oc-plain-dealer 1923-12-06

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS I pray for strength, O God! To bear all loads that on my shoulders press Of Thy directing or Thy chastening rod, Lest from their growing stress My spirit sink in utter helplessness. —William C. Richards POPULATION A MILLION, LOS ANGELES CLAIM The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, which is not classed as a "shrinking violet" in the matter of boostful asservations as to the population, attractions, advantages and merits of the great city over the way, claims that Los Angeles has attained a population of 1,000,000. While this claim may be somewhat exuberant and, as Mark Twain remarked on the premature report of his death, "slightly exaggerated," yet Los Angeles, close observers will agree, must be very near the 1,000,000 mark in population. Its growth has been and is phenomenal. It is the center of the most remarkable building activity in the whole country. It has attracted to it eastern capital in immense sums. This is cumulative—the more outside willing and eager to come. Investors are somewhat like sheep—they follow the leader. Much credit, too, is due "home folks" in promoting the wonderful growth of Los Angeles. Pause at every crossing. It may save your life. Thirty seconds halting may add thirty years to your earthly existence. SAFETY DEVICE IN MINE SAVES MANY LIVES The utmost attention should be given to safeguarding lives in mines. In every state in the Union, in every kind of mine, the safe-guarding of those at work beneath the ground should receive the careful attention of the constituted authorities. Pause at every crossing. It may save your life. Thirty seconds halting may add thirty years to your earthly existence. SAFETY DEVICE IN MINE SAVES MANY LIVES The utmost attention should be given to safeguarding lives in mines. In every state in the Union, in every kind of mine, the safeguarding of those at work beneath the ground should receive the careful attention of the constituted authorities. Mining, at best, is a hazardous occupation. The miner takes his life in hand whenever he goes to work. This should be remembered, at all times, by those who have it in their power to make mine working safe. "Barrier pillars" in a mine shaft in Illinois saved hundreds of lives, according to news reports. This device shuts off dangerous gas and prevents its spread into rooms where miners are at work. The success at this prevention should commend it for adoption in mines everywhere. Why say a "bad" cold? Was there ever a good one? AIR SERVICE HAS VAST POSSIBILITIES The United States must bestir itself in aerial development, or be outdistanced by Great Britain, France and other countries which sense the possibilities of enormous carrying trade in the air. An announcement comes that Britain contemplates very extensive aerial expansion, including service to India and Australia, possibly to be extended, ultimately, around the world. The United States, with its stupendous wealth, resources and spirit of enterprise and daring in great things, should not be distanced in this development of aerial transport. This country is so vast, in territorial extent, and its productions and interests are so enormous, that there is an almost limitless field here to develop a domestic air service. Then there is the promising field of Mexico, Central America and South America to the south, as well as Canada to the north. And ultimately, trans-oceanic aerial service. There is wonderful prospect for the United States in this prodigious advancement which is sure to come in aerial equipment and service. Let the farmer diversify his crops and let him not sow any seeds of weediam; and his lot will improve. Christmas shopping will not be so comfortable one week before Christmas as it is now. Display the Flag in every schoolroom and school auditorium in the state. Let it be a familiar sight to pupils. Let it be shown respect at all times. A New Brunswick THE ROYAL A New Brunswick THE ROYAL Gulbransen The Registering Piano Baldwin Pianos $115.00 Easy Terms Anaheim Music Co. Schmidt, Dunham & Knipe NEXT TO CALIFORNIA THEATRE 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 IT BEGINS TO LOOK LIKE THE BOYS MEAN BUSINESS WE OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO SAW A LOT OF WOOD THIS WINTER I CALCULATE WE CAN KEEP THE SAW FROM GETTING COOL COOLIDGE 68TH CONGRESS MELLON PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Assistant to the president: One who does the work during the golf weather. If Iceland really wants Prohibition, we have a lot of it that isn't being used. The great need of the wheat farmer at present is fewer experts and more exports. Conservation is the business of saving natural resources the other fellow is exploiting. The club car has every convenience except some way to gag the man who tells that kind of stories. A republic is a land in which people endure tyranny without complaint because they know they are free. Our guess is that the more Mr. Ford learns about political rings, the closer he will stick to piston rings. As the reactionary sees it, Hi Johnson means that the party must take him to save itself from something worse. French occupation of Germany is just an incident, after all. The English once owned France, you will remember. The question is not whether taxes can be reduced, but whe ABE MARTIN Little Talk On Thrift By S. W. STRAUS, President American Society for Thrift In round numbers there are thirty million savings bank depositors in the United States today whose deposits amount to more than $17,000,000,000. Ten years ago the savings accounts in banks and trust companies numbered 12,000,000 and amounted to $8,000,000,000. Perhaps the most significant feature of these figures, compiled by the savings bank division of the American Bankers Association, is the increase of 141 per cent in the number of savings accounts. They mean that in 1912 one out of every eight persons in the United States, so to speak, was the possessor of a savings bank account. Today one person out of four has money in a savings bank. Thus we are able to see in concrete form some of the values of the campaigns of thrift education that have been in operation in this country during the last ten years or more. Among children the progress has been even more rapid. Ten years ago the schools savings banks of the country were practically a negligible quantity. Today 2,000,000 school children have school savings bank deposits Our guess is that the more Mr. Ford learns about political rings, the closer he will stick to piston rings. As the reactionary sees it, Hi Johnson means that the party must take him to save itself from something worse. French occupation of Germany is just an incident, after all. The English once owned