oc-plain-dealer 1923-08-16

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Mothers and teachers need to read and re-read that old parable of the seed and the sower, before they can grasp the hidden comfort in the fact it reveals—that growth may be going on, though we see it not; for it was not the seed which forthwith sprang up, that at last bore the full grain in the ear.—Anonymous. Agreement Soon With Mexico The United States and Mexico will soon be in complete accord, according to authoritative reports, on all issues which have hindered formal recognition of the government of General Obregon and resumption of full diplomatic relations between the two republics. The commissioners appointed by the two countries to work out a satisfactory agreement are said to have reached an accord that promises to be quite acceptable to the government and people of the United States. The vexatious Article 27 of the constitution of Mexico is to be eliminated, it is reported. This leaves the road to a satisfactory agreement open and unobstructed. Optimistic report from Washington and the City of Mexico have been coming for some time. Facts seem to be verifying these cheerful rumors. The estrangement which for years has kept the United States out of diplomatic touch with Mexico seems to be in fair process of being eradicated. This will redound to the material benefit of both countries. It should draw them more closely together in sentiment also, and preclude all possibility of warlike feeling in either country. Nature abhors excesses, and punishes them, whatever form they may take. The human being who goes to excess in any direction suffers therefor. New President Firm in His Methods It is becoming evident to the country that Calvin Coolidge in the Presidency is to be a man of independent thought and Nature abhors excesses, and punishes them, whatever form they may take. The human being who goes to excess in any direction suffers therefor. New President Firm in His Methods It is becoming evident to the country that Calvin Coolidge in the Presidency is to be a man of independent thought and action. He is advising freely with leaders of his party and with representatives of interests and causes which are involved in the policies of the administration. But he is making his own decisions. One question he has decided—at least tentatively: His present intention is not to call Congress in extra session. He may decide to do so, should the coal mining situation become acute and distressing. But at present the President sees no need of summoning Congress. President Coolidge is much concerned about the threatened strike of anthracite coal miners. He will use the whole power of the government to keep the mines in operation and to obviate the suffering which a shutdown would entail. It is to be hoped that some means may be found soon to tranquilize the industrial situation in the coal mining industry. Basis of peace should be grounded upon justice to labor, to capital legitimately invested in mine operation, and to the public. The problem is intricate and difficult. But it can be and should be worked out, to avert the recurring disasters and resultant hardship and suffering entailed by strikes in the coal mining regions. Life is barren indeed without a stream of romance trickling and babbling through it. Romance is not for youth alone, but for all ages. Peaches Peaches Several hundred boxes of best varieties of Peaches—Elbertas, Crawfords, Lovells, Tuscan Cling, Phillips Cling and Orange Cling, at from 2½ cents pound up by the box. Also Grapes and Figs fresh daily, by the box or pound. Fresh stock, large well filled boxes every day, beginning Friday noon, August 17th, at my place on Lincoln avenue, 4 miles west of Anaheim. H. M. King Watch for My Signs Along the Road Side The FLORSHEIM SHOE H. M. King Watch for My Signs Along the Road Side The FLORSHEIM SHOE There are two sorts of men in this town—those who wear FLORSHEIM Shoes and those who are going to wear them. If there are exceptions, they simply bear out the old statement that "the exception plays the rule." $10 F.A.Y.U.NGBLUTI: Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes "By all means get a fit" 145 W. Center St. ANAHEIM, CAL. MASSACHUSETTS TAKES POLITICAL LEADERSHIP Massachusetts statesmen at helm of ship of state. Top, left to right: President Calvin C. Coolidge; War Secretary Weeks, Senate Leader Henry Cabot Lodge. Below: Thomas C. Marvin, chairman of the United States tariff commission; Representative William S. Green, chairman of the house merchant marine committee; Representative Samuel Winslow, chairman of the house interstate and foreign Massachusetts statesmen at helm of ship of state. Top, left to right: President Calvin C. Coolidge; War Secretary Weeks, Senate Leader Henry Cabot Lodge. Below: Thomas C. Marvin, chairman of the United States tariff commission; Representative William S. Green, chairman of the house merchant marine committee; Representative Samuel Winslow, chairman of the house interstate and foreign committee, and Speaker Frederick H. Gillette. The star of Ohio wanes as that of Massachusetts ascends and shines more brightly in national government and national politics, with the change of administration from the hands of Warren G. Harding to those of Calvin Coolidge. The meaning of this in broad effect is a shift from middle west conservatism, which after all is nowwhat Sexible, to the more old conservatism of New England. That will mean a great imPRESS upon government and upon American politics. Seldom before in history has there been such concentration of national political power in one state as Massa chusets now embraces. Massachusetts now has the presidency through Calvin Coolidge; the speakership of the house of representatives through Frederick H. Gillette; leadership of the senate through Henry Cabot Lodge; influential representation in the cabinet through Secretary of War