oc-plain-dealer 1923-08-10

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester . . . Editor and Publisher Daily Greetings to Our Readers Opportunity is a rare and sacred thing. God seldom offers it twice. In the English fields the little drosera, of sundew, lifts its tiny crimson heads. The delicate buds are clustered in a raceme, to the summit of which they climb, one by one. The topmost bud waits only through the twelve hours of a single day to open. If the sun does not shine, it withers and drops, and gives way to the next aspirant. So it is with the human heart and its purposes.—Caroline H. Dall. America in Friendly Pact With Turkey The United States and Turkey have entered upon relations of closer friendship which bid fair to be epochal in the history of both countries. By the terms of the treaties formulated at Lausanne and agreed to by representatives of both countries, full diplomatic relations are set up between the United States and Turkey. Each country gives the other "the most favored nation" treatment. Americans traveling in Turkey are accorded privileges. American warships and merchant vessels are given permission to enter the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora and the Bosphorus. Provision also is made for economic engagements between the two countries. Ismet Pasha, who negotiated the new treaties on behalf of the Turkish republic, says that "a new Turkey" has been evolved—a democratic country, whose government is based upon the will of the Turkish people. There unquestionably is a greater swing in Turkey toward representative government and free institutions than there ever has been before in the history of that country and people. Influence of the United States upon the new Turkey may be salutary. The whole character of the Turkish people may undergo change because of association with the United States and western powers. Under the new regime the Turks may become more docile and may forget to wage war and make bloody reprisals upon people that have been the objects of their hatred for centuries. Banks Show Growth in Deposits California banks are flourishing. In their prosperity is re- Influence of the United States upon the new Turkey may be salutary. The whole character of the Turkish people may undergo change because of association with the United States and western powers. Under the new regime the Turks may become more docile and may forget to wage war and make bloody reprisals upon people that have been the objects of their hatred for centuries. Banks Show Growth in Deposits California banks are flourishing. In their prosperity is reflected the thriving condition of the people of California. In a period shorter than three months, from April 3 to June 30, gross deposits in state banks increased nearly $45,000,000. Assets of state banks, covering commercial, savings and trust departments, increased more than $46,000,000. Savings bank assets gained more than $45,000,000 and loans of savings banks increased more than $50,000,000. This latter item is more encouraging, perhaps, than any other. It denotes an easiness of money that is a healthy sign. It also indicates big developmental activities toward which much of the money lent by savings banks is applied. Money is healthily at work. It is expanding industrial and commercial operations which, in turn, are producing additional riches. Commercial loans also increased heavily. California, by every token, is faring well, in matters economic. It is forging ahead steadily and substantially. Presidents' Widows in Nation's Care Mrs. Harding becomes the fourth living widow of a President of the United States. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs. Grover Cleveland (now Mrs. Preston) and Mrs. Roosevelt are the other three survivors of former occupants of the White House. Mrs. James A. Garfield died recently in South Pasadena. The National Government, following traditional practice, provides an annual pension for President's widows and gives them gratuities which help to keep them in comfort, including the franking privilege in using the mails. Some of the Presidents have died without much estate. Occupants of the White House, for the most part, have been men of moderate means. Their families, at their demise, have been left without abundance. It is proper and just, therefore, that the Nation should provide an allowance from the federal treasury sufficient to enable the widows of Presidents to live in dignity commensurate with the importance of former mistresses of the White House. Picking Oranges Here All the Year It is one perpetual round of oranges here in Southern California. When it's not valencias, it's navels—when it's not navels it's valencias. The picking and marketing of the golden fruit circles the year. This lends an air of romance, as well as profitable economic reality, to citrus culture in this section. It is romantic to contemplate the fact that, all over this Southland, where oranges are grown at all, it is possible to have the golden fruit right from the trees any and every month in the year. And, on the more material side, it is gratifying to take cognizance of the fact that oranges, as a profit-producing crop, can be, and are, marketed from this section in all seasons of the year. The citrus yield is a big item in the gainful production of this section. backFast Excursions to various destinations at low round trip fares—including New York 147 22 Detroit 105 22 Chicago 86 22 Kansas City 72 22 Denver 64 22 St. Paul 87 22 Toronto 121 23 St. Louis 81 22 Dallas 72 22 New Orleans 85 15 on