oc-plain-dealer 1923-10-15

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher Daily Greetings To Our Readers We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble back on our lips—do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do, and shrink back from; and little by little it will grow easier—the love spoken will bring the answer of love—the kind deed will bring back a kind deed in return.—Harriet Beecher Stowe. ABHORRENCE OF WAR BY LLOYD GEORGE David Lloyd George, speaking before a great audience of Canadians, made an earnest plea for unity of action among all races of the world to put an end to warfare. "It is a terrible business at best," he exclaimed; "it is a rending business, a shattering business, a ruinous business." The doughty world war premier pointed to his own whitened locks as an example of what war does to men who have part in it, even though not on the firing line. Lamenting the horrors of war, Lloyd George declared that it is the destiny of civilized nations to prevent war in future. Discussing the future, he said: "No man can tell now what that war will mean to the human race. The future is in the fog rising from the morass of war, and I cannot tell, no man can tell, what is going to happen. But this I do know, that the war altered the destiny of mankind for generations, aye for centuries to come." Those who inveigh most strongly against war are those who have seen its horrors close up. The clear call of destiny and of duty is upon every civilized land to take up the cause of world peace and to press it to consummation. The United States is in favored position to assume leadership in this great work of pacifying the world for all time. The country has become so prosperous that the people do not think or talk about it, but accept it as matter of course. Every fire prevented saves property and may save human life. It surely is worth while to be careful with fire. Those who inveigh most strongly against war are those who have seen its horrors close up. The clear call of destiny and of duty is upon every civilized land to take up the cause of world peace and to press it to consummation. The United States is in favored position to assume leadership in this great work of pacifying the world for all time. The country has become so prosperous that the people do not think or talk about it, but accept it as matter of course. Every fire prevented saves property and may save human life. It surely is worth while to be careful with fire. Those who are conversant with its horrors, declare eternal abhorrence of warfare. Santa Claus will come with round-shoulders this year, with one of the most generous packs in his long and happy career. Patriotism is not self-propagating. It needs nurturing. It should be inculcated in the training of boys and girls throughout the land. There is that in the "Marscillaise" which stirs the blood, whatever one's nationality. TRAFFIC DEADLINESS IS STARTLING Deadliness of traffic conditions in California is becoming startling enough. It requires comparisons, perhaps, to joint the people into realization of the seriousness of this menace. Here is the amazing declaration coming from L. E. Ross, director of the bureau of vital statistics of the state board of health: During the last year motor vehicle collisions have killed almost twice as many persons in California as typhoid, smallpox, measles, whooping cough, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, sleeping sickness and meningitis combined. Diphtheria has caused only half as many deaths as have traffic accidents. If the present rate of fatalities continues, more than 1300 deaths will result this year from motor mishaps. And this is due largely to growing carelessness, not only on the part of many drivers, but on the part of many pedestrians. That the annual slaughter of more than a regiment of Californians is a condition demanding very earnest, practical, remedial attention from lawmakers, from those who enforce laws and from the public, hardly admits of debate. It requires a big endowment of brains, as well as of brawn, to be a star football player. Pity that so many of the beautiful illusions of youth must be shattered by the harsh realities of life. Los Angeles must have that hold-up feeling. The number of bold hold-ups in that city is startling. When David Lloyd George looks in his mirror he sees about the likeliest man Britain has for its next premier. Recovery of President Obregon from critical illness is gratifying. Mexico could ill afford to lose him now. Is baseball the national game yet? Note the crowds watching the score-boards. Los Angeles must have that hold-up feeling. The number of bold hold-ups in that city is startling. When David Lloyd George looks in his mirror he sees about the likeliest man Britain has for its next premier. Recovery of President Obregon from critical illness is gratifying. Mexico could ill afford to lose him now. Is baseball the national game yet? Note the crowds watching the score-boards. $5.00 cash Puts an Electric Washer IN YOUR HOME NO FURTHER PAYMENTS FOR 30 DAYS SEVEN DIFFERENT MODELS TO SELECT FROM $3.00 Cash PUTS AN ELECTRIC CLEANER IN YOUR HOME FIVE DIFFERENT MODELS Washer Wilson Phone 926 227 E. Center Street URES ept Sunday Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer MOND Subscription Entered a A NEW DEAL FRENCH MILITARY DIETATORSHIP MONARCHIST PARTY WORKING OUT GERMANY'S SALVATION GERMAN MONEY KINGS PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN Discredited movie stars should take heart. A fallen star in Montana set the woods afire. A man may be down, but he isn't out until he begins to borrow money from his relatives. In the olden days a broken