John W. Weeks; chairmanship of the United States tariff commission through Thomas O. Marvin; to say nothing of the influence on legislation of Senator Lodge as chairman of foreign relations in the senate. Representative Samuel Winslow as chairman of the house interstate and foreign commerce committee. William S. Givene as chairman of the house merchant marine and fisheries committee. Frederick W. Hallinger as chairman of the house committee on education and labor, succeeding An Ohloan Simoon D. Feen. NEW YORK LETTER By LUCY JEANNE PRICE NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—It is easier to change one's parents than one's type of surroundings? One sixteen-year-old girl evidently thinks so. The following advertisement has appeared in a local morning paper: "PERSONAL—Adoption—American born girl, 16 years, healthy, talented sunny disposition, excellent horsewoman, fond of outdoor sports, musical, father of high British descent, mother of Australian noble family; unhappy under present reduced circumstances, wishes adoption by wealthy family of unquestioned reputation, Address P. O. Box 1216, City Hall Station, New York." Charles McCready, of Plainfield, N. J., who stands responsible for the advertisement, explains that the girl was born in New York sixteen years ago; that both of her parents were ruined financially by the war, and that she prefers some un-ruined family. Riverside Drive has produced a genuine "Huck Finn." The papers have been full of accounts of the missing boy, Robert E. Niles. He has been absent from home two months. It is all cleared up now. This lad of fourteen tired of his private schools, motors, and the other luxuries of the Drive, and determined to do what he can. DOEMS THAT LIVE IN THE GRAVEYARD 'Mid the half-lit air, and the lonely place, Rose the buried Pleasures of perish'd years. I saw the Past, with her pallid face, Whose smiles had turned to tears. On many a burial stone, I read the names of being once known. Who oft, in childish glee, Had jumped across the graves with me— Sported, many a truant day, Where—now their ashes lay. There the dead Poet had been placed, Who died in the dawn of thought— And there, the girl whose virtues graced The lines his love had wrought— Beauty's power, and Talent's pride, And Passion's fever, early chill'd The heart that felt, the eye that thrilled.' PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN All France needs is some method making families grow as fast as her budget. There is no particular reason to feel nervous this year unless you are a champion. And think of the job-holders that would be suffering if we hadn't bought Alaska. Ford has no supporters among those whose fine cars have been passed on a hill by jitneys. So far no cynic has charged that Magnus Johnson wears overalls as an advertising stunt. As our fifth entry for the Box peace prize we respectfully suggest the suppression of orators. We are yet a long way from the millennium while people continue to occupy the back seats at church and the front seats at a leg show. Don't get discouraged. The civilized nations are those that owe more money than they can pay. Still, anybody who could think up a $100,000 peace plan could think up a crazy song and make more. The labor shortage is so acute. Riverside Drive has produced a genuine "Huck Finn." The papers have been full of accounts of the missing boy, Robert E. Niles. He has been absent from home two months. It is all cleared up now. This lad of fourteen tired of his private schools, motors, and the other luxuries of the Drive, and determined to go out into the world and get a job. He did not have much luck and was finally picked up by a taxi driver who allowed him to occupy his bed at night, since he was busy taking care of passengers. After that step, it was easy for him to mate up with a gang of youngsters, who kept a shack out on 189th street, where they brought in such food as they could find and had the fun of cooking it on their own stove in their private den. All went well until one of the older lads recognized Robert as the boy whose pictures were being run in the papers, and quietly went around and told his mamma. She hurried to the shack, but was told that he was over to his driver friend's room. There she found him just getting out of bed, reveling in the squalor and freedom, and all too reluctant to come back to the marble fronted apartment house. "Flapperizing the classics" is a regular well paid profession along the section of Broadway known as "Tin Pan Alley." There are many apt composers who have a knack of flavoring and timing the well known classical compositions to suit this persistent jazz age. Tschalkowsky concertos, Greig's Peer Gynt Suite, Rimsky's Sadko, Pietel's Carmen, and numerous Chopin themes have been dished up in the style of the day to suit the dancing flapper. That's why many an old fashioned person is seen to perk up when a new piece is played because it is reminiscent of something they have long cherished as respectable. And there, the girl whose virtues graced The lines his love had wrought— Beauty's power, and Talent's pride, And Passion's fever, early chill'd The heart that felt, the eye that thrill'd, All, the dazzling dreams of each, Faded, out of Rapture's reach. O' when they trifled, on this spot, Not long ago, Little they thought, 'twould be their lot, So soon to lie here lone and low, Neath a chilly coverlid of clay, And few or none to go Mid the glimmering dusk of a summer day, To the dim place where they lay, And pause and pray, And think how little worth, Is all that frets our hearts on earth. The sun had sunk, and the summer skies Were dotted with specks of light, That melted soon, in the deep moon-rise, That flowed over Croton Height. For the Evening, in her robes of white, Smiled o'er sea and land, with pensive eyes. Saddening the heart, like the first fair night, After a loved one dies. Macdonald Clarke. We