sale every day until Sept. 15th and 5 trains daily Santa Fe all the way Fred Harvey meals in dining cars or station restaurants — Grand Canyon National Park the world's greatest scenic wonder—is on your way for reservations, picture folders and details — C. A. WALKER Telephone 217 ANAHEIM, CAL. ES Sunday Publisher Plain Dealer FRID Subscription Entered at th VACATION SPASMS—NO. 4 SHALL I SNAP YOU NOW-BERT? — YOU'RE A SCREAM IN THAT POSE! BERT WANTED A SNAPSHOT SHOWING HIMSELF HELPING BERT WANTED A SNAPSHOT SHOWING HIMSELF HELPING THE FARMERS WITH THE THRESHING-HE WAS COUNTED QUITE AN ATHLETE IN THE CITY GYM CLUB-BUT A HALF HOURS WORK UNDER THE STRAW CARRIER HE DECIDED HE WANTED A MORE HEROIC POSE TO SHOW THE GIRLS BACK AT THE OFFICE NEW YORK LETTER By LUCY JEANNE PRICE Newport loses again to the strenuous life. Count and Countess Lazlo Szeschneyl., who have been the active leaders of Newport's gayety throughout the entire early part of the season, have suddenly thrown aside all of the appeals of that concentration of American luxury and American society, and are en route to Alaska where they will spend six solid weeks at big game hunting. Their children will remain in Newport while they are gone; and there can be little doubt as to what the children think of an arrangement whereby the parents go off to shoot wild animals and the youthful members of the family have to bask in the most effete of our effete civilization. When the city pavements can be felt through your shoes and the air seems as if you'd stuck your head in an oven, its no wonder that tired folks are glad to get a nice cool novel to be reading next to an electric fan. They welcome the advent of Harold Bell Wright's "The Mine with the Iron Door", with the western breezes and general atmosphere of the out-of-doors. People talk of all the reasons that made the Wright novels break, all sales records but this new one makes you understand the appeals that have made him famous. But what people hereabouts are thinking its prime attraction, is the fact that in it you get clear away into the mountains and deserts of Arizona. POEMS THAT LIVE TO MARGUERITE Yes, in the sea of life enlisted, With the echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone The islands feed the enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. But when the moon their hollows light, And they are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens on starry nights The nightingales divinely sing; And lovely notes, from shore to shore, Across the sounds and channels pour; O then a longing like despair Is to their farthest caverns sent! For surely once, they fell two were Parts of a single continent. Now round us spreads the watery plain, O might our margins meet again? Who order'd that their longing's fire Should be as soon as kindled, would? PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN The eyes of the world never need glasses. Baseball Grandstand: A stadium full of self-appointed umpires. If cleanliness is next to Godliness what is tobacco-chewing next to. Hortense wants to know if they dissolve corporations by watering the stock. The Chicago packers at least have made a slick purse out of a sow's ear. The "expert" who says a working girl can live on nine dollars a week hasn't priced a permanent wave lately. The prize for fastidiousness goes to the man who buys cigars to match the color of his mustache. We're tired of paying installments on the war. Tell the company they can have it back. We never did like it anyhow. The man who gets fired for getting mad at his boss is just one brand of canned heat. Senator King of Utah is the Welcome the advent of Harold Bell Wright's "The Mine with the Iron Door" with the western breezes and general atmosphere of the out-of-doors. People talk of all the reasons that made the Wright novels break, all sales records but this new one makes you understand the appeals that have made him famous. But what people hereabouts are thinking its prime attraction, is the fact that in it you get clear away into the mountains and deserts of Arizona. I lately noticed a girl in the subway reading calmly away. Everyone around her, including myself was gasping for breath and filled with a sticky sense that all the world was melting. This one girl sat there, with bright eyes, forgetful of the noisy car, of the heat, everything. I looked over her shoulder and saw she was reading "The Mine with the Iron Door." It will require scholars in 40 languages to translate the 40,000 Hebrew books of the famous Adler collection, which have recently come to this city. The valuable books and manuscripts have been added to the Jewish Theological Seminary, but they are of immense interest to students of all races because of the additional light it is believed they will throw upon the life and learning of Middle Ages. The collection provides a noard of unworked historical sources going back to the seventh century and of throwing light on detail of the world's progress since the break up of the Roman Empire down to modern times. New York City will be more than ever a Mecca of the country's scholars, since this collection has been placed here. "Lullaby" one of the first new Dillingham shows, has gone into rehearsal. It is by the competent Mr., Knoblock, and will star Florence Reed. Other members of the company are Leslie Austen, Frank Morgan, Florence Auer, Mary Robson, Rose Hobart, Grace Perkins, Marlane Walter, George LoNoir, Harold Elliot and even others. Apparently this is not to be a year of small casts. Another indication of how the consumer is getting his money's worth! Is to their farthest cavern sent! For surely once, they fell we were Parts of a single continent. Now round us spreads the watery plain, O might our murges meet again? Who order'd that their longing's fire Should be as soon as kindled, cool'd? Who renders vain their deep desire?