oc-plain-dealer 1923-08-15

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. James A. Froude. Unity in Combatting Crossing Perils Unity marks the opening of the fight on dangerous grade crossings in Los Angeles County—unity as to main purpose and as to the imperative needs of separating and eliminating crossings at grade. In the movement launched at Los Angeles, a committee was appointed representing state, county and city governments, grade. In the movement launched at Los Angeles, a committeeizations. Plans for elimination of crossing dangers are to be worked out by a committee. Railroad officials recognize the gravity of the grade crossing menace, particularly in Los Angeles County, where streets and highways are choked with traffic. The only point of difference will be time and method and distribution of expenses. All will not be smooth sailing in working out a definite plan. But it is encouraging to know that a plan has been launched and that relief may be expected, ultimately. The World War is yet casting its blighting shadows over the world. Europe's distressed condition today is traceable directly to the dire fruits of the most appalling armed strife in the history of the human race. Making Road Rough for Swindlers The way of the stock swindler is being made quite rough by Uncle Sam. The federal grand jury, sitting in Los Angeles, has returned several indictments against alleged frauds in oil stocks, affecting the Texas field. Other indictments are expected. Severe punishment of fraudulent persons and corporations whose prey has been a trusting public, should have wholesome effect in deterring others. This class of offenses should be punished with great severity. Those least able to bear losses often-times are the prey of these swindlers. They scrumble not to take Making Road Rough for Swindlers The way of the stock swindler is being made quite rough by Uncle Sam. The federal grand jury, sitting in Los Angeles, has returned several indictments against alleged frauds in oil stocks, affecting the Texas field. Other indictments are expected. Severe punishment of fraudulent persons and corporations whose prey has been a trusting public, should have wholesome effect in deterring others. This class of offenses should be punished with great severity. Those least able to bear losses often-times are the prey of these swindlers. They scruple not to take the last dollar of hard-earned money amassed by toilers. They are a menace and their nefarious operations should be checked by such rigorous measures as would be effectual. Always should be borne in mind by the investing public that there are sound, honest, reliable stocks. Investments in these are safe. It is only the unsafe or fraudulent stocks which should be shunned. Living on a tension docs much to break the nerves. There is much nervous prostration today because so many do not relax and get off the high tension that is nerve racking. Give Honors to Great While They Live The American people are scrupulously thoughtful and considerate in giving honors to their great men and women, after the great ones die. Are they just as considerate in honoring the great while they live? It is to be regretted that they are not. There is too much tendency, in this land to be over-critical of those who give great service; to look always for defects—real or imagined—and to overlook the virtues, excellences and splendid services of those who give their lives to work for the common good. It would benefit this nation of generous-hearted people to look more to the just treatment of its truly great ones. Men and women who give of their time, talents and energies unselfishly to the service of the people should be honored while they live. They should hear the panegyries while they are in the flesh. Praise should not be withheld until their ears are leaden in death. Building good roads is of the foremost economic importance to the country. And maintaining roads in fit condition, once they are built, is of equal importance. Here's Good News for the Man who needs a Royal Cord ROYALS are the only tires in which you get the benefit of the three new U.S. discoveries—Sprayed Rubber—Web Cord and Flat Roads. the Man who needs a Royal Cord ROYALS are the only tires in which you get the benefit of the three new U.S. discoveries — Sprayed Rubber — Web Cord and the Flat-Band Method of building a Cord Tire. Made in all sizes 30 x 3½ and up. United States Tires are Good Tires Where to buy U.S.Tires A. ANTON, Highway Supply Store RFD No. 2, Box 228. ANAHEIM M. ANTON, RFD No. 2, Box 222 L. J. EVANS, (Five Points Service Station). HUGH LARUE, Cypress, RFD No. 2. CHARLES H. MANN, 210 So. Los Angeles St. C. H. MYERS, (Myers Garage). R. J. REDDEN, Route No. 2, Box 307. HARRY D. RILEY, 151 S. Los Angeles St. S. R. WALTERS, (Anaheim Vulc. Works), 156 S. Los Angeles St. RES Sunday Publisher Plain Dealer WEDN Subscription Entered at VACATION SPASMS—NO. 8 THE LURE OF THE MOUNTAINS GENUINE MOONSHINE TWO BITS A SHOT DON'T COME UP MY DEAR-IT'S VERY DANGEROUS! RATTLE SNAKES! I'll BE DOWN AS SOON'S IVE KILLED A FEW! JOHN-WHAT'S KEEPING YOU? WHY DON'T YOU HELP ME UP THERE? SEE THE VIEW FROM TABLE ROCK-IT'S WORTH THE CLIMB! NEW YORK LETTER By LUCY JEANNE PRICE NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—The