oc-plain-dealer 1923-07-17

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS —We all want to be happy. We all seek personal joy as an instinct. Surely God meant it to be thus when He made us. Yet no less He has set the deepest sources of joy outside of self—indulgence—in love, obedience, devotion, duty.—Mary Clemmer Ames. Boys; Matches; Losses, $125,000 "Two small boys, playing with matches, early last night started a fire which resulted in a $125,000 loss in the thickly populated industrial district in the southeast part of the city." Opening sentence of a news account of a fire in Los Angeles. Furthermore, eight firemen were endangered by falling walls. This illustrates concretely the potential perils in careless handling of matches, particularly during the dry season. Children should be trained not to indulge in this menacing recklessness. As for adults, they should be restrained by the law. Any person of adult years found guilty of using fire carelessly, to the endangerment of human lives and property, should be arrested and punished therefore. This is a form of carelessness little short of criminal—an offense against public safety which should be classed as a misdemeanor, at least. Against fires in cities and towns, and in forest reserves, the public should be protected by rigid laws and ordinances, vigorously enforced. This form of hazard becomes more pronounced as population increases and as the cities and towns expand, bringing more buildings into the area where fire endangers life. The whole civilized world will hope that Jane Addams quickly will come from under the effects of the operation which she underwent, and be restored to health. Miss Addams is a Against fires in cities and towns, and in forest reserves, the public should be protected by rigid laws and ordinances, vigorously enforced. This form of hazard becomes more pronounced as population increases and as the cities and towns expand, bringing more buildings into the area where fire endangers life. The whole civilized world will hope that Jane Addams quickly will come from under the effects of the operation which she underwent, and be restored to health. Miss Addams is a mighty force for good in the world. Her works and her influence have been felt widely. Millions will pray for her early recovery. Puts Sound Tests Upon Would-Be-Judges In appointing Superior Court judges, Governor Richardson is being guided by a very commendable test of the would-be jurists. Governor Richardson gives assurance that, in naming judges he will disregard political party lines. Three considerations are weighed by him in choosing judges, namely: Legal qualifications; integrity; ability to work. These three, coupled with the judicial temperament, are prerequisite in the man who would be a successful and useful judge. There should be legal qualifications, of course. The judge should be of unquestioned fitness to decide legal points wisely and justly. There should be integrity, by all means. For a corrupt judiciary would endanger the whole structure of civil liberty. And the jurist should be able to work—furthermore, should be disposed to work. There is a vast deal of work to be done by judges here in California, what with crowded calendars and with constantly increasing volume of litigation. Judges should be industrious and able and willing to expedite the business of their courts. President Harding is given respectful hearing even in quarters where his opinions are not endorsed intoto. It is to the credit of the American people that they always show respect for the President, in his official person. Crops Are Thriving in California California crops are coming on excellently. Official reports of conditions are quite favorable. There are some drawbacks in some productions. But the general aspect of the reports is reassuring. There is this about California soil productions which is not able: There is some form of crop yield in every month of the year, in some part of the state. Crop productions are not limited to certain periods. With products of some kind coming into market all the time, the wealth which the soil produces is well distributed throughout the year. This equalizes prosperity and keeps money in healthful circulation all the time. This feature of economic life in California is not dwelt upon as much as its importance deserves. There is a constant turning of produced assets here, so that the currents of economic activity are running steadily. This promotes general and persistent prosperity. The scope of education may well be expanded so as to contemplate the training of boys and girls to peace. An intelligent, comprehensive system of teaching along this line should be for ited to certain periods. With products of some kind coming into market all the time, the wealth which the soil produces is well distributed throughout the year. This equalizes prosperity and keeps money in healthful circulation all the time. This feature of economic life in California is not dwelt upon as much as its importance deserves. There is a constant turning of produced assets here, so that the currents of economic activity are running steadily. This promotes general and persistent prosperity. The scope of education may well be expanded so as to contemplate the training of boys and girls to peace. An intelligent, comprehensive system of teaching along this line should be formulated and put into effect. Why it's Red Crown for the experienced motorist RED CROWN GASOLINE 100% POWER STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CALIFORNIA) URES ept Sunday Publisher Plain Dealer TUESDAY Subscripti Entered a THE 1923 HARVEST MOON WEARS A SEVEN BILLION DOLLAR SMILE FOR THE FARMER 12 OF THIS YEAR'S CROPS: WHEAT, CORN-OATS, BARLEY-Rye WHITE & SWEET POTATOES, FLAXSEED HAY-COTTON-APPLES AND PEACHES WILL BE WORTH TO THE FARMER OVER 7,829,912,800 NEW YORK LETTER The hotel business, in one form or another, seems to be the profession acquiring the greatest popularity among all women, and is quite reasonable. In every big hotel in New York right now are one or two women, educated for other things, who are studying the business from the inside out with the idea of becoming landlords themselves in the near future. The latest in marathons is that of the ukelele. What it is about this tinkling instrument that inspires endurance against time is difficult to say. But anyhow, ambitious amateurs have taken to the attempt in various uptown houses to the hopeless distress of the other tenants. One resident of a Central Part West apartment kept it up for 22 hours this past week before he was interrupted by the police, called in by a suffering neighbor. But the judge dismissed the complaint and the industrious ukelele wielder went happily back to his earnest marathon. Through all these seasons while the bobbed hair rage raged one friend of mine has steadfastly refused to listen to the pleas of her young daughter to have her chestnut locks cut off. Sobbed tales of all the other girls had no ef- POEMS THAT LIVE TONIGHT Mysterious night! when our first parents knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo! Creation widened in man's view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun! or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed. That to such countless orbs thou madst us blind! Why do we then shun death with anxious strife? If Light can thus decreire where fore not Life? Joseph Blanco White. ABE MARTIN PARAGRAPHS Thank Heaven. Standard Oil doesn't control walking sticks. The current of revenge in Europe is an alternating current. Vehicles are much like men; they make faster headway on the level. The point of saturation is that long ago reached by the average post-office blotter. Correct this sentence: "Thank you, no! I can't touch the stuff now that I'm a Congressman." It might be worse. When you say the Germans are revolting now, it's a verb and not an adjective. The man who appears dazed while you flatter him is merely trying to think of an excuse to use as you ask for the loan. On the sea of matrimony it is frequently moonshine that causes that strange movement of the tied. The way to avoid a blue Monday is to exercise a little more Through all these seasons while the bobbed hair rage raged one friend of mine has steadfastly refused to listen to the pleas of her young daughter to have her chestnut locks cut off. Sobbed tales of all the other girls had no effect. In long, straight braids Ruth's hair remained. The mother's hair curls in natural soft waves and ringlets about her face and I could understand her refusal to consider the "bob" for herself, but I have always secretly sympathized with her fifteen-year-old daughter. The other day, I was amazed to be greeted at their door in the snappiest of bobs, with a rippling "permanent" making it an aureole. Her mother laughed at my dazed amazement. 'I had to come to it', she explained. "I won a prize last week and what do you suppose it was? An order for a lanoll permanent wave. It would ruin my own curl forever and make me look like a frizzed Circassion in the meantime and yet I couldn't waste that prize I had struggled for through the hottest afternoon of the year. Ruth was my only resource. So I took her down for her long-yearned for Bob so that she could then use that precious order." It is an utilitarian age. May Yoke, the former Lady Francis Hope, who held the center of Broadway's spot light for several seasons, has evidently bid a good bye to the stage and its environs. She and her present husband, Captain John Smuts, of South Africa have opened a tea room up in New Hampshire, on the main highway to the White Mountains. The Inn is reminiscently called The Blue Diamond, one presumes in honor of the famous Hope diamond which attracted as much attention as the singer herself in the memory of the present time middle-aged generation. Captain Smuts may not have diamonds to contribute to the family jewel box, but he is an exceedingly helpful husband, if report is true, that he is the main chef at the new inn. ABE MARTIN Caterer Art Smiley, o'th' Elite Drug Store, is attendin' a chef's convention at Bloom Center. Another peculiar thing about this life is that he folks that do all th' sweatin' don't wear th' sweaters. HERE AND THERE A good dinner always precedes a bad breakfast. Everytime you sink a put you give your ills an uppercut. When Fido usurps the baby's place, children go to the dogs. BERGER HALF ACRES The man who appears dazed while you flatter him is merely trying to think of an excuse to use as you ask for the loan. On the sea of matrimony it is frequently moonshine that causes that strange movement of the tied. The way to avoid a blue Monday is to exercise a little more restraint in the matter of Sunday dinner. We are old-fashioned enough to prefer the telegraph still. They never send you bed-time stories that way. We can't believe that Mrs. Mallory is through. Even Samson was out of form while his hair remained bobbed. The more we study the nations the funnier it sounds to hear them call somebody else "undeveloped peoples." There always will be cause for war until people forget that line beginning: "I don't believe in gossiping, but . . . You can say one thing for the old-timers. When they wished to try something to stop a crime wave, they tried the criminals. What doth it profit a people to throw off a tyrant's collar and encase its neck in the saw finish provided by laundries. The cheapest way to enjoy the countryside in spring is to let a few automobile agents know that you are thinking of buying. It is estimated that the resources of the world are sufficient to last ten thousand years or equip two more Class A wars. That derelict rum ship wandering the Atlantic deserves little pity. So long as it is full of liquor, it won't care which way it goes. TUESDAY, JULY SEVENTEENTH, 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 LOS ANGELES HELPS NATURE—Stockton (Ca.) Independent It isn't always well for nature to be too generous to a community. It has very much the same effect of too indulgent parents on the after life of a child—it does not make for individual effort. With the single exception of climate nature was not over kind to Los Angeles. It is true that climate (and advertising) did bring the people to the southern part of the state, but it was soon realized that a great population could not live on climate and advertising alone. The people of Los Angeles soon proceeded to supply the deficiencies of nature. They brought water power from afar and began to develop an industrial commonwealth. Nature was not kind, either in providing the southern city with an harbor. But like Mohammed, when the harbor would not come to Los Angeles, why, Los Angeles went to the harbor. A sheeeting laced San Pedro to the southern metropolis. Los Angeles then boasted that it had the largest harbor in the world. It consisted of the Pacific Ocean. But Los Angeles is to have a real harbor. The city has just voted $15,000,000 in bonds for the purpose of dredging out one. One of the first operations will be to dredge a channel around the edge of the west basin to a depth of thirty feet. This channel will be 300 feet wide. Following the dredging of the basin a number of wharves and sheds will be erected. The operation was estimated to cost approximately $3,000,000. It is planned to spend $5,000,000 a year for the next three years and no doubt at the end of that time, there will be another bond issue. It is always the way. Perhaps, human nature is not much different in Los Angeles than elsewhere. If Los Angeles had San Francisco's wonderful harbor, it is not unlikely that the Angelenos would sit around speculating upon the great future that awaited them. It seems really helpful for cities as well as for individuals to have to do some things for themselves. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BY ROY L. MOULTON RECONCILED I am getting lots of letters from my friends down by the sea ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BY ROYAL MOULTON RECONCILED I am getting lots of letters from my friends down by the sea. Who have blithely slipped their fetters and are patronizing me. They are dipping in the ocean, they are dancing every night. And they somehow have the notion that they are in exactly right. But I do not need the pity that their postcards always tell, For I like it in the city in the summer very well. For the sand-fleas do not sting me and mosquitoes don't come nigh. And the food the dealers bring me is the best that they can buy. I enjoy the steady breezes of the good electric fan. I am not among the cheeses that brag about their "tan". No, indeed, I am not kicking. I am happy every day— But the reason I am sticking is I cannot get away. We have a literary abatoir near the top of a tall building at the side of the river, which is swept-by-ocean breezes (when the wind blows, and that is at least once a week). The official uniform is a pair of thin pajamas and bath slippers. On the hottest day in ninety years, to quote the weather bureau, the typewriter got a hot box and stalled completely. Five minutes afterward, something inside the electric fan caught fire and burned up, and five minutes after that the telephone rang and the glad tidings came from the office that there wasn't enough stuff for the columns. Now, we ask you, in all kindness and fairness, with the afternoon sun beating in at the windows—what is your attitude on the world court? Or do you care one continental hang about it? Neither do we. Somebody has figured it out by the last census that in one hundred years the men will be housekeepers. Those who are alive at that time will see some punk housekeeping. "The worst is over", says President Harding. Oh, no, indeed. We must very soon go through a year of campaign speeches. Prime Minister Baldwin says that great wealth will become a menace to the United States, but we shall try to meet the crisis with fortitude. Al Jolson saw himself in a new motion picture and fled to Europe on the next boat. Unfortunately all the members of the future audiences will not be able to do that. Boston is enjoying a phone strike. They could have a phone strike in some towns and nobody would ever find out. The service would seem about normal. Seeds taken from the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen will be sown in this country. Haven't we enough munimies now, without trying to raise a crop. 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