engagement affected a girl's heart; now it affects her trigger finger. It isn't crossing the three-mile limit that gets a rum-runner into trouble, but double-crossing. If you have the power and the desire to flog somebody, a very slight offender may deserve flogging. It is easier to live than it was in the time of our fathers, and correspondingly easier to be bored. Most of the gum is chewed by people who are more easily persuaded by an orator than by printed matter. The reason children are happier than grownups is because nothing has happened to shake their self-respect. An unshaken confidence in the right won't get you anywhere in this sordid world. Firpo still has that. The new $100 bill will wear Franklin's picture, thus subtly encouraging the thrift Franklin so well taught. Now that it is clear that the Greeks were not guilty, they ABE MARTIN MAD WANTED! IM SHALL HOME NO CHILDREN NO CLEARING NO CLEANING ALL CONTINUES BIG REWARD Why don't th' government discontinue th' five-cent piece as it hain't good for anything, unless we want t' to a Chinaman. Constable Plum broke his arm this mornin' while barin' a rum plot. DINNER STORIES A city couple on a drive through the country in the late autumn pulled up beside a small orchard and helped themselves to apples in large quantities, says a prize story in Jugge. Their consciences bothered them somewhat, however, and they stopped in front of the farmhouse which adduced that A LITTLE TALK ON THRIFT By S. W. STRAUS President American Society for Thrift Recently a man in New York City was sent to prison because he had stolen his firm's money. As the solemn words which meant his incarceration in Sing Sing were pronounced he said to those standing near, "Well, it doesn't pay!" No, it did not pay him when he was getting along well, saving money and advancing steadily with his firm, to begin making investments that were supposed to yield abnormal returns. One dollar can no more be made to do the work of many with safety and honesty than one brick can be made to fill the place of many in a wall that shall be safe and sound. It did not pay this man when, after losing his savings in crooked stock deals, he tried to recoup his losses by risking additional funds. And it did not pay when, to secure these funds, it was necessary to juggle the books of the company he worked for. Also when he found that money could be obtained easily in this way, it did not pay him to begin leading a life of reckless extravagance. Benjamin Franklin once wrote a little story of his boyhood days when he "paid too much for his whistle." All those who are lured from prudent paths by the desire to pile up unearned riches invariably pay too much for their whistles. No, it does not pay. The path of thrift is a safe one to travel. It may not seem to carry one into those enchanted places where money is to be found The reason children are happier than grownups is because nothing has happened to shake their self-respect. An unshaken confidence in the right won't get you anywhere in this sordid world. Firpo still has that. The new $100 bill will wear Franklin's picture, thus subtly encouraging the thrift Franklin so well taught. Now that it is clear that the Greeks were not guilty, they should be able to bear their punishment more patiently. If you think there is no hell, observe the fat husband whose love letters to the vamp are being read in court. Autumn is here. The birds are going south, and the lawn mower and garden tools are coming back from the neighbors. The visitor who comes in and sits on the edge of your desk to talk is either an intimate ass or a cute little thing. Mr. Coolidge says he has given no thought to the 1924 convention. In other particulars, however, he is very human. Humans really are superior. The leopard can't change his spots, but any determined girl can make the freckles peel off. As a general thing, however, the man rich enough to buy a 7-passenger touring car doesn't need any more than a roadster. Circumstantial evidence isn't worth anything. "There is a divinity that shapes our ends" was written before the day of manicurists. Correct this sentence: "I wear a number 7," she informed the shoe clerk, "and I am not at all sensitive about it." Fascism saved Italy from fools and criminals, but it didn't wear a mask. One of the most astonishing things in life is the kind of people who feel important. A city couple on a drive through the country in the late autumn pulled up beside a small orchard and helped themselves to apples in large quantities, says a prize story in Judge. Their consciences bothered them somewhat, however, and they stopped in front of the farmhouse which adjoined the orchard and called to the farmer who was on the front porch. "We helped ourselves to your apples," said the woman. "Just thought we'd tell you." "Oh, that's all right," said the farmer. "I helped myself to your tools when you were in the orchard." A Scot whose name was MacIntosh, and who was proud of the fact that he was directly descended from the chief of the clan, was having a dispute over the fare owed to a taxi driver, says Judge. The man with the meter talked loud and harshly, and it angered the Highlander. "Do you know who I am?" he demanded, proudly drawing himself up to his full height. "I'm a MacIntosh." "I don't care if you're an umbrella," he said. "I'll have my right." Sam Johnson, colored "sheik," was joyriding over a portion of the hilly southwest, according to Everybody's, in company with a lady of his choice. The car was rolling swiftly down a long, rocky slope when Sam, attempting to slow up, found to his dismay that the breaks were out of order. His companion, realizing that Sam had lost control of the car, began