oc-plain-dealer 1923-07-11

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul N. Hester . . . Editor and Publisher AMERICANISM PURE IN SPIRIT IS NEEDED President Harding, in his Fourth of July address at Portland, made an eloquent plea for reconsecration of the people to the ideals and purposes of America as the fathers established it. This is quite timely. "I would like to acclaim the day when there is no room in America, anywhere, for those who defy the law." This is sentiment to which each and every true American can subscribe. That "those who seek our hospitality for the purpose of destroying our institutions" should be restrained, every lover of law and order will agree. There is no room in this country for violence. Those who come here to preach or practice violence, those who would incite others to violence should be held in check. A sure antidote to the poison of violence from abroad is to culminate the spirit of true Americanism among Americans. Should the violence-breeding element from abroad find a solid wall of uncompromising sentiment among Americans against those who agitate for overthrow of government and institutions by force, these mischief-making aliens would find themselves restrained by the very force of unwelcome reception. It is the lending of sympathetic ear to those advocates of bloody revolution that encourages and emboldens them in this country. They are doing things in airships these days that a few years ago would have been regarded as impossible. In truth, in many lines of invention and mechanical achievement, the hitherto impossible is becoming the commonplace. ILLITERACY IS UNDER BOMBARDMENT Concentrated efforts to banish illiteracy from the world were launched by educators of the United States and the world in the memorable meetings at San Francisco. Organized activities along this line are provided for in the action taken. The United States should exert itself strenuously along this line. There are 5,000,000 or more illiterates in this ILLITERACY IS UNDER BOMBARDMENT Concentrated efforts to banish illiteracy from the world were launched by educators of the United States and the world in the memorable meetings at San Francisco. Organized activities along this line are provided for in the action taken. The United States should exert itself strenuously along this line. There are 5,000,000 or more illiterates in this country. This is a grave reflection upon the quality of the American system of education. There are nearly 100,000 illiterates in California. These stigmas should not be permitted to continue. Everybody should help to remove illiteracy from the land. This is a work in which the individual as well as educators collectively, may and should engage. In poor districts where there are illiterate children or adults, it should be the work of those nearest to teach these illiterates, or provide for their schooling. Building activity is proceeding in response to the actual demands of the country for more housing. If cost of construction is kept within reasonable bounds the activities of today will continue indefinitely, and there is little danger of overbuilding. NATURAL RESOURCES FOR TODAY'S LIVING President Harding's urging that natural resources be developed, as needed, for the benefit of the living generation, instead of keeping them locked up for the indefinite future, will strike responsive chord with many. There should be no wasting of the people's resources—this should be assured. And yet, on the other hand, there should not be indefinite tying up of resources against needed development. Alaska's coal, for instance, is needed right now in the industrial development of the Pacific West. It would be sheer folly to seal up its great coal fields and leave them untouched for half a century, when their aid is required for the development of this imperial region of the United States. Against plutocratic greed, however, the great natural resources of the Nation should be safeguarded. The people should not be deprived of their natural wealth. But, on the other hand, they should not be out of the use of the riches which legitimately belong to them and which they require, in the orderly progress of national life. Everywhere-Royal Cords United States Tires are Good Tires THE growing number of Royal Cord Clinchers you see on the roads gives an idea of how many car owners there are who want Everywhere-Royal Cords United States Tires are Good Tires THE growing number of Royal Cord Clinchers you see on the roads gives an idea of how many car owners there are who want the best tire money can buy. There weren't near enough Clincher Royals to go around last year. This year—even with the production more than doubled—you can best be sure of them by taking them at the moment. US Where to buy U.S.Tires ANAHEIM A. ANTON, Highway Supply Store RFD No. 2, Box 238. M. ANTON, RFD No. 2, Box 222. B. J. EVANS, (Five Points Service Station). HUGH LARUE, Cypress, RFD No. 2. CHARLES H. MANN, 210 So. 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. H. WALTERS, (Anaheim Vulc. Works), 156 S. Los Angeles St. THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer WEDNESDAY Subscription Entrered at th BREAKING THE HEAT WAVE—DOWN BY THE OL' TANYARD LAST GUY IN KNOWS WHAT HE IS! PARAO The way of a maid is a gat These "think" The boss never are shirking. The one the than East and W French stagger: The Turk app terrible as oppo exploit him. History is e would European whose turn it is The great que by the convention Who has the de The 1923 grad a day as soon a plasterer. The chap who the man doubtle portant citizen in We can't help the king of Ital ference when he tion. After centuries the only thing complete tranqui America keeps NEW YORK LETTER By Lucy Jeanne Price NEW YORK, July 11.