oc-plain-dealer 1923-08-18

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY. GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Nor stayed to watch it grow, For little tending's needed when The seed is good we sow; But once I met the man again, And by the gladsome way He took my hand, I knew I sowed The best of seed that day, —Anonymous. Prevention of Strike of Miners Is Aim President Coolidge is bent upon preventing a strike of miners in the hard coal fields of the East. To this end he has had the National Coal Commission summon the respective heads of the miners' and operators' organizations to confer and to attempt to reach an agreement as to wages by the time the present agreement expires, on Aug. 31. Every facility and incentive will be afforded the miners and operators to reach settlement by direct negotiation. But should they fail to adjust their differences, then pressure will be exerted from Washington to bring them together. President Coolidge, it is apparent, will use the power and influence of the national government to turn aside the threatened disaster of a suspension of work in the anthracite field. This suspension would precipitate a catastrophe, from which the public would suffer keenly. The welfare of the public must be considered. It should be laid down as a fundamental law and rule of practice in this country to permit no industrial strife to stop the productions of such prime necessaries as fuel and food. There are ways and means of settling disputes in industry without resorting to destructive industrial warfare, entailing great hardships and losses not only upon labor and capital, but upon the masses of the people. Americanization of aliens who enter this country is of the utmost importance. It entails a great peril upon the country. It should be laid down as a fundamental law and rule of practice in this country to permit no industrial strife to stop the productions of such prime necessaries as fuel and food. There are ways and means of settling disputes in industry without resorting to destructive industrial warfare, entailing great hardships and losses not only upon labor and capital, but upon the masses of the people. Americanization of aliens who enter this country is of utmost importance. It entails a great peril upon the country to have an unassimilable mass of foreigners in its population, of a type that is dangerous and subversive of law and order. Europe Seethes From War Aftermath Disquieting indeed is the news which comes from Western Europe. Germany has had a cabinet crisis and bloody food riots. France is unyielding as to occupation of the Ruhr. Great Britain sharply disapproves, and the entente between London and Paris is twisted almost to breaking. And the one thought of studious Americans, above all other thoughts, is, that Europe is reaping today the legitimate harvests of its militaristic madness. The spirit and circumstances which precipitated the World War brought the successive crisis of this after-war period. Europe is in travail. God alone knows how long its trouble will persist. Just what the remedy is to be Europe itself must determine. Its problems cannot be settled for it. Its pangs resultant from the frightful conflict of 1914 to 1918 cannot be borne by others. It must agonize in its own Gethsemane. But Europe and the world today should be so profoundly impressed with the horrors of warfare—not only the horrors of war while the fighting proceeds, but the horrific aftermath of war—that there shall be concerted effort among all civilized powers and peoples to prevent recurrence of bloody strife. The forest fire, carelessly started, may do immense damage before it is put under control. There’s but one proper way to handle fire—that is, carefully. The franchise right should not be regarded lightly or frivolously. Voting is more than a right or a privilege—it is a sacred duty and a solemn responsibility. It should be regarded in this signification and should be treasured accordingly. Each and every qualified elector should vote in every election, if it be possible to do so. We All Know We All Know the value of friendships in business, particularly the friendships resulting from associations of several years' standing. No where do friendships count for more in business than in friendly relationship with a strong bank. Make this your banking home. Get acquainted with our officers. It is our constant effort to make our service valuable to our patrons. FIRST NATIONAL BANK AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK of Anaheim RES Sunday Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer SATURDAY Subscription Entered at t SOME POST CARDS THE VACATIONERS WRITE TO THEIR STAY-AT-HOME DEAR ED. BREEZELESS HOTEL JUST THINK OF ME SLEEPING UNDER BLANKETS! ARE THE NIGHTS COOL DO I SLEEP WELL? YOU SHOULD BE HERE! — BERT DEAR JIM. CARPLANE TALK ABOUT FISHING! I NEVER HAD SUCH LUCK! WISH YOU WERE HERE! SAM DEAR JO. CAMP BUG CAN YOU IMAGINE A PLACE WITHOUT MOSQUITOES? - OH BOY! SORRY YOU DIDN'T COME WITH ME — HANK DEAR JEN. ATLANTIC WAVE HOTEL THE VIEW OF THE OCEAN FROM MY WINDOW IS OUTA SIGHT! WISH YOU WERE HERE TO ENJOY IT WITH ME — EVE DEAR LUCY. THE FARM TALK ABOUT BOARD & ROOMS A QUIET PLACE TO REST! YOU SHOULD BE HERE - FAR FROM THE HOT CITY'S NOISE AND STRIFE - JEAN DEAR ALICE. CAMP PEP THIS IS THE PLACE