oc-plain-dealer 1923-09-14

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY. GREETINGS TO OUR READERS It is the man who fills the place God offers him, whose life is an eternal success. It is the man who refuses to fill the place that God opens before him, whose life is an eternal failure.—Anonymous. World Is Generous in Time of Disaster The heart of the world is right. There is much that passes for selfishness and sordidity, it is true. There is a mad race for wealth, which is not the most wholesome feature of modern life. But there is not that indifference to suffering and distress today which was incident to the selfish opulence of Rome and other ancient empires. The affluent of today are liberal with their affluence, when distressed humanity calls. Japan's terrible plight has touched the heart of America. Responses to appeals for help, through the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and various religious and philanthropic organizations, is generous indeed. The hand of disaster, falling upon Japan, has removed prejudice and indifference, and has created keen sympathy throughout this country and other lands of the Western world. There may be—and there unquestionably is—much selfishness and much cruel sordidness in the world. But there also is much of the spirit of generosity and benevolence. There is much of the disposition to aid the distressed and to give encouragement to the downtrodden. No war could have devastated Japan as the angry forces of Nature have. Employment Status Is Better in Europe Very good word comes from Europe, in the midst of news that is not so reassuring. This good word is to the effect that there is a decrease of unemployment in a number of the European countries, including Italy, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, with practically no unemployment at all in Belgium. In Poland the No war could have devastated Japan as the angry forces of Nature have. Employment Status Is Better in Europe Very good word comes from Europe, in the midst of news that is not so reassuring. This good word is to the effect that there is a decrease of unemployment in a number of the European countries, including Italy, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, with practically no unemployment at all in Belgium. In Poland the industrial situation has been bettered by granting of wage increases. Only in Germany and Spain are there serious industrial troubles. The fact that European populations are well employed, in peaceful pursuits, is encouraging indeed and significant of better things. This gives an economic equilibrium that would not prevail if all Europe were in idleness and in non-productive state. The fact that so much productive energy is in play there gives a more promising aspect to Europe. The eclipse of the sun, witnessed with such keen interest by those living within the path of totality, was a memorable phenomenon. It will be remembered and commented upon many years hence by those who are children now. Phenomena of this nature comes seldom. Fate of America Rests Upon Its Ideals “Whatsoever ye sow, that shall ye also reap.” It is the universal law in husbandry. It is the universal law in the moral experience of individuals and of nations. Ideals of nations and peoples are the determining factors in their destinies. Ideals are vital in the life of a nation or an individual. Let a nation or an individual sow low ideals, and the reaping inexorably will be of misery and failure and disaster. Let a nation or an individual sow high ideals and consistently live by these ideals, and the harvest is sure to be most happy. Not that high ideals always bring success unstriven for; not that the path of high idealism is always strewn with roses. Quite the contrary. There are many conflicts; there are many besetments; there are many temporary failures, in the way of idealism. But the “eternal years” belong to the high ideal. In the fulness of time will come the fruitage and the glorious triumphs of that which is clean and refined and ennobling. America has been and is strong because of its ideals and because of its consistent adherence to its ideals. It is one of the ideals of this Nation to seek peace with and to dispense justice toward all nations and peoples. It has been and is the purpose of this Nation to foster just peace and to promote good will throughout the world. And, internally, it has been and it is part of the lofty ideals of America to support and encourage that which is clean and wholesome and uplifting in individual and community life. To these ideals America should commit and hold itself for all time. Doing this, its present is secure and its future will be built upon the enduring rock when the storms descend. PICTURE PICTURE FRAMING —You are certain to find just the Molding you desire in our well-selected assortment. —The standard of high quality maintained by this store is especially noticeable in our PICTURE FRAMING DEPARTMENT. —Your Holiday Framing can be taken care of now for delivery any time before Christmas. B. F. Spencer Pictures Art Goods Wall Paper Phone 27 American Consul and Family Lost in Quake, Prominent Americans in Danger Zone and U.S. Rushing to Aid Center of layout, Max D. Karjassoff, his wife and their two sons. He was consul at Yokohama and a graduate of Yale. Directly below, Dr. J. Bentley Squire, eminent surgeon, with his wife, son and daughter, who were last heard from in Tokio. Upper right, Commissioner and Mrs. William Eddie, who Center of layout, Max D. Karjassoff, his wife and their two sons. He was consul at Yokohama and a graduate of Yale. Directly below, Dr. J. Bentley Squire, eminent surgeon, with his wife, son and daughter, who were last heard from in Tokio. Upper right, Commissioner and Mrs. William Eddie, who are in charge of the Salvation Army headquarters in Tokio. Below, Miss Florence Brown, a daughter