France, you will remember. The question is not whether taxes can be reduced, but whether reducing them will get more votes than granting a bonus. If a man thinks it bad form to press France for payment, you needn't ask him whether he pays income tax. He doesn't. Still, that Arkansas man who gave his mother-in-law the air at midnight may have been told by his wife to put the cat out. When little Willie becomes naturally good at this season, you can't tell whether he is thinking of Heaven or Santa Claus. A correspondent asks whether the world is growing worse. Well in 1902 there were 436,756 fewer saxophones in use than at present. Scientists have found a petrified skull. The strange part is that they found it in Central America instead of an information bureau. Department of Justice investigations are very annoying. They give the graft away, and then competition cuts the profits tremendously. Correct this sentence: "John, dear," said the wife, after they had been married ten years, "you shouldn't keep on buying roses for me." Cancer and the so-called "degenerative diseases"—those due to faulty living—are increasing yearly. Due to better living conditions, the communicable diseases, on the other hand, are decreasing yearly. EVERY sensible driver knows that a skidding car is an extreme peril. That's why so many sensible drivers see to it that their cars have the benefit of the powerful, slippery, non-skid traction of the Goodyear All-Weather Tread. That famous tread is your best insurance of safe, efficient and economical tire performance. As Goodyear Service Station Dealers we sell and recommend the new Goodyear Cards with the Simplified All-Weather Tread and back them up with standard Goodyear Service JAMES, THE VULCANIZER, 223 N. Los Angeles St. GOOD YEAR *Los Angeles Made for Western Trade* NEURALGIA or headache—rub the forehead—melt and inhale the vapors VICKS VAPORUB Over 17 Million Jars Used Yearly THURSDAY, DECEMBER 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 HOUSEKEEPING "LEARNED PROFESSION"—Berkeley Gazette Newspaper men were greatly edified a year or so ago by a decision of the federal immigration bureau to the effect that their calling was a "learned profession." Now it appears that the housekeeper also is by way of being a scholar. A statement from the executive secretary of the Homemakers' National Guild says: "When homemaking is recognized as a learned profession the schools will be proud to accept it as a fundamental principle in the development of all education. Homemakers make the schools, and the teachings of the schools can never rise higher than their source. "All homemakers intuitively conduct their homes on the fundamental principle of life and growth. If that were not true, there would be nothing left of human life in a few years." Not a doubt of it in the world! And it isn't only in fundamentals that the good housekeeper or homekeeper is sound. She is just as everlastingly right and erudite in details. She has this superiority, too, over other learned professions. Most of the others are scholarly in only one thing. The good homemaker has to know at least a dozen different brands of learning very thoroughly, and not only to know them with her head but to be able to apply them with her hands. Sooner or later we shall have colleges conferring degrees of M. H. and D. H., meaning "Mistress of Homemaking" and "Doctors of Housekeeping." ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT TO LOVE OR NOT TO LOVE To love or not to love, that is the question. Whether t's wiser to be a bachelor And thus enjoy a life of freedom well. Without a spouse to wait for thee at dawn. And give thee bruises with a Grecian vase— Ah, there's the rub! Or rather to hitch oneself to a naive creature And approach the altar with weak, shaking limbs. And lease a cottage with a vine of roses. A phonograph and noisy pianola. Some kettles, pots and pans and a bawling brat? That is the question. Settle it if you can. —Frederick Schenk Schlesinger. It's better to send him by freight. It must be in a tin or glass. TO LOVE OR NOT TO LOVE To love or not to love, that is the question. Whether it’s wiser to be a bachelor And thus enjoy a life of freedom well, Without a spouse to wait for thee at dawn And give thee bruises with a Grecian vase— Ah, there’s the rub! Or rather to hitch oneself to a naive creature And approach the altar with weak, shaking limbs. And lease a cottage with a vine of roses, A phonograph and noisy pianola. Some kettles, pots and pans and a bawling brat? That is the question. Settle it if you can. —Frederick Schenk Schlesinger. It’s better to send him by freight. It must be in a tin or glass. Some astute economists seek to make us feel chummy toward our own income tax here in America by telling us how much worse it is in Europe. We have their word for it that in Soviet Russia a man who earns $120 a month salary must pay the government 80 per cent of it. German subjects in 1923 are still paying their 1921 taxes. Germans have to pay from 10 to 60 per cent income tax. Prussia has raised her tax from 66 per cent to 75 per cent. In Great Britain a man with an income of $1,250 pays $56. From this there is a sliding scale upward, so that the man with an income of $20,000 pays $5,500. The low salaried man in England pays five times as much income tax as his American cousin. In France a married man with two dependents pays $28 more on an income of $5,000 than an American. But, after all is said an done, it was their war, not ours, and they should expect to pay for their wars. We have always had to pay well for ours. Making us pay for one of theirs is what grinds. ANOTHER LIVELY DEAD ONE The dead man ran nearly a half-mile in an endeavor to reach his home on the outskirts of Sturgis but the pursuit overtook him. The dead man then fought courageously, although stabbed in several places by that time—Sturgis Democrat. THEN SOMERBODY SHOT THE MAKE-UP MAN From a Wisconsin Weekly The Red Cross concert given last night by sixteen of our beautiful young ladies was highly appreciated. They sang in a charming manner, winning the plaudits of the audience, who pronounced them the finest group of short horns in the county. A few of them were rich brown in color, but the majority were spotted red and white. Several of the helfers are fine bodied, tight-limbed animals and promise to prove good property. Acme Cleaners Are Not Cheap Cleaners The quality of their work is the very best yet their prices are low. ACME CLEANERS & DYERS 920 N. L. A. St. Phone 48 920 N. L. A. St. Phone 48 Lauley's EUREKA GASOLINE None Better Always Uniform FREE! FRIDAY AND SATURDAY December 7 and 8 One Quart of Eastern Oil with Each Purchase of Five Gallons of EUREKA GASOLINE R. T. 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