—It was a beautiful thing while it lasted. Popia could not exceed it. For three years, twenty families in a bronx apartment house have lived comfortably along, spending on the movies the money they were formerly accustomed to handling over to the landlord. George Hagelweice, the owner of the building has been in Denver for those three years and evidently neglected to leave rent collector on the job at his departure. If no one comes to collect rent, naturally one doesn't go out looking for some one willing take in the money. Mr. Hagelweice seems quite indignant now that he is home again and has gone to court to collect. The direct method of approach is adopted by thirty-five rosey seeked girls from Holland who landed here in the July rush of immigrants. They addmitted frankly at the immigration station that they had come here to get husbands. The descriptions current in the Netherlands of the handsomeness of American men, together with that they had seen of our motion pictures, dragged them all the way across the Atlantic, regardless of the appeals of their own Hollanders. Magistrate Corrigan believes that he has lived through one of the difficult moments of life. He is himself in the hands of the law the extent that he is being sued for libel by another city official, naturally he got the best lawyer he knew of and naturally he has tried impress that lawyer with the fact that not for anything would injure any human being by word or deed. Now who should be brought before him for judgment the other day but this same lewler, charged by a taxi driver with holding back twenty cents of the lightful fare. It was a difficult moment. Finally the magistrat said, "He guilty. But pay the driver his twenty cents." Men will forgive almost any crime if it is committed for love them. Even throwing mush, Miss Hattie Meyer, an exceedingly petty young woman, with considerable temperament, I would say, was rested and taken to court at the complaint of her fiance, John Jouras, who said it was not only mush she threw at him the other day, but it was very hot mush. She explained to the court and Mr. Jouras that it was because she was jealous of him, whereupon the unfortended fiance withdrew the charge and the pair left the courtroom arm in arm. NEW YORK LETTER By LUCY JEANNE PRICE Two hundred and two million dollars in cash and negotiable securities were moved through many miles of crowded Manhattan streets when the Bowery Savings Bank went into its new home. Fourteen armored cars, with portholes bristling with sub-machine guns followed each other in rapid succession, while 100 policemen lined the route and a motor cop rode just ahead of each car. The eighty-four express company employees who drove and rode in the trucks were under special bond for the day of $43,000,000 aside from the fact that they had been chosen with regard to whole life histories and those of their families. New York's aerial taxi season has opened, and now several trips a day are being made by plane from Grant's tomb and the Goddess of Liberty, those two essential sights for every visitor on his first trip here. Maybe, too, actual New Yorkers will take advantage of the opportunity now and learn for themselves what the Goddess looks like at closer quarters than the ferry boats on the Battery skyscrapers. Another daily aerial service has been opened from Long Island to some of the White Mountain resorts. Whatever else homesick Manhattanites may suffer when they leave home to enjoy themselves at least now they can have their morning paper the day it is issued. It would not seem possible that the poignant story of Abelard and Heloise, that love tragedy of medieval France, should never before have been made into a drama. But it never had—back through all of Even throwing mush. Miss Hattie Meyer, an exceedingly pretty young woman, with considerable temperament, I would say, was rested and taken to court at the complaint of her fiance, John Jouras, who gald it was not only mush she threw at him the other day, but it was very hot mush. She explained to the court and Mr. Jouras that it was because she was jealous of him, whereupon the unfortended fiance withdrew the charge and the pair left the courtroom arm in arm. Announcing New train service between Anaheim and Los Angeles EFFECTIVE JULY 1st, 1923 WESTBOUND Read Down EASTBOUND Read Up 3:00 pm 9:45 am Lx ANAHEIM Lr 9:30 am 2:45 pm 3:10 pm 9:55 am "FULLERTON" 9:18 am 2:33 pm 3:22 pm 10:07 am "BASTANCHURY" 9:06 am 2:21 pm 3:35 pm 10:20 am "LA HAPRA" 8:53 am 2:08 pm 3:55 pm 10:40 am "WHITTIER" 8:34 am 1:49 pm 4:40 pm 11:30 am Lx LOS ANGELES Lr 8:00 am 1:15 pm This schedule provides direct connections at Pico with the LOS ANGELES LIMITED, train No. 8 and the CONTINENTAL LIMITED, train No. 20 and affords through service from all Anaheim Branch points. DIRECT TO CHICAGO AND THE EAST Union Pacific C. J. ROWE, Agent It would not seem possible that the polignant story of Abelard and Heloise, that love tragedy of medieval France, should never before have been made into a drama. But it never had—back through all of these seven hundred years—until a few weeks ago, in blank verse, and adopted since Elizabethan days for the approval of lovers of modern drama as well as of ancient legends in this little book, and one can easily understand the interest being taken in it by theatrical producers, who have learned these past two seasons, through "Will Shakespeare" and "Debureau", that audiences appreciate such things today as much as they did in years gone by. The psychics who insist that personalities of people who lived in our houses before us will influence our lives would have gained great comfort for their theories if they had gone to the grand opera performance at the Polo Grounds recently. The crowd took off its coats and showed pairs of suspenders, and a goodly proportion drank pop from bottles throughout the singing of "Alda." Think of this man the next time you try to find a way out of your income tax. At "grievance day", when complaints are heard of too high tax demands, Frederick G. Zinsser, head of a chemical company, applied to the Board of Asseasons to have his tax assessment raised $75,000. His request was granted and he left, satisfied. Staying out all night is like borrowing