oc-plain-dealer 1923-07-26

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS The symbol of His shining throne—And love His royalty— Love is His Glorious Crown—and its reality. -Jullus H. Seelye. Gain in Wealth Huge in California Los Angeles County and other counties of this Southland show enormous increase in assessment valuations as compared with last year. In Central and Northern California, too, notable gains are shown. Fresno County, for instance just reports an increase of $11,000,000 in its assessment as compared with last year. This represents actual increase in values. It means that California instantly is becoming richer, and that this is real wealth actually produced. At the present rate of gain, California, within a few years will vie with the richest of states for leadership in volume of wealth. Assessed valuations in California are increasing prodigiously. This is actual gain in riches. In every line of development California is going forward encouragingly. Earth Tremors Slight in This Vicinity The comparatively few earthquake shocks which have been felt in this immediate vicinity have not been of destructive intensity. The latest tremor was rather severe in some portions of the Southland. But the scene of the severity was near where scientists place the "faults" in the physical structure of the earth which produce occasional shocks. The territory in and about Anaheim has been free from ruinous visitations of this kind from the earliest period of recorded history. It is a fair presumption that it will continue to be favored in this. Earth tremors Slight in This Vicinity The comparatively few earthquake shocks which have been felt in this immediate vicinity have not been of destructive intensity. The latest tremor was rather severe in some portions of the Southland. But the scene of the severity was near where scientists place the "faults" in the physical structure of the earth which produce occasional shocks. The territory in and about Anaheim has been free from ruinous visitations of this kind from the earliest period of recorded history. It is a fair presumption that it will continue to be favored in this. While there should be no concealment of truth as to severity of earth shocks anywhere they may occur in this state, yet the whole truth should be told, so that misleading impressions may not be created among those living afar—impressions which might injure this state very unjustly. Severe earthquakes anywhere in California, are rare, as the facts substantiate. And the destructive visitations have been confined to comparatively narrow areas. The number of persons killed or severely injured from earthquake shocks anywhere in this state, since the earliest known chronicles, is small—not to be compared with the number who have perished, in different parts of the country, from tornadoes or floods. The grade crossing should be put on the defensive everywhere. Every civic betterment and humane organization should be arrayed against it. Paternalistic Spirit Is Rife Now The notion of seeking paternalistic favors from the government at Washington and from state governments is growing upon the people. "Let the government do it!" is becoming as common as the proverbial "Let George do it." One group now is insisting that an extra session of Congress be called to deal with the problems of the farmer—particularly to bolster the wheat market. And another group is equally insistent that Congress be called to take amelioratory action in regard to the fuel situation. A serious famine is threatened next winter, it is said, unless something heroic is done to relieve the situation. And they are looking to Uncle Sam to do it. Uncle Sam, indeed, is looked to frequently, by diverse elements, to do this, that or the other things to bring relief in some form. Paternalism, in truth, is becoming a fixed condition and element in national life. There is too much of it. There are many things which the people can do and should do for themselves. Reliance upon the government should be less common. Reliance, by the people, upon themselves, should be more common. Many of the mental heavyweights come from the farms or the factories. Brain power is found in the meadow as well as in the mansion. A few Democratic figures in the United States Senate would be for the good of that body. DO YOU KNOW? A few Democratic figures in the United States Senate would be for the good of that body. DO YOU KNOW? The Job Printing Department of the Orange County Plain Dealer is equipped to print anything for You from business cards to a catalogue. Telephone 151 Orange County Plain Dealer JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT 126 West Chartress St. Anaheim URES ept Sunday Publisher Plain Dealer THURS Subscript Entered ON THE ALASKAN TRAIL WITH HARDING—NO. 12 Protection and Conservation of Alaska's Fur Resources Will Be Another Problem for Consideration In the Alaskan Development Plan. NEW YORK LETTER Running a hotel elevator isn't a bad job at all, if one is planning the use of $1,000,000 or more while he is doing it. The six young Marinia, sections of one of the wealthiest families of Porto Rico, with true Castillian blood in their veins, are supporting themselves at such jobs here in New York while half a dozen lawyers are trying to settle their grandfather's estate in Porto Rico. Carlos is a day elevator boy at the Waldorf, and Raoul works on an early morning shift. Mario earns his living in the laundry rooms and Herminio in one of the linen rooms. Another