of the president of the U. S. Machinery Co., who with her parents, has been traveling in Japan. Upper left, the U. S. S. Hope of the Asiatic Fleet, which has been ordered to give aid. PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN Famous last words: "Watch me pass him at this next curve." Doctor: One who needs patients to wait on and then needs patience to wait on his pay. The thing statesmen need to learn is that government was made for man, not man for government. The hinterland is much like civilization except that men wash less and cuss their wives more. The sound of the hammer means that buildings are going up or that some envied man is climbing up. Pity the poor subdued citizens of a monarchy who are not privileged to nag their ruler to death. The only perfect example of contempt is the feeling entertained by the man who chaws tobacco for the man who uses perfume. Still, if everybody went to church, where would the Monday papers get their thrilling headlines? A village is a place where you call Central and ask if she has heard yet whether it's a boy or a girl. Mr. Volstead says one drink doesn't hurt a man. Evidently he hasn't been trying any of this new stuff. A colt frets and chafes, not to go somewhere but merely to be on his way. He is a typical Progressive. The Bolshies thought they didn't need God, so they turned to materialism. They need a lot of ma- POEMS THAT LIVE TO A DISTANT FRIEND Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant, Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air Of absence withers what was once so fair? Is there no debt to pay, no been to grant? Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant, Round to thy service with unceasing cure— The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For naught but what thy happiness could spare. Speak!—though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's nest filled with snow 'Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine— Speak, that my torturing doubts their ends may know! —William Wordsworth. NEW YORK LETTER By LUCY JEANNE PRICE Our Chinatown is in revolt. It refuses to continue in the mysterious crime which the sight-seers and night-seers have thrust upon it. No longer will it peer from shaded windows and listen to the barkers tell of its misdeeds, while it represses its wrath. And at least one such barker knows this to be true. An angry throng of Chinese residents of the Mott street-district chased him the other night after he had been filling visitors with tales of the opium dens, and gave him dire warning that he would best never return. Now a movement has been launched by influential Chinese to end the indignities to which they declare their people are subjected day and night by vociferous guides who must have something thrilling to talk about if they are to get the crowds to follow them. Anything can happen in our city. And most everything does. But I'd like to hear of any other community on the map where people hang so fondly and tightly to life as to make this record possible in one day: Walter Gebhardt fell fifty feet from a fourth story window in Washington street, struck a sign, bounced, lit on the sidewalk, and as he looked up from his reclining position, he saw certain flaws in the rigging of the piano he was helping to move. So he hurried up and back to fix it. William Chase, a line-man, came in contact with a wire carrying 22,000 volts. He put some ointment on the slight burn on his hand and returned to work. And Vincent Nager, a painter, fell forty feet when a scaffolding collapsed. He went right back to work, peeved only because he had upset his can of A village is a place where you call Central and ask if she has heard yet whether it's a boy or a girl. Mr. Volstead says one drink doesn't hurt a man. Evidently he hasn't been trying any of this new stuff. A colt frets and chafes, not to go somewhere but merely to be on his way. He is a typical Progressive. The Bolshies thought they didn't need God, so they turned to materialism. They need a lot of material. Curiously enough, the people who are shocked by modern bathing suits seldom miss an opportunity to look. Dogs once indicated poverty, but that was when they stayed under the house instead of in a lap. It is a wonderful thing to have one day of rest in seven. All we need is another day in which to get over it. Our inferiors cause us little concern. When we organize and espouse a cause, our purpose is to suppress our betters. Another dismal failure is the effort of a bored and sophisticated man to avoid looking excited when the fire engine passes. Coolidge enjoys being alone, and doubtless the senate will accommodate him if he really favors some kind of co-operation with Europe. Correct this sentence: "In the old days," said he, "you could drink a barrel of it and it wouldn't make you feel that way the next morning." American wheat, it appears, is enjoying complete and splendid isolation. The cynic thinks mankind is rotten, and he would be right if all men were cynics. We hope we're wrong, but it looks like th' price o' bootleg whiskey wuz settin' th' pace fer everthing else. If th' fillin' station buildin' program holds out their won't be a corner left t' loaf on. -HERE AND THERE- If he is a troublesome radical, give him a soft snap. If that does not work, try soft soap. Prohibitory statutes have now cured us of nearly all of our vices except that of giving advice. Any virile people, by practicing war, can in time conquer almost everything except its own appetite. As our seventh and last entry for the Bok peace prize we suggest abolition of the word "foreigner." Petting parties are modern; of course, but Delilah originated the idea. If he calls other men hypocrites, he means that he has lost the capacity to feel shame for his sins. Will Morrissey has a decided divertissement in "The Newcomers." He has taken