oc-plain-dealer 1923-08-22

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester . . . Editor and Publisher DAILY. GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Follow you the Star that lights a desert pathway, yours or mine, Forward, till you see the Highest Human Nature is divine. Follow Light, and do the Right—for man can half control his doom— Till you find the deathless Angel seated in the vacant tomb. —Alfred Tennyson. Compacts of Peace in Effect Now Of epochal importance is the final exchange of ratifications of the five-power naval treaty and the four-power Pacific treaty, drafted by the Arms Conference at Washington in 1921. These compacts have been ratified by all the countries parties to them and have become fully effective. It is not to be expected that these compacts will end all the illis to which mankind is heir. But there is fair reason to believe that from these memorable agreements may evolve even more sweeping compacts, including all nations, and contemplating the reduction of armaments on land, on sea and in the air. These compacts will stand out in relief as among the most notable achievements of President Harding's administration. It was at his invitation that the Arms Conference assembled. He was deeply interested in the proceedings and heartily espoused the treaties as they were formulated. Put heart and soul into promotional work for California. It is inspiring to think of inducing strangers to come to this state and to be thrilled and delighted with what they find here. Oil Fire at Harbor Is Menacing Th big oil fire at San Pedro, on the hills near Fort MacArthur, illustrates the menace that huge quantities of oil stored near inhabited areas possesses. This is a matter that should... Put heart and soul into promotional work for California. It is inspiring to think of inducing strangers to come to this state and to be thrilled and delighted with what they find here. Oil Fire at Harbor Is Menacing Th big oil fire at San Pedro, on the hills near Fort MacArthur, illustrates the menace that huge quantities of oil stored near inhabited areas possesses. This is a matter that should receive careful attention of municipal, county and state authorities. Like the storing of powder, the reservoirs in which oil is held should be a safe distance from human habitations. Every possible safeguard against conflagration should be established. If this destructive fire was incendiary, the guilty party or parties should be punished with great severity. For to start a fire like that is potential murder. More than one person may have perished in the path of the roaring flames. Properties of big aggregate value has been menaced. To bring on a disaster of this kind wilfully is a crime indeed. Control of traffic in cities is one of the outstanding problems of the age. Human life is at stake. More lives are sacrifices in traffic tragedies than from any other accidental source. Cut Down Flood Loss by Control Systems Northern Utah has been devastated by floods. Cloudbursts in mountains brought down great currents of destructive freshhets. Several were drowned. Property losses are estimated at more than $1,000,000. If there had been scientific control systems in that flooded area there probably would have been no loss of life and very little damage to property. The same may be said of every locality where ruinous floods occur and recur. These visitations could in and should be controlled. This is a problem which should be faced squarely by the American people. It has not yet met in earnest and in business-like way. Until it is taken up with resolution and with practical purpose to solve the problem, there will be loss of life and destruction of property on immense scale. The American people should not dally with the flood menace. The problem should be taken up by municipalities, counties and states, and by the Nation at large. Every stream subject to devastating overflow should receive expert attention, for control of its freshhets. In this, benefits may be double or triple. Besides preventing floods, power may be generated and water impounded for use in irrigating productive land. Carelessness with fire in forest reserves is wholly inexcusable and the person or persons guilty thereof should be punished severely. Naval Shore Oulays Heaviest Here The government at Washington is taking cognizance of the fact that it is of the foremost importance to fortify the Pacific side of this continent. To this end the Navy Department has approved recommendations for a naval board for development of American shore stations. It is brought out that more than 67 per cent of all appropriations for buses and naval depots and air stations during the next twenty years will go to the erection Naval Shore Oullays Heaviest Here