oc-plain-dealer 1923-10-19

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher PROTECT AGAINST FIRE IN BRUSH California cities must protect themselves against inflammable brush near their borders. Berkeley was given a disastrous object-lesson in this. Millions lost. Eagle Rock and Glendale have been menaced in the same way. This brings home to every municipality in the state the problem of bringing about adequate protection against these stealthy, relentless conflagrations which creep down, or sweep down upon cities and towns, usually driven by strong winds. Would it not be the part of wise protectional care to clear the land around every city and town—unless situated in the midst of timber—of brush and inflamable materials? It would seem so. Far better to burf this off under safe conditions than to take the risk of destructive conflagrations sweeping through in the teeth of gales. And once more the imperative need of extreme care with fire in forest and brush lands is emphasized. The safety of human beings; the safety of cities and towns; the protection of life and property depend upon caution in handling fire. AMERICA LEADING IN FOREIGN TRADE Foreign trade is balancing in favor of the United States. September showed a grand total of $126,000,000 on the sunny side of Uncle Sam's ledger. Significantly, exports for the month exceeded in volume any month this year, going up to $381,000,-000. While imports showed a decrease to the smallest total for the year, the aggregate ran up to the handsome figure of $255,000,000. Foreign commerce shows a healthier balancing than it did for time after the Armistice. At that time American exports exceeded imports so greatly as to create a condition which was abnormal and not favorable. It is better, at all times, to have the volume of exports more nearly equal. To create a healthy distribution of money and to preserve credits, exports and imports should be measurably about the same. It is well, of course, at all times, for the balance to favor the United States. This means a greater sale of American commodities to outsiders than the volume of foreign sales to Americans. Fresh Vegetables Sound and ripe Use plenty of fruit and vegetables, they are good for you. We deliver them right to your door. Edmiston’s Grocery We Deliver Telephone 219 it's always fresh ORANGE BLOSSOM COFFEE Orange Blossom is the finest grade of coffee obtainable. It is packed in glassin-lined bags merely to save the cost of expensive ORANGE BLOSSOM GRAND STEEL CUT COFFEE SMART & FINAL CO. IMPORTANT AND MASTERCRAFT CALIFORNIA Packed in Sanitary glassin-lined bags Don't Buy Tin! at your grocers BLOSSOM COFFEE Orange Blossom is the finest grade of coffee obtainable. It is packed in glassin-lined bags merely to save the cost of expensive tin containers. It is delivered to grocers frequently in small quantities—assuring absolute freshness. Join the thousands of discriminating coffee users who are enjoying real coffee satisfaction in Orange Blossom at a considerable saving in cost. BRICK COMMON AND FACE IN LIGHT GRAY COLOR, CAPACITY 40,000 PER DAY Brickmavon, Plaster, and Concrete Sand—Day or Night Service Factory located, La Palma and West Streets, One Block South of Fullerton Water Plant Orange County Brick & Tile Co. Inc. Phone—Anaheim 925 URES except Sunday and Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer FRIDA SubscripEntered STILL HAUNTING HIS PATH BONUS? CONGRESS DECEMBER SESSION PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN After all, perhaps the worst thing about poverty is a nickel cigar. A boob is a man who has loaned money to a relative and classifies the note as an asset. An idealist is one who thinks the discovery of vitamins in grapes made the price go up. An old-fashioned practitioner is a doctor who can lance a boil without a nurse and two assistants. You can say anything with flowers. We know a chap who sends his mother-in-law snap-dragons. "Rich bachelor" is a contradiction in terms. If he's rich, how did he manage to remain a bachelor? If you don't live where it is convenient for you to rock a boat, you can always sass a traffic cop. Appearance counts. Any two-for-a-nickel apple will fetch a dime after a Greek has polished it lovingly. It is estimated that only 1.3 per cent of the girls who win beauty contests can make good lemon pies. There isn't much excitement in a village except on the rare occasions when you forget to put out the cat. ABE MARTIN It's gittin 't' require twice as much courage t' say yes as it ever did t' say no. Squire Marsh Swallow, who was poisoned by tb' evidence in th' Ike Soles case, is still critically ill. SUNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. E. THOMSON There's no disease half so fatal as idleness. When a glutton eats mutton how sheepish he feels. DINNER STORIES "Hang it, boy!" exclaimed the tenderfoot from the East as the bellboy for a Texas hotel came bouncing in on him without knocking, "haven't you got any manners about you?" "Didn't you ring?" asked the boy. "Of course I rang." "Didn't you ring three times?" "It may have been three, as I was in a hurry for ice water, but that doesn't excuse you for bursting in the door." "Beg pardon," replied the boy, as he backed out, "but you ought to read the belj card. It's one ring for the porter, two for the bellboy and three for a gun, and when a guest rings for a gun in this hotel the orders are to get it to him before the other fellow can beg his pardon!"