. INSURANCE Fire, Compensation, Burglary, Plate Glass, Public Liability, Bonds of all kinds. Automobile, Health and Accident. FRANK TAUSCH Manager Insurance and Loan Dept. J. T. LYON REALTY CO. 111 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim As a rule, the summer manners of the ice man are just as irritating as the winter manners of the coal man. Unfortunately, the people who always know what the matter with the movies never verify their findings by attending. If you didn't begin planning your summer vacation till now, you won't have time to change your mind more than five or six times. If you wish to enjoy your new car, use a hammer to crumple the fenders and then you won't have anything to worry about. As a boy he wonders why a few are Congressmen-at-large. And later on in life he wonders why any of them are permitted to be. BEANS BAGS AND TWINE A. NELSON Buena Park Phone—Anaheim 762-J-3 —Fullerton 178-R-1 Can We Really Know A Christian? How? This will be the topic of a Free Lecture to be given by Evang. W. H. Farrar of Long Beach. 3rd Floor L.O.O.F.Bldg., Anaheim SUNDAY, JULY 8, 7:30 P.M. 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