oc-plain-dealer 1923-08-27

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY. GREETINGS TO OUR READERS Do the work God bids thee! One—only one still loom Awais thy touch and tending In all this lower room. —Alfred J. Hough. Crops in Europe Have Bearing Here Europe is prospering in agriculture. Its farmers are garnering bumper crops. There is not such heavy demand for American farm products overseas. This, naturally, is depressing the market for the American farmer. The effect may be serious throughout the year. This is a phase of farming in this country which must be given serious consideration. Competition abroad is becoming keener. Not only in quantity produced, but in time of production and marketing, American farmers must meet rivalry in both hemispheres. This competition can not be overcome. The American farmer must prepare to meet it permanently. The life of the miner is as precious as the life of any other human being. Mines should be safeguarded in every practicable way possible. This Man Brave in Life, Heroic in Death Here's to the memory of John Gilmartin! He lieved like a man, and he died like a hero. Having fallen from high place because of ill health, he was holding an unimportant position on a railroad in New York. But circumstances made his position important. In his self-forgetting eagerness to save six railroad track laborers from death, he himself was run down and killed. John Gilmartin's life story reads like romance. It illustrates what can be accomplished in this democratic land. He was a policeman in New York City. But by hard labor and study, he This Man Brave in Life, Heroic in Death Here's to the memory of John Gilmartin! He lieved like a man, and he died like a hero. Having fallen from high place because of ill health, he was holding an unimportant position on a railroad in New York. But circumstances made his position important. In his self-forgetting eagerness to save six railroad track laborers from death, he himself was run down and killed. John Gilmartin's life story reads like romance. It illustrates what can be accomplished in this democratic land. He was a policeman in New York City. But by hard labor and study, he became a lawyer, went to Chicago, prospered and rose to the position of assistant state's attorney. But he studied and worked too hard. His health broke. He traveled for a time. Then he became impoverished. He was without practice in his profession. He took the humble job of railroading to support his wife. This is the kind of news that every newspaper in the country should display under banner headlines. It is real news—human interest, wholesome, inspiring news. The man who leads a life like John Gilmartin should be honored of men. Every mile of permanently improved roadway in California carries the state farther along on the highways of progress. Encourage the building of good roads in California. The issues of the 1924 political campaign are taking form. The political parties are assuming attitude. The line of cleavage should be well defined within a few months. Mr. Coolidge is not the man to follow the line of least resistance in public office. He will meet every issue and situation courageously, from present indications. The Arms Conference treaties are ratified and in effect. The world is the better and is nearer permanent peace because of these memorable compacts. Four Holidays Every Month Washdays banished! In their place—holidays! And the rea- Washdays banished! In their place—holidays! And the reason is—our Rough Dry service. For now we do all the washing, iron all the flat work, fluff bath towels and knit wear soft and smooth, ready to use—leaving only the wearing apparel for you to dampen and iron whenever it is convenient. May we launder your week's wash for you—our Rough Dry way? Just phone 18, our representative will call. ANAHEIM Laundry Co. Corner Elm and S. Lemon Sts. "LITTLE BED-TIME STORIES" — BUT NOT VERY CONDUCIVE TO GOOD SLEEP "BOO!" SAID THE BIG OPERATOR- "A COUPLE OF BOOS AND POO-POO FOR YOU!" QUOTH THE BIG MINER— WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT COAL U.S. RADIO PROGRAM ANTHRACITE PARLEY REPORT PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN It is never blue Monday for the undertakers. Humor is an accident that befalls somebody you don't like much. Bulgaria doesn't use the electric chair. Her place of execution is the Cabinet post. It is the open door Uncle Sam favors, not the humidor. A humidor is used to keep things wet. Note to composing room. Preserve the headline, "Negotiations With Mexico Nearing Conclusion." Spain is no longer a great power, but she retains sufficient ambition to keep Morocco as a sparring partner. We confess our inability to tell whether a classical dancer is trying to interpret a spring morning or trying to scratch her back. When a motor knocks, it may be firing too soon. When an employee knocks, he hasn't been fired soon enough. You can't blame Turkey. Give in too often to a squalling brat and it will begin to think it owns the premises. Correct this sentence: "If I thot smoking was injurious," explained the man with the cough, "I'd give it up." ABE MARTIN Th' world prob'ly is a lot better than it used t' be, but th' ole times when we could git an umbreller for a dollar wuz good enough fer us. Miss Mertie Bentley, classic dancer, is confined t' her home from steppin' on an acorn. DINNER STORIES They met after a lapse of many years, says the Detroit Free Press. The recognition was mutual and POEMS THAT LIVE THE NYMPH'S SONG TO HYLAS I know a little garden close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night, And have one with me wandering. And though within it no birds sing, And though no pillar'd house is there, And though the apple toughs are bare Of fruit and blossom, would to God, Her feet upon the green grass trod, And I beheld them as before! There comes a murmur from the shore, And in the place two fair streams are, Drawn from the purple hills afar, Drawn down unto the restless sea; The hills whose flowers ne'er fed the bee, The shore no ships has ever seen, Still beaten by