oc-plain-dealer 1923-12-08

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher FLIGHT TO POLE PLAN OF NAVY AIRMEN The United States navy will undertake to reach the North Pole and to explore unknown regions thereabouts, by means of aircraft. The year 1924 is to witness a pretentious attempt to negotiate the Pole by air. Details are yet to be worked out. But authorization for the thrilling venture comes from President Coolidge, who expresses his belief that the projected polar flight "will be of great practical value." It gives one an assorted bunch of thrills to contemplate this polar air dash. It will be, for one thing, the first undertaking of the kind. It will be especially fitting, as President Coolidge points out, for the navy to pioneer the proposed polar flight, "as it fell to the navy to achieve the final goal, through the efforts of Admiral Peary." That the big venture will be pushed gallantly there is no doubt. There is therapeutic value in a good, hearty laugh. Merriment is a curative. Lightness of heart keeps heart failure away, in many cases. Christmas giving should not be perfunctory. With the giving should go the perfume and the atmosphere of cordial feeling and good will. If one does not really feel like giving, one should not give at all. California is mentioned in national politics now more often than Ohio or New York. SAVINGS SHOW GAINS OF HUGE VOLUME Savings accounts in the banks of the United States exceed $18,000,000. This amount increased more than one billion dollars in the year ending June 30, last. Savings constitute 52 per cent of all bank deposits in the United States. The spread of thrift, as a habit, in this country, is remarkable. The American people are rated as improvident. Despite this reputation, the volume of savings in this country is stupendous. Greater and greater is the growth of the saving habit. This encourages the owning of homes, the furnishing and beautification of humble home places. The moral effect of this practice of thrift is extremely salutary. It should be encouraged everywhere. The num- SAVINGS SHOW GAINS OF HUGE VOLUME Savings accounts in the banks of the United States exceed $18,000,000,000. This amount increased more than one billion dollars in the year ending June 30, last. Savings constitute 52 per cent of all bank deposits in the United States. The spread of thrift, as a habit, in this country, is remarkable. The American people are rated as improvident. Despite this reputation, the volume of savings in this country is stupendous. Greater and greater is the growth of the saving habit. This encourages the owning of homes, the furnishing and beautification of humble home places. The moral effect of this practice of thrift is extremely salutary. It should be encouraged everywhere. The number of persons opening savings accounts in banks is increasing. All this is gratifying and foreshadows better economic conditions. Several of the states are unfortunate in election of governors. Scandals affecting governors have been startlingly frequent, latterly. Which brings the thought that the people are not duly diligent in politics, else these mistakes would not be made. If the right kind of men are to be nominated and elected to oyice, the mass of upright, irreproachable citizenry must participate actively in conventions and elections and must support the best men and the best governmental policies. The home merchant should be the beneficiary of your Christmas shopping. You share in the benefits by buying at home. Europe is in a welter of trouble follicles. Militarism has entailed more wars upon that continent than any other plague. Travel Californiaward is heavy. It will be heavy well along into the winter, from all indications. They are coming, by the thousands, from choice. They would rather come to this state than to go elsewhere. This fact should be duly appreciated by Californians. These welcome visitors should be made to feel that their preference for this state is prized here. There well might be greater publicity for the scholastic achievements of students in colleges and universities. Much is read and heard about college athletics. Why not more about college scholarships? California is increasing in population at phenomenal rate. The 1930 federal census will show this state ranking high among the most populous commonwealths of the Nation. Do Your Xmas Shopping Early Ask The Southern County Bank Or F.P.RUSSELL Shopping Early Ask The Southern County Bank Or F. P. RUSSELL For Your $5.00 It Is-Yours For The Asking F. P. Russell Ford Salesman Valencia Hotel ANY EVENING OR SUNDAY 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 RES ot Sunday Publisher Plain