oc-plain-dealer 1923-11-27

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS Not worlds on worlds, in phalanx deep, Need we to prove a God is here; The daisy, fresh from winter's sleep, Tells of His hand, in lines as clear. —John Mason Good. REBUILDING IN JAPAN ON VAST SCALE Japan is "cleared for action." Its rebuilding plans are sufficiently matured to foreshadow great activity in the immediate future. Home Minister Goto estimates that it will cost two billion yen to consummate present rebuilding plans. The effect of this very extensive reconstruction program will be quite salutary in the economic life of Japan. It will put money into general circulation in huge sums. It will provide profitable employment to great numbers. It will stimulate Japan's foreign trade and also will augment the volume of commerce between the United States and Japan. Vast quantities of building material will be purchased in this country. While the wounds of the great catastrophe will not be healed fully, yet the prompt rehabilitation of Japan largely will offset the economic loss. Japan's credit is good. The cost of rebuilding can be covered, in large measure, by foreign loans, should it be necessary for the Tokio government to seek outside financial aid. Europe is paying dearly for its orgies of militarism in the past. BUSINESS IN REALITY IS COLOSSAL Transactions in real estate, here in Southern California, for the last ten months, reached the huge total of more than $1,112,000,000. This shows an enormous gain in volume of realty business. Most gratifying of all is, that there is no boom in real estate. It is true that the volume of selling is super-normal. But it is not an unhealthy super-normality. Actual demand for new housing is super-normal, too. There is need of a vast deal of building construction BUSINESS IN REALITY IS COLOSSAL Transactions in real estate, here in Southern California, for the last ten months, reached the huge total of more than $1,112,000,000. This shows an enormous gain in volume of realty business. Most gratifying of all is, that there is no boom in real estate. It is true that the volume of selling is super-normal. But it is not an unhealthy super-normality. Actual demand for new housing is super-normal, too. There is need of a vast deal of building construction to meet the requirements of the people of this section. Population is growing fast and healthily. The greater percentage of this increase is permanent population. Families are coming here to live—many families from many states and sections. There are not enough houses to provide them with dwelling places. Hence it is imperative that more building be done. The tremendous volume of dealing in real estate in this section denotes abundant prosperity. It shows what superb faith Southern Californians—and many who come here—have in this section. The deeper the grief, the less expression that is given to it. DERIVE SATISFACTION FROM EDUCATION Contemplate education from the standpoint of personal satisfaction to the person who is educated. There is a keenness of delight in having knowledge and in seeking knowledge, which is beyond expression. Education, it may be said, is its own reward. It gratifies and happifies. It opens new realms to the cultivated mind. It entries one beyond the narrow confines of self and of locality and makes one a partaker of the thrilling knowledge of God’s universe. It broadens the horizon of mind and soul. It increases and intensifies one’s capacity to enjoy. It requires effort to acquire a real education. But it is effort well directed. It calls for constant studiousness, to be educated in the true sense of the term. But there is no greater delight to an acute mind than to be engaged in studious activities. Mental growth, mental advancement, gives profound joy to the normal person. Get education for the satisfaction it will give you, if for no other reason—Europe has begun to break outcues. From that there is but a step to the breaking of heads. 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 PARAGRAPHY (By Robert C.) 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 Adama BUSINESS OFFICE—18 Standard Bank Bldg. Phone 158 Franklin Howatt, Secretary WE SAVE YOU MONEY ON SHIPPING YOUR HOUSEHOLD GOODS Before shipping anywhere in the West or East — get in touch with the nearest Bekins office. We may be able to save you much time, worry and money. We cooperate with your local mover. Ask about our "pool" car shipping plan in which we ship your household goods together with others in a car, thus reducing freight rate. Write us for complete information. 