The government at Washington is taking cognizance of the fact that it is of the foremost importance to fortify the Pacific side of this continent. To this end the Navy Department has approved recommendations for a naval board for development of American shore stations. It is brought out that more than 67 per cent of all appropriations for buses and naval depots and air stations during the next twenty years will go to the erection of first and second lines of support for the United States Navy in the Pacific. This becomes the basic policy of the Navy Department. This defensive fortifying includes the whole Pacific area which is under American control, extending to Hawaii and the Philippines. It manifestly is wise and prudent to safeguard this coast. For, should this country become engaged in conflict with a first-class naval power, in all probability the theater of operations at sea would be the Pacific. It is in these waters and on these shores that the most formidable defenses should be maintained, because here is where the greatest danger of attack lies. Koyt's This is the signature that is your guarantee of goodness. When better crackers or cookies can be made Koyt's will be making them. delicious GRAHAMS ASK YOUR GROCER URES except Sunday and Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer W Subscript Entered CHEAP GAS ORGIE THREE CLOSE IN TH' MORNISH-HIC! JOHN-DEE-E-E FILL UP TH' BOWL-HIC! WHEE! YESH-WE HAVE NO BR-NAN-NASH T'DRY-HIC! GIMME NOSHER TANK FULL-OIL TOP! GAS AT REDUCED RATES LINE UP-BOYSWHILE TH' LID IS OFF! CONSUMERS GAIS BAIR STANDARD OIL OVER PRODUCTION PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN Conscience: Director General of the soul ably assisted by the neighbors. A radical is one who doesn't know how to mend matters and is mad about it. It probably wouldn't be difficult to enforce the Volstead law if stomachs had a vote. The state most thoroughly shamed and discredited by the divorce civil is the state of matrimony. French logic: It is legitimate to hit a man while he is down if you fix him so he can't get up. Another good endurance test is to try riding forty blocks in a taxi without glancing at the meter. Another reason for studying Greek is that it enables you to understand what the waiter says to his friend about you. The office cynic says that lots of Americans are indisposed after spending a day or so in Canada. It is possible to drive a car with one hand, but it is safer to have a girl who has some initiative. There is a place for everything except for water who has ABE MARTIN NEW YORK LETTER By LUCY JEANNE PRICE After a feller reaches fifty he don't mention it 'till he gits along about fifty-eight. "I can't remember," said Tell Binkley I'day when somebody asked him if he spoke at a banquet. POEMS THAT LIVE EARTH'S CHILDREN CLEAVE TO EARTH Earth's children cleave to earth — her frail, Decaying children dread decay. You scream of mist that leaves NEW YORK, Aug. 22—There are more than a hundred important cities east of the Rockies whose music loving citizens would like opera. As it is, it seems that only the rich can have that privilege. Outside of about three cities in the country, there is little opportunity to gratify this desire. Fortune Galle; who has long been identified with the best in music and the San Carlo Opera Company in particular, will put on his regular season in New York next year and simultaneously organize road companies of the better known operas to take these places. He has already announced production and casts for "La Boheme," and "Butterfly." How do you suppose Coney Island got its name? I know what you are thinking. Yes, the Cohens and their friends do patrohize it extensively. But we have found out that the original Dutch so christened it. This little gold mine has been in the public eye since it was discovered in 1524 by one Verrazano. Although Coney is long and thin now, stretching about six miles from east to west, according to old maps it was short and fat when Henry Hudson first sailed past it. The Hollanders named it Conyne Eylandt, which is Dutch for Rabbits Island, and used it for pasturage for cattle. That may account for the presence of so Another reason for studying Greek is that it enables you to understand what the waiter says to his friend about you. The office cynic says that lots of Americans are indisposed after spending a day or so in Canada. It is possible to drive a car with one hand, but it is safer to have a girl who has some initiative. There is a place for everything except an aged widow who has divided the property among the children. As we remember it, the first agency successfully employed to make man tell the truth was made of a rib. The good man who breaks the speed law thinks his fellow very unmoral when he