the billows green, whether a classical dancer is trying to interpret a spring morning or trying to scratch her back. When a motor knocks, it may be firing too soon. When an employed knocks, he hasn't been fired soon enough. You can't blame Turkey. Give in too often to a squalling brat and it will begin to think it owns the premises. Correct this sentence: "If I thot smoking was injurious," explained the man with the cough, "I'd give it up." When he curses capital, that is sorehead. When he gets elected, and talks about the "common people" that's swellhead. All languages have something in common. Over here the farmer is called a hick, and in Russia he is called a muzhik. It may be possible to communicate with the dead. The Diplomatic Corps at Peking has addressed a note to the Chinese government. Blood test reveals sex. But that can be accomplished by offering a choice between a beef steak and a salad. The avalanches in the Alps caused by the heat wave are not unique. We have landslides over here when people get hot enough. It is the Commercial Bank of Budapest that is directed by a former lunatic, and we thought all the time it was the Reichbank. The world is asked to give money and preserve the holy places in Jerusalem. It might be a good idea to preserve the teachings, also. Among the most dangerous insects operating this year are the boll weevil, the Japanese beetle, the gypsy moth and the political bee. Wilhelm II doesn't go outside the barricade of matting erected at Doorn. Doubtless he reflects that he went to the mat once too often. DINNER STORIES They met after a lapse of many years, says the Detroit Free Press. The recognition was mutual and their greetings were cordial. "How lovely to see you again. Why, you've scarcely altered a bit." "So glad, and you, too, are hardly changed. Let's see; how long is it since we last met." "It must be ten years." "Time flies. And why have you never called to see me?" "My dear, just look at the weather we've been having!" When General George W. Gothals, now in big business in New York, was building the Panama Canal, he made it a point to be extremely courteous and obliging to visitors who wanted to go over the works. One day he showed a Mr. Campbell of Missouri around and followed his rule of explaining the engineering difficulties that had been encountered and overcome in the monumental undertaking, Popular relates. For several hours under a blazing sun, with the whole Canal Zone to look after, Goethals gave him a lecture full of figures and technical details. Campbell fixing a hawklike eye upon his guide, looked as wise an owl and as absorbent as a sponge, creating the impression that what he didn't know about engineering in general and canal building in particular was invisible to the naked eye. Goethals was impressed and gratified. That is to say, he was until Campbell, still with his look of absorption, looked straight at him and said: "I'll tell you what, colonel, all this has interested and delighted me tremendously, but what I wish you would explain is how the thunder you get the water into these locks without a pump. And in the place two fair streams are, Drawn from the purple hills afar, Drawn down unto the restless sea; The hills whose flowers ne'er fed the bee, The shore no ships has ever seen, Still beaten by the billows green, Whose murmur comes unceasingly Unto the place for which I cry. For which I cry both day and night, For which I let slip all delight, That maketh me both deaf and blind, Carless to win, unskilled t find, And quick to lose what all men seek. Yet tottering as I am, and weak, Still have I left a little breath To seek within the jaws of death An entrance to that happy place; To seek the unforgotten face Once seen, once kiss'd, once reft from me Anigh the murmuring of the sea. —William Norris. MONDAY, AUGUST 27TH, 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 ARMAGEDDON "And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon."—Revelation 16:16. The greatest crisis of the ages is upon the nations of earth. Sensing the coming explosion, statesmen of the world express themselves on this wise: "1923 is wore than 1924." "A new chapter opens in the history of Europe and the world, with a climax of horror such as mankind has never yet witnessed." "We have come to the crossroads and no one knows the way out." Fear has laid hold upon the peoples in all walks of life. And why? Because the old world has ended, at which Jesus declared there would be distress of nations with perplexity, men's hearts failing them for fear of what they see coming on the world. According to the Bible the world or order of things under Gentile dominion legally ended August 1, 1914. Jesus foretold that the nations at that time would become angry; that nation would rise against nation, followed by famine, pestilence and revolution. These things have been fulfilled since 1914. Many futile attempts have been made to settle the world troubles. God foretold their failure, and added: "Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken." (Isaiah 8:9, 10) And why? The answer is, Because this is the day of God's vengeance, and his indignation is upon all nations.—Isaiah 34:1-8. Referring to the day in which we are living, Jesus declared there would be a great falling away from the faith by professed Christians. A fulfillment of this is before our eyes in all the denominational churches. The fundamentalists are making a desperate fight against the modernists; the latter opposing the Bible, denying man's origin, his fall, the ransom sacrifice and the presence of our Lord, and scoffing at his second coming. This is as Jesus said it would be. As in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the end of the world.—Matthew 24:37. ARMAGEDDON NEXT Armageddon was the great battlefield of Palestine. There Gideon and his army put to flight the Midianites, who in their distress and excitement destroyed each other. Gideon's band pictured the Messiah, while the Midianites pictured Christendom. That battle of Armageddon foreshadowed the complete downfall of Satan's empire and the establishment of Messiah's kingdom. Jehovah foretold that nations would assemble and bind themselves together, and that then they should be destroyed.