oc-plain-dealer 1923-11-26

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS In the stress and heat of the day, with shouts ringing in the car, who is so blessed as to remember the yearnings he had in the cool and silent morning, and know that he has not belied them.—George Eliot. ENCOURAGE EDUCATION IN PRACTICAL WAY Education Week—every week should be Education week. It is fitting, however, that one week each year should be dedicated especially to the consideration of the importance of education and of its problems. This should be brought to the direct and intimate attention of the masses of the people. In contemplating the means of education, schools naturally come foremost. But there are other educational facilities besides schools. There are newspapers of clean, reliable type. These are great factors in education, keeping one informed on the current history of every country in the world. Have you ever thought of this? There is not a civilized country under the sun that is isolated from the daily news. Let there be an election or an attempted revolution in Peru or Portugal; let there be a political or economic crisis in China, or Turkey, or Argentine, or Australia, or South Africa—wherever stirring events occur, which have bearing upon the history of any nation or people, there the faithful, tireless newsgatherer may be found, and the news is flashed to the world. The daily newspaper is one of the most important educators of this age. The Panama canal is doing so well that the Suez canal is not surpassing it much. Honesty and fidelity to duty and to trust should be recognized and rewarded. DEFENSE FUNCTION OF PANAMA CANAL Besides the tremendous financial and commercial advantage to the United States, which results from operations of the Panama canal, that great waterway must be the nation's main reliance for effective naval defense. This fact is stressed by Major-General Goethals, to whose genius the construction of the canal is largely respons- The Panama canal is doing so well that the Suez canal is not surpassing it much. Honesty and fidelity to duty and to trust should be recognized and rewarded. DEFENSE FUNCTION OF PANAMA CANAL Besides the tremendous financial and commercial advantage to the United States, which results from operations of the Panama canal, that great waterway must be the nation's main reliance for effective naval defense. This fact is stressed by Major-General Goethals, to whose genius the construction of the canal is largely responsible. It is gratifying that, during the nine years of governmental operation of the canal, the great waterway has netted more than $16,000,000, and through it have passed more than 84,000,999 tons of cargo. It is especially gratifying that the canal has become a real Pan-American institution, drawing the United States and Latin America more closely together in trade relations. Exports and imports between the United States and its Latin neighbors have swollen to more than $1,000,000,000 annually. This is due in great measure to the use and influence of the Panama canal. But as General Goethals urges, the Panama waterway must be this nation's great reliance for naval defense, so long as it may be necessary to provide national defensive measures. While nothing should be done that savors of militarism, yet this country prudently should safeguard the canal and its approaches. Were the United States to be drawn into war with a formidable naval power, the canal would be the first object of naval attack by the enemy. If the defenses there are made and kept adequate to repel any invader, well and good. Help Santa Claus to visit every poor child in the community. There should be no empty stockings at Christmas. At any rate, there is not much more turmoil in Europe than there is in Oklahoma. The surest way to bring hard times, in this country, is for the people to talk, think and expect hard times. Simplicity means reducing insubstantial unreality into terms of reality. Simplicity is synonymous with actuality. The Pacific is sure to be the great commerce-carrying ocean of the future. Read the United States Constitution studiously once or twice yearly. Read it with deep interest and concentrated attention. Read it in the spirit of respect and reverence which it deserves. COMING The American Legion Show A PAIR OF SIXES COMING The American Legion Show A PAIR OF SIXES The Funniest Comedy Ever Written High School Auditorium Wednesday and Thursday, November 28 and 29 Prices 25 cents for Children and 75 cents for Adults Seats on sale at the Jewel Box. All seats reserved with no extra charge. A PAIR OF SIXES is a real gloom eliminator. Big laugh from start to finish with something doing every second. Overture at 8:15; curtain at 8:30. These performances are given for the benefit of the Disabled Veterans at Camp Kearney. The Biggest and Best Show in Anaheim For Thanksgiving Day. Don’t Miss It 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 158 Franklin Howatt, Secretary URES ept Sunday d Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer MON Subscr Entered BACK FROM ELBA IT'S MEHONEY! GERMANIA ONARCHIST PUTSCH" PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) God made the country, but man made the dangerous curves. Home is a place where members of the family stop at intervals to change clothes. Nothing else so annoys a sick man as to have the doctor tell him he has no fever. Women are more efficient. No man can handle a cold with four square inches of lace. Convictions: The things a politician fashions to fit the prejudices of his constituents. It isn't instruction that delegates to a national political convention need, but infuition. As a detective, we bat zero. The man we pick for a duke or diplomat always turns out to be a floor walker. Nothing else makes us so liberal-hearted as the privilege of spending the other fellow's money. The office cynic says an American is a mixture of six or seven breeds who hates a thoroughbred. When campaign money talks, it is careful not to say what favors are expected in return for it. In other words, if England will let us break an international law, we'll let her break one of ours. An unsophisticated child is one that still asks her mother for a cookie instead of the butt of her cigarette. ABE MARTIN "I don't like t' stay home no more'n you do," said Em Passi, when th' Colonial Bridge Club voted t' meet at her house. In th' fine ole days we could have a pearl handled gold pen or a mustache cup laid away, an' our Christmus worries wuz over." DINNER STORIES One night at a theater some scenery took fire and the smell of burning material alarmed the audience, reports Chicago Daily News. A panic seemed imminent, when a comedian appeared on the stage. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "Compose yourselves. There is no danger." The audience did not seem reassured. HAELY VIEWS "U. S. POLICY TOWARD EUROPE HISTORIC TRAGEDY," SAYS INVESTIGATOR French occupation of the Ruhr has brought Germany to a standstill, but at the same time has had the effect of bringing France closer to a council table where the reparations problem can be settled. This is the estimate of the reparations muddle expressed before the Cleveland chamber of commerce by Whiting Williams, who has just returned from nine weeks in Europe, for a part of that time he was employed as a coal miner in the Ruhr mines, to determine just what the German working man is thinking about. "The biggest tragedy in American history," Mr. Williams said, "is that when the other nations have got together in this moral revival, the United States has had no part in it. The biggest need in the world is that the nationalistic impulse, expressed in tariff barriers and the raising of big armies, should be curbed. "A German miner told me, 'We are perfectly willing to pay off the reparations. We realize that we have lost the war, and that we must pay the price of defeat. But we cannot roll up our sleeves and go to work until we know how much we owe. As it is now, the harder we work, the more they ask.'" German workingmen hate their own industrial leaders quite as much as they do the French invaders, Mr. Williams said. The miners have been plunged into unmitigated poverty, the mark falling so rapidly that by the time a worker has saved 100,000 marks to buy a suit of clothes, the price has advanced to 200,-000. When campaign money talks, it is careful not to say what favors are expected in return for it. In other words, if England will let us break an international law, we'll let her break one of ours. An unsophisticated child is one that still asks her mother for a cookie instead of the butt of her cigarette. We don't know why there should be so much domestic infidelity. Few modern wives knit ties for their husbands. As every experienced porter knows, the man who monopolizes the loud talk in the smoker thinks 10 cents a generous tip. The alien you can't forgive is the one who makes more money in seven years than you have been able to make in 20. The thing that most annoys a bald man is the fact that every barber wishes to use his head as an experiment station. European nations would find it easier to keep ahead of the wolf if they wouldn't try so hard to get ahead of one another. Perhaps it would be well to carry wheat free; let the government pay the railroads, and tax the farmer to make up the deficit. Correct this sentence: "You have come to the wrong place," snapped the self-made man; "I never give advice." The waiter or waitress who is a victim of some communicable disease is not a fit person to be a waiter or waitress. The physician who reports promptly cases of communicable diseases coming under his observation discharges an important obligation to his community. One night at a theater some scenery took fire and the smell of burning material alarmed the audience, reports Chicago Daily News. A panic seemed imminent, when a comedian appeared on the stage. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "Compose yourselves. There is no danger." The audience did not seem reassured. "Ladies and gentlemen," continued the comedian, rising to the occasion, "confound it all; do you think if there was any danger I'd be here?" The panic collapsed. It was bedtime for four-year-old Jack, says Judge, but the little fellow wanted to stay up later. His sount, who tipped the scales at nearly 200 pounds, said: "Why Jack, think of me—I am ever so much older than you, and I go to bed with the chickens." Jack looked at her great size, and remarked succinctly, "Well, I don't see how you ever get up on the roost." Over the protest of the Mexican Medical Ass'n., the Mexican government has dismissed her leading sanitarian from the superior board of health because he dared to call the hand of a nectarious American quack. INSURANCE FIRE, BURGLARY, PLATE GLASS, COMPENSATION, PUBLIC LIABILITY, BONDS OF ALL KINDS; AUTOMOBILE, HEALTH AND ACCIDENT. SEE FRANK TAUSCH J. T. Lyon Realty Co. 111 North Los Angeles St. ANAHEIM Phone—Anaheim 762-J-2 But we cannot roll up our sleeves and go to work until we know how much we owe. As it is now, the harder we work, the more they ask. German workingmen hate their own industrial leaders quite as much as they do the French invaders, Mr. Williams said. The miners have been plunged into unmitigated poverty, the mark falling so rapidly that by the time a worker has saved 100,000 marks to buy a suit of clothes, the price has advanced to 200,-000. "France has succeeded in the Ruhr," he said, "from a military point of view. She has made hunger and cold and suffering. She has not got reparations, but she has no doubt brought Germany to a place where she is more ready to face her obligations than ever before. She has not succeeded from any other standpoint. And intervention may have served, too, to bring France nearer to the council table, for Poincare is in a real dilemma to decide just what to do, now that passive resistance has ceased." Mr. Williams found all classes in Italy agreed, he said, that Mussolini had saved that country at a time when it was slipping rapidly