1335 S. FIGUEROA ST. LOS ANGELES BEKINS FIREPROOF STORAGE Los Angeles San Francisco Oakland Fresno Another reason to prefer business cause the temperature isn't equal to that of Why not have pug of football coaches legs? Graduates can playing football. America remains European country has one dictator, and we every busy intersection Government has ailize the railroads for war, and it behooves to pick out a convenience It must be rather keep on loving the people when they persist their ballots for the Correct this sentence reading," she declared stop and look up don't understand." Don't wear winter your office when the registers 'summer ha For the answer to surgeon's scalpel. ES Sunday blisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer TUESDAY Subscription Entered at GETTING A LITTLE EARLY TRAINING I'D JUST LIKE TO TOSS THIS ROPE ON SOMETHING BIG! HI JOHNSON PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Out where nobody cares what anthracite costs, that's where the west begins. The man who isn't very sure pay gets well without so many calls from the doctor. States' rights have fallen so low that "The United States are" is no longer good grammar. "How can America help Germany?" How, indeed? We've bought our share of marks and police dogs. Nothing in the papers. Just a few more pedestrians slaughtered and a few more dictators appointed. There's small choice. In town you smell the exhaust of motors, and in the country it's a polecat. Things were even worse in the old days when diplomats could conceal their real motives behind their beards. When you see an American pointing at somebody else, he is telling who should make prohibition effective. Now is the time for every good wife to select the set of china she will give her husband for Christmas. Coffin linings cost more now. As a matter of economy, one should pay more attention to the brake linings. That cynic who says America ABE MARTIN WHO'S WHO IN THE DAY'S NEWS WILLIAM SQUIRRE KENYON William Squire Kenyon formerly U. S. senator from Iowa and now U. S. circuit court of appeals judge in his home state, is in a receptive mood regarding a return to the senate. At least this is the message Sen. Smith Brookhart, farm bloc Republican carried to Washington recently. "Under certain circumstances," according to Brookhart, Kenyon could be "induced" to run. Kenyon resigned his senate seat last year to accept the judgeship offered him by President Harding. The Iowa had served eleven years in the upper house when he stepped out. He entered the body April 12, 1911 for the first time, having been elected to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Jonothan P. Doiliver. Kenyon was re-elected Jan. 22, 1913 and again in 1918. Though claimed by Iowa as one of its notables Kenyon was born in Elyria, O., June 10, 1869. He was educated at Iowa college and at the law school of the University of Iowa. POEMS THAT LIVE HER NAME While I remember how you smiled To see me write your name upon The soft sea-sand—"O what a child! You think you're writing upon stone." I have since written what no tide DINNER STORIES Snoot Gulch, a metropolis of the great open spaces, had at one time supported a small church, Judge declares, but the population had slowly dwindled until it was impossible longer to collect enough money to pay the parson's salary. The parson, there- HER NAME While I remember how you smiled To see me write your name upon The soft sea-sand—"O what a child! You think you're writing upon stone." I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away; what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name again. —Walter Savage Landor ON A FLY DRINKING OUT OF HIS CUP Busy, curious, thirsty fly! Drink with me, and drink as I: Freely welcome to my cup, Could sthou sip and sip it up: Make the most of life you may, Life is short and wears away. Both alike are mine and thine, Hastening quick to their decline; Thine's a summer, mine's no more, Though repeated to threescore. Threescore summers, when they're gone, Will appear as short as one! Another reason why women prefer business careers is because the temperature of a desk isn't equal to that of a cookstove. Why not have pugilists instead of football coaches in our colleges? Graduates can't get rich playing football. America remains ahead. No European country has more than one dictator, and we have one at every busy intersection of streets. Government has a plan to mobilize the railroads for the next war, and it behooves the patriot to pick out a convenient shipyard. It must be rather difficult to keep on loving the common people when they persist in casting their ballots for the other fellow. Correct this sentence: "When reading," she declared, "I always stop and look up the words I don't understand." Don't wear winter clothing in your office when the thermometer registers 'summer heat.' For the answer to cancers, the surgeon's scalpel. DINNER STORIES Snoot Gulch, a metropolis of the great open spaces, had at one time supported a small church, Judge declares, but the population had slowly dwindled until it was impossible longer to collect enough money to pay the parson's salary. The parson, therefore, doffed the cloth and established a lunch-room near the station. One Sunday night a traveling man who regularly passed through Snoot Gulch dropped in at the lunch-room and ordered supper. After having waited for more than a half hour without being offered more than a glass of water, he called to the former parson. "Yes!" replied that gentleman. "I was just wondering, parson," said the traveling man, "if you had cut out the Sunday evening service." A gentleman who has a boy away at college was rather anxious to hear from him and complained as mail after mail arrived with no word, says Soldier (Kan.) Clipper. One day when he received a letter from the bank he smiled and said: "The boy is O. K. I have indirect word from him. The bank says the account is overdrawn." Lest he be considered dogmatic or unduly stern, the parson had a way of qualifying his pulpit utterances, reports Judge. "My brethren," he said, reaching the climax of his morning discourse, "if you do not repent, so to speak, and believe the Word, as it were, you'll be lost, in a measure." The summer's hot. The winter's hotter; She shut the house— Pneumonia got 'er. Arterial or atmospheric, a rising pressure denotes approaching storm. TUESDAY, NOV. TWENTY-SEVENTH, 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 FOLLY OF DISTRUSTING U. S. A.