—Houston Tex., Post. Since prohibition went into effect churches have had difficulty in obtaining wine for sacramental use. A little negro church in the South was no exception, according to Judge. The pastor called on some of the sisters to make wine which could be used. One old negro woman volunteered, but all she had to use was persimmons. So she made persimmon wine. Everything went all right at the church the day of the services and all the brothers and sisters partook of the wine. The only trouble was that when it came to the doxology everybody had to whistle. If you don’t live where it is convenient for you to rock a boat, you can always sass a traffic cop. Appearance counts. Any two-for-a-nickel apple will fetch a dime after a Greek has polished it lovingly. It is estimated that only 1.5 per cent of the girls who win beauty contests can make good lemon pies. There isn’t much excitement in a village except on the rare occasions when you forget to put out the cat. What do umpires do during the winter? There are so few callings that adapt themselves to defecative eyesight. About all that is happening is that the lower class is becoming as naughty as it once thought the upper class. The growth of the co-operative spirit is especially impressive when you catch a tea-hound trying to kiss a flapper. It isn’t good manners to whisper in public. Take the druggist back behind the prescription case. CROSS EYES CORRECTED THIS MUSCULAR DEFECT CORRECED AND STRAIN RELEIVED BY PROPERLY ADJUSTED GLASSES. DR W R BLAKELY OPTOMETRIST ANAHEIM CALL. SUNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMSON There’s no disease half so fatal as idleness. When a glutton eats mutton how sheepish he feels. Take one thousand persons—perhaps one will be in perfect health. You wield a broom— Then you’re wheezy; Use a vacuum— That is easy. Nothing pleases school diseases like a crowded city school. The young play too hard; the middle aged eat too much; the old die too soon. A man may be down in the mouth, but he is never out of something to crab about. Often, when a preacher attempts to save a man’s soul from hell, he has to call in a doctor. It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways,” said the teacher as she pulled little Johnnie across her knee. Loma Vista Memorial Park Cemetery ESTABLISHED 1914 Endowed for Perpetual Maintenance Loma Vista is the only Cemetery in Northern Orange County that is endowed for perpetual upkeep CONTINENTAL MAUSOLEUM CO. —FULLERTON— DIRECTORS—L. S. Himes, President; B. F. Pinson, Vice President; F. E. Proud, F. C. Rimpau, Argus Adams BUSINESS OFFICE—18 Standard Bank Bldg. Phone 153 Franklin Howatt, Secretary FRIDAY, OCTOBER NINETEENTH, 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 SPECIALIZATION IN FILMS PROPOSED—N. Y. Evening Post E. V. Lucas, writing in the London Times on the sad position of the movies, suggests the familiar remedy of specialization; and familar as it is, it deserves emphasis. All movie producers and theaters offer a product supposed to appeal to everybody. The audience is made up of educated people who like Browning, Bach, and Botticelli, of gross lowbrows who like Tarzan, jazz, and comic strips, and of all grades of culture in between. Something has to be placed on the screen that will please nearly every one. Since the lower grades of taste are numerically preponderant—and since the gentry at Hollywood are for the most part men of low taste themselves—the average film aims too low, not too high. The movie goer has only a slight degree of choice. He can watch the programs until something that seems likely to hit his special taste appears. If his standards are esoteric, he usually grows wary of taking even his risk. Cannot tendencies be set to work to divide movie productions into categories which will appeal to different groups? It is necessary to say tendencies, because the process in an industry so large, costly, and firmly organized must be evolutionary and slow. But it is evident that if in large cities the theatergoer could enter a movie house knowing that it specialized in rather intellectual films, just as he goes to a theater knowing he is to see Shakespeare and not Avery Hop. wood or knowing that it specialized in melodrama, just as he known that on a certain stage he will find a mystery play, there would be less complaint against the movies. In small towns of one house different performances could be devoted to different types. This specialization might be combined with an attack on another source of evil in the movies; the mass production of an enormous volume of films, each used for a few brief days and then forever discarded. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT SAVE ON GARTERS Garters may be made from discarded inner tubes of automobile tires. Cut the strips about three-quarters of an inch wide and make as any round garter is made. In joining the ends, sew through cloth wrapped around the two thicknesses to prevent the thread from tearing the rubber.—Mrs. John G. Fryer, Merchantville, N. J. This won a prize of $1 from a New Jersey paper. It was given for the best "Thrift Discovery." ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT SAVE ON GARTERS Garters may be made from discarded inner tubes of automobile tires. Cut the strips about three-quarters of an inch wide and make as any round garter is made. In joining the ends, sew through cloth wrapped around the two thicknesses to prevent the thread from tearing the rubber.—Mrs. John G. Fryer, Merchantville, N. J. This won a prize of $1 from a New Jersey paper. It was given for the best "Thrift Discovery." Headline in New York paper says: "American Genius Events Simple Way to Heat the Home." And now we would like to have this American genius invent a simple way to buy the fuel. SAVE US THE COUPONS, FLORENCE The following comes over our private wire from a press agent: Florence Reed smoked her 1500th stage cigarette at last night's performance of "The Lullaby." Cigarettes and Miss Reed have been inseparable in her last six plays. New York junk dealer pays a larger personal tax than John D. Rockefeller. Some junk certainly has a great deal of personality about it. "Craig Gets All the Money He Asks."—Headline. We would like to know Craig's system. Hello! Orange County! White Star Gasoline is Here A STRAIGHT DISTILLED-CRYSTAL WHITE HIGH GRAVITY MOTOR FUEL The Gasoline You Have Been Waiting For Buy From The Following Dealers Sperber’s Service Station, 345 W. Center St., Anaheim Flint Service Station, 401 So. Los Angeles St., Anaheim. Wm. Sperber, Sr., Cor. N. Lemon St. and Los Angeles Anaheim. Valencia Service Station, Central Ave., State Highway, La Habra. R. K. Harland, 617 E. Center St., Anaheim Flint Service Station, 401 So. Los Angeles St., Anaheim. Wm. Sperber, Sr., Cor. N. Lemon St. and Los Angeles Anaheim. Valencia Service Station, Central Ave., State Highway, La Habra. R. K. Harland, 617 E. Center St., Anaheim Mercury Refining Co. Subsidiary of White Star Oil and Refining Co. Orange County Office 212 W. Center St. Anaheim, Calif. Phone Anaheim 975 Filling Stations Will Be Established in all Districts of Orange County For any information regarding White Star Oil Refining Co., call office, 975; 212 W. Center St. The Co. that pays its investors. CHALLENGE BUTTER CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY