oc-plain-dealer 1923-07-18

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Here is my sure and tranquil rest,—In every troubled hour; Weary, I lean upon Thy breast,—And feel its soothing power. —S. D. Phelps President is Charmed with Alaska President Harding has been completely captivated with Alaska. Its scenery has thrilled him and made him term it "America's Wonderland". His trip and his enthusiastic praise of scenic marvels there will interest the world in that region as a place for sightseeing. As the railroad facilities there become better developed, and as ocean transportation becomes popularized, sightseeing tours to Alaska will be more common and the number of people going there will increase. The tremendous resources of Alaska, too, are a revelation to President Harding and members of his party. Mere official reports and mere statistical figures do not convey full comprehension of the vastness of natural riches in that favored region. The President's visit should be instrumental in bringing about a greater development up there, under favorable auspices. He is becoming conversant, firsthand, with conditions and needs. His recommendations to Congress should bear fruit in legislation for the relief of unsatisfactory conditions and for the encouragement of wholesome development there, with the public domain adequately protected against greed. Prosperity is so palpable, here in California, there is no mistaking its presence. It manifests itself in many ways and its benefits ramify throughout the body politic. Pony Express Revival Honors Mark Twain Thrilling and fitting is the proposed celebration, this year, in honor of the life and work of Mark Twain. The revival of the celebrated pony express is to be a novelty of a dramatic type. Prosperity is so palpable, here in California, there is no mistaking its presence. It manifests itself in many ways and its benefits ramify throughout the body politic. Pony Express Revival Honors Mark Twain Thrilling and fitting is the proposed celebration, this year, in honor of the life and work of Mark Twain. The revival of the celebrated pony express is to be a novelty of a dramatic type. Horses and riders from the United States army are to participate in this return of frontier days. From St. Joseph, Mo., to San Francisco the race it to be run. Swift riders will take the course pursued by the daring scouts of the days when wild and hostile Indians and wild beasts infested the route. Mark Twain lived in the West in pioneer days. He was part of this section and was part of its life and in his inimitable writings he depicted this life to the enrichment of the world's literature. How vastly different today is the region which the pony express riders penetrated! A region which is the marvel of the world in its development and progress. Immigrants who come to this country to reside should conform to the governmental ideals and institutions of this country. If they are not willing to do so they should stay out of the United States. Steel Workers' Day is To Be Shortened The shorter day for steel workers is to be instituted within a few weeks. This is the definite announcement which comes from the center of the steel industry. General promise was made recently, by steel magnates that the twelve-hour day would be abolished. But no definite time was set. Now it is said that the shorter day will come within six weeks. This is a step in industrial betterment that should be taken quickly, and never again such long hours prevail in any industry in this country. No man should be asked to toil at hard labor for half the twenty-four hours. It is too much to expect. It is killing to physical body and leaves the mind and soul dwarfed without means of development and sustenance. This should not be, in the Nation's industrial life. Farmer Is Hard Beset on Every Hand The American farmer is having a hard time indeed. Additional to the inadequate prices he receives for his products, he is faced now by demands for higher wages from the workers upon whom he must reply for the harvesting of his products. The wheat grower, in particular, is facing a real crisis. In order to profit, he must receive better prices than now seem possible. The foreign market is demoralized. One hundred million bushels of last year's crop is on hand yet, unsold. This year's yield is yet to be disposed of, and the prospect for profitable marketing is not bright. When, therefore, the farmer makes his plaint, do not treat it lightly. It is a real complaint, for which there is reason. He has real grievances which demand real remedies. Dry Sahara is Crossed by Americans Dry Sahara is Crossed by Americans An American expedition led by newspaper correspondents, has crossed the Sahara Desert. For the first time the American Flag has been carried across those inhospitable wastes, to the gates of Timbuco. It required three months to cover the 2000 miles. Camels were used for transport. This is a feat of general interest. An expedition to span the Sahara in automobiles is planned. Soon that dry and forbidding portion of the earth's surface will be changed in its whole aspect. There is fair reason to believe that eventually ways and means will be found to irrigate large portions of that great American desert. American pluck and ingenuity accomplish wonderful things. Penetrating the barren wilderness of the Sahara is a notable example. Marvels have been wrought in making conquest of the desert here in the West. Gradually, but surely, the waste places are being reclaimed and are being brought under successful cultivation. Speeding Antagonized in Chicago Chicago authorities are dealing sternly with the careless speeders. Deaths from automobile accidents in Cook County alone since January 1 have reached the startling total of 337. In order to curb this deadly menace, the guardians of the law in Chicago are requiring automobile speeders and reckless drivers to furnish bond. This takes the place of mere arrest. This, it is expected, will bring the daredevils to their senses. It denotes a graver rating of the offense than has heretofore prevailed. Dangerous speeding should be treated as an intolerable