oc-plain-dealer 1923-08-08

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS For thinkest thou, O soul, that one, alone, Shall bend 'neath that which fashioned is for two? Making that drag, with balance all untrue, Which else were light, with even burden thrown? How shalt thou falter, how discouraged be, When Jesus stoops to bear His yoke with thee? U. S. and Canada Give Good Example “If European nations would heed the lesson conveyed by Canada and the United States, they would strike at the root of their own continuing disagreements and in their prosperity forget to inveigh constantly at ours.” These words of our lamented President Harding uttered on Canadian soil—at Vancouver—are eloquent with fact. They denote a state of friendship between these two sister countries and peoples which is of the most salutary and inspiring sort. The friendship and pacific relations of the United States and Canada are proverbial. No one on either side of the border, thinks of even the possibility of war between them. Nor is serious friction between them to be imagined. They are sincere friends, in very truth. Europe could live as the United States and Canada live. Europe should so live. That it does not is not at all to its credit. Peace and friendship could and should prevail among all nations and peoples. The golden age in this history of mankind will not dawn until this universal reign of peace and good will is ushered into the world. Development of aeronautics, here in the West, is notable. Daring army and civilian aviators are scaling lofty mountain ranges and spanning broad expanses, braving dangers that try the stoutest hearts. They are blazing the way for the greater aerial achievements of the future. America's Rights to Turkish Straits Development of aeronautics, here in the West, is notable. Daring army and civilian aviators are scaling lofty mountain ranges and spanning broad expanses, braving dangers that try the stoutest hearts. They are blazing the way for the greater aerial achievements of the future. 'America's Rights to Turkish Straits Turkey has granted to the United States the "most favored nation" treatment for American vessels to use the straits leading to and from Constantinople. The formal agreement between the American official representative and the Turkish government gives the United States all the privileges for its naval and merchant vessels in the straits that the Allied powers have under the treaty of Lausanne. But this country does not become involved thereby with the League of Nations or with Russia. This is a courtesy on the part of the dominant political power in Turkey which will be appreciated in this country. It shows that the friendship and goodwill of the United States are sought abroad, even by the Turks. While there has been much that was bloody and repulsive in the course of the Turks, in the past, the tendency, under the latter rule in Turkey, has been toward more moderate methods and more enlightened development. Under the new regime which Turkey is to have, by the terms of the Lausanne treaty with the Allied powers, it is to be hoped that pronounced reforms may be effected. One of the absorbing political questions of the days Is the stork bringing a baby-political party for 1924. Martyrdom's Role for Pancho Villa Francisco Villa, martyr! The very suggestion seems grotesque. But this very thing is eventuating below the Mexican border. The untutored masses, since the assassination of "Pancho," are throwing a gamour around his career and are casting him for the role of martyr. Bandit and bloody outlaw that he was, Villa had spectacular traits, which appealed strongly to the imagination of the common people of Mexico. His tragic ending invested him with added halos. The manner of his death puts him in the class of heroes, as the Mexican masses appraise heroism. This martyrizing of a spectacular outlaw—none the less an outlaw because of his temporary reform, which at any time might have ended—may have mischievous effects. It may put a premium on banditry in Mexico. It may encourage other would-be outlaw leaders to try to emulate Villa. But it is to be hoped that bloody banditry in Mexico is dead and that it may be buried in the grave with Villa. Factionalism does more to injure a community than fire and flood and famine. This country would be better off to be rid of petty, narrow political partisanship. This Warm Weather Is the Test— Try: Challenge Butter and Appreciate the Difference VACATION SPASMS=NO. 3 HANK ADONIS VASELINOA NEW ARRIVAL AT MUD LAKE INN-JUST COULDN'T RESIST SHOWING OFF HIS FIGURE IN HIS NEW BATHING SUIT BEFORE THE GIRLS I HAVE NO FEAR! JUST WATCH THIS PERFECT SWAN-DIVE! OH-YOU MUSTN'T DIVE OFF THEREIT'S DANGEROUSI WARN YOUIT'S ONLY- I TRIED TO WARN YOUSMARTYTHAT IT WAS ONLY A FOOT DEEP AND A MUD BOTTOM! NEW YORK LETTER By LUCY JEANNE PRICE Ludlow street jail--the Alimony club-- it to go. For years it has been New York's civil jail, as nearly as any jail can be civil. Civil cases have gone elsewhere. The main guests have been delinquent ex-husbands in the payment of alimony, prisoners taken on an order of arrest or a body execution, or those in contempt of court. It has had the distinction of being the most expensive jail in the country. Its upkeep is $40,000 a year, and there are often more attaches than prisoners. This is one of the reasons for disposing of it. The building is only valued at $25,000 and yet the land will easily