oc-plain-dealer 1923-09-20

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETINGS TO OUR READERS The inward man He often visiteth, and hath with him sweet discourse, pleasant solace, much peace, familiarity exceeding wonderful. O faithful soul make ready thy heart for Him, that He may vouchsafe to come unto thee, and to dwell within thee.—Thomas A'Kempis. Fire Is Disastrous in Berkeley The elements are making grim jest of the works of man. California's beautiful university city, Berkeley, has suffered a disaster, against which all the efforts and devices of man's were helpless for hours. Fire and wind conspired, and the conspiracy left hundreds of homes in Berkeley in ruins. Once again is the importance of being careful with fire stressed. Once again is there a horrible, but eloquent, object-lesson for those who are inclined toward recklessness with flames. While the origin of the brush fires back of Berkeley is not definitely established, yet it might have started from a match carelessly thrown, or a cigarette stub. The tiniest blaze, in combustibles, fanned by a gale, soon may lay waste a whole city. Surely these startling facts should induce all to be careful. Berkeley has the keen sympathy of the whole state. Should assistance of any kind be required, it will be forthcoming promptly. Reduction of taxes is a boon that should come to the people whenever it is possible, through careful, businesslike management, to cut down the costs of government. Help from America has reached Japan. Food and necessaries from this country are being distributed over the stricken areas. The United States is leading the world in the promptness and generosity of its helpfulness toward Japan. Berkeley has the keen sympathy of the whole state. Should assistance of any kind be required, it will be forthcoming promptly. Reduction of taxes is a boon that should come to the people whenever it is possible, through careful, businesslike management, to cut down the costs of government. Help from America has reached Japan. Food and necessaries from this country are being distributed over the stricken areas. The United States is leading the world in the promptness and generosity of its helpfulness toward Japan. Revolution at last is knocking at the doors of the imperial government in Madrid. Spain is confronted with civil war. There has been too much repression in Spain, too much tyranny over the people. The day of reckoning seems to be at hand. The good newspaper is known by what it does not print, as well as what it prints. Europe should talk anything but war. 'And yet there is serious danger of a conflict. The scourging of 1914 to 1918 is forgotten, it seems. Many a man is his own worst enemy by yielding to his own follies. 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STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) 30% less CARBON 5% more gasoline mileage. The Standard Oil Company For Motor Cars URES except Sunday and Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer Subscrii Entered STRAYED FROM THE PATH OF PEACE THE BALKANS M.M.M.MME-OOOOUPHIST!!! GR-R-R-RR-R-RITALY PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN The most hopeless conservative is the left-over progressive of an earlier generation. The parties to an industrial controversy are never as far apart as their rival statistics. It isn't the prohibition law the wets object to so much as the attempts to enforce it. The middle class is the one half-way between Easy street and a sheriff's sale. Personally we prefer the old-fashioned square dances and square wrestling matches. Some people feel cheated unless the list of victims contains the name of somebody they knew. If it's an old, ramshackle building that should be torn down, any amateur fire department can save it. A critic says Americans have lost their nerve. Has he noticed the entries in beauty contests? It ill becomes America to say hard things about Europe's sanity. Never speak evil of the departed. It's like it was in the case of Lloyd George and King George. Magnus Johnson isn't really the big one. ABE MARTIN HAZEL NUT SADDLE CLUB Some folks kin drink a quart without showin it, but stashin' forty or fifty gallons where nobody would ever think o' lookin' is a different propersion. Any buddy that's ever tried t' hang a window curtain, 'specially a front window curtain, is purty liable t' buy a pair o' suspenders before th' apple pickin' season rolls 'round. NEW YORK LETTER NEW YORK, Sept. 15. — Human beings are to be put to shame by home-going animals. The unique place of the pigeon is unique no longer. For the homing hop-toad has come to the fore. F. H. Sydney, naturalist, discovered in this humble animal what he believed to be proof of the homing instinct, and is now testing it out. A month ago, he released at the Grand Central station here a little hop-toad he had brought from Minneapolis, with a tag on his left leg, reading, "Mickey, bound for Minneapolis." He was reported at Niagara Falls and then all trace of him vanished until just now, word has come to Mr. Sydney that Mickey has reached Chicago. Not until he reaches his own doorstep in Minneapolis will the naturalist state his contention proved, but it certainly looks as if Mickey were properly on his way. Leo Braverman, twelve years old, has had to give up active management of his own restaurant in order to go back to school, but the eating place still flourishes under his watchful eye on Seventh-ave. Leo is by many years our most youthful restauranteur, but regardless of the scoffing of playmates and parents he established his restaurant, employed his own help, insisted on good service to his patrons and looked carefully after his profits throut out his whole vacation time. "They were grown-ups, too, that ate there," he emphasizes. "It's no kid place." A critic says Americans have lost their nerve. Has been noticed the entries in beauty contests? It ill becomes America to say hard things about Europe's sanity. Never speak evil of the departed. It's like it was in the case of Lloyd George and King George. Magnus Johnson isn't really the big one. About half of loyalty is just the delight of basking in the reflected glory of a great man's greatness. If there were no half-baked political theories, what would men espouse when they have a grouch? Another good memory test is to name all of the receptive candidates for Presidential honors. Home: A sleeping place adjacent to the garage. Is it possible that a trip to Europe is an aid to culture? All of these immigrants have been there. There are no sentimental songs in which the writer yearns to be taken back to the dear old wheat farm. Ah, well; that kind of people never get a chance to feel important except when they monopolize the highway. The funny thing about Who's Who is that it mentions so many great people nobody ever heard of before. Correct this sentence: "I simply won't have any more clothes," cried the flapper, "until Mother gets the things she needs." Friendship is a funny thing. The bee has more friends than the wasp