peril of public. Those who are guilty of offenses of this kind against the public safety should be dealt with rigorously. Only severe punishment would suffice to keep them in check. Conquest of the air is not complete, by any means. It never will be absolutely complete. There will be menace just as there always will be menace on the high seas. RES Sunday publisher Plain Dealer WEDNESDAY Subscription Entered at t CHARLEY ON THE JOB! ALAJKAN GLACIERS PRES. HARDING AND PARTY ABOARD THE U.S.S. HENDERSON EUROR R.K.R!!! WHEW!!! SEC. HUGHES WASHINGTON AFFIRMS OF STATE THE "RUHR" FOREIGN LIQUOR ON NEW YORK LETTER A plaster cast is not sufficient to keep Abie Slutsky inactive and disinterested in the affairs of life. Wearing a straight jacket on his crippled back, Abie led the July Crippled Children. Except that it parade at the Blithedale Home for was not as long as most parades and moved a bit more slowly, it was an enthusiastic as any parades we have seen in a long time—and the most inspiring of them all. The action taken recently by the photo-engraver of the country, pledging themselves not to make any "trick" cuts, showing a dozen oil tanks instead of one, for instance, has led to energetic accounting of the engravers whenever they have any doubts as to the verity of photographs. An old time worker came into the Onyx Company offices, seething in suspicion over a photograph they had published of print showing thru a silk stocking. Never had he seen any stockings around his home that would justify such evidence. When they demonstrated the sheer truth to him by letting him read a headline through their sheresilk, he left, satisfied in his conscience as a photo-engraver but shaking his head in disapproval of the whole thing and muttering caustic comment about what women will wear, these days." POEMS THAT LIVE THE FLIGHT OF LOVE When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed. When the lute is broken, Sweet tones are remembered not; When the lips have spoken, Loved accents are soon forgot. As music and splendour Survive and the lamp and the lute, The heart's echoes render No song when the spirit is mute— No song but sad dirges, Like the wind through a ruin'd cell, Or the mournful surges That ring the dead scaman's knell. When hearts have once mingled Love first leaves the well-built nest; The weak one is singled To endure what it once possesssst. O Love! who bewailest The frailty of all things here, Why choose you the frailest For your cradle, your home and your bier? Its passions will rock thee As the storms rock the ravens on high; Bright reason will mock thee Like the sun from a wintry PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Well, the world court may be an issue. An issue comes forth, not first. Unworthy causes never live long without benefit of injudicious persecution. Ford political fans appear to have reached the stage of quantity production. Participation in world affairs doesn't require overcoming precedent, but overcoming inertia. For that matter, pulling weeds might be a popular exercise if you had to wear knickers to do it. The league has one advantage over its opponents. Time will complete it and time will finish them. Our idea of a patient man is the one who bought a century plant to see if it really would bloom every hundred years. And so they are to photograph mental processes. Biah. This slow-motion picture stuff never appeals to us. Now they say the high-brow way to pronounce "Sheik" is "shake." We thought the high-brows pronounced it rotten. There always is a brighter side. The harder the towns are to pronounce, the farther the war is from America. The musical revues staged in the summer are an augury of the whole theatrical year, especially in these latter years when disagreement between the actors and managers go such a long way in determining production policy. Hence we have no end of them, with different names, but all including 1923 in the title. The "Scandals of 1922" is the fifth of the series sponsored by Geo. White and he has moved on to the revue business in no uncertain way. He has proved himself more opulent than Ziegfield, that is beating every record. He keeps an abundant cast of beautiful girls, dancers and singers engagingly busy throughout. The very funny John Dooley capers in a way distinctly his own, and young Richard Bold swings with a voice of unusual charm and quality, without the drawbacks of the customary musical comedy tenor. Mr. White himself dances—oh how he dances—amid settings of staggering sumptuousness. Summer furs are the latest point of organized attack. A society has been formed here for the purpose of combatting the new fashion, pronounced by its members to be "contrary to good taste and good sense." "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary", with Mrs. Fiske in the leading role will be one of the early fall theatrical openings. It is being produced by Belasco, under whose banner Mrs. Fiske has at last enrolled. Have you noticed this about our world famous prosperity—that while ever buddy's spending their money freely an' work when they feel like it, all th' towns an' cities are broke? We never did know a feller named Al that wusn' purty liberal. The weak one is singled To endure what it once possesses. O Love! who bewailest The frailty of all things here, Why choose you the frailest For your cradle, your home and your bier? Its passions will rock thee As the storms rock the ravens on high; Bright reason will mock thee Like the sun from a wintry sky. From thy nest every rafter Will rot, and thine eagle home Leave thee naked to laughter, When leaves fall and cold winds come. —Percy Bysshe Shelley. ABE MARTIN When the boss says "Ugh" for "Good Morning"—its either his liver or filiver. If it takes eight years and ten thousand dollars to become a doctor, why be a plasterer and work for twenty dollars a day. Sleep in the open. Whenever you can; Sleeping on porches. Beats under a fan. Efficient "boiling out" means death. The lobster is here exhibited in evidence. Needles and dope! Needles and dope! Once you're addicted there seldom is hope. If you'll eat light food And wear light clothes, You