bring $300,000. There have been times when the cost per prisoner for board alone was $10 per week—and that is too much for any prisoner, no matter how high class he may be. I don't mean to say that all the men who have lodged alimony payments are high class, but it is surprising how many of them have been there. They have been called the Gentlemen of the Alimony Club and stories have been rife of sumptuous banquets staged for the important guests. Most of them would not remain for longer than a few days, before they would fork over and get their liberty, but there is a record of one man who remained in for a year, just through spite. Conway Tearle was one of these Alimony guests. Other famous names on the roster for a stage. DOEMS THAT LIVE THE MODERN MAID I hold no brief against the flapper lady. I do not think she differs from the rest. Her dolings I do not consider shady. I do not think the old girls were the best. Her cigarets and slang do not alarm me. I do not count the faults she must alone. I'm sure the modern maid will never harm me. If I have sense and leave her well alone. Girls have been girls along down through the ages. In spite of all the sour reformer's din. The one against whom he now madly rages! Is just the old eternal feminine. PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN Most of the important prizes in life are self-awarded. The bird of paradise is the eagle on the American dollar. One always enters a restaurant for butter or for worse. The present German goose-step is inclined to take the contour of a lame duck. It may sound like a paradox, but staying dry keeps Uncle Sam in hot water, apparently. Loafing is just a slow and tiresome business of lighting another cigarette. Most of the boys back home joined the choir for the sake of the Lord and the second soprano. Mr. Bryan, we note, is still trying, striving and prespiring to save the monkey's good name. Only a seasoned prize-fighter really knows how much more blessed it is to give than to receive. The prize dumbbell is the man who, when a girl asks him, "How... LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Editor the Plain Dealer: Editors often come in for much criticism in the way they handle important news—sometimes deservedly, too. And very often they fall to get praise when they do superior work. The editors of our small town papers are quite as human as any other people, and when they do a commendable thing like a word of good cheer. Your handling of the rather confused accounts of the President's illness and tragic death makes Anaheimers feel proud. I have read the misleading bulletins of the President's condition in several papers that reached this city, and must say your accounts, taken as a whole, are most illuminating. You have edited the conflicting reports very ably. Your story as printed in this evening's edition no doubt is as near the truth as it is possible to get at this time. The sudden collapse of our leader, after we had been told that he was well on the road to recovery, shocks the whole Nation, and is most deplorable. We were not prepared for it. The people were entitled to know the truth of his condition. What are such bulletins for if they are not reliable? Dr. W. E Z. Anaheim, Aug. 3, ABE MARTIN "I believe there's more difference between an amateur an' a professional than any other two things," said Tell Binkley, last night, as he wuz leavin' a home talent show. Nothin' 'll stop some folks but a telephon' pole. -HERE AND THERE- Door (movie definition): Something that always collapses when the hero's shoulder hits it, but resists the attacks by the villain even when he uses a battering ram. Some day the doctors will start conducting business like battery service stations, we suppose, and rent you a fung or liver to wear while your old one is being repaired. The fellows who are trying to divide the war reparations ought to call in that woman who was sawed into so many kalves on our stage last winter. A peaceful household is one in which everybody has grown tired of the phonograph. Fable: Once upon a time a little child rode for a whole minute on a train without asking a cinder, in its eyes. Art leaves much to the imagination and the summer resort literature never mentions the chiggers and the poison ivy. If what the barbers say about the coming dollar hairecuts is correct, it looks like the world might get a crop of poets. Some men are so farsighted in business that they could look over somebody's shoulder in a correspondence school exam. The consensus of opinion seems to be that nothing good in the way of government and nothing bad in the way of drama can come out of Russia. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST EIGHTH, 1923. Subscription Rate—In No. Orange-co. Per Yr. $3; 6 Months, $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice af Anaheim, Calif., as 2nd class matter HOME REMEDIES W. E. ALLEN, California Biological Feature Service Like other animals, man has a powerful tendency to follow the suggestions of personal or family experience. Having seen, suffered or imagined injury at a certain place or in connection with a certain object he becomes cautious, agitated or terror stricken in the presence of similar conditions. Having seen, felt or imagined benefit from certain actions or contacts he becomes careless, confident or reckless when he meets similar circumstances. Not satisfied with the limits of his own experience he adopts as his own much that is told him by friends or kindred. It is in line with such general tendencies that he accumulates a conglomeration of ideas relating to prevention and cure of disease in himself or in his domestic animals and plants. Many of these ideas are useless or even dangerous, but many of them are good when properly applied. Unfortunately, application is too often made on a hit or miss plan without much regard to actual needs of the case. Furthermore, matters are often made worse by penny pinching methods, as though there were a demon of disease which required propitiation, but which might be satisfied with somewhat less than the best quality in the medicine or treatment selected. In recently looking over some scientific papers which had piled up on my shelf I was interested to find a case of this sort reported by Dr. John Gubcriet of the Oklahoma Agricultural College. It appears that a man had been accustomed at certain times to give Epsom salts to his flock of chickens on the "shot gun principle" that they probably all needed it and it would do them good. But, since two hundred birds consume noticeable quantities of medicine he bought a bargain lot of spoiled stuff labelled Epsom salts which he gave for a few times in water and finally in food. The greater desire of the fowls for food led them to take larger amounts of the medicine than they got from the water and all of them became sick, about forty failing to recover. When consulted, experts from the Agricultural College quickly found that the medicine was not Epsom salts, but that it was salt-petre, and that the flock had simply been poisoned. Forunately, the loss was only in chickens, but the man showed no caution or care that would have protected his family if he had decided that they needed medicine. This case is equally instructive with, though not so funny as, the one described by Mark Twain where Aunt Polly forced Tom Sawyer to take "pain killer" (an old time "shotgun" remedy) and then started to punish him for giving some to the cat. Both accounts are alike in indicating that people will take drugs about which they know nothing (except that they have some time, some where seen or heard that such drugs are considered good and cheap medicine) and give them promiscuously in the hope that they will fit a particular case. Now for minor ailments of either man or beast there is excellent reason for home treatment, provided that it be intelligent. The main points of intelligence in such treatment are caution as to the excel- Forunately, the loss was only in chickens, but the man showed no caution or care that would have protected his family if he had decided that they needed medicine. This case is equally instructive with, though not so funny as, the one described by Mark Twain where Aunt Polly forced Tom Sawyer to take "pain killer" (an old time "shotgun" remedy) and then started to punish him for giving some to the cat. Both accounts are alike in indicating that people will take drugs about which they know nothing (except that they have some time, some where seen or heard that such drugs are considered good and cheap medicine) and give them promiscuously in the hope that they will fit a particular case. Now for minor ailments of either man or beast there is excellent reason for home treatment, provided that it be intelligent. The main points of intelligence in such treatment are caution as to the excellence of the method or material used, definite purpos in applying it, and certainty that it will do serious harm under the conditions of use. Names of trustworthy manufacturers of drugs and medicines can usually be obtained from reputable physicians, from offices of public health, from good medical schools or from the information department of a high grade magazine. Some examples of definite purpose are: the use of real Epsom salts in proper dosage to increase activity of the bowels, of the right kind of rubbing to reduce swelling, of arnica to relieve pain in a bruise, and of a mustard plaster to draw blood into the skin to prevent its gathering too strongly at some inner point. But, in any case, unless it seems certain that no damage will be done by the treatment, it ought to be left for expert advice or not given. Of course, this does not concern cases of serious emergency where some risk of treatment must be taken in order to prevent total loss. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT WHAT TO ADVISE YOUR HUSBAND TO DO DURING A THUNDER STORM Magnus Johnson, senator-elect from Minnesota, says he will wear no collar. But a good many senators have said that. Psychology teaches us that the way to keep cool is to stop worrying about the heat. Like all advice you get for nothing, this is worth about all it costs. Sit near a window in a draught holding a key in his hand. Stand under a tree with heavy foliage. He might hold a pair of scissors above his head. Stand in a wet bathing-suit near a steel mast. Hold the telephone in his hand. Sit on a large spool of steel wire.—Marcel Steinbrugge. A masked woman with the aid of a revolver released a man from jail at Warren, Pa. Probably he was her husband and she wanted him to go to work. It is pretty difficult to get away with a soft snap these days. SELL With Printing THE Purpose of this Shop is not Merely to Sell printing, but to Help you Sell More Goods through PRINTING. ORANGE COUNTY PLAIN DEALER Job Printing Department Telephone 151 124 West Chartres St. Anaheim