—Riverside (Cal.) Press An example of the folly of international hatred, fear and suspicion is found in some of the reports now coming from Japan. It is said upon reliable authority that when the first United States navy vessels steamed into the harbors of Tokio and Yokohama on their errands of relief and mercy, after the earthquake, some minor Japanese officials suspected them of coming to attack a stricken nation in its hour of panic and suffering. These fearful officials, it is reported, hampered somewhat the rescue work of the United States ships by ordering them out or refusing them permission to go on with relief activities. Fortunately the commanding admiral was wise enough to pigeonhole complaints and to do the needful work as quickly and efficiently as possible, ignoring matters which might have other circumstances. It is interesting further to read that high Japanese officials did not have this suspicious attitude, that they welcomed the American relief and that they did their best to pacify the timid petty officials. Japanese naval and cabinet officers expressed regret over every unpleasant incident and asked the American ambassador to inform them unofficially of such instances, leaving the misunderstandings. This is quite as encouraging as unfriendly attitude was discouraging. As time goes on the suspicion of private citizens and minor officials will be allayed. There should be better feeling between the American public and the Japanese public after this. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT THE INGREDIENTS To make a columnist, I find, It takes a lot of common sense; A dash of sparkling wit, combined With humor and experience; Philosophy, a goodly part, And skill at polished repartee, The art to handle satire's dart And all around ability; Ten parts of English "as she's spoke." Which every one feels sure to new; A knowledge of world-wide events Must be absorbed from day to day, Which, like old Omar making tents, Is woven into rhymes for pay; A few, a very few mistakes, And they, no doubt, a purpose serve— THE INGREDIENTS To make a columnist, I find, It takes a lot of common sense; A dash of sparkling wit, combined With humor and experience; Philosophy, a goodly part, And skill at polished repartee, The art to handle satire's dart And all around ability; Ten parts of English "as she's spoke." About the same of grammar, too, A brain to write a snappy joke Which every one feels sure to new; A knowledge of world-wide events Must be absorbed from day to day, Which, like old Omar making tents, Is woven into rhymes for pay; A few, a very few mistakes, And they, no doubt, a purpose serve— But what, the most of all, it takes Is just a monumental nerve! —C. T. Barr. The statesman who says that prohibition is still in its infancy in this country, probably means that it is still on the bottle. have a nickel how many people would be considering him as a presidential possibility. CONFESSIONS OF A CYNIC I don't believe every hard-working man is honest. As a matter of fact, some of the most dishonest men I ever knew were working at it all the time. I don't believe that the elimination of our navy is going to prevent any greedy foreign nation from walking in on us unannounced. I believe it is just as well to let some of the presidential impossibilities have their campaigns now and get them over before presidential year. I never tell anybody else how to conduct his private life, and I do not allow anybody to tell me how to conduct mine, if I can help it. I am against night banquets, not because they happen at night, but because they are banquets. I don't believe husbands are always to blame. I don't believe they are guilty more than 90 per cent of the time. I have never seen what the newspapers call a "blushing bride." Every bride I have ever seen has been about the same complexion as a bottle of milk. Concert and Dance Given by the Herman Sisters and Concordia Society For the Benefit of the German Children Thursday Evening November 29, 1923 At 8 O'clock Concordia Club, Anaheim Admission—Adults 50c; Children 25c November 29, 1923 At 8 O'clock Concordia Club, Anaheim Admission—Adults 50c; Children 25c TWO THOUSAND SIGNS TO DIRECT EASTERN MOTORISTS TO SOUTHLAND This year southwestward motor travel practically doubles that of past seasons! Nearly half a million, and more coming! Welcome to hospitable Southern California! Here are hundreds of fine roads, incomparable trips inviting selection—and the Automobile Club of Southern California is to erect 2000 additional signs on Eastern highways so that motorists may know just where to go, how to get here. There's nothing to tell them what kind of gasoline to buy, but the friendly advice of the old-timer is likely to be: "It's 'Red Crown' for the experienced motorist." You're not "taking a chance" with "Red Crown" in the tank—it has been the standard gasoline of the Pacific Coast for years. 100% power! Better mileage! True economy! Look for the Red Crown sign—sign of the dependable gasoline that's refined by the Standard Oil Company. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California)