to scream at the top of her voice and prepared to jump. "Keep yo seat," shouted Sam, gripping the wheel with both hands. "Now, aln't yo' foolish," said Sam, pointing to the bottom of the hill. "Look at that good strong fence down there, woman." Benjamin Franklin once wrote a little story of his boyhood days when he "paid too much for his whistle." All those who are lured from prudent paths by the desire to pile up unearned riches invariably pay too much for their whistles. No, it does not pay. The path of thrift is a safe one to travel. It may not seem to carry one into those enchanted places where money is to be found "growing on bushes," yet it is to be noted that almost without exception the men in America who have amassed great fortunes have laid the foundations of their wealth in thrift. Those who are content to acquire possessions slowly and steadily and indulge only in such pleasures as they can afford, will never stand amidst the wreckage of a ruined life some day and exclaim in their despair "Well, it doesn't pay!" MONDAY, OCTOBER FIFTEENTH, 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 POLITICAL TRICKERY From The Davenport Iowa) Times) Senator Smith W. Brookhart's stock in trade is verbal trickery and deceit. He is a stout believer in Barnum's well-known axiom that the American people like to be fooled, but the truth of the assertion that, "You may fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all of the time," may be painfully impressed upon him before long. E. T. Meredith of Des Moines, publisher of Successful Farming and former secretary of agriculture, addressing a Davenport audience yesterday, declared the only purpose of his suit for 30 cents agdinst the colonel was to show him up. He cited as one wilful misrepresentation on the part of the junior senator, his denial that the War Finance corporation loaned money to the distressed farmers of the middle west. That the colonel could not plead ignorance of the matter in which this financial assistance was extended, was revealed in the statement of Mr. Meredith that the law firm of which Brookhart is a member, was the attorney for the one bank in Washington, Iowa, to secure such aid, and his brother a director of the institution. He cited records of the War Finance corporation showing that only one of the four banks of the senator's home town found it necessary to use the corporation's funds to tide it over the period of depression, that being the Farmers' and Merchants' State Bank, with which the Brookharts are connected and which borrowed a total of $46,313.60 from this federal agency. Yet Senator Brookhart, speaking at Jewell, two days after Mr. Meredith had issued a statement to the Associated Press to the effect that the farmers of Iowa borrowed approximately $24,000,000 two years ago and that $17,000,000 of the principal sum, with interest, had already been paid, in reply to the former cabinet member, said: "The most amazing part of Mr. Meredith's statement is the War Finance corporation figures. He prates about my inaccuracies and then says the farmers of Iowa borrowed $24,000,-000 two years ago from the War Finance corporation. In fact, State Bank, with which the Brookharts are connected and which borrowed a total of $46,313.60 from this federal agency. Yet Senator Brookhart, speaking at Jewell, two days after Mr. Meredith had issued a statement to the Associated Press to the effect that the farmers of Iowa borrowed approximately $24,000,000 two years ago and that $17,000,000 of the principal sum, with interest, had already been paid, in reply to the former cabinet member, said: "The most amazing part of Mr. Meredith's statement is the War Finance corporation figures. He prates about my inaccuracies and then says the farmers of Iowa borrowed $24,000,-000 two years ago from the War Finance corporation. In fact, the farmers did not borrow one cent from this corporation. The War Finance corporation is a Wall Street controlled institution that lends only to banks and selected co-operatives. These Iowa loans were all to banks. It made its red tape and rules of securities so offensive that the banks have paid off $17,000,000 of these loans." Now what are the facts about this "Wall Street controlled" institution. Senator Brookhart knows as well as anyone else who has given the slightest attention to federal legislation in relationship to the farmer, that the War Finance corporation was continued in order to finance the rural producers. The loans were made to banks because the difficulties which would have attended direct loans would have been insurmountable. The loans were made only when the applications were based upon agricultural paper. It made no difference how good the borrower's security was, he could not borrow from this branch of the government unless he was carrying loans on agricultural paper to an equal amount. The whole purpose of the act, under which the corporation functioned, was to aid agriculture. If we are reluctant about charging the senator with ignorance of a law, with which he should be fully conversant, then he must stand guilty of the most pernicious form of dishonesty, that of withholding from those who give him respectful attention, the facts as they are known to exist. Mr. Brookhart has a poor regard, indeed, for the farmers and the voters of the state generally, if he believes they can be misled by "senatorial deceit" which is so plainly apparent as it is in the instance cited by Mr. Meredith. America well may be thankful that it has not the hatreds and prejudices and suspicions of centuries, which have scourged Europe. 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. 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