oc-plain-dealer 1923-11-20

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS I would be like a little bird which the wind rocks on a branch beneath the mild rays of the sun, and whose voice ascends unceasingly to the blue heaven.—Friederich Ruckert. FRUIT TREES TO GROW ON HIGHWAYS Fruit trees as shade and ornament along highways, and their fruit for the public—this is the striking plan adopted by county horticulturists in Santa Barbara. From seeds on county ground, trees are to be propagated. Black walnuts will be planted where the climate is suitable. Fruit trees of various kinds will be utilized, for shade, for beauty, and to provide palatable food for any and all who may travel the highways. When the yield of fruit becomes larger than the public will consume, in picking from the trees in passing, part of the crop will be harvested by the county and the proceeds will be turned into the district road funds. This is a happy idea, combining beauty with utility. It would be refreshing indeed for travelers to be able to stop under the shade of a tree and to pick and eat fruit from the tree which affords the shade. There is beauty in fruit trees of all varieties. Especially at blooming are fruit trees lovely. It would be charming and romantic indeed to have the highways of California lined with blooming, fruiting citrus and deciduous orchard trees. Renew your membership in the Red Cross. If not a member, join this splendid organization. Be a partner in its works of philanthropy and helpfulness. Wherever help is needed, it gives help. PLANT LESS ACREAGE TO WHEAT, IS ADVISED Let the American farmer solve his own problems by judicious head work. Here is a suggestion, for example, which seems to be quite timely, practical and serviceable. It comes from the wheat council of the United States. The advice of this body is, that farmers reduce the present acreage planted to wheat from 62,000,000 acres to 50,000,000 acres. The latter acreage would be sufficient to PLANT LESS ACREAGE TO WHEAT, IS ADVISED Let the American farmer solve his own problems by judicious head work. Here is a suggestion, for example, which seems to be quite timely, practical and serviceable. It comes from the wheat council of the United States. The advice of this body is, that farmers reduce the present acreage planted to wheat from 62,000,000 acres to 50,000,000 acres. The latter acreage would be sufficient to take care of present demands for domestic consumption. Let the farmer keep only so far ahead of domestic demand for wheat as would be profitable in meeting outside demand. Let the farmer meanwhile devote more acreage to diversity of crops, so that should any one crop be a failure or prices unprofitably low during any season, other crops may counterbalance this. The man or woman who writes his or her name in a great philanthropy has a noble monument indeed. Andrew Bonar Law's body quite fittingly goes into Westminster Abbey. The departed chieftain earned his way into the hall of fame. The late President Harding performed a good public service when he removed Colonel Forbes from the directorship of the veterans' bureau. Aerial mail across the Atlantic in two days is in immediate prospect. Look to the air for marvels. Plant trees. Fill your vacant spaces and odd corners with them. They are an all-around blessing. Planting fruit trees along highways of California should become a common custom. They do this in Europe. See the good in your fellow beings. It is there, even in the worst of them—or the ones you may regard as the worst. 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LOS ANGELES BEKINS FIREPROOF STORAGE Los Angeles San Francisco Oakland Fresno ES THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer TUESDAY Subscription Entred at t "COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE" WHAT DO YOU SEE THAT MAKES YOU SO FUSSY-TOM? NOV. 20 PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) A hick town is a place where getting across the street isn't a sporting proposition. The college boy's letters to Dad indicate an almost complete mastery of the touch system. Home is a place where you can eat things that pride won't let you order in a restaurant. If you will work hard and save your money, you can retire after a while and be bored to death. And yet there is much happiness in districts where affluence consists in another pair of pants. The only wonderful thing that still impresses a man after he becomes accustomed to it is himself. If you wish to know what a man thinks of his style of beauty, learn how many times he has been photographed within a year. Moderns who don't read classical literature are overlooking a bet. Some of it is very naughty. Just because that skull is half an inch thick is no reason why scientists should think it ancient. Party loyalty, as a rule, is just exact knowledge concerning the side of the bread that is buttered. An ideal husband is one who gives his wife a regular supply of sympathy whether she needs it or not. Luther Burbank is developing a new prune, but hasn't yet listed him among the presidential possibilities. The upper class in America is ABE MARTIN GOOD BYE, COME AGAIN! BIG SQUARE DINNER SUNDAY Ike Lark's boy, in college, has written t' his paw askin' if it'll make any difference t' him if he drops math an' takes trombone. What's become o' th' ole unwritten law against payin' over one week's wages for a month's rent? POEMS THAT LIVE THE DRAGON-FLY Life (priest and poet say) is but a dream; I wish no happier one than to be laid Beneath a cool syringa's scented shade, Or wavy willow, by the running stream, Brimful of moral, where the dragon-fly Wanders as careless and TIMELY VIEWS AMERICANIZATION EFFORTS PRAISED BY POLISH MINISTER "The Americanization movement must be regarded as one of the most important manifestations in the current national and social life of the United States." declares Dr. Wladyslaw Wroblewski, Polish minister to the United States, in a recent interview. "To an envoy of a country sending emigrants to America the Americanization movement might seem at first glance adverse to his country's interests. Certainly its working, so far as some other countries—among them Poland—are concerned, tends to reduce the valuable civic element of those countries at the rate at which this element becomes assimilated by America and increases the number of American citizens." "Such a conclusion would be indeed superficial. I have come to this realization after a study of the American viewpoint as well as the point of view of the mother countries of emigrants, especially that of Poland, and after reflecting on the reactions of the process of Americanization on the general interests of mankind. Program Should Be Welcomed Americanization as I understand it, means a program of preparation of the inhabitants of this republic to become American citizens, fully alive to their national duties as well as to their privileges. The ultimate goal is to reach the highest attainable level of American patriotism for all American citizens. Whoever loves his own country enough to wish her a similar development of national conscience can only welcome from the bottom of his heart the realization of such a program in America. Undoubtedly the Americanization plan must consider chiefly the immigrants—those who come here with an inadequate or no an inch thick is no reason why scientists should think it ancient. Party loyalty, as a rule, is just exact knowledge concerning the side of the bread that is buttered. An ideal husband is one who gives his wife a regular supply of sympathy whether she needs it or not. Luther Burbank is developing a new prune, but hasn't yet listed him among the presidential possibilities. The upper class in America is composed of people who can use the car another season without loss of caste. Fable; Once there was an office man who doubted his ability to get rich raising chickens. A philosopher is one who realizes that the people who have the things he wishes for are no happier than he. In a last desperate effort to eradicate the wets, the drys might devote their entire energy to bootlegging. It is rather amusing, however, to hear hard-boiled politicians declaring that the country must be saved from Ford. If the common scolds who were ducked in Puritan days had waited until now, they might have passed as young intellectuals. Correct this sentence: "Come over some afternoon," remarked the flapper to her friend, "and bring your sewing." All we need to relieve the wheat situation is some way to sell wheat to people who don't need it and can't pay for it. THE DRAGON-FLY Life (priest and poet say) is but a dream; I wish no happier one than to be laid Beneath a cool syringa's scented shade, Or wavy willow, by the running stream, Brimful of morel, where the dragon-fly Wanders as careless and content as I. Thanks for this fancy, insect king, Of purple crest and filmy wings, Who with indifference gives up The water-lily's golden cup, To come again and overlook What I am writing in my book. Believe me, most who read the line Will read with hornier eyes than thine; And yet their souls will live forever, And thine drop dead into the river! God pardon them, O insect king, Who fancy so unjust a thing. —Walter Landor. We see it and buy it, We take it and try it, When nothing but diet Is the treatment we need. An ounce of precaution is worth a pound of bandage. Tea, coffee, tobacco and alcohol are stimulants—not foods. The trouble with most folks who fall at 40 is that they try to correct the habits they formed at 20. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER TWENTY, 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 WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING INDIVIDUALITY IS DESIRED—Berkeley (Cal.) Gazette According to the Wichita Eagle, which is in position to know something about the matter: "There are 2000 towns in Kansas that look just alike. They were all established in the seventies, all have trees the same size and the same number of people live in them." This is sad to anybody not smitten with a mathematical love of uniformity. It echoes a complaint often made by foreigners, but usually ignored when coming from foreign sources, that American towns "all look alike." That is as bad as houses on a street all looking alike and people all dressing alike and doing exactly the same things and thinking the same thoughts. Who would want to live in that kind of world? Individuality is what most of the worthwhile people desire. Individuality is the aim of art. To an increasing extent, it is the aim of business. Why should it not be the aim of a community to give an individual and original appearance to its city and its municipal activities? ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BY ROY MOULTON MARY AND HER LITTLE LAMB (As James Craig, Dramatic Critic, Would Write It.) We cannot say that the theme of Mary and Her Little Lamb is exactly new to us. To be perfectly frank we would say that the story of this production is a bit stereotyped and reminiscent. However that may be, the audience enjoys it regardless of technical criticism, that is the acid test. The plot is that of a young lady by the name of Mary, who, quite unexpectedly, is followed to the village schoolhouse one day by a pet lamb who had become very much attached to our heroine. Various complications follow and while there is nothing particularly original in the plot, it holds the audience. There is one thing to be said of the production, as a whole. It is clean and, while not exactly inspiring, it is wholesome. It lacks the disgusting salacious qualities of some of the other offerings of the season. We predict for it a long run for the reason that it has already been running for several hundred years. The lamb is particularly good. (Next Instalment, Mary and Her Little Lamb, as Alfred W. McCann Would Write It.) It looks as though peace is about to break out in Europe again. Silk industry of Japan was not affected at all by the earthquake. American stenographers will greet this news with great joy, as becomes its importance. There is one thing to be said of the production, as a whole. It is clean and, while not exactly inspiring, it is wholesome. It lacks the disgusting salacious qualities of some of the other offerings of the season. We predict for it a long run for the reason that it has already been running for several hundred years. The lamb is particularly good. (Next instalment, Mary and Her Little Lamb, as Alfred W. McCann Would Write It.) It looks as though peace is about to break out in Europe again. Silk industry of Japan was not affected at all by the earthquake. American stenographers will greet this news with great joy, as becomes its importance. The British empire produced two thirds of the gold mined last year. 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