oc-plain-dealer 1923-08-21

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher Recovers oftentimes are the best friends a man may have. The hardest task one has is to forgive the person one has wronged. The farmer cannot suffer without the whole body politic suffering. The dead may be honored by emulating the virtues they had while living. The greatest compliment that is paid any man is to trust him, in all circumstances. The assaults of scientists upon the theory of gravitation may fall down, as did Sir Isaac Newton's apple. The community which lacks public spirit lacks an essential element of progress. A community without public spirit is as lifeless as a human body without blood. The dishonest promoter of fraudulent oil and other stocks could not operate if there were not over-credulous persons to help on the frauds by patronizing them. Mrs. Warren G. Harding will pass into history as one of the most heroic womanly figures who ever graced the White House. Her demeanor under her tragic visitation has proven her to be heroine, through and through. BUILD AIRPLANES HERE FOR WORLD FLIGHT Southern California is to have the distinction of constructing the five Douglas airplanes for the United States army for the flight around the world, planned for next May. At Clover Field, Santa Monica, this construction work is to be done. This feat, if accomplished, will be epochal in the development of aeronautics. It will mark the pioneering of achievements in the air which should turn the whole course of aerial development. BUILD AIRPLANES HERE FOR WORLD FLIGHT Southern California is to have the distinction of constructing the five Douglas airplanes for the United States army for the flight around the world, planned for next May. At Clover Field, Santa Monica, this construction work is to be done. This feat, if accomplished, will be epochal in the development of aeronautics. It will mark the pioneering of achievements in the air which should turn the whole course of aerial development. A route has been selected tentatively for the flight around the earth. It provides for the "hop off" at Washington, D.C.; up the Atlantic Coast to Labrador, thence to Greenland, Iceland, the Shetland Islands and England. This leg of the journey however, may be changed to a straight flight across the Atlantic from St. John's, N.F., to England; from England to France and Italy, then to Egypt, Arabia and India, thence northward to China, Siberia and Alaska, thence down the coast to Seattle, then overland to Washington. These plans, of course, are subject to change. But in the main, they will be adhered to in this momentous undertaking. There may be failure in some phases and features of this enterprise. But there doubtless will be enough success to justify the conviction that flights around the world are practicable. COURTESY TO TOURISTS IS IN ORDER Southern California has had a large number of summer visitors who came from a distance. Soon the inflowing tides of tourist travel for the fall and winter will set in. It is pertinent for residents of this city to give attention to the treatment of these welcome guests. The mistake never should be made here of taking tourists for granted. It should be the purpose of the live-wire promoters of this city to see to it that tourists are accorded hospitable welcome. Various courtesies, big and little, should be shown them, to evidence to them that this community is thinking about them and that their coming here is welcomed and appreciated. 50 Beautiful New PIANOS Fully Guaranteed—Finished in Walnut or Mahogany Only $338 No Cash Down Payment Necessary Delivery Free—Bench Free ANZ PIANO Co. THINK OF MUSIC Anahei THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer TUESDAY Subscription Entered at THE OLD "PASSIVE" COW FINALLY REFUSES TO GIVE DOWN SERVES YOU JOLLY WELL RIGHT IT'S NOT A LEGAL PROCEDURE ANYHOW! Economic and Financial Crises Food Riots Communities Uprisings GERMANY RUNHR FRANCE REPARATIONS COLLECTIONS HERE AND THERE A farmer rode into a Middle Western town and inquired of the first man he met where he could find an undertaker, says Judge. "An undertaker?" the man asked. "Is there some one dead at your house?" "No, there is no one dead," replied the farmer, "but my wife is pretty sick." "No," said the farmer. "What I want is an undertaker. You know, I have joined the Co-ops, and we have cut out the middlemen." ABE MARTIN LOOK LOON! BIG KING TUT FILM & PROARING THEYDY WAYS 51 ISS IT! NEW YORK LETTER By LUCY JEANNE PRICE One of the cleverest motion pictures I ever saw introduced its characters feet first. For several hundred feet of film you could judge the type of person to be shown by seeing only their pedal extremities. I have become interested in testing the theory and have watched the feet of people dining. In that process people seem to forget about their feet and in their arrangement reveal the true inner self. Any quick lunch place