oc-plain-dealer 1923-10-08

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher Daily Greetings To Our Readers Soul, thy incense also proffer; Thou shouldst offer Praise to Him, who, from thy head Kept afar the storms of sorrow, That the morrow Finds the night in peace hath fled. —Von Canitz. SAN GABRIEL DAM PLAN PROMISES MUCH A great dam to control flood waters in the San Gabriel River and to augment the water supply of Pasadena and other places in the San Gabriel Valley, is in fair prospect of consummation orelong. The County Board of Supervisors have acceded to the urgent request of the joint committee which inspected the San Gabriel watershed and have made a preliminary appropriation of $50,000 to test the possibilities of building a safe foundation for the projected dam. Millions upon millions of dollars of damage, from its headwaters to Long Beach, have been wreaked by the San Gabriel River in disastrous floods in the last few years. Much more than enough to construct a great dam has been swept away to total loss by the ruthless stream. As the years go by, and as the San Gabriel Valley becomes more densely populated and as its territory becomes more intensively developed, the menace to life and property from these frequently-recurring floods will become greater. It is the part of wisdom to prevent these disasters. The surplus water of the San Gabriel, which has been and is a scourge to this region, could be turned into a blessing, by a control dam. The domestic water supply of Pasadena would be increased quite handsomely. Pasadena had the sagacious fore-sight to file upon the water rights in the San Gabriel Canyon. This may mean advantages inestimable to the Crown City. It is not a "building boom," properly termed, which California is enjoying. The term "boom" is misleading as to this. It implies speciousness, exaggeration and unreality. The record breaking volume of building, in this state, is not based upon unreality. The surplus water of the San Gabriel, which has been and is a scourge to this region, could be turned into a blessing, by a control dam. The domestic water supply of Pasadena would be increased quite handsomely. Pasadena had the sagacious fore-sight to file upon the water rights in the San Gabriel Canyon. This may mean advantages inestimable to the Crown City. It is not a "building boom," properly termed, which California is enjoying. The term "boom" is misleading as to this. It implies speciousness, exaggeration and unreality. The record breaking volume of building, in this state, is not based upon unreality or sham or exaggeration of any kind. MR. BRYAN IS GREATLY USEFUL MAN Multitudes of his countrymen agree with William Jennings Bryan in his political, economic and regilious convictions. And multitudes disagree with him on these things. But all have respect for him. There have been few men in American public life who have held the respectful attention of the people for so long a period, as a civilian. Mr. Bryan has never attained the Presidency, to which he has aspired. But, like Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, who also aspired to the presidency yet never reached that position, Mr. Bryan has been and is an extreme useful citizen and publicist. His services, as a quickener of the public conscience, have been and are beyond estimate in value. He is a man of strong convictions, fearless in the expression of his convictions. For this he is respected and esteemed even by those who differ from him. Mr. Bryan is spending much time in Southern California now, and while here his voice is heard frequently in promotion of worthy philanthropic causes of various kinds. Provision should be made by the Navy Department that the freadful mistake which sent seven destroyers of the United States navy to wreck and ruin and cost twenty-two lives, shall not be repeated. Never again should there be a tragedy like that. Europe is not wholly out of danger of the recurrence of the World War, with added horrors. Strange that there should be any semblance of war at this time. The appalling tragedy of 1914 to 1918 seems to have been forgotten as to its terrors and menaces. "MONEY SENSE" "Young Man - It Pays to MONEY SENSE" PASS BOOK "Young ManIt Pays to have the PASS BOOK HABIT WHY ARE THE YOUNG MEN WHO ARE KNOWN TO HAVE SAVED SOMETHING, USUALLY SELECTED BY EMPLOYERS WHEN THE GOOD JOBS ARE BEING FILLED? IT'S BECAUSE MATURE MEN KNOW, BY EXPERIENCE, THAT WHAT IS LEARNED BY RATIONAL MONEY-SAVING IS WORTH A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN THE ACTUAL MONEY SAVED. THE YOUNG MAN WHO HAS THE PASSBOOK HABIT IS RESPONSIBLE, RESPECTS WORK, AND HAS SELF-CONTROL. HE IS FIRST IN LINE FOR PRO-MOTION. YOUR ACCOUNT IS INVITED. FIRST NATIONAL BANK AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK of Anaheim Plain Dealer THE WILD JUGGERNAUT PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN A strike isn't really settled until the consumer's bills are. Poor old Spain! Even a revolution fails to keep her on the front page for a week. It wouldn't