— A God, a God their severance ruled; And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumbed, salt, estrangling sea. —Mathew Arnold. ABE MARTIN Next t' jumpin' on a walrus an' tryin' t' guide it with a rope haller, ther hain't nothin' as sportsmanlike as balloonin'. Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin' 'll turn into a tune. In the old days, when men chewed tobacco, a girl didn't kiss a man unless she really loved him passionately. If the doughboys wanted a bonus out of the war they ought to have fought the Kaiser on Boyle's Thirty Acres. An isolationist is a man who believes the sun rises on his land and the others are just lighted by electricity. Necessity is the mother of invention and the man who first used phosphorous probably had difficulty in finding the keyhole at two a.m. If the radical uplifters have their way headlines of the future may read like this: "In Wild Orgy of Dispiration Youth Chews Three Cakes of Gum at One Time." Wolfe and Montcalm had their tussle on the heights of old Quebec but a night in an upper gives one the same thrill. FRIDAY, AUGUST TENTH, 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 UNDERSTAND THE BOYS—San Diego Union While we're celebrating Boys' Week, let's avoid one thing like poison—and that thing is condescension. There is nothing praise-worthy or particularly meritorious about having grown up, and a lot of men don't seem to recognize that fact. The years have brought certain powers, and in most cases, perhaps, added wisdom—but they bring no excuse for exercising our powers on the youngsters who have not yet attained them, nor for imposing our wisdom on boys who look at life a little differently than we do. We who are grown up—as it is called—are not missionaries to the boys, charged with any sacred duty of destroying their standards and setting up new ones. We are not apostles of civilization, called upon to enlighten our barbarian younger brothers and "uplift" them. It's a good thing that boys will be boys.' Otherwise, our forbears would long ago have imposed their standards upon rising generations, the boys of our great-great-grandfathers' days would already have been "little men"—and we ourselves would have never known boyhood. Think of the loss! As a matter of fact, the boys of our own time have set up a good many remedies against any attitude of condescension on our part. There are a good many boys here in San Diego who understand the theoretical and practical aspects of a gasoline engine a lot better than their fathers do. There are a good many boys who, operating the family "wireless," delve into mysteries that are a sealed book to their elders. There are plenty of school boys who can write better English than the average business man can dictate. We're not arguing that boys are "better" than men, or that they're more useful or more brainy or more worthy of respect and consideration. We do maintain that they're regular individuals, entitled to their respect and consideration and entitled to the standards and ideals of boydom. If Boys' Week helps us all to realize that it will have performed no small service for us all—boys and grown-ups, too. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT We have our moments of deep depression when we do believe that old Mr. Fahrenheit must have been a cantankerous old party to live with. Almost every day now, some United States senator sails for Europe. The latest is La Follette. We claim it serves Europe jolly well right. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT We have our moments of deep depression when we do believe that old Mr. Fahrenheit must have been a cantankerous old party to live with. Almost every day now, some United States senator sails for Europe. The latest is La Follette. We claim it serves Europe jolly well right. Uncle Hen Ford is said to be accumulating antiques. He has already placed several of them in his Presidential platform. Karl Kitchen informs us that a prominent American actor has adopted Coue's system and keeps repeating: "Every day in every way, I am better and better." A lot of actors do that right on the stage every day and have been doing it for thirty years; yet few believe them. Prominent American dancer is coming home from Paris "accompanied by her pet goat." Also by her husband's. A number of Scotch clergymen have come to this country to work for the enforcement of prohibition. They could do that better right at home in Scotland. GIVING LIFE'S HURDLES THE ONCE OVER One balks at character, when viewing a man who gives a street car conductor a bogus coin and in turn requests a transfer. Killing time, in slang, simply means getting away with murder. Art, just like dice, should come natural. A rolling stone may not gather moss—But one gathers from a rolling pin who is boss. Samson lost his strength when Delilah bobbed his hair, and now some women are willing to admit that they feel pretty weak about the bobbed hair fad themselves.—Frank Del Witt. We close this afternoon in memory of our fallen chief, WARREN G. HARDING EDMISTON'S GROCERY 116 N. Los Angeles St. EDMISTON'S GROCERY 116 N. Los Angeles St. Brunswick PHONOGRAPHS AND RECORDS We Expect to Be in Our NEW HOME 225-227 West Center Street (Next to California Theatre) MONDAY ANAHEIM MUSIC CO.