will demonstrate. The man who keeps his feet flat on the floor, straight in front of him is a practical hard headed business man who stands for no nonsense and leaves a nickle tip. The girl who winds her feet around the stool and gets all twisted up within herself will probably be reading a romantic novel while munching at her eclair and chocolate sundae. She may leave two tips, no tip, and start out without remembering to pay her cheek. A precise person, of immaculate appearance and without the trac of a smile on the face, will cross the ankles daintly. Such a person is deliberate and will rarely gulp the food and drinks water in regular careful sips. The scatterbrain doesn't know where his feet are; one will be under his own table and the other some where down the alsole. He will not be sure whether it is his foot stepped on or not. If he puts both feet out in the alsie in everyone's way, he is the selfish bully. DINNER STORIES "Sound," said the pedagogue, "is something that a person can hear, but can neither see nor feel." "Oh, I don't know! exclaimed the boy at the foot of the class." "I think I can prove that you are off in your theory." "Very well, Thomas," retorted DINNER STORIES "Sound," said the pedagogue, "is something that a person can hear, but can neither see nor feel." "Oh, I don't know! exclaimed the boy at the foot of the class. "I think I can prove that you are off in your theory." "Very well, Thomas," retorted the man of learning, "go ahead and prove it, then." "Only yesterday you gave me a sound thrashing," said Thomas; "I suppose the other pupils saw it, and don't you ever think for a minute that I didn't feel it."—Cleveland News. This story is told of a farmer commissioner of the city of Washington, D.C. After taking office he set forth to acquaint himself with all the city activities, says Judge. In due course he reached St. Elizabeth's, the hospital for the insane. One of the doctors told him to just wander about the place and take his time to seeing it all thoroughly, warning him to humor any of the patients with whom he might come in contact. Some time later he was amused to find a patient who was having trouble trying to ride a wheelbarrow. "That is a fine horse you have there," he said. "This is no horse," said the lunatic sourly. "This is my hobby." "I thought it was the same thing," said the commissioner, trying to be agreeable. "Don't you know the difference between a hobby and a horse?" demanded the patient. "Well, you can get off of a horse." A poorly nourished dietitian was telling a mother that she must have her children eat porridge, milk, fruit and vegetables, according to Social Service. In response to the objection that the children distliked those foods, the visitor said he had been raised on them. "Well," said the mother, "you can't nood for them eats." A deep sea cabaret is about to be made a reality a few miles east if Ambrose Lightship. We heard so much of liquor on the high seas and are thrilled each day in a new account of rum running, but legal as you please, a floating cabaret is to be stationed outside the three mile limit where everything is to flow freely. Transportation is to be arranged to the vessel by tenders, the steamer Mandalay, and seaplanes, all on scheduled time for the accommodation of 5000 persons. The vessel, 15,000 tons, has been chartered, a skeleton crew obtained, and the ship will be held by a catson anchor. Intoxication will forfeit membership according to the management, but resuscitation facilities will be at hand in a huge swimming net. Sixteen entertainers have been engaged and there will be 51,000 feet of dancing space to further while away the night. My Bonnie drinks Over The Ocean, is destined to be a popular ditty from now on. "Yessum, I'm done proved dat honesty is de best policy after all." "How?" demanded his friend. "You remember dat dawg dat I took?" "Shore, I remembers." "Well, suh. I tries fo' two whole days to sell dat dawg and nobody offers more'n a dollah. So, like an honest man, I goes to be lady dat owned him an' she rives me $3.50."—The Continent- TUESDAY, AUGUST TWENTY-FIRST 1923. Subscription Rate—In No. Orange co. Irr. $3; 6 Months, $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anahelenville, as 2nd class matter COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING STUDENTS WHO FAIL IN STUDIES—Berkeley Gazette More than 260 students out of 1635 at Northwestern University failed in their studies. Northwestern doesn't believe itself peculiar among institutions in this respect, and is trying to discover the reason for such a high percentage of flunkers. Investigation shows that those who fail are not on the whole less intelligent than those who do not. They simply have failed to apply their abilities to their studies or to useful recreation. They have been swamped by diversified interests, commonly known as "outside activities." There are many persons who