be so bad for an automobile to turn turtle if it wouldn't terrapinthing. Calling some men presidential possibilities imposes a great strain on the word "possibility." Liquor won't be an issue in the coming campaign, but it may at times figure as inspiration. It's a case of true religion if he has a fat bank roll and yet sings, "I need thee every hour." It isn't hard to believe that the Christian martyrs sang until the last. We've heard a man do it while taking a cold bath. Race prejudice seems small and wicked to those who live in a district inhabited by one race only. Fur coats will be worn longer this year. Pants will be worn longer by the husbands who buy the coats. Monkey glands may not work but it is easy to make a monkey of an old man who yearns to be frisky and young. If a girl jumped from a vehicle in the old days, it was because the horse was wild—not because the man was. The next time Firpo fights, he should insist on having ropes strong enough to hold the other fellow inside. The girl who is courted by a widower has one advantage. She ABE MARTIN DINNER STORIES They sat on the sofa, he and she. The lights were turned low. They gazed into each other's eyes with perfect contentment. He arranged his necktie for the twentieth time and queried, "Do you love me, Alice?" "Uh-huh, I think so." "I knew you did—I love you, too. Alice—you're the only girl for me." She, healitatingly, "Did you ever ever love any other girl?" "No, Alice—you are the first girl I ever loved, the only girl I ever whi love." "Oh; John, I knew it! I love you more than ever." She flushed with pleasure, raised her chin, and looked at him expectantly through long lashes. He took three cigars from his vest pocket, laid them on the table beside the sofa, and started to take her in his arms. She sobbed, "All men are liars," and walked majestically out of the room.—Yellow Jacket (Georgia Tech.). Aunt Jinny, a Carolina negress, was a great advocate of the rod as a help in child rearing. As a result of an unmerciful beating which she gave her youngest and "orneriest," she was brought into court one day by outraged neighbors, says Everybody's. The judge, after giving her a severe lecture, asked if she had anything to say. "Just one thing, jedge," she replied. "I wants to ax you a question: Was you ever the parent of a perfectly wuthless culld chile?" The near-sighted man and his wife were inspecting the latest art exhibition with critical care, says the Bison (U. of Buffalo). "That's the ugliest portrait I've seen." Monkey glands may not work but it is easy to make a monkey of an old man who yearns to be frisky and young. If a girl jumped from a vehicle in the old days, it was because the horse was wild—not because the man was. The next time Firpo fights, he should insist on having ropes strong enough to hold the other fellow inside. The girl who is courted by a widower has one advantage. She never suspects that he is trifling with her affections. Adam was perfect when created, but he didn't stay that way long without soap. If Canadians and Englishmen won't help Uncle Sam enforce prohibition, he might, as a last resort, appeal to Americans. Dempsey is so mad at Wills about that attempted injunction that he probably won't fight him for less than a half-million. Some men devote so much energy to being loyal to their employer that they have none left for the business of making good. You must expect men to act that way in time of trial. It is hard to keep a jitney straight when it is going backwards. Correct this sentence: "The cake-eater sank among the cushions and asked permission to smoke." Cheap treatments and cheap examinations are expensive at any price. What if you should die tonight? There's the wife and little mite. How will they prolong the fight—when you are gone? Weather strips upon the doors, Heavy carpets on the floors; Both of these a germ adores—In winter. THE SIN OF OMISSION It isn't the thing you do, dear; It's the thing you leave undone, Which gives you the bit of heartache At the setting of the sun. The tender word forgotten, The letter you did not write, The flower you might have sent, dear, Are your haunting ghosts tonight. The stone you might have lifted Out of a brother's way. The bit of heartsome counsel You were hurried too much to say; The loving touch of the hand, dear, The gentle and winsome tone, That you had no time nor thought for, With troubles enough of your own. The little acts of kindness, So easily out of mind; Those chances to be angels Which everyone may find— They come in night and silence Each chill reproachful wreath When hope is faint and flagging And a blight has dropped on faith. For life is all too short, dear, And sorrow is all too great; So suffer our own compassion That torries until too late; And it's not the thing you do, dear; It's the thing you leave undone, Which gives you the bit of heartache At the setting of the sun. —Margaret Sangster. The judge, after giving her a severe lecture, asked if she had anything to say. "Just one thing, jedge," she replied. "I wants to