oc-plain-dealer 1923-07-16

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS O Lord, in whom are all my springs, Joyful to Thee I come; My grateful heart exultant sings To know Thou art its home. —S. D. Phelps. Frauds in Stocks Are Despicable The lamentable plight of John Burke, former Treasurer of the United States, who was a lamb led to the slaughter by a brokerage concern which seemingly pursued devious business methods, should be a warning to the public to be extremely careful in making investments in stocks. This should not create unreasoning suspicion of all stocks, however. There are securities which are sound and which are worthy the confidence of the public. It is not difficult to find and to identify stocks of this nature. Those who contemplate investigating in securities would do well to consult reputable firms and to take expert advice from those who would counsel conscientiously. Against fraudulent stocks and those who, knowing them to be spurious, survey them, too much can not be said in denunciation. Swindlers of this kind are especially cruel, inasmuch as they usually prey upon those of limited means and confiscate their savings from hard work. It is an atrocious offense indeed and thus to defraud the trusting. Everything possible should be said and done to prevent these cruelties and to put the swindlers out of business. The welfare of the child embodies the welfare of the Nation. Neglect the children; let them drift into ignorance, vice and crime, and the very foundation of the Nation would be undermined. Crossings Endanger The Careless The usual ghastly number of news reports of tragedies at grade crossings come over the wires. It is the conviction of those who observe carefully that these horrors will continue so long as there are crossings at grade. The welfare of the child embodies the welfare of the Nation. Neglect the children; let them drift into ignorance, vice and crime, and the very foundation of the Nation would be undermined. Crossings Endanger The Careless The usual ghastly number of news reports of tragedies at grade crossings come over the wires. It is the conviction of those who observe carefully that these horrors will continue so long as there are crossings at grade. But until these danger spots are abolished, those who drive the streets and highways and those who walk about should exercise wise care. So many times lives are snuffed out by a hit of recklessness that is wholly uncalled for and foolish. There should be a reformative wave among the people, inclining them more and more toward careful, prudential driving. The grade crossing is not so hazardous if those who negotiate it use reasonable care. If every driver would stop dead still and would look for trains and listen while looking, the perils would be minimized. The people should insist that those who represent them in making tax laws and formulating budgets, should strive to the utmost for retrenchments and for the reduction of taxation. Hero Awards to Ship's Radio Operators The radio operator, on board a ship at sea, who sticks to his post while the ship is burning—when death in horrible guise is hovering near—sticks to his post and puts superhuman alertness and energy into calls for aid and into messages to those who respond—this radio operator has earned the much-abused title of "hero." Three young men who exemplified heroic spirit in the disaster which befell the City of Honolulu, far out at sea, in October, 1822, have been given gold medals in honor and checks for $500 each. The awards were made to W. P. Bell, chief radio operator of the ship, and his assistants, H. D. Hancock and N. C. Kumler. Courageous, devoted action of this kind cannot be compensated fully. Money and medals are only symbols not payment in full. Heroic action is not paid for on a wage basis. It is fitting, however, that those who display unusual courage and self-abnegating devotion to duty in serving or safeguarding others, should be given honorable recognition. Awards of the kind given these three young operators are commendable. They stimulate the patriotic spirit of others. And they stimulate the people to be appreciative of heroic action. The tides of sentiment in Europe should be made to run toward peace, instead of war. That continent has been scourged enough—it has scoured the rest of the world enough through its unnecessary wars. LOW FARES FOUR ROUTES The tides of sentiment in Europe should be made to run toward peace, instead of war. That continent has been scourged enough—it has scourged the rest of the world enough through its unnecessary wars. 