—Zephaniah 3.8 WHAT IS GATHERING THEM? There are three great agencies, dominated by evil spirits, that are gathering the nations to this mighty conflict. (Revelation 16:13.) ARMAGEDDON NEXT Armageddon was the great battlefield of Palestine. There Gideon and his army put to flight the Midianites, who in their distress and excitement destroyed each other. Gideon's band pictured the Messiah, while the Midianites pictured Christendom. That battle of Armageddon foreshadowed the complete downfall of Satan's empire and the establishment of Messiah's kingdom. Jehovah foretold that nations would assemble and bind themselves together, and that then they should be destroyed.—Zephaniah 3.8 WHAT IS GATHERING THEM? There are three great agencies, dominated by evil spirits, that are gathering the nations to this mighty conflict. (Revelation 16:13.) They are: (1) Satan's organization bent upon the destruction of the Lord's anointed; (2) world rulers made up of the commercial and political giants supported by an apostate clergy, determined to rule mankind in behalf of the minority; and (3) a false system of religion which holds before mankind false doctrines and false hopes. Like frogs, they boast of their ability to bring peace and prosperity and order out of the chaotic condition. They prepare for war and appeal to the patriotism of the rank and file to induce them to enter the conflict, a certain class of the clergy joining in preaching the people into the trenches. This they do in a desperate attempt to hold the evil order of things together. The Lord, as the antitypical Gideon, is turning on the light that the people may see the true situation. But the powers that be, disregarding God's Word, as the prophet foreshows, will rush on to the conflict and "fall and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you."—Jeremiah 25:26-30. THEN WHAT? The trouble will be followed by the establishment of peace and righteousness under the reign of the Messiah. It shall be a time of refreshing and blessing for mankind. (Acts 3:19-24.) Then, says Jesus, those who keep his sayings and obey his Word, turning to righteousness and following the same, will live forever and not die. WHAT SHALL WE DO? Many ask: What shall we do? And the Lord's Word answers: "Before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, seek ye the Lord, all ye meek (teachable) of the earth, rightousness, seek meekness; it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger."—Zephaniah 2:2, 3. The church was organized in purity to represent the Lord. But under the leadership of selfish and ambitious men, influenced by the great adversary, it has degenerated, as now evidenced by the open fight between the fundamentalists and the modernists. Our sympathies are with the fundamentalists (John 8:44.) In the denominational church, however, are multitudes of good, honest, order-loving people, who have hope for a better day. They have some faith in Jesus Christ as the Redeemer of mankind. They believe that he is the Son of God. They believe in the resurrection, and that salvation of man depends upon the merit of Christ. They are sheep amongst wolves in the ecclesiastical system. The Lord loves them and is calling to them through his Word: "Come out from amongst the wicked systems, that ye be not partakers of their sins and receive not of their plagues."—Revelation 18:4. The time has come for truth to triumph. The fight is on to the end. It is a battle between right and wrong., between truth and error. The forces of error are led by Satan, the god of this world, acting through his visible governing factors, an apostate clergy and the principal of the flock, made up of big business men and big politicians who hold religion as a cloak for selfish uses. The forces of truth are led by Christ Jesus, the Messiah, now here. All of those who in the light of this day willingly ally themselves with Satan in his nefarious work in fighting against the Lord and his anointed, the Lord declares shall suffer a punishment like unto that which shall be visited upon Satan. All those who willingly ally themselves with Jesus Christ, the king of glory, shall be brought through the time of trouble and, being obedient to righteousness, shall live forever. In the name of Jesus Christ, the King of kings, we sound the alarm. We appeal to all those who have faith in God and his Word, who believe that Jesus Christ is his beloved Son and the Savior of mankind, to separate themselves from the wicked systems, dominated by selfish men, and to take their stand upon the Lord's side and doing this, receive the blessings of his kingdom which God has prepared for them. The millions now living that, becoming obedient to righteousness, shall never die, but live forever in happiness. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT OUR OWN DAILY SHORT STORY Getting Back Mrs. Wilson wanted to get Mrs. Johnson's cook away from her so badly that she actually went to Mrs. Johnson's house when she was away and offered the cook more money. The next time they met at a big dinner Mrs. Johnson did not notice her. "Mrs. Johnson, you know... Wilson, do you not?" said the lady what sat between them. "No, I believe not," said Mrs. Johnson, "but I understand that she calls on my cook." CHIPS FROM THE OLD BLOKE Photography is the art of making a camera tell a white lie. The Lord giveth and Congress taketh away. A hair on the head is worth two on the chin.—J. F. B. Zwieghaft. The trans-Atlantic steamship lines are endeavoring to save a few staterooms for regular passengers, although the number of United States senators traveling makes this almost impossible. Court has decided it is no crime to steal contraband hootch. But it is a crime to drink it after you steal it. Don't Forget That The Ever Ready Truck & Transfer Co. Is still able to do your hauling of any description CONTRACT HAULING A SPECIALTY Get Our Price O. J. LINNARTZ, Prop. Residence 211 E. Sycamore St. PHONE 209-M