oc-plain-dealer 1923-12-14

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning, and goes to rest with us at night. It is co-extensive with the action of our intelligence. It is the shadow which cleaves to us, go where we will, and which only leaves us when we leave the light of life.—W. E. Gladstone. DISILLUSION GIRLS WHO ARE SCREEN-MAD Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge and other famous stars of the screen, are giving emphatic warnings, in public addresses and in writings, to girls who have ambitions to shine in pictures, to keep away from Hollywood, unless they have exceptional talent and some reasonable hope of getting a start. Great numbers of poor girls, in different parts of the country, having visions of stardom and imagining that the path of the prospective star in Hollywood is sfrewn with thornless roses, use their meager savings to travel to Hollywood. There they soon are sadly disillusioned. They find no opening, and find it impossible to live without money. Many of these girls become the victims of persons of evil designs. The warning should be heralded afar. Persons in no way connected with motion pictures well may join in warning girls who are related to them, or who are friends or acquaintances. There is much hardship, embarrassment, humiliation and danger to girls who flock to Hollywood with limited means and expect to land in pictures at once, with good pay. There are few openings there, and they are for girls of exceptional talent or beauty, or both. There are so many of these from whom to choose that even many of the talented and the beautiful cannot get engagements in pictures. Send the warning to young women and young men, too, to keep away from Hollywood, unless abundantly supplied with means, and not dependent upon the day's work for sustenance. Teach children to be constructive, not destructive. Teach them to be helpful builders, not heartless destroyers. See that no poor child goes toyless or dinnerless on Christmas. It is God's own work to give happiness to unfortunate little PUNISH SWINDLERS IN OIL STOCKS The federal government has made a good beginning in prosecuting oil stock frauds. The conviction and sentencing to prison of a man so prominent as Dr. Frederick A. Cook should have good moral effect. It shows that Uncle Sam is grimly determined to punish stock frauds without fear or favor. This policy on the part of the national department of justice should not be injurious to bona fide oil stocks and other securities which are honest and legitimate. There are many such. The intelligent person easily can discriminate. By exercising due care, the honest stocks can be identified and investments therein would be safe. But against all forms of fraud and misrepresentation in stocks the hand of the law should be set sternly and every honest firm and individual should co-operate to put these swindlers out of business. Newspapers can help greatly, too, by not accepting advertising from questionable stock-selling concerns. They are shedding blood again in civil strife down in Mexico. There is no valid excuse for this. There is no warrant for starting an armed insurrection down there. International Peace! How Obtainable? This vital subject is the greatest problem confronting world leaders today. If you are interested in world wide peace and order, don't fail to hear lecturer D. T. Kenyon, who will tell of the wonderful promises for world peace contained in the bible. Moose Hall, 135 W. Center Sunday, Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m. AUSPICES OF THE INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOC. 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An old-timer is one who can remember when Christmas was celebrated in honor of a birth at Bethlehem. "Poor!" she exclaimed. "Why, they haven't had the tonsils removed from a single one of their children." In their efforts to make men think fast, military institutes haven't devised any better scheme than the cafeteria. You may criticise a man's business methods, ancestors and wife, but never offer suggestions when he is driving the car. Just when we were ready to admit that there may not be a literal hell, along comes a crew that exploits disabled veterans. ABE MARTIN By th' time th' average father gives away th' bride he ha'int got nothin' else to give. If th' meek do ever inherit th' earth some one 'll git it away from 'em before they have it an hour. DINNER STORIES The opinion of generations which have disliked written speeches is reflected, declares Judge in a story told by an Atlanta man of an old colored woman who sat under a youthful minister who always read his sermons. "How is dat new minister of yonah's a-gittin' on?" some one per. One June morning his magnificent steam yacht, Dreamland, lay anchored in Hull Harbor. Her owner was pacing the deck lazily when a party of boys and girls out for a sail in a small fishing boat suddenly ran against his superb craft. One of the young women, feeling herself in a bathing suit quite incognito, shouted through a megaphone: "Hello, Tom! How's copper?" "First rate! How's brass?" was the quick retort. A strapping woman boarded a trolley car in Rye, New York, settled into a seat and paid her fare, according to Everybody's. The car had not traveled more than five blocks when she rose and rang up a cash fare. Whereupon the conductor strode up to her. "Madam," he demanded, "do you know that I must turn in every fare rung up upon that register?" "Certainly!" the woman replied, throwing open her coat and showing a badge. "Meet the new inspector." In their efforts to make men think fast, military institutes haven't devised any better scheme than the cafeteria. You may criticise a man's business methods, ancestors and wife, but never offer suggestions when he is driving the car. Just when we were ready to admit that there may not be a literal hell, along comes a crew that exploits disabled veterans. Diogenes used lantern light to demonstrate the absence of honest men. In our times moonshine is more effective. They can make horse races international, but the human race will remain provincial enough to maintain patriotism as a virtue. Another nice thing about being a nobody is that you can put your money in the bank, instead of using it to maintain your position. The age of discretion is that at which a man begins to use his head instead of his appetite in deciding what to wish on his stomach. If he doesn't believe in any of the old myths and superstitions, except that one about man being a superior animal, he is an intellectual. 