Dealer SATUR Subscripti Entered a SURE, WE HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH EUROPE FRENCH LICK INDIANA AND- FRENCH LICK EUROPE FRANCE PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Woman; gentle, ministering; like the peace of God. She passeth understanding. Another advantage in being common is that you can eat in the kitchen, where it's warm. Ever since Si Smith was elected justice of the peace, he has been bragging about his humble origin. For that matter, we might be feeling an itch to save America if it were located across the Atlantic. When a man acts that way after a friendly slap on the back, you can't tell whether it's a boil or dignity. Friends are those persons who, when you die, use the money they owe you to buy flowers for the funeral. Another way to make time pass quickly for jail inmates would be to install taxi meters in the cells. The railroads now have two million employees, three of whom fail to look offended when you ask them a question. It won't surprise us if McAdoo is supported by his father-in-law. We know a lot of fellows who are in that fix. We liked the old-fashioned heroine whose sex was so appealing that the author didn't have to ABE MARTIN HOW SHOWING "KI DOO" THE BOT WONDER SAX ROODIGY AND USUAL BIG FILMS A NOVEL AS HER TRODEE Th' worst thing about bein' a parent is havin' a little tired child come home from school ever evenin' loaded down with algebraas, histories, French textbooks, an' writin' pads, an' believin' we know enough t' help it if we would. Ther's this about a failure—he hain't allus buttin' in with advice. SUNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMSON If you're examined Once each year, You won't find sickness Quite so doar. Competition By W. E. ALLEN (California Biological Feature Service) This morning a lone pelican began fishing operations a short distance from the pier at the La Jolla biological station. He had evidently found a satisfactory school of small fish which remained in that particular locality for several minutes. The fish were so little disturbed that he was able to make a dive and catch, swallow the victims in dignified leisure, and then with three or four strokes of his wings throw himself into good position for another catch. About three-fourths of his attempts seemed to be successful. Then a gull (pretty, but lazy and thievish) noticed the pelican's success, so she came and sat down by his head and tried with more or less success to steal the fish out of his beak and pouch. After every dive she was right there, pecking away at his catch. He tried now and then to escape her. No such luck. She could fly faster and she was determined to stick to her easy prospect. After a few dives, a cormorant became convinced that the field deserved investigation, so she came burrying over and plumped right into the midst of the school. Chasing the fish under water, she soon had them so frightened that the pelican no longer found profit in working. So, after a little sober reflection, he got up and left the locality. Meanwhile, a fishing boat had noticed that these were the only active birds in sight, so she came scurrying along and dropped her Another way to make time pass quickly for jail inmates would be to install taxi meters in the cells. The railroads now have two million employees, three of whom fail to look, offended when you ask them a question. It won't surprise us if McAdoo is supported by his father-in-law. We know a lot of fellows who are in that fix. We liked the old-fashioned heroine whose sex was so appealing that the author didn't have to talk about it much. Naughty things shock the pure in heart and bore the hard-bolled. Only the middle class gets that delightful thrill. Increase of divorces should surprise nobody. Among other things that can be opened with a can-opener, is an argument. No wonder the farmer looks tired. It must be a great effort to look woe-begone enough to justify the sympathy he gets. The woman who does her own washing has one consolation. She never has to sleep in a head harness to reduce the number of her chins. It's a funny civilization that kills off all the birds and then wonders bitterly why Providence afflicts it with insects. A prominent reformer has been arrested for speeding. Poor chap. He was scheduled to make a speech on lawlessness, and he was late. This year Mr. Ford will turn out his nine-millionth car. These, placed end to end, would reach almost from obscurity to the White House. The white-collar man struggling to make ends meet, must be greatly cheered when he reads Judge Gary's statement that prosperity will continue. Correct this sentence: "I often sit near people who read subtitles aloud," said he, "but I have never wished to slay a fellow-mortal." SUNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMSON If you're examined Once each year, You won't find sickness Quite so dear. You can't reach a round hundred on a lot of square meals. For there's vim and there's vigor in the crisp morning air. Mothers who can but won't nurse their babies shouldn't have babies. Artificial complexions and artificial infant feeding are ne'er healthy. When an illness has occurred, Do not doubt the doctor's word When he says, that all you need is— Keep away from where the feed is. Diseases of the kidney, in the beginning, give no evidence other than detected by examining the urine. NEW WRESTLING COACH STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., Dec. 8 — Vaughan Hosepin, inter-collegiate lightweight wrestling champion, has been appointed wrestling coach at Stanford for the coming year. Hoseplan, who graduated at Stanford last year, has been through three intercollegiate seasons without defeat, and this year expects to put his Cardinal mat team in the first rdnk. SATURDAY. DECEMBER EIGHTH. 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 QUILL PEN BECOMES A RELIC—Santa Ana Register The quill pen has fought its last battle against the steel and fountain pen—and lost. Philip Cooper of London, whose company used to ship as many as 3,000,000 quill pens at a time to the Indian government, announces that they've quit making quills. The Southwark county court in England has been the last stronghold of quill pens. The court clung to them as a matter of sentiment, a link with the olden days. But even this court recently discontinued quills and adopted fountain pens. So dies a quaint and ancient industry, mighty in its day. Can you imagine, the copyists at the county-recorder's office at work with quill pens? Such quill pens as will be made in the future will be the decorative kind that are parked in a jar of birdshot on milady's writing desk. Philip Cooper gives "no market" as the chief reason for going out of the quill manufacturing business. Another reason is that he no longer can find a workman who knows the art of making them. The craftsmanship involved in the making of quills was intricate and required a skill found in few trades. The art was handed down from father to son. As with beating out gold leaf, it was said that a quill penmaker was born—not made. The quill pen served many generations to whom it was the leading instrument of making records and writing letters. Its passing is symbolic of the fate of all man-made devices. The new and improved inevitably becomes the antiquated and obsolete. The fountain pen is "handler," but experts claim that the best grade of quill pen—made from a wild goose of Hudson bay—is the finest instrument for writing in the world. These top-notch quills sold in hundred lots for about 13c each—in the old days when 13c was considerable money. We wonder what will eventually put the fountain pens out of business. The fountain pen is "handler," but experts claim that the best grade of quill pen—made from a wild goose of Hudson bay—is the finest instrument for writing in the world. These top-notch quills sold in hundred lots for about 12¢ each—in the old days when 13¢ was considerable money. We wonder what will eventually put the fountain pens out of business. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT Not being an ambassador, George Harvey can now say what he likes. But we haven't noticed that being an ambassador ever cramped his style much. That heavy overcoat we bought in September is still eating its head off in the barn and getting no exercise. And then there is the six per cent on the investment and the depreciation and everything. A loaf of bread in Berlin now costs a trillion marks. The cashier in a bakery must be a lightning calculator unless customers are required to bring the right change. Pauley'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. EVANS GARAGE & SERVICE STATION 1600 West Lincoln Avenue ANAHEIM $10,000 Saved in Fifty Weeks $10,000 Saved in Fifty Weeks THAT'S THE TOTAL AMOUNT, INCLUDING INTEREST, THAT MEMBERS OF OUR 1923 CHRISTMAS CLUB SAVED; —AND NOW THESE SAME HAPPY MEMBERS ARE BUYING ALL THEIR CHRISTMAS GIFTS WITH THE MONEY THEY SAVED IN THE CLUB. DON'T ENVY THE ONE WHO RECEIVES A CHRISTMAS CHECK. YOU, TOO, CAN HAVE MORE MONEY. Our 1924 Christmas Savings Club Opens December 11 OPEN AN ACCOUNT IN THIS YEAR'S CLUB—SAVE A SMALL SUM EACH WEEK FOR 50 WEEKS, AND GET A CHRISTMAS CHECK NEXT DECEMBER. WE PAY 4 PER CENT ON CHRISTMAS CLUB ACCOUNTS FIRST NATIONAL BANK AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK of Anaheim