into anarchy and chaos. But the pendulum of reaction has swung all the way. Three or four years ago, he said, the communists were in control. It was dangerous to wear an Italian uniform on the street or to carry an Italian flag, and there were strikes "every 15 minutes." Under bolshevist control, the Italian working classes were beaten if they worked; today they are beaten if they don't work all the time and as hard as possible, Mr. Williams asserted. Mr. Williams praised the league of nations' handling of Austrian rehabilitation and of the settlement of the Italian-Greek controversy, declaring that reference of the problem to the council of ambassadors was entirely in accord with the league covenant. MONDAY, NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIXTH, 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 RAILROADS AHEAD OF TRAFFIC—Santa Ana (Ca.) Register The public in general pays little attention to the railroads until an acute condition arises to disturb routine proceedings. Progressive achievements in the way of efficient service are unobserved unless particularly brought to notice. The sixth annual progress report of the American Railway Ass'n, points out one important achievement. Anticipating this year the greatest traffic in history, the railroads last spring unanimously adopted a "constructive program" aimed at handling that traffic. They announce now that their program succeeded. The traffic hauled to date has been even heavier than anticipated. For 16 weeks car loading exceeded 1,000,000 cars a week, yet taking the country over since June there has always been a surplus of cars in good condition available for more traffic. The peak week ended September 29. Its loadings reached 1,097,000 cars. On Sept. 29, however, there was a gross surplus of about 41,000 cars. Obviously there has been more efficient routing of cars, more prompt handling of loads and greater foresight in providing cars to meet the demand and preparing for emergency needs. These things have been done in spite of the fact that the total number of cars of revenue freight loaded in the 39 weeks from Jan. 1 through to Sept. 29 was 10 per cent greater than for the same period in 1920, 28 per cent greater than for 1921, and 19 per cent greater than for that period last year. The railroads deserve due credit for this phase of their public service. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BACK TO THE—— John Angus McWhitty lived in a big city, And had ever since he was born; He longed for the soil and the bucolic toil 'Mid the hay and the oats and the corn. He sighed to thrash pumpkins along with the bumpkins And pick the potatoes so brown. He'd tired of the strife of monotonous life, The kind that he lived in the town. So he traded his house and his lot in the city For a ten-acre farm, did John Angus McWhitty. Hank Hawkins was born 'mid the tail waving corn, Where he worked from sunup to sundown. It was his ambition to change his condition And live in the zippy old town. He longed for the jazz and the shimmy, whereas The spirit gave him the creeps. And had ever since he was born; He longed for the soil and the bucolic toil 'Mid the hay and the oats and the corn. He sighed to thrash pumpkins along with the bumpkins And pick the potatoes so brown. He'd tired of the strife of monotonous life, The kind that he lived in the town. So he traded his house and his lot in the city For a ten-acre farm, did John Angus McWhitty. Hank Hawkins was born 'mid the tall waving corn, Where he worked from sunup to sundown. It was his ambition to change his condition And live in the zippy old town. He longed for the jazz and the shimmy, whereas The quiet life gave him the creeps. He said, "I will sluff this drab bucolic stuff And move to the city for keeps." So he traded his farm for a house and a lot In the city and moved while the impulse was hot. A year had passed by when a real estate guy Got two urgent orders one day. Both parties were flurried and very much hurried, And wanted his ear right away. One wanted to trade a small farm of high grade For a house and a lot in the town. The other had got a fine house and lot To trade for a farm—nothing down. Thus Mr. McWhitty got back to the city And sniffed with delight its grim strife. While Hawkins got back to the old rural shack And says he is anchored for life. So when you grow weary of farm or of city. Remember Hank Hawkins and Angus McWhitty. New book just issued is called "Bunk." The same title would do for a lot of the books we have read during the past year. If there is any presidential impossibility who hasn't had himself mentioned, now is the time. The mentioning won't be so good a little later on. Author says the modern flappers have no brains. The good-looking ones don't need them. Speed limit for automobiles in Sweeden is 22 miles an hour. Over here the speed limit depends on what kind of a car you have. Jeff Farnol says American girls are amazing; they are wonderful, and he praises their versatility. The remarkable thing about this is not what he says, for we all know that, but the fact that he is a foreign author. The thing that we shall always remember about George Harvey is that he was one American abroad who had enough fiddle strings to tell Europe where to alight in regard to what Europe owes the United States. YOU Can Have Money For Christmas Next Year YOU Can Have Money For Christmas Next Year It just seems to be a part of human nature for people to "go broke" if necessary buying Christmas presents. The spirit of love and goodwill cannot be denied—nor should it be. Everyone who has any sort of income can acquire a Christmas fund with scarcely any effort. Just deposit the trifling sums that would be spent to no advantage in a Christmas Savings Club account. Our 1924 Club is forming now. It is for everybody—men, women, and children. Come in and let us tell you what our other Club members have been doing—then you too will surely join. FIRST NATIONAL BANK AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK of Anaheim