because he collects something man can frisk him for. Still, if none but high-class immigrants are admitted some of the native born are due to have some humiliating experiences. DINNER STORIES Auto tourists see so much on the way, that it requires something out of the ordinary to interest them, says a prize story in Judge. A tourist in a rural district was impressed by the more dead-than-alive character of the country, where houses were few and dilapidated, and inhabitants but infrequently seen. He at last found a native leaning lazily over a fence and regarding the stranger with a glimmer of interest. "Not much going on around here, is there?" the tourist asked. "Nope," replied the native, "Nuthin' but the interest on the mortgages." The movies look to all sorts of sources for their material and there have been diggins in many strange fields, recites the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. One talented young writer thought of trying out mythology. So he went to his general manager with the story of Diana. The general manager reviewed with some interest the illustration presented. "Who is she?" "Diana, goddess of the chase." "Well, she's a pretty fair looker, but we ain't making any more chase pictures." A lecturer gave a learned and interesting address before a woman's club on "The Decadence of Pure English," says the Houston (Texas) Post. At the close of the talk an overdressed woman approached him and said: "I did enjoy your talk ever and ever so much and I agree with you that the English language is decading something awful: Hardly no one talks proper nowadays, and goodness only knows what the next generation will talk like if nothing ain't one about it." THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH, 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 FRUITS OF BOOTLEGGING—Long Beach Telegram The government has made tremendous efforts to check the international bootleggers and, altho rum running continues, it is apparent that the worst of the epidemic is past. The temporary success of the lawbreakers, however, has lasted long enough to encourage a new evil, and one which promises to be even harder to combat. The rum runners, according to federal officials, have discovered that jewels can be smuggled into the country more easily and with less trouble than Scotch whisky, and that the profits of the trade are no less attractive. As a result, millions in revenue are being lost annually while the jewelers of the country are voluble in their complaint of unfair competition from dealers in stones which have paid no duty. The American Jewelers' Protective Association has gone so far as to volunteer the most complete co-operation with the customs service, and altho there are obvious legal obstacles which must be surmounted, some arrangement for co-ordinated effort seems probable. Unofficial aid has played no small part in the enforcement of the prohibition law, but it has been inspired by sentimental rather than business interest. We may hope that when a big business organization really sets out to work with the government in a case like this the results will be still more gratifying. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT AS A MATTER OF POLICY If a policemen should tell you just where to get off, Don't stop to argue about it or scoff; Always agree with 'em, Never get free with 'em, For a cop has the billy and badge and the gat, And usually knows about where he is at. You may think you're the works and are destiny's child, But an angry patrolman can't be reconciled. Though most of the time you are like to be right You won't, if you're half way and reasonably bright, Start contradicting, For any conflicting Starts you for the place where by force you're kept meek And callers may visit you once in a week. For I failed to follow this rule at one time, And that is the reason I'm writing this rhyme. If you're driving along the wrong If a policeman should tell you just where to get off, Don't stop to argue about it or scoff; Always agree with 'em, Never get free with 'em, For a cop has the billy and badge and the gat, And usually knows about where he is at. You may think you're the works and are destiny's child, But an angry patrolman can't be reconciled. If you're driving along the wrong side of the street, And a cop comes along and bawls you tout de suite, Keep yourself out of it, Don't make a rout of it, Or else you'll be looking at outdoors from in; You can't always stop things that you can begin, And a gent that's all dressed up in blue and in brass Is the cheese and the boy and the top of the class. Though most of the time you are like to be right You won't, if you're half way and reasonably bright, Start contradicting, For any conflicting Starts you for the place where by force you're kept meek And callers may visit you once in a week. For I failed to follow this rule at one time, And that is the reason I'm writing this rhyme. Here's to the girl I love; I love her, I love her again Far more than the heavens above She shops at the five-and-ten. I know fall and its glories Have come; we keep the rule Of running column stories On the lack of seats in school. Success in many lines of biz Remains a goal ajar. But ANY ONE in movies is A "motion picture star." Old Jim Collins, an astute observer of women, remarks that a "permanent" wave lasts six months, and that is as permanently as any woman will last. Old Jim, who draws a large salary as a professional pessimist, also remarks that since Reno was invented the golden wedding has become as extinct as the dodo and celluloid collar. Here's a problem for the expert mathematicians to solve: How come that every income tax installment, which is (three rousing cheers!) due this month, equals about double what any one can remember of the annual income. Our town's a place of changes, they never let it stay. You hardly recognize the burge, it alters so each day. They're always putting buildings up or tearing 'em down But when they get it finished, man! it's gonna be SOME TOWN. The United States has just recognized Mexico, proving that all the excellent memories for faces in the world aren't cornered by the friends of Mr. Addison Sims, of Seattle. WHAT EVERY NEWSPAPER READER KNOWS Argentina is a country that produces prize fighters with funny names. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is probably about somebody working his way through college. Any foreign movie is a lot better than any American one. Every Congress is the worst on record. Kansas Lothario, who has been divorced by three wives within a year, must be beginning to realize now who put the alum in alimony. DIGNITY DIGNITY, REFINEMENT, ELEGANCE ARE EXPRESSED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT IN STETSON VELOURS. RICH IN APPEARANCE, LUSTROUS IN FINISH, COMFORTABLE ON THE HEAD, THESE HATS APPEAL TO THOSE WHO DESIRE DIGNITY WITHOUT SACRIFICING SMARTNESS. LOOK AT THE DISPLAY OF STETSON VELOURS IN OUR WINDOWS. F.A.YUNGBLUTH The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes ANAHEIM, CALIF.