GOLF TENNIS BOATING SWIMMING HERE - GRACE ETC. DEAR BEN. SORRY YOU CAN'T COMB WITH ME ON FROM THE MARSHALL IGNOBLE STRING. !!!! IF I EVER GET BACK TO CIVILIZATION ALIVE - NEVER AGAIN FOR ME !!!! PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN Method of keeping hootch out of politics: First keep it out of politicians. In all probability modesty was invented by a primitive woman who was ashamed of her arms or her legs. In order to interest America in a World Court, it may yet be necessary to write a crazy song about it. A normal man is one who has picked out the stocks he will buy the moment war is declared next time. Woman's fur collar piece seems foolish. Why doesn't she wear something starchy and sensible that will melt. By the time people get too old to enjoy a Follies chorus, they are old enough to join the anvil chorus. Summer resorts are democratic places, and there is no rude requiring you to spoil a riding habit by getting on a horse. One reason for the density of population in Europe is the fact that natives don't race trains to a crossing. There won't be more women than men in Europe if America continues to send over commissions composed of bachelors. If you have a mind that can see the nasty in every innocent place, you should be here—far from the hot city's noise and strife—dean BAH J-H-MOO-O-O-Q-QUICK-QUACK-DOODLE-DOO-O-U-CONC-K-R-DOODLE-DOO-O-U-CUT-CUT-KR-DUIT-JUM WINEY-BOSS! BACK-UP-WINOR!!! ABE MARTIN ABSOLUTELY NO TWO PIECES ALLOWED INSIDE THE MEANS YOU THIS IS OUR DAY ALL SORTS OF 500P We've allus noticed that folks that live up t' good reputations go out o' town purty often. "Thing I like about croquet is that you kin play it next t'a planin' mill an' don't have t' keep from battin an eye like you do when some one is about t' hit a golf ball," says Lafe Bud. HERE AND THERE When you read that the hero is a young man of thirty-five, you know about how old the author is. Hearing artists of the concert stage by radio is just about as satisfactory unless you enjoy seeing their tonsils. Each nation, it appears, trusts this view to be true. DINNER STORIES "I don't like the wind," protested the newcomer to the cow country plaintively. "It blows so hard my conversation goes right back down my throat And I've got to talk. I'm a book agent." "You don't like the wind?" interrogated the Old Timer. "Why, man, the wind clears the range—gives the cattle a chance to graze. Why, the wind's great for this country!" "And the heat," protested the newcomer. "It's awful. Now I—" "The heat?" countered the Old Timer. "Why, it's kinda hot sometimes. But summer ain't only a month long. Why the heat's the best part of it." "But the dust," insisted the newcomer, feebly. "The dust's awful, now isn't it? Now I—" "Dust? Say, stranger, you don't know nothin'. Why the dust's necessary!" He turned from the tenderfoot in evident sorrow, not unmixed with disdain. "Why," he said over his shoulder, "all these disadvantages make the West!"—Life Down at San Antonio this spring, where the Giants were training for the opening of the big leagues, the final running about the field on the part of the pitchers meant the strengthening of their legs and wind, says the New York Evening Post. And it was taken mightily serious. But to Zachary Abraham Lincoln Johnson it was simply a never-ending cause for wonderment. "Whuffo dem young gem-mans runnin'?" old Zach used to ruminate nightly, scratching his cotton thatch. "Hey sn't fixin' to get rotten." Summer resorts are democratic places, and there is no rule requiring you to spoil a riding habit by getting on a horse. One reason for the density of population in Europe is the fact that natives don't race trains to a crossing. There won't be more women than men in Europe if America continues to send over commissions composed of bachelors. If you have a mind that can see the nasty in every innocent thing, don't despair. You would make a good censor. Stupidity is very annoying to an instructor, except in the case of an instructor who is teaching a girl to swim. The most prolific animals have the least chance in the world and now you know why the poor have all the children. At this late date the average man can confess that he never was very enthusiastic about standing for the national air. There isn't much hope for a man if the papers can't say anything nice about him except that he is socially prominent. Another good way to protect the sanctity of your home is to possess sufficient manhood to hold your wife's respect. Europe never again will love Uncle Sam as she did when he stood back and smiled approval while she grabbed all the good things. We never like to see a lady's face pressed against a dog, unless it is a hot dog. USE MAT 12 ph If he doesn't know how to mend matters, and yet delights in whining because nothing is mended, he is called a radical statesman. Correct this sentence: "I now have up eighteen glasses of jelly," boasted the housewife, "and I won't open a single glass until winter." HERE AND THERE When you read that the hero is a young man of thirty-five, you know about how old the author is. Hearing artists of the concert stage by radio is just about as satisfactory unless you enjoy seeing their tonsils. Each nation, it appears, trusts in God. Now all that is needed is for them to trust in one another. You can hold a private conversation in public if you speak some foreign tongue or perfect English. The days of the draft are long past and gone, but once in a while up bobs a story concerning them that justifies its existence, says the American League Weekly. One mother, writing to the judge advocate's office, explained that her son was a designer of women's cloaks and suits and, as such, indispensable to civilian life, and then concluded her plea for his exemption with these words: "Furthermore, I cannot see how he could be of any real value at the front. He weighs only 105 pounds, he is five feet seven inches tall, his bust measurement is only thirty-two, and he positively shudders at the thought of war." 