dog at the end of the leash in the hand of the up to the minute maid in New York must be in style just as her shoes and hat, or the manner of doing her hair. The ambitious girl who wants to "knock 'em dead" might just as well be wearing short skirts when long ones are the thing as to be, leading an old fashioned canine animal around. For sports' wear the big romping police dog is decreed the proper thing, and they may be seen in great numbers pulling their breathless mistresses about in any direction they choose in upper New York: A girl recently seen with a long mastiff on the drive quite as big as herself, discussed the subject. "I wanted to go down town this morning, but His Highness decided on the park and had his way. He weighs as much as I do, and when it comes to a match between us, he wins. I am positively ashamed the way he can drag me up every alley or street he chooses. I seldom go where I want to because of him." The French poodle was the vogue a few years ago, but thank Fortune that fad is over. The little chow and pom dogs are still preferred for the more formal occasion, and many of the women say that even if style should rule them out, they never allow the little beasts to be put on the same level with just alley dogs. The show district is buzzing with announcements by the producers for the "greatest theatrical year we have ever had." POEMS THAT LIVE THE LAST WORD. Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! All stands fast, Thou thyself must break at last. Let the long contentions cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still. They out-talked thee, hess'd thee tore; Better men fared thus before thee; Fired their ringing shot and pass'd; Hotly charged—and sank at last. Charge once more, then, and be dumb! Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of jolly fall, Find thy body by the wall. —Matthew Arnold. PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN The normal child, however, turns out all right in spite of all the parents can do. Civilization would be a fine thing if the job of making it left us any leisure to enjoy it. It never is correct to say of a statesman, "He is a dirt farmer." Always use the past tense. Home is a place where you have learned to adjust yourself to the queerness of the mattress. America doesn't approve of European advocacy of "plural wives." All American wives are singular. There will be wars while "illustrious" applies more particularly to those who died fighting. The smaller the car, the more arrogantly the driver can toot his horn. It works in the case of small men, also. In warning the grand jury not to be influenced by anything the judge always forgets to mention sex. You may call a truthful man a liar and get away with it, but it is dangerous to call a liar a liar. But if he tells you he wishes you to be a good fellow, my dear, your intentions never serious. Find thy body by the wall. Matthew Arnold. ABE MARTIN Now this is the law of the customs, and it would be well to remember it. Jewels changing hands abroad come under the same regulations as those newly purchased and must be declared for payment of the 30 per cent duty required on jewels. A case in point has been brought before the customs officials, Frank Auditore, millionaire stevedore, bought some nice ones for his fiancé, Irene Hays, a local florist, while everything was sweet and pretty in this country. That was before they both went to Europe, Over there they quarreled, and she gave them back to him. He maintains that they were always his, even though she declared them before she sailed, and that he did not more than bring his own property back into this country. The officials think differently, and seized the lot when he failed to declare them on returning. Ernest Almless makes no claims to simplicity of nature, and yet I found him all in confusion the other night in a theater lobby. He had heard a young woman turn calmly to another woman saying, "Mother, haxe you a cigarette?" He just didn't want to believe such things were so! Th' Pittsburg feller that's alleged t' have killed his wife an' then had his legs cut off by th' cars may go free, but he'll never be able t' skate again. A ladies' handbag containin' powder an' pistol awaits th' owner at th' pust office. -HERE AND THERE- Brock Pemberton's affections in plays run to the product of two gracious American ladies and one noted Italian. He is to produce Zona Gale's "Faint Perfume" and another unnamed play by the Wisconsin writer, and a musical version of Clara Kummer's "Good Gracious, Annabelle." We will all be glad to have more of Pirandello, for it was Pemberton's version that brought "Six Characters in Search of An Author" last year to prove Broadway all wrong on what could be made successful as a play. The smaller the car, the more arrogantly the driver can toot his horn. It works in the case of small men, also. In warning the grand jury not to be influenced by anything the judge always forgets to mention sex. You may call a truthful man a liar and get away with it, but it is dangerous to call a liar a liar. But if he tells you he wishes you to be a good fellow, my dear, his intentions never are serious. Correct this sentence. "Yes, he is our only child," boasted the mother, "and he is absolutely