up the cudgels of the unknown in the revue world and invested them with a modicum of scenery and externals of the characteristic kind, but also with a maximum of pep and good music, and given the town a show which is not only unique, but important and memorable. The names are new in the main, but so is the talent—that is new for its freshness and spontaneity. Mr. Morrissey plays about in the audience, without for a moment violating good taste as is the worst of those who do that sort of thing, and makes every one happy in the idea that they are getting acquainted with a jolly hunch of good actors who haven't had their timing until his appreciative hands helped them. He capitalizes the inadequacies—of which he is the only one who is insistent—so as to dare the actors to be inefficient rather than daring the audience not to like it, as is the standard of most revues. It is pretty sad to be in a reformatory by force of law. But it is still sadder, I believe, to go back to that place by choice, as the best way to spend a vacation. Officials at the Bedford Reformatory for women were surprised last week when a prisoner paroled some time ago returned to spend her two weeks' vacation there. It was the only place she knew to go, or at least the place where she would be treated best. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH, 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. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS EDITORS ARE SAYING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE—S. F. Journal Alfred Nobel, a Swedish engineer and chemist, amassed an immense fortune as the inventor of dynamite, guncotton, nitro glycerine and cordite. His experiments and inventions did much to make modern methods of war possible. Just what sentiment moved him we do not know, but upon his death he left most of his wealth to endow movements for the advancement of human interests in the furtherance of literature, science and international peace. Every year five prizes are provided for the greatest accomplishments in these various lines. The prizes amount to about $40,000 each and they are awarded by the Norwegian Storthing, or national congress, without regard to nationality, race or creed, to those persons esteemed to have made the greatest contribution during the preceding year to the causes represented. The greatest interest attaches to the award of the peace prize. The public does not hear so much about the prizes in science and literature, possibly because they come with relative infrequency to America. But the peace prize has been already several times awarded to Americans, including Roosevelt, Root and Wilson. Considerable interest is manifested in the statement that the Storthing this year has the names of President Harding and Secretary Hughes on its list of tentative candidates for the peace prize, with a strong probability that the award will again come this way. Such an award this year would be in recognition of labors in behalf of the Washington conference which resulted in the treaties for limitation of naval armament and in the Pacific peace guarantees. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT They have erected a statue of Judas Iscariot in soviet Russia. And soon, doubtless, they will similarly honor the virtuous patrot who superintended the executions of the czar's children and the gentle soul who planned the Moscow massacres. As long as they refrain from insulting the memory of such worthy gentleness as Nero and Caligula and Caracalla and Hellogabalus by putting them on soviet pedestals there can be no serious complaint. POST MERIDIAN When through my boyhood's joys I passed, And on through manhood's speed. They have erected a statue of Judas Iscariot in soviet Russia. And soon, doubtless, they will similarly honor the virtuous patrolt who superintended the executions of the czar's children and the gentle soul who planned the Moscow massacres. As long as they refrain from insulting the memory of such worthy gentleness as Nero and Caligula and Caracalla and Hellogabalus by putting them on soviet pedestals there can be no serious complaint. POST MERIDIAN When through my boyhood's joys I passed, And on through manhood sped, My form in front no shadow cast The light was straight ahead. But now I cannot help but spy My shadow on the plain, And backward I must turn my eye To see that light again! Henry Ford with the largest cash balance in the world at his command may be assumed to have reached that goal of the average man's ambition whereat he feels free to order what he wants to eat in a hotel dining room without even glancing at the prices. One trouble with the league of nations seems to be that, unlike the American league, it has no Judge Landis to dictate what shall and what shan't be done. Also it needs umpires with nerve enough to get after the pop bottle throwers in the bleachers. Out West they complain that the army worms are eating up the navy beans. The jealousy between these two branches of the service will apparently never end. IF YOU BELIEVE IN SIGNS Sign on a butcher shop: "Come In. This is a Good Meating Place." Another on a bakery: "You Will Like Our Rye; It's Well Bread." Divorce and delicatessen go hand in hand," says one writer. There is a heap of marital happiness in a good cook book. Senator Johnson of Minnesota says "Call me Magnus." He is lucky if he gets off that easy. QUALITY SERVICE PRICES "Let's Have Another!" This one "hits the spot" alright, but it tastes so good I'm going to have another. Another!" This one "hits the spot" alright, but it tastes so good I'm going to have another. TRY OUR MALTED MILKS Hauden's Lunch Counter Sam Seelig Market 139 E. Center St. Anaheim Rock, Sand and Crushed Rock PLASTER SAND COMMON BRICK CONCRETE SAND FACE BRICK IN LIGHT GRAY COLOR Capacity, 600 yards per day. 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