ax you a question: Was you ever the parent of a perfectly wuthless culd chile?" The near-sighted man and his wife were inspecting the latest art exhibition with critical care, says the Bison (U. of Buffalo). "That's the ugliest portrait I've ever seen," he cried angrily, striving for a better view of the abomination. "Come away, you fool!" replied his wife. "You are looking at yourself in a mirror." "I came to the theater by way of an old-time medicine show and the circus." Ford Sterling, the actor-director, remarked the other day at Hollywood. "I'm an honest-to-God trouper and proud of it. "I was the original Zeno, the boy clown, and with all the big shows when I was a kid, but my first turn was with a one-ring circus that was just about able to make its jumps. "As my professional name commenced with the last letter in the alphabet, I was last on the payroll and about half the time the cash ran out before they got to me. I stayed on for I was getting my beans and some money every once in a while." "The next season came and I was up against it, after a long hard winter, so I wired for a ticket, got it and reported." "Glad to see you Zeno," the boss told me as he shook hands. "You go on the payroll beginning today." "Zeno, your grandma," I answered. "I go on that payroll as Ajax this year." —Everybody's. American sanitarians cleaned Cuba, so the Cuban bootleggers cleaned America. Ladies in the Congo paint their faces with yellow ochre; that's savagry. Our own ladies paint theirs with carmine; that's proper. MONDAY, OCTOBER EIGHTH, 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 "LIVE AT HOME" MOVEMENT GROWS—Berkeley Gazette North Carolina reports that last year's "live at home" campaign was very successful. It was a popular movement backed by the state government. People all over the state pledged themselves to plant larger and better gardens and to use them in feeding their families and selling the surplus, instead of depending so largely as they had in past years on produce raised elsewhere. Halifax County, as an example, had 260 new summer gardens and 100 new winter ones. Mecklenburg County, in addition to hundreds of new gradens, brought in 100 milk cows. Many mills gave vacant lots to employees who would use them, and they were cultivated to advantage. Egg production was greatly increased, as was milk and butter production. The state fair added to the benefits by showing, along with exhibits of new vegetables and other products, how to use them in the diet. This is a movement which the South has sorely needed, and which is being pushed vigorously in Georgia and other Southern states. It bids fair to remedy the evils attending the "one crop" practice, providing the necessaries of life in a year when tobacco or cotton fails, and at all times adding greatly to the health, vigor and happiness of the people. It is a movement, too, which might well spread throughout the Northern states, where production of garden, orchard, poultry and dairy products for the use of the farmer's own family is less common than it might be. Thee is far too much, in every section, of serving on the farm table canned milk and vegetables and eggs from the storage house. It may be that one reason why city folk in general have better health than country folk is that they have a more plentiful supply of fresh food. EUROPEAN POLITICS FOR FIRST GRADERS In Ruhral places peace is pending And passive resistance now is ending. Mussolini still is Flume-ing And Napoleonic airs assuming. The Prince of Wales has left incog, Canadian girls are all agog. The comitadjas of Bulgaria Enjoy their annual war malaria. Albania will be smeared with Greece For Italian mission's sad decease.* In Ruhral places peace is pending And passive resistance now is ending. Mussolini still is Flume-ling And Napoleonic airs assuming. The Prince of Wales has left incog, Canadian girls are all agog. The comitadjas of Bulgaria Enjoy their annual war malaria. Albania will be smeared with Greece For Italian mission's sad decease.* Cease balking! Cease! the league demands But the Balkans balk at all commands. Mark well the Ger.'s financial larks, A dollar is 50,000,000 marks. Premiers Baldwin and Poincare Are glad to fix le grande affaire. —Clyde. (*But after all, the prospect's bright That Corfu shall not ring tonight.—Ed.) Probably we will never be able to nickname him Credulous Cal. Dining Rooms of Reputation CERTAIN CHEFS become famous for their culinary skill. Catering to the public spreads their fame. There are thousands of housewives who regularly display equal skill, for they too know how KITCHEN BOUQUET improves most dishes, how it brings out the full flavor of meats, "snaps up" the stews, improves gravies by making them full flavored and bringing out the deep, rich brown color; how it adds the last touch of tastiness to soups, sauces, etc., etc. Add a tablespoonful just before taking off stove. Your grocer sells lots of KITCHEN BOUQUET. Get a bottle and win fame for your cooking. 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