brother is a post office clerk, and the sixth is in a factory on Long Island. They have recently been offered $1,000 from the contestants of the will, but they are happily holding out for the entire estate of four times that amount. New York's new peace hall is nearing completion, even though peace itself isn't appearing to embrace the world as yet. It is at Fifth avenue and 110th street, a noble building, sponsored by Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram, which she hopes to make the center of a national movement to promote peace. Some one besides Jack Kearns won the fight at Shelby. Patricia Salmon, the red-haired daughter POEMS THAT LIVE STORM The slow unhurried gull wheels by So white against the orange sky! An olly, restless sea beneath Nibbles the shore with hungry teeth— Nibbles and waits, while little ships Come in to safety on its lips— The thunder mutters and at last The rippled lightning hurtles past The sky seems lifted and the sands Then like a crouching cat, the black Fierce sea lifts all its shining back Leaps, curving through the air, and lands Bared claws and teeth upon the sands! Abigail Cresson in the New York Herald. PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN The winners are not the only ones promoted There are the oil wells. Too many mothers of small boys think the daily dozen refers to slaps. Perhaps Ford figures that he knows as much about Benedict Arnold as any gentleman should. If a revolutionary idea is sound it usually is accepted a few years after the originator is hanged. Still that undertaker who peddled hooch on the side had nothing on the coal man who sells ice in summer. Let parties split as they will; in a pinch they present a united front to the opposition and the feed trough. ABE MARTIN A critic says the American wife doesn't work. Well, she has so little time for it after she finishes cooking, sweeping and the mending. When one listens to these controversies, it is hard to decide which they love most the Lord. New York's new peace hall is nearing completion, even though peace itself isn't appearing to embrace the world as yet. It is at Fifth avenue and 110th street, a noble building, sponsored by Mrs. J. Sergeant Cram, which she hopes to make the center of a national movement to promote peace. Some one besides Jack Kearns won the fight at Shelby. Patricia Salmon, the red-haired daughter of a juggler, whose singing and antics attracted almost as much attention from the New York correspondents as did the boxers, has been approached by Florenz Ziegfeld on the strength of the newspapermen's reports and probably will join the "glorifiers." Have you any Dodecanesians among your friends? If you have and the name means anything more to you than a Chinese laundry slip, you are considerably ahead of the immigration officials. When Commissioner Curran received a cable from a ship captain saying that he was bringing 88 of them to this country and how should he list them it almost upset the department. Atlases, encyclopedias, and almanacs were hastily thumbed in an effort to locate them. It took considerable time to discover some little islands called Dodecanese between Asia Minor and Crete, and their emigrants were finally classified as "other Asiatics." The Ruhr coal territory may be playing ruin with Europe but it is going to keep our chimneys clean, if Hans Brutliach, from over there, has his way. The lad has lately been held up here as a stowaway on one of the liners. In trying to make his case before the Commissioner, he vowed an eternal purpose to live here eventually, by pointing to the harbor buildings. "Just look at those tall buildings and long chimneys, I'd become a millionaire cleaning them out." The absence of coal in Germany has seriously interfered with his chimney sweep business. ABE MARTIN Who remembers when we had nothin' t' fear but lightnin' rod agents an' th' James Boys? A couple o' reckless pedestrians ran int' Lafe Boyd last night, bustin' both headlights an' bendin' a fender. HERE AND THERE— The jury probably wouldn't call it murder when 'the man at the next desk begins his third hour of whistling "Yes, We Have no Bananas." Tennis seldom requires a high and fantastic jump except for the benefit of the sport page photographer. All mankind had a common origin, and it may be that the original settlers in the Balkans were Celts. Our friends are those who continue to love us in spite of our successes. A critic says the American wife doesn't work. Well, she has so little time for it after she finishes cooking, sweeping and the mending. When one listens to these controversies, it is hard to decide which they love most, the Lord or an argument. It must be conceded, however, that few statues are erected to men who mind their own business and have no enemies. You can say one thing for the whiskers. They are one crop that can be raised without the occasional yelp for government aid. The irritating quality of passive resistance is appreciated only by France and the man who has tried to crank a used car. Yes, Ethel, every golf course, these days, has at least one water hole—the Ninetenth. We can't see that our educational system is deteriorating. The class of '23 contains the usual percentage of .300 hitters. There is something in this Socialist theory that everybody should work for the Government. Too many are dodging the income tax. As our second entry for Mr. Bok's peace prize, we suggest that those exempt from military service be required to wear spiral putties. They are removing the heating plant from the White House, probably on the theory that the country usually makes it hot for the occupant. THURSDAY, JULY TWENTY-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. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING THE INDIAN AS LABORER—Berkeley (Cal.) Gazette The labor problem is being solved, as far as some of the states are concerned, by the immigration of what the Country Gentleman curiously calls "native stock." That is to say Mexicans. A word of explanation may be necessary. The Mexican, or at least the type of Mexican now pouring into this country, is three-fourths or more American Indian, and was originally an inhabitant of the southwestern sections of the United States. He is mainly of Pueblo stock. The Pueblos are some of the best and steadiest stock found in the aboriginal population of this continent. Attention has been directed to their merits particularly in recent months as a result of the effort made in New Mexico to deprive the remnants of the old tribes of their hereditary land. They have been primarily farmers for ages. As the negroes desert the southern states, these Pueblo Indians with a slight infusion of Spanish blood filter in and take their places. They are said to be better farm laborers than the negroes. They are cultivating cotton and hoeing corn all through the South. They are moving northward, too, and talking all sorts of hard jobs. They make almost as good section hands and coal miners as farm hands. Most of them are said to be able to read and write Spanish. Their qualifications for citizenship leave some things to be desired, but they have the saving grace, in this time of labor famine, of being good workers. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BY ROY M. MOULTON ONE DELINQUENT COMES FORTH Dear Boy—I was deeply touched by your appeal for a lot of us good writers and good fellows to come forth and do your summer work for you. You remind me of an old negro couple down south, Uncle Ned always went fishing and Aunt Chloe always did the washing. "Why is it?" I asked Uncle Ned once, "you are always fishing and your wife is always working." "Yessir dat's so," he explained, "but de ole 'oman she don't need no watchin' She wuks right along. What kind of bait are you using?—Dixie Hines. Scientist says a man looks like what he eats. From now on we ONE DELINQUENT COMES FORTH Dear Boy—I was deeply touched by your appeal for a lot of us good writers and good fellows to come forth and do your summer work for you. You remind me of an old negro couple down south, Uncle Ned always went fishing and Aunt Chloe always did the washing. "Why is it?" I asked Uncle Ned once, "you are always fishing and your wife is always working." "Yessir dat's so," he explained, "but de ole 'oman she don't need no watchin' She wuks right along. What kind of bait are you using?—Dixie Hines. Scientist says a man looks like what he eats. From now on we shall eat peaches. FAVORITE SUMMER FICTION "We shall certainly expect you down at our cottage some time this season." "I have had to sleep under blankets every night this summer." "How I pity you poor boobs who have to stay in town and have nowhere to go except to the shows and restaurants. "I am very glad I brought my heavy winter overcoat down here to the resort." "The service here at the hotel is the best I have ever seen." Now that the Leviathan has broken the speed record and proved her worthiness, there is only one thing she needs, and that is a good American patronage. Mr. Bryan got right into a barber chair down at Cape May one day this week and had his hair cut, which only shows what a strong man can do if he puts his mind to it. When a brokerage house blows up nowadays, the wreckage isn't worth looking for. The lady who ran off with nineteen children in one automobile in the hottest weather of the summer must be a glutton for punishment. Lloyd George says we are within our rights in confiscating liquor from British ships. That's good. Now we can go right ahead. The saddest words of tongue or pen: "Having a fine time. Wish you were here. This is the season of the year when the average young lady spends Sunday out in the open collecting freckles, and then spends the rest of the week trying to get rid of them. Bulgaria has removed the ban on short skirts, and now the Bulgarian girls probably will douse the short ones and begin wearing ankle-length. Ad in street car presents the following paradox: "Life Savers Take the Breath Away." Circus people can never sleep well unless in a train. A multi-millionaire never has anything to worry about. Nobody ever eats the toast that comes under broiled chicken. The man who invents a noiseless phonograph will have a monument erected for him by a grateful people. How about having a "Mind Your Own Business Week?" Watch What Happens! Lubricate your automobile with Zerolene, which costs about half what you pay for many other oils, and watch what happens. First, you find that your gasoline bills are lower. Repeated tests have demonstrated that, other factors being equal, the car lubricated with Zerolene makes about 5% better gasoline mileage than cars lubricated with other oils. Second, your car goes from 2.5% to 50% farther before you need to grind valves or remove carbon. This fact, too, is fully substantiated by numerous tests. Insist on Zerolene—even if it does cost less. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) 30% less CARBON 5% more gasoline mileage The Standard Oil ZEROLENE For Motor Cars