oc-plain-dealer 1923-12-04

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS Life leans on Faith, and presseth hard! Faith cries to God, and only stands When, bearing Life upon her breast, She clasps God's hands. —Anonymous. QUALITY STUDENTS ARE SOUGHT MOST The mental quality of students is a foremost consideration with educators. Students are being selected for scholastic possibilities. Tests for mental alertness are coming into use. Colleges and universities are beginning the process of weeding out indolent, unprogressive students. Besides mental strength, educators are looking to the physical status of those seeking entrance into colleges or universities. The curriculum of an institution of higher learning is exacting. The average student, it is pointed out, attends classes three hours daily and in addition must give six hours to study. Some students must do outside work to help maintain themselves. It is evident, therefore, that they must be of sturdy physique to withstand the exactions of a collegiate career. It is not to be supposed, however, that students who are somewhat slow and backward in their studies should be rejected by institutions of higher education. Many of the slow plodders make really able and distinguished men and women and good scholars. The educational race is not to the brilliant alone. Nursing of malice discases one's disposition and reacts detrimentally upon one's character. Maliciousness is a vice of a virulent form. There is dignity in honest work, well and faithfully done, whether it be carrying brick and mortar, or whether it be designing a Panama Canal or drafting plans for a great edifice. CALIFORNIA ORANGES DESIRED IN EAST Southern California has a large yield of oranges. There is very active demand for this fruit in Eastern markets, according to prominent Southern California growers who have been through the great Nursing of malice diseases one's disposition and reacts detrimentally upon one's character. Maliciousness is a vice of a virulent form. There is dignity in honest work, well and faithfully done, whether it be carrying brick and mortar, or whether it be designing a Panama Canal or drafting plans for a great edifice. CALIFORNIA ORANGES DESIRED IN EAST Southern California has a large yield of oranges. There is very active demand for this fruit in Eastern markets, according to prominent Southern California growers who have been through the great buying centers. California fruit is preferred, they say, for its size and general excellence. California oranges are competing successfully with the Florida crop. The demand for this delicious fruit is so great that there probably will be ample market for both the California and the Florida crop at remunerative figures. The citrus industry, here in Southern California, has been built up to enormous volume. Co-operative marketing has been successful. While the industry has had reverses; while there is a constant struggle to overcome enemies to the citrus orchards, and while market conditions, at times, are unsatisfactory to growers, yet, on the whole, the industry is flourishing. It brings huge sums of new wealth into this section. California communities are graciously appreciative of their pioneers. They are reverenced and esteemed while they live and fitting respect is shown them when they cross over to the eternal world. President Coolidge is criticized for talking too little. Other Presidents have been criticised for talking too much. No President has pleased all the people all the time. It must ever be so, in a land of free and diverse thought and free speech. An Iowa boy has won the championship of his state and of Illinois in a corn-husking test. How many young men of today have husked corn? Some who are not so young as they once were recall with pleasure the days when they were cornhuskers on the old homestead. That kind of labor has made many a rugged constitution. It is human perversity that makes progress slow in religion, ethics and all that tends to uplift the race. If men lived as well as they know how to live, the millennium would come soon. It is this "if" that blocks the whole course of human progress. A great granite wall of human perversity dams the stream of wholesome advancement. 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 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 MOVIES DEPICT GLORY OF SOUTHLAND TO THE WORLD! In her ambitions for development, Southern California is reaping the phenomenal harvest of innumerable advertising assets, and the value of the motion picture industry, for one, can hardly be overestimated. What an appeal to come to Southern California — all our rich settings of rugged mountains, lovely lakes and seashore, cities of surpassing life and beauty — broadcasted to every theater in the Nation! When they come, as they do in droves and thousands, of course the big attraction is motoring. Then what about gasoline? Forty different kinds to choose from — ONE that Pacific Coast motorists have known for its quality for years. You don’t have to “take a chance”—with the Standard Oil Company’s “Red Crown” available everywhere. You know what you are getting: Quick starting, rapid pick-up, better mileage, and 100% power for the grades. Next time you’re ready to fill the tank — look for the “Red Crown” sign. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) TURES Except Sunday and Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer TU Subs Ente WHAT NEXT? THE HIGHJACKER THE BOOT LEGGER THE DRINKER PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Some men have an innate fear of the law, and some have a million dollars. A free people, apparently, is one that breaks its own laws instead of a monarch's. Experienced drivers are not noisy. It is the greenhorn that keeps tooting so much. Your conscience is the part of you that hurts when the time comes to pay the fiddler. Germany doesn't need the Ho-henzollerns. She can finish wrecking herself without any help. France will be glad to have Uncle Sam take part in Europe's affairs if he will take her part. You will note, however, that the "liberal spender" spends it all to show himself a good time. This would be a finer country if efforts to convert the heathen would begin where charity does. Hunting tigers in Africa may be a royal sport, but it doesn't compare with hunting delegates in America. When a man appears who does not break any law, men will listen patiently while he scolds them about breaking one. No vamp can beat your wife ABE MARTIN Who's goin' t' make th' sewer connections, an' do th' farmin' an' newspaper work, an' shovelin' after we're all educated? Hain't it grand t' receive a business lookin' letter an' wonder what your wife's been chargin', an' then tear it open an' find it's only an announcement? SUNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMSON Because we do not practice all we know about hygeinic housing, Little Talk On Thrift By S. W. STRAUS President American Society for Thrift If you would learn a lesson in the constructive values of thrift, study the lives of our Presidents. John Adams, taught school as a young man to obtain money for his education in the law; Zachary Taylor labored as a boy on his father's southern plantation and had practically no early educational advantages; Millard Fillmore worked as a village school teacher and borrowed the money to enable him to study law. The early struggles of Abraham Lincoln and the disadvantages under which he became one of the greatest men of all time, are known the world over. As a boy Lincoln "the rail-splitter," worked for ten years on his father's farm and it is said that all of his schooling amounted to only one year. Andrew Johnson came from a poor family in North Carolina and as a boy was apprenticed for ten years to a tailor during which time he taught himself to read and write. James A. Garfield had practically no educational advantages as a young man and was compelled to maintain himself early in life by the hardest of farm labor. At one period he earned his livelihood by driving a team of mules. You will note, however, that the "liberal spender" spends it all to show himself a good time. This would be a finer country if efforts to convert the heathen would begin where charity does. Hunting tigers in Africa may be a royal sport, but it doesn't compare with hunting delegates in America. When a man appears who does not break any law, men will listen patiently while he scolds them about breaking one. No vamp can beat your wife at the business of showing you a good time if you will spend as much money on your wife. The reason the world no longer believes in a "call" to preach, is because some preachers now get a decent living. When you hear a man talking bitterly about the rich, he means that at last he has given up hope of becoming wealthy. The boy of 16 gets his first great thrill when he climbs into the chair and the barber says: "Shave, sir?" Another obstacle to everlasting peace is the fact that history is little more than the story of successful butchers. Another thing that makes the French attitude seem unreasonable to us is the fact that Germany isn't our next door neighbor. A prune now costs the German ten million marks. If memory serves, there was another prune who cost him almost all he had. That Arkansas politician who was refused admission to a hotel was prepared for some such eventuality. He had his bunk along with him. Correct this sentence: "If you think it ought to be pulled, Doc," agreed the man cheerfully, "just go ahead and pull it." SUNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMSON Because we do not practice all we know about hygienic housing, communicable respiratory diseases are more prevalent in the winter than during the summer. An ounce of ventilation beats a pound of vitiation. Group in the night that Persists through the day, Often means danger, Don't treatment delay. Off' the cancer takes a life because the patient dreads the knife. Just as a general proposition, the man who registers his bird dog doesn't his baby's birth. Now, there was the case of McQueen, Whose pressure was two seventeen, He ate, so they say, Four dinners a day, And lunches, galore, in between. Many of us maintain a degree of heat in our winter quarters that we would not tolerate in our summer quarters. Children susceptible to diptheria will give a "positive" Shick test. The administration of "toxin-anti-toxin" will, in these cases, save time and a doctor bill. Spraying the nose with irritating antiseptics to prevent "flu" is folly. Shick positive children are susceptible to diptheria and should be immunized. TUESDAY, DECEMBER FOURTH, 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. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT MARY AND HER LITTLE LAMB (As Alfred W. McCaun Would Write It) Mary doubtless was a dutiful and wholesome young woman. I am not interested in Mary so much as I am interested in the lamb. When one speaks of lamb or any other sort of meat broadcasted by packing houses, I am immediately intrigued. The tragedy to me in the story of Mary and the lamb is that the lamb doubtless was destined for the abattoir, later to be retaild at the corner butcher shop. Therefore, we can dismiss Mary from our consideration. Her part in the tragedy is negligent. It is the lamb who is the star. For many years I have fought for better lamb, and I do not believe I have fought in vain. The question is, In what condition did Mary's lamb finally reach the consumer? I have seen lamb, as well as beef and mutton, come from stockyards in a deplorable condition, and the price of lamb chops continues to rise year after year, although the grade of meat is often inferior. Mary may have been a bleached blonde. I do not know, and I do not care. I am an expert in bleached flour only. I would have given a good deal to have been able to examine Mary's lamb after it had been killed and made ready for market. Its life story to me was dull and prosaic. Its post mortem might have revealed another meat scandal. Next installment: "Mary and Her Little Lamb," as Zoe Beckley would write it. An economist says there is a fortune in waste paper. But that is hardly true of German marks. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes expects to put the liquor problem on the screen, probably hoping for a quick fadeout. FACTS ABOUT YOUR OWN COUNTRY A great many people go to Denver for their health, but the hotel-keepers are not there for theirs. There is a popular fallacy that the Mississippi River runs north and south but the fact is that it runs only in one direction. The Puritans were a long-legged people or they would never have been able to step from the Mayflower onto Plymouth Rock, which sets a mile back from the coast. A mechanical engineer has figured it out that it would be much easier to jump off the Washington Monument than to jump over it. This country has not been without an "Oldest Odd Fellow" in the past two hundred and twenty-seven years. It is possible to throw a silver dollar across the Rio Grande River into Mexico, but you would never get it back. A great many people go to Denver for their health, but the hotel-keepers are not there for theirs. There is a popular fallacy that the Mississippi River runs north and south but the fact is that it runs only in one direction. The Puritans were a long-legged people or they would never have been able to step from the Mayflower onto Plymouth Rock, which sets a mile back from the coast. A mechanical engineer has figured it out that it would be much easier to jump off the Washington Monument than to jump over it. This country has not been without an "Oldest Odd Fellow" in the past two hundred and twenty-seven years. It is possible to throw a silver dollar across the Rio Grande River into Mexico, but you would never get it back. Country's death rate was lower in 1921 and 1922 than ever before. Probably, that is because many former pedestrians are now driving automobiles. No man is considered an artist until he can go into an Italian restaurant and eat spaghetti without a dustpan. MARCELLETTE Once upon a time there was a man, and his wife called him a fool, an idiot and a buffoon. He divorced her and married another woman. The second wife called him an idiot, a buffoon and a fool. He divpreed her and married another woman. The third wife called him a buffoon, a fool and an idiot. Granting that every husband is a fool to his wife, was this man really a fool?—Marcel Steinbrugge. A scientist now tells us that whales suffer from rheumatism. We feel sorry about this, but we don't know what to do to help them. They will insist upon staying out in the damp so much. The last quill pen factory in the world has given up the ghost, and no more will be made. The stenographers' union is already making itself felt. As somebody has said, no matter what happens to Greece, the Greeks will always shine. DOEMS THAT LIVE A GARDEN Here in this sequester's close Bloom the hyacinth and rose, Here beside the modest stock Fluants the flaring hollyhock; Here, without a pang one sees Ranks, conditions and degrees. All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting place; Peach and apricot and fig Here will ripen and grow big; Here is store and overplus,—More had not Alcinous! Here in alleys cool and green, Par ahead the thrush is seen; Here along the southern wall Keeps the bee his festival; All is quiet else—afer Sounds of toil and turmoil are. Here be shadows large and long, Here be spaces meet for song; Grant, O garden-god, that I, Now that none profane are nigh— Now that mood and moment please— Something to Remember Real Good Gravy Don't forget that the secret of making real, good gravy is KITCHEN BOUQUET. Purely a vegetable product, it makes real, good gravy of any gravy stock, bringing out its full flavor and giving it a deep, rich brown color. Add a tablespoonful just before taking off the stove. Don't forget KITCHEN BOUQUET, use it often—probably you have it in your pantry, if not, ask your grocer for it. Here along the southern wall Keeps the bee his festival; All is quiet else—afar Sounds of toil and turmoil are. 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