are yet a long way from the millennium while people continue to occupy the back seats at church and the front seats at a leg show. Don't get discouraged. The civilized nations are those that owe more money than they can pay. Still, anybody who could think up a $100,000 peace plan could think up a crazy song and make more. The labor shortage is so acute now that you seldom see more than ten waiting for the best pool table. Hiram Johnson found no chaos in Europe, but in other particulars he found Europe much like America. If only the genius who designs the wonderful movie houses would turn his hand to making movies. Correct this sentence: "There's my pay envelope, Honey," said the husband; "just take out what you want." A conceived man is one who boasts of his new boy baby and admits grudgingly that his wife was also present. He isn't a true statesman unless he thinks the world will go to the dogs if he can't have his own way. As every unhappy movie patron knows, files and other insects are not the only insignificant things on the screen. Where a man's treasure is, there will his heart be also. So it may be that Uncle Sam's heart is with Europe, after all. Every politician should be out of office once in a while. Being out enables him to see so many faults in the Administration. The Bolshies doubtless wonder why they shouldn't receive as much recognition as Bulgaria. They also kill off the opposition. THURSDAY, AUGUST SIXTEENTH, 1923. Subscription Rate—In No. Orange-co. Per Yr. $3; 6 Months, $1.75 Entered at the Post Office at Anaheim, Calif., as 2nd class matter COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING MARKING STATE'S BEAUTY SPOTS—(Santa Ana Register) Illinois expects soon to have its 100 outstanding beauty sites located and marked so that all who wish may find and enjoy them. The Better Community Movement in that state is conducting a photographic contest. The 100 most attractive places in Illinois will be chosen from over 1000 submitted pictures. They will then be pointed out by roadside markers and indicated on highway maps. When that part of the work is done the photographs will be mounted and made a permanent exhibit at the state university, as a historical photographic record of the representative types of beauty of Illinois in 1922 and 1923. Picture subjects include trees, flowers, rocks, lakes, streams, hills and general landscapes. Here is a fine contest for the citizens of any state to be engaged in. For many persons, seeing America first might well begin with seeing their own state first. Beauties near hand are often undiscovered or ignored just because they are so close. Some states, no doubt, have greater beauties and grander scenes than others, but any patriotic American must believe that every state in the Union has some charms of its own well worth noting and marking for all to find and enjoy. Making them known and accessible should be a pleasant task. This observation is made, of course, with a general application. It seems to be hardly necessary to urge residents of Orange-co. to get acquainted with California. Most of us have automobiles and we know a good many of California's beauty spots. We have difficulty in curbing our desire to put in too much time seeing more of them. We are keenly aware of the fact, however, that anything that can be done by the state, the educational institutions, the automobile clubs or other agencies in spreading information concerning spots in California worth seeing will meet with responsive appreciation in Orange-co. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT Jim Jones he was an editor—that is what he tried to be; He bought himself a printing press and started in to see Just what there was in editin', but when he'd canvassed round Some fifteen hundred editors in that town he found—They all knew more about it than he could hope to know. They told him, "You must run her, Jones, and run her so and so, Be sure to boom the Baptists—they're sure to help you out, And give the good old Methodists a good salvation shout. Give every man a notice—be sure to make it known Whenever Major Jinks is seen perambulatin' town. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT Jim Jones he was an editor—that is what he tried to be; He bought himself a printing press and started in to see Just what there was in editin', but when he'd canvassed round Some fifteen hundred editors in that town he found— They all knew more about it than he could hope to know. They told him, "You must run her, Jones, and run her so and so, Be sure to boom the Baptists—they're sure to help you out, And give the good old Methodists a good salvation shout. Give every man a notice—be sure to make it known Whenever Major Jinks is seen perambulatin' town. Put in a few free locals for all the stores and give Away free subscriptions if you wish your sheet to live." Well, Jones, he did just what they said, for fear they'd make a row, But the more he tried to please 'em all, the more they told him how, Until at last he took his book and laid it on the shelf, Then ran the paper in the ground and followed it himself. It is reported that Glasgow has sent 300,000 bottles of genuine Scotch whisky to America. The peculiar part of it is that the genuine stuff never seems to get here Hi Johnson "does not fear any turmoil in Europe, but they are getting ready for another war." The last war they had over there was some turmoil, we would say. The New York society woman who cloped to Europe with her dentist must love that profession more than most patients do. Warm and Thirsty? Visit Our Fountain Cold Drinks - Sodas Sundaes Hungry? Try one of our Special Luncheons. Our Sandwiches ARE GOOD. FLENTGE DRUG CO. We Deliver 237 East Center St. Phone 75 We Deliver 237 East Center St. Phone 75 Ford THE UNIVERSAL CAR GENUINE FORD BATTERIES NOW $18.00 Guaranteed One Year Sid McGraw Authorized Sales and Service 320 N. Los Angeles St. Anaheim