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A few years ago, Mr. Lawson was considered a financial wizard, declares Judge. His special "copers" brought him such prosperity that he was called King Cop- Eclipse Service Station Cord Tires Sold on a Year's Guarantee in Writing Accessories—Eastern Oils Cars Greased Motors Drained Free Springs Graphited 1199 No. Los Angeles Street Between Anaheim & Fullerton on State Highway FRIDAY, DECEMBER FOURTEENTH, 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 STATISTICS ARE EVERYTHING According to the press agents, who have their fingers on the pulse of the theatergoing public, it takes a line like this to properly put over a "huge production". "This stupendous drama took eight months to film, three weeks to develop the exposures, and required 2900 rehearsals for the 702 scenes." "In the continuity department alone, 56 stenographers consumed 1800 packages of Digley's Permint during the writing of the script." "Eight camera men wore out 52 pairs of puttees on location." "Nine hundred and thirty carpenters used 237,663 2x4s in the construction of the sets. Also 87 painters, 109 jasters, 75 electricians and 47 army muleteers were employed for a period of 11 months." "Thirty-seven assistant directors used 238 jars of bandoline on their hair and 14 pairs of horn-rimmed specks were broken by the rush of the extras to face the camera." "Eighty-nine billion horsehairs were used in the making of false whiskers." "A cast of 14,000 with 45 principles." "The story is about an old man who lost his nickel."—Robert Waldron. There is no doubt that President Coolidge has his ear to the party call through force of habit. It will be remembered that, back in Northampton, he had a party phone in his house. CLOSED FOR ALTERATIONS The motion picture studios are closing. Producers say they can't make both ends meet. Gigantic cost of film extravaganzas Will have them selling pencils in the street. The salaries of actors are outrageous. The public has held that view all along. When a $30 actor gets a million, There's somebody who's figuring dead wrong. When doll-faced flappers rise to sudden stardom, Who can do almost anything but act, It isn't hard to tell what is the matter; The public knows punk art, and that's a fact. We don't live in the palmy days of Barnum. The suckers are some scarce, and that is sure. When producers pay their money for real talent, The motion picture profits will endure. The salaries of actors are outrageous. The public has held that view all along. When a $30 actor gets a million, There's somebody who's figuring dead wrong. When doll-faced flappers rise to sudden stardom, Who can do almost anything but act, It isn't hard to tell what is the matter; The public knows punk art, and that's a fact. We don't live in the palmy days of Barnum. The suckers are some scarce, and that is sure. When producers pay their money for real talent, The motion picture profits will endure. AND THE WEATHER IS CHILLY, TOO From the N. Y. Tribune: The bride-maids were dressed alike in orchid colored hats trimmed with lace, and carried boquets of orchids and lilies-of-the-valley. MARCEL'S DRAMATURGY Modern plays are too censored. The subject of a "flance" selecting his pajamas will not be passed. A mere planing of immorality which can only be done by hammering at an audience will not be tolerated. The audience should not be reminded of what they know. It must of course hold our attention and reward it. It must also appeal to our false pretenses, to feel that we are most assuredly not to see anything immoral, immodest and shameless in our future drama. An audience should leave the theater "en masse" at the sight of a bed on the stage. Plays which deal with the old subject, the triangle, will never be produced. Most of the audience feel uncomfortable when that subject is broached. The milk pail variety of drama will now triumph; but do not milk the cow on the stage. There is nothing to prevent our taking for granted all the happy symptoms that this future censorship is in earnest. We hope that it will be enforced as well as prohibition. Marcel Steinbrugge. WHO WANTS TO LIVE A THOUSAND YEARS? A distinguished scientist, in a lecture, has just told an equally distinguished audience that it will be entirely possible for men to live a thousand years. But he will not catch very many fish with that hail. Very few would wish to live that long even if they could. We have had our pet statistician figure out what would happen to the average man in 1,000 years, and it amounts to something like the following: There would be 12,000 rent days. There would be 4,000 payment days for the income tax. If an actor were a good actor he would play 563 parts. If a poor one, 5,000 parts. A man would spend 333 years in sleep, half of this in bed and the other half, or about 161 years, waiting for numbers in public telephone booths. He would have a chance to take part in ten wars and would spend a total of 112 years after these wars looking for jobs. He would attend 19,000 punk shows and 673 good ones. He would witness 764 crusades by professional paid reformers, but the world would wallow on in sin as per usual. He would witness the unreeling of 17,995,