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. Fresh stock, large well filled boxes every day, beginning Friday noon, August 17th, at my place on Lincoln avenue, 4 miles west of Anaheim. Also Grapes and Figs fresh daily, by the box or pound. H. M. King Watch for My Signs Along the Road Side SATURDAY, AUGUST EIGHTEENTH, 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 STAY-AT-HOME FRIENDS HAPPINESS THROUGH THRIFT WAS ADVICE OF HARDING By S. W. STRAUSS, President American Society for Thrift. Of the many cherished words which a grieving nation is today recounting as a valued heritage from our late President, none, perhaps, are more typical of the man himself than his utterances urging the practice of thrift by his fellow countryman. President Harding was himself a man of thrift. He understood its values and practiced its virtues. His appreciation of it was outlined in the following words: "No habit is so easy to form, none so hard to break, as that of reckless spending. And on the other side, none is more certain to contribute to security and happiness than the habit of thrift, of savings, of careful management in all business concerns, of balancing budgets, and living within incomes. If I could urge upon the American people a single rule applicable to every one of them as an individual, and to every political or corporate unit among men, it would be to learn to spend somewhat less than your income all the time." Leaders of thought in our present day and in past generations have given expression in various terms to the value of thrift to the individual, but no one has left us a more lucid, common-sense appeal than these words from our late President. It is one of the splendid truths of existence that good words and good deeds do not perish with those who were responsible for them. In the broadest sense, therefore, President Harding still lives, and he will so continue to live for many generations to come. He will live in the imperishable truths he has uttered; in the many expressions of wholesome counsel he has given to those of us who have the ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT NEWS OF OUR VILLAGE Arthur Greenbaum, our landlord, has been away all summer down to some resort or other and we take this means of telling him we wish he would come home, as we would like to pay our rent, also there is a leak in the kitchen. We don't mind so much about the leak, but the rent has been running for three or four months now and we are no bank. Andy Jones and Chuck Smith made a bet the other day on the Criqui-Dundee Light. Andy bets 250,000 German marks against 250,000 Russian rubles that the Frenchman would win. A mutual friend acted as stakeholder for the 50c. Experts say the bobbed hair craze is dead, and perhaps that's the reason we see more bobbed heads than ever. Man in Illinois complained bitterly in court the other day that his wife made him stay at home every evening with the children while she gadget off to the movies, and when he prepared she looked him up in a clothes-press without anything to eat for twelve hours. This sort of cruelty toward the weak male sex must stop. The men are necessary in the scheme of existence and none can discount their value. Eventually, of course, they may gain their liberty, but it will be a matter of centuries, and will not do the men alive today very much good. A campaign for chivalry on the part of women toward men seems to be due the poor helpless, submerged creatures. When they speak of an American watering place now they mean just what they say—watering place. One of the surest signs of the Wilson revival is the fact that Woodrow is slowly but surely creeping back into the cartoons. It is a wise candidate who checks his hat before he throws it in the ring. A good many hats have been lost that way. A printer in the East is accused of having three wives. This printer must have made some great impressions. Just now the most compelling ad we know is the one in the street car boosting a brand of "sung winter underwear." One of the surest signs of the Wilson revival is the fact that Woodrow is slowly but surely creeping back into the cartoons. It is a wise candidate who checks his hat before he throws it in the ring. A good many hats have been lost that way. A printer in the East is accused of having three wives. This printer must have made some great impressions. Just now the most compelling ad we know is the one in the street car boosting a brand of "sung winter underwear." August Excursions Back East round trip fares daily until September 15. Stop-over privilege in each direction. 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