unspoiled." There are few matters in the world so urgent that they can't wait until the train gets past the crossing. The rotogravure section has another good point. The red shoes worn by the young ladies portrayed never show red. A man is old when he can yawn and go to bed and leave the hero in the middle of a bad fix on Page 184. The boy who missed the thrill of running away to sea can get it now as a man by wearing knickers on Main street. When his coat and collar become too oppressive, a man can get some relief by laughing about woman's silly styles. When a village boy goes to the city and makes good, the pride of the home folks is equalled only by their surprise. At any rate the soda fountain patron never is made to skid across the sidewalk on his ear when his last nickel is spent. When the star customer of a hick town bank fails to overdraw during the month, the banker knows he is mad about something. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST FIFTEENTH, 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 LAWS ENACTED TOO NUMEROUS—Berkeley Gazette "I think," wrote Anthony Trollope, seven years ago, "the country would do uncommonly well if it were to know that no old law would be altered or new law made for the next twenty years." From this statement it were easy to conclude that the novelist was incorrigibly conservative and that he regarded the England of 1850 as a pretty good land in which to live. His point of view is reininiscent of the old Greek device which aimed to prevent hasty legislation by providing the death penalty for the proposers of a law which did not meet with public approval. He might not have voted to ostracize Aristides because he was tried of hearing him called "The Just," but he might well have taken that stand in the cases of those who cry out for "social justice" and believe that their recipes for it, once enacted into statute, will put the world on the high road to the millennium. The last twenty years of our national life have been myriads of laws and ordinances added to the statute books of the nation, the several states and their political subdivisions. But very few of us could be persuaded that the daily life of many of us has been rendered more secure, or the average of personal happiness greatly improved. Human progress is slow, at best, and precious little of it can be traced to the legislation of any age. As a people we grope toward almost as many ideals as there are individuals—and our law making shows it. Perhaps a good long rest would bring us to a better understanding of what we really need, and want. LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT By S. W. STRAUS, President American Society for Thrift WASTE IN TRIVIAL TIMES COSTS RAILROADS $230,000,000 "The large wastes are readily discovered, but it is the small ones that in the aggregate amount to much more than a few large ones and cause the most concern." Thus an executive of an important American railway system recently epitomized the urgent need of thrift among railroad employees. He estimated that the waste in little things on the railroad with which he was connected amounted to $7,000,000 annually. This did not include any outstanding instances of efficiency. For example here is one sentence that illustrated his point: "We have millions of electric lights in service all over the system using thousands of watt-hours of current. How often do we see lights burning unnecessarily while the waste goes on?" Some of the annual items of needless waste pointed out by him WASTE IN TRIVIAL TIMES COSTS RAILROADS $230,000,000 "The large wastes are readily discovered, but it is the small ones that in the aggregate amount to much more than a few large ones and cause the most concern." Thus an executive of an important American railway system recently epitomized the urgent need of thrift among railroad employees. He estimated that the waste in little things on the railroad with which he was connected amounted to $7,000,000 annually. This did not include any outstanding instances of efficiency. For example here is one sentence that illustrated his point: "We have millions of electric lights in service all over the system using thousands of watt-hours of current. How often do we see lights burning unnecessarily while the waste goes on?" Some of the annual items of needless waste pointed out by him were as follows: Coal, $1,000,000; supplies, $300,000; stationery, $50,000; crossties, $100,000; locomotive repairs, $500,000. Analysis of his statement reveals that about 7 per cent of his company's operating expenses last year represented waste due to lack of thrift by employees. Inasmuch as the system with which he is connected represents about 3 per cent of the gross railway mileage of the United States, and as conditions on the road referred to were probably a fair average of conditions on all lines, it is safe to set down the sum of $230,000,000 a year as the direct result of lack of thrift by employees. One of the great economic problems of the present day pertains to transportation. In these matters of unnecessary expense, the cure can only come through the education of the employees. No other efficiency system can safeguard against these wastes. 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