won't feel the heat When the hot wind blows. WEDNESDAY, JULY EIGHTEENTH, 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 ROBERT E. LEE DRAMA UNREAL—Philadelphia Public Ledger Drinkwater's new play with Robert E. Lee as the protagonist seems to fall far short of the niche it was expected to occupy as the companion-piece to the celebrated drama based on Lord Charnwood's life of Lincoln. Reports from London indicate a fundamental misreading of Lee's character, for he certainly was anything but weak, vacillating, indecisive, overwhelmed by great issues." For the very antithesis of these qualities he is admired to the point of veneration in the North as in the South today. In a forecast, Nigel Playfair, the producer, had extolled Mr. Drinkwater's production as the "most carefully written, best-planned and effective" work of its author. He was at first disinclined to produce it, as he doubted the appeal of Lee's personality to English audiences. But there is no doubt that the large and tolerent humanity, the abnegation of self and the devotion to a forlorn cause in which he believed are qualities of greatness in Robert E. Lee which could not fail of a universal impress, if the playwright vividly realized them in his lines. Evidently there still is room for a play based on the life of Lee by an American writer of feeling and imagination. The general surprise was that it was reserved for an Englishman to write the first convincing drama around the heroic figure of the Emancipator. Must we wait for another English pen to take up the task in which Mr. Drinkwater seems to have failed and give us a worthy play with Lee as the chief character? ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BY ROY K. MOULTON HAVING BOUGHT MANY HATS WE AGREE Jean Tennyson Brown, an actress, never wore a hat. Instead she adorns her head with a lace mantilla. "One year from now," she declares, "the well-dressed women will be wearing mantillas instead of hats. For it is about time that women's head-gear is changed. The hat is a stupid, conventional affair that is usually quite unattractive and out of harmony with the features. But the mantilla conforms to the lines of the face. It is graceful and picturesque and has that element of mystery which should always blend into modish dress. "Within a year from now, it will not be surprising to see hundreds of women walking down Fifth avenue, New York, their heads draped in Spanish and Oriental coverings." FORTY YEARS AGO HAVING BOUGHT MANY HATS WE AGREE Jean Tennyson Brown, an actress, never wore a hat. Instead she adorns her head with a lace mantilla. "One year from now," she declares, "the well-dressed women will be wearing mantillas instead of hats. For it is about time that women's head-gear is changed. The hat is a stupid, conventional affair that is usually quite unattractive and out of harmony with the features. But the mantilla conforms to the lines of the face. It is graceful and picturesque and has that element of mystery which should always blend into modish dress." "Within a year from now, it will not be surprising to see hundreds of women walking down Fifth avenue, New York, their heads draped in Spanish and Oriental coverings." FORTY YEARS AGO "Women are dressing too expensively", declared the Hon. Thomas Fitzpatrick, the alderman, citing as conclusive evidence that his wife is no longer content to wear reasonable shoes but insists on paying $2 and over a pair for them. Young Murphy fought Willie Hogan to a finish for the heavyweight championship last night, the bout ending in the sixty-seventh round by Murphy knocking Hogan out. More than 1,000 fans were present, the winner receiving a purse of $378.42 for his share of the proceeds. In a word speed contest, Miss Lillian Wrighter won over Miss Helen West, writing on an average of thirty words per minute with her pen. The award for the most popular book of the year went to John Webster, who wrote, "Travels through Armenia." Main street saw Bruce Vanderstone's winning gray mare for the first time yesterday. Mr. Vanderstone drove his Kentucky bred horse down the avenue hitched to his wicker buggy, and was the cynosure of the eyes of all society. According to the latest estimate, it takes 200,000 marks to make a dollar. Some marks never make one. GOING AWAY Yes, we're going away this summer—For that is the thing to do. You are socially on the hummer—If you stay here right thru. So we're going away this summer—they are out of style who stay. We'll go up the creek to the picnic grounds—and get home late the same day. One of our readers just returned from Russia says he felt perfectly at home over there when traveling. When the brakemen called out the stations he couldn't understand them any more than he does over here. THE DRIVER Now a cross-country spin In my chariot of tin Is a thing that I greatly admire. When they all go my way On the very same day, And the hot road is burning the tire. When the car just ahead With a driver, ill-bred, Throws all of its dust in my face. And the driver behind Drives me out of my mind By honking me on for a race. When I can't see the trees, And I can't feel the breeze For the signboards that stand by the road. And I sit at my wheel Hour on hour, and I feel Like a sort of a dust-covered toad. When my passengers squawk Out a lot of fool talk And tell me how cars should be run; And when I am the chump Who must get out and pump, I'll tell you, me mates, that is fun. Though the scenery's great, I must truthfully state I have not seen a bit of it yet. If I once lift my eyes To the mountains or skies, We are off the blamed road and upset. It's joy for the blokes Entertained by my folks, But it gives me a three-cornered pain. I've oft said I'd cut This cross-country stuff—but Tomorrow we're going again. THE FLORSHEIM SHOE True style should be seen and not heard. Florsheim creations are quiet, unobtrusive styles for men of discrimination—style that is not born of passing whim. They have the permanence that comes only from inbred good taste. PARKWAY $10 F.A.YUNGBLUTH; Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx "By al means get a fit" 145 W. Center St. ANAHEIM, CAL.