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TURK P.DIPLOMACY Rusanne II NEW YORK LETTER Begirmed and forsaken, at the auction pier at Third street and the East river lies what used to be one of the glories of the U.S. Navy. Only a deserted rum-runner now, held by the government, the Yorktown has a picturequeque and storied past. For more than twenty years, she was ranked as a naval gunboat, helping us to fight the Spanish war, along the coast of Cuba, serving as guide for Admiral Evan's memorable cruise around the world with the American battle fleet and doing dispatch work in many waters down to the end of the World War. Before all that, there is a time of interest for the Yorktown to look back upon. She was the private yacht of Sarah Bernhardt, under the name of Cleopatra. The famous actress sold her to A. S. Darber, who re-christened her the Sappho. At the outbreak of the Spanish War, the American navy bought her and she drew the sturdy name of Yorktown. After the World War, she was sold again, and dropped from sight until a month ago, when she crept into port here, and manned by a crew of many races, who claimed the captain had sold her and the rum he brought from Nassau and had disappeared without paying them. Now she is to be sold as junk. No loving cup was ever presented in New York with more sincere good will than went with the solid silver cup Miss Bridget Googegan received the other day. It was given to her by the family of the late John D. Crimmons, in whose household she had served for forty-five uninter- POEMS THAT LIVE THE ROVER A weary lot is thine, fair maid, A weary lot is thine! To pull the thorn thy brow to braid, And press the rue for wine. A lightsome eye, a soldier's mein, A feather of the blue, A doublet of the Lincoln green, No more of me you knew My Love! No more of me you knew. This morn is merry June, I trow, The rose is budding fain; But she shall bloom in winter snow Ere we two meet again! He turned his charger as he spake Upon the river shore, He gave the bridle-reins a shake, Said "Adieu for evermore, My Love!" And adieu for evermore! —Sir Walter Scott. ABE MARTIN PARAGRAPHS Another thing needed in the Balkans is a closed season for premiers. A grouch is just a yellow streak confessing its inability to stand the gaff. If a man couldn't yawn, how would an American manifest his interest in the world court? Man's civilization is much like furniture. The veneer can stand just so many hard knocks. How few things we really would need if there were no neighbors to envy or stand in awe. And yet Solomon in all his glory probably lived on sardines when his wives went away for the summer. That chap who says dignity is synonymous with repose is doubtless a student of the dignity of labor. Home itself would seem charming, however, if described by the chap who writes summer resort literature. It's funny language. When a dam bursts it releases the water; when a tire bursts it releases the dam. These haughty foreign countries must not disregard Uncle Sam's dry laws. Only citizens are privileged to do that. If we are not a sophisticated people, why is there so little enthusiasm when a new nickel cigar is announced. Another proof that France is out of harmony with the world. No loving cup was ever presented in New York with more sincere good will than went with the solid silver cup Miss Bridget Googegan received the other day. It was given to her by the family of the late John D. Crimmons, in whose household she had served for forty-five uninterrupted years. That's the kind of thing that deserves such an award, I am sure. Seven years ago, community singing was started in Central Park. An especial appeal was made to children to come and swell the chorus. So popular have the 'sings' become that when they open next month, it is expected that fully 100,000 children will respond to the call. Some of them who started as children have come regularly each season and now appear as flappers, bringing the swains with them. After all of the enthusiasm this city displayed for "Shauve Souris" and its Russians, there is considerable satisfaction to hear that Nicholas Remizoff, art director of the production, has taken out his first naturalization paper and elected to become a citizen of the United States. It must be incomprehensible to those of the 'intelligensia' who thought we must appear very "crude" to our Slavic visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Allan Wallace, of 780 Riverside, declared that they carry no rabbit's foot or Chinese charm. But the other day they were both in their car when it hit a motor bus, carried away an iron fence, plowed through some live wires, and just touched a trolley car as it stopped, and neither of them was injured. We don't know who grabbed up th' pen Gov. Smith signed th' dry repeal bill with, but we bet there's a lot o' politicians that would like it have his nerve. Next t'a federal investigation ther' hain't anything that comes t' nothing as leisurely an' surely as a nation-wide search. HERE AND THERE There's tonic in the garden. There's tonic on the lawn, Rise up in the mornin' You'll find it in the dawn. According to the amount of illicit traffic in narcotics opium must be a drug on the market. Miscroposcopic examination of the urinary sediment often reveals unsuspected evidence of pus in the kidney. The negroes are all going north, and now the poor plow mules must learn to understand white-folks talk. When politicians speak of a "logical" candidate, they don't mean one who can handle the job, but one that can be handled. You can't expect much justice in a universe where the story always ends with the words, "The driver escaped without injury." These are dull days for science. Hot as it is, not a single girl has developed sufficient temperature to burst a thermometer. The world is so topsy turvey that aristocracy has no consolation in its poverty except that of ridiculating those who have the money. MONDAY; JULY SIXTEENTH, 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. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING ILLUSIONS ABOUT ALASKA New York Evening Post With the Seward reporting a tempature of 95 degrees, we may as well be forewarned of the principal result of President Harding's Alaskan trip. Like Canada ever since Kipling called her Our Lady of the Snows, Alaska is tormented by a climate complex. Year after year we are told that Seward's lowest recorded temperature is 7 below zero, that her port is always icefree, and that her winter is much warmer than Baltimore. It is iterated that Juneau is in the same latitude as Edinburgh and has much milder weather. Sitka, we are assured, is warmer than Copenhagen, where the great Yukon Valley has winters like those of Montana and summers like of those of New York and Pennsylvania. To speak of ice or polar bears in connection with Alaska is to expose yourself to ridicule along with the Senators who in 1867 called it Walrusie and Johnson's Ice Box. The statisticians who tell us that Alaska has produced $200,000,000 in wealth chiefly from mines, are careful to add that this is nothing to her future production of wheat, vegetables, and sub-tropical fruits. Assurances concerning the torridity of Alaska can easily be overdone, and in the dwindling population of recent years we see the result. There should be two seasons for Alaskan publicity. What we are hungry to hear at this moment is not how the Nome children go barefoot and eat home-grown watermelon in the shade. It is that the greater part of Alaska rests upon a solid ice cake and that if you dig six feet in summer you come to the hardest frozen ground. It is the comforting news that in Tanana Valley the thermometer frequently falls to 80 degrees below, which even the late archdeacon Stuck thought cold. We want to be told how at Fairbanks the temperature goes to 15 below in October and that zero is thereafter regarded as warm. No one denies that Alaska ranks first in the Northern Hemisphere, after Greenland, as a producer of icebergs, and that within four or five days' journey of Seattle one can see flords with glaciers by the dozen. Around Christmas time the opposite brand of Alaskan publicity may be loosed. In spite of the excellent geographical instruction of today, many people doubtless fall to grasp the fact that if Alaska is superimposed on the map of the United States part of it would touch Duluth and another section would reach Savannah and a third corner would project into Mexico. Sometimes even the Alaskaans seem not to grasp it. perature goes to 15 below in October and that zero is thereafter regarded as warm. No one denies that Alaska ranks first in the Northern Hemisphere, after Greenland, as a producer of icebergs, and that within four or five days' journey of Seattle one can see florids with glaciers by the dozen. Around Christmas time the opposite brand of Alaskan publicity may be loosed. In spite of the excellent geographical instruction of today, many people doubtless fail to grasp the fact that if Alaska is superinposed on the map of the United States part of it would touch Duluth and another section would reach Savannah and a third corner would project into Mexico. Sometimes even the Alaskaans seem not to grasp it. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT REGRETS A friend of ours by the name of Captain Small, who is skipper of the Steamship West Cawthorne, has invited us to take a trip on his boat to Italian ports, the trip occupying eight weeks. We would like to accept, but when we consider what eight weeks' absence would do to our business, we find we cannot. We would doubtless return to find a new man in every job we now hold, which is one of the beauties of writing pieces for the paper. The paper has to come out every day a fact we have learned during twenty-five year's experience, and the guy who is not there when the paper comes out, might just as well take up some other kind of job. However, we are much obliged for the invite. OUR OWN DAILY SHORT STORY Her Follower They met at a hotel dance. He was tall and stalwart, and she—oh, so sweet. After the seventh dance with his charmer, the young fellow stopped suddenly and glanced around suspiciously. "It's funny, Mabel!" he said. "See that glum-looking chap over there? He's been following us about all the time. Who is he, and what is he after?" "Who? That miserable-looking, half-stary fellow in the spotted red tie?" remarked Mabel casually. "Don't worry about him; he's only the fellow that paid for me to come in." The man who says our form of democratic government is a failure is generally one who has bumped up against it and lost out. The presidential blver seems to be kicking up a lot of dust. But it will settle. Some people invest their money in bucket shops, and others try to raise chickens. They are now trying to get up a radio language. The universal radio talk now seems to be "Zzt, zzt, zzt-zzt, zzt——" They are now filming the Ten Commandments. The plot will doubtless be new to quite a lot of movie patrons. At least one great international political question has been settled amid the applause of parliament. Lady Astor, the American member of that body, has discarded black clothes and now enters the house of commons arrayed in gay gowns. What else matters? The paper which refers to that Balkan revolution as "the Vulgar war" may be more or less right, at that. Young Turkey is a tough bird for the allies to carve. 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