find ample justification for these activities. They are said to develop school spirit and loyalty; they advertise the school; they keep the pupils from becoming too academics in their four college years; they train college men and women in cooperation and ingenuity and help to supply those contacts with fellow-students which are held to be valuable training for life after school. In many institutions a student's participation in outside activities is regulated by a unit system just as the number of hours of curriculum work is regulated. If scholarship shows signs of suffering, the student is made to give up some of the outside activities. Yet in spite of these precautions, the flunking goes on. Diversified interests probably cannot justly be credited with all the blame, although they may be a large contributing cause. It might be a good idea to ask the flunkers themselves what is wrong and get them to suggest a remedy. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT IT LOOKS GOOD TO THEM The immigrants are piling in. They're very glad to reach here. And they, it seems, hold in respect. The doctrines that we teach here. They've tried the European stuff, But somehow they don't seem to mind it. It has been so since far-off days Of Puritans and Knickerbockers. And it should furnish food for thought. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT IT LOOKS GOOD TO THEM The immigrants are piling in. They're very glad to reach here. And they, it seems, hold in respect. The doctrines that we teach here. They've tried the European stuff. And all the suffering behind it. It may be that our law is tough, Western farmers have decided that they have raised too much wheat for the prices they have got, so now they plan to start in raising something else that is a shorter word than wheat. About this time every year the ladies used to begin knitting socks and wristlets for Christmas presents. Now they are sitting around singing: "Yes, We Have No Bananas." Emancipated is right. TAPS ON AN EMPTY BRAIN PAN They say it is better to be born lucky than rich, but it is better to be born rich than not at all. Most of the English kings have had a little Scotch in them. Dempsey and Pirpo are going into heavy training to fit them to carry their share of the gate receipts to the bank. We are going to have another old-fashioned winter. We are assured there will be the usual coal famine. Outside of being a great man's son the hardest known job is being an obscure man's son and trying to work up. They are putting everything on the hooch bottles nowadays except the address of a good undertaker. We all admit that California has a wonderful climate, but is it fair to use that as an argument in favor of Uncle Hi Johnson for President? There is an official report this week that the cost of living has gone down. If you don't find this true in your neighborhood, show this item to your trades people. An art critic went crazy when he saw a poor picture. He must have been crazy most of the time for many years, then. One of our anonymous friends has sent in the prospectus of a new machine that he has just invented. He calls it "the most ingenious contrivance ever sprung upon an unsuspecting public." "By the simple twist of the wrist," according to the gentleman's claim, "it can be converted into any one of the following useful articles: Jack-plane, monkey wrench, stove lifter, glass cutter, scroll saw, safety razor, battle axe, bottle washer, button hook, cherry plitter, weather vane, paint brush, gas lighter, ice tongue, belt buckle, horse clipper, lunch basket, handcuffs, bit stalk flour slither, auto crank, ink stand, nail file, cork screw, vacuum cleaner, currycomb, bootjack carpet stretcher, nutmeg grater, potato masher, screwdriver, meat chopper, rolling pin, tack hammer, electric bell, flatiron, can opener, key ring, fountain pen, pipe cleaner, padlock shoe last, music rack, flower pot, egg beater, cold chisel, catnap strainer, fish scaler, oil can, paper weight, rat trap and cigar clipper, and its very presence in the house wards off flies, rate, mice and other vermin, including bill collectors and book agents." If this machine will do all that is claimed for it, our anonymous correspondent has a fortune made. No home could possibly be without it, as it will apparently do everything but secure a divorce. You'll like this Kodak Pictures 2½ by 3¼ Price $20 Scarcely a pocketful, yet ready for better pictures No.1 Pocket Kodak Series II Focusing Model with Kodak Anastigmat lens f.7.7. From the moment we stocked this Kodak it met with enthusiasm. People like its compactness, its ease of operation. Best of all they like its lens and the clever way in which it is brought in focus. Kodak Anastigmat f.7.7 is set in a focusing mount that gives you with a twist of the wrist seven points of focus from 5 to 100 feet. Ask us to show you how it works. HEYING'S PHARMACY, "On the Corner" Anaheim, Cal.