money from the bank. You have to do it often in order to establish the sort of credit that enables you to do it at all without sad difficulties. Charles Johnson of Ocean Avenue, went fishing the other day and became so engrossed with the way they were biting off Long Island that he stayed until morning. When he returned home, he found that his family thought he was drowned and were preparing for funeral services and another man had his job on the railroad. WEDNESDAY, JULY ELEVENTH, 1923 Subscription Rate—In No. Orange-co. Per Yr. $1; 6 Months, $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., on 2nd class matter. PARAGRAPHS The way of an old bachelor with a maid is a gateway. These "thinking" jobs are nice. The boss never can tell when you are shirking. The one thing further apart than East as West are German and French stagnant. The Turk appears less and less terrible as opportunities develop to exploit him. History is essential. How else would European countries know whose turn it is to get revenge. The great question to be decided by the conventions in 1924 will be: Who has the delegates? The 1923 graduate can earn $20 a day as soon as he learns to be a plasterer. The chap who said clothes make the man doubtless had seen an important citizen in a bathing suit. We can't help wondering whether the king of Italy notices any difference when he is having a vacation. After centuries of experimentation the only thing that has attained to complete tranquillity is a clod. America keeps out hootch and aliens but so not no concerted effort. ABE MARTIN Th' Chinese bandits have released th' foreign prisoners held from May 6 t' June 11, and now we know how long 'only a question of a few hours' is. Next t'an invitational affair, nothin' leaves as many sore spots as falling off a stepladded with an arm full o' window curtains. Little Talks on Thrift False pride plays an important part in creating economic waste. This does not apply entirely to what is perhaps of even more serious consequence, industrial loss through dislocation of labor. It is unfortunate that any false pride should exist with regard to the dignity and honor of being engaged in manual pursuits or, that any man should choose as his life's work a line of endeavor for which he is ill-fitted simply because of illusions re- The chap who said clothes make the man doubtless had seen an important citizen in a bathing suit. We can't help wondering whether the king of Italy notices any difference when he is having a vacation. After centuries of experimentation the only thing that has attained to complete tranquillity is a clod. America keeps out hoolch and aliens, but as yet no concerted effort has been made to keep out European buyers. Mr. Harding pleases us immensely in one particulur. He, at least, has not denied that he will be a candidate. "We sell dirt", says a realtor's advertisement. So many concerns are selling these sex novels as a side line now. What we can't understand is how a defective tire always knows when you have on your flannel pants. In Japan "bunka undo" means a cultural movement. For what matter, there is considerable bunk in American culture. Our idea of zero in boasting is the claim of France that her budget is in better shape than any other on the continent. We are not fully posted on the art of fistcups, but our recollection is that old Father Time has the most knock-outs to his credit. After all these years under the Monroe Doctrine, Latin America is beginning to trust Uncle Sam almost as much as she trusts the grasping European nations. Not satisfied with the history of liquor and its drinking as covered by the last few thousand years, William W. Pussyfoot Johnson has sailed from New York to investigate the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen, in a search for dry data of that period on the Valley of Kings. False pride plays an important part in creating economic waste. This does not apply entirely to waste what is perhaps of even more serious consequence, industrial loss through dislocation of labor. It is unfortunate that any false pride should exist with regard to the dignity and honor of being engaged in manual pursuits or, that any man should choose as his life's work a line of endeavor for which he is ill-fitted, simply because of illusions regarding the status of those who work with their hands. We need more and more of a general understanding in this country that the young man who takes up an honorable trade by no means lowered himself in what should be his rightful standing in society, nor has by no means taken a step that means the sacrifice of ambition for great personal success. Many of our most successful men were originally farm hands or factory boys. There is, at the present time, a heavy shortage in many of the trades. This is particularly true of the building crafts, and much of the rapid increase in the cost of building construction in the last few years has been due to this shortage of labor. On the other hand, many other vocations have been greatly overcrowded. It is well to be progressive, but there is much sound common sense in some of the so-called old fashioned customs and practices. It is not merely an idle platitude to speak of the dignity of labor. The skilled artisan who is willing to give an honest day's work for an honest day's pay, holds second place to no one in the scheme of human progress. It is not what a man does for a living but how he does it. Let us get back to some of the ideals of our forefathers with regard to the rightful place to physical labor. Let those of younger generations who are today choosing their life's work understand that there are opportunities of worthy and credible employment under advantageous conditions in many of the trades today, and that in going into these positions they will be sacrificing nothing in the estimation of sensible people. False pride in these matters has cost many a young man a successful and useful career. 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