breaks the hootch law. The objection to these horrid new 'isms is that they promise a profit only to those who now are out of power. An ideal wife is one who begins each day cheerfully, being unable to remember what she was pouting about yesterday. Just to keep the record straight, let us record that the man who said Americans love to be humbugged wasn't a bootlegger. You can't make a man of a monkey by cutting off his tail, but it can be done, in some instances, by cutting off his allowance. Correct this sentence: "I tried to interview the Senator on his return from Europe," explained the reporter, "but he had nothing to say." It is no light task to frame a political platform in Italy. Even if it pleases the people it may not win the approval of our Mr. Hughes. POEMS THAT LIVE EARTH'S CHILDREN CLEAVE TO EARTH Earth's children cleave to earth—her frail, Decaying children dread decay. Yon wreath of mist that leaves the vale, And lessens in the morning ray. Look, how, by mountain rivulet, It clings, as it upicard creeps, And clings to fern and copsewood set Along the green and dewy steeps; Clings to the fragrant kalmia, clings, To precipices fringed with grass, Dark maples where the wood-thrush sings, And bowers of fragrant saffras. Yet all in vain—it passes still From hold to hold, it cannot stay, And in the very beams that fill The world with glory, wastes away, Till, parting from the mountain's brow, It vanishes from the human eye, And that which sprung of earth is now A portion of the glorious sky. —William Cullen Bryant. A Tennessee man was given 30 days for shaking his wife. Ah, well; going to jail is one good way to shake her. Mussolini is endeavoring to gag Evidently he doesn't like anything about the Reds except their methods. Robize it extensively. But we have found out that the original Dutch so christened it. This little gold mine has been in the public eye since it was discovered in 1524 by one Verrazano. Although Coney is long and thin now, stretching about six miles from east to west according to old maps it was short and fat when Henry Hudson first sailed past it. The Hollanders named it Conye Eylandt, which is Dutch for Rabbits Island, and used it for pasturage for cattle. That may account for the presence of so many "dumb bunnies" there all the while. How the plants in the window boxes of the great closed houses along the Avenue grow and why they are planted are twin mysteries to most passersby. Scrubby geraniums, weak little petunias and other homely and hardy plants straggle along somehow even though there is no obvious care for them. These houses are closed winter and summer it seems, and it is rarely that one sees a dignified butler or caretaker about, and yet some ones set out those boxes with the loving care, not of the rich, for the florals are not of the stately, dignified kind, but of the genuine flower lover. I like to think that they are the pets of a dear old cook or an old family retainer who wants to express the ideas on a day gone by. Correct this sentence: "I don't care whether the case is platinum or gold plate." said the girl, "but I do want a watch that will keep time." WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22nd, 1923. Subscription Rate—In No. Orange co. Per Yr. $8; 6 Months, $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as 2nd class matter COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING TRUTH SERUM FAILS—Santa Ana Register. The so-called "truth serum," which recently sprang into fame in Los Angeles is now pronounced futile. Administered to several prisoners in order to obtain confessions from them, the scopolaim failed completely. Some of the prisoners, indeed, did make remarkable revelations under the influence of the drug, but their stories had nothing to do with the particular crimes they stand accused of. In San Francisco, an experiment showed that a prisoner given the serum on two occasions told two different stories of his crime. He may have told the truth neither time; certainly not more than once. Dr. Breckenstadt, a skilled psychologist, who observed the experiments, explained this as quite natural. When subjects are put into a hypnotic sleep, they will not answer questions in a way to incriminate themselves. Their instinct of self-preservation still safeguards them in their subconscious state, even though their will is dulled, and they will not go so far as to jeopardize life or liberty. Likewise, whether drugged or hypnotized, if they are honorable men they will not jeopardize their own honor. It has been observed frequently by modern psychologists that a subject who is not a criminal by nature cannot be made to commit a crime under hypnotic suggestion. All of which is as it should be. Fortunately for humanity, every human individual preserves his real identity, even when it seems obscured. Efforts made by others to tamper obscurely with his mental and moral machinery do not succeed unless he consents of his own free will. If it were not so, we should all be at the mercy of some soul-thief with a skeleton tey. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT A LITTLE SLICE OF LIFE The traffic was heavy. Along the drive and Thousands of automobiles Were whizzing up and down. Along came a small car Of a popular brand, but Something was the matter. There was a grinding noise And a sound as if an ashpan Were being dragged along, In front of our house. And dug into the engine And cranked and cranked And a crowd gathered And offered much advice Of a humorous nature, And it was a hot evening And the man prespired And worked for a half hour And finally he drew Across his furrowed brow A greasy sleeve which left A LITTLE SLICE OF LIFE The traffic was heavy. And dug into the engine Along the drive and And cranked and cranked Thousands of automobiles And a crowd gathered Were whizzing up and down. And offered much advice Along came a small car Of a humorous nature, Of a popular brand, but And it was a hot evening Something was the matter. And the man prespired There was a grinding noise And worked for a half hour And a sound as if an ashpan And finally he drew Were being dragged along Across his furrowed brow In front of our house, A greasy sleeve which left The poor thing expired A black mark and he lifted And a man got out and looked His voice to heaven And his wife and six kids And he yelled, sarcastically: Sat still and waited "And just to think, He took off his coat That guy wants to run And fussed around a lot For President!" Nikita Balleff, director of Russian vaudeville, who has enjoyed the hospitality and prosperity of this country for two years, said, upon taking steamer for Europe: "The Americans dance without temperament, without playfulness, without coquetry." But that is rather weaker than the criticisms to which we have become accustomed. He is not keeping up to the European standard. But he did manage to criticise us. Over in New Jersey the other night an actress fainted on the stage because her costume was too heavy. Personally we have not seen a show like that must be in a good many years. We have no protest to make against modern poetry, provided we are not obliged to read it. "Swings around the circle" by Presidents have never been successful. Reports from various parts of the country, to say nothing of advices from Washington, are to the effect that the country is facing a bumper corn crop. We are going to have enough corn this year to feed the entire civilized world and Turkey. The people here at home who could never get enough cornmeal mush will be satisfied for once. The horses used to eat a good deal of corn, but there are no more horses, and automobiles, even Fords, do not thrive on corn, so everything is in our favor. Fourteen-foot corn will be no unusual sight out in the rural parts during August, we are told, and farmers who walk through their cornfields will carry skyrockets to let off once in awhile, so if lost they can be located by seaching parties. A very important by-product of corn has been legislated out of existence. So every sign is favorable to plenty of fried mush next winter, and everybody likes it except those who have teeth. One of our most conspicuous constant readers is greatly exercised over the fact that, although the government offered a cent each for 1200 bedbugs for experimental purposes, only one has arrived in Washington. This jone martyr, according to a dispatch, arrived from Philadelphia in a pasteboard box, alive and ready to make the supreme sacrifice. He thinks something should be done to help the government in this momentous enterprise. He has asked us to try and save the situation, but we would rather remain poor. EXCURSION G.A.R. NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT MILWAUKEE, SEPT. 2nd to 9th The Headquarters official train to the National Encampment will leave Los Angeles at 1:30 p.m. August 30, over the Union Pacific to Omaha and C. & N. W. via Proviso, with short stops at Ft. Sheridan and Great Lakes Training Station, thence along the shore of Lake Michigan to Milwaukee arriving there before noon, September 2. This train will consist of free reclining chair cars, Standard and Tourist Sleeping Cars and will be in charge of Department Adj-Gen. James M. Aubrey and an official of the Union Pacific System. Tickets good returning until October 10th, will be on sale at all Union Pacific Ticket Offices. Stopovers in both directions and diverse route returning. One Fare for Round Trip For further information, reservations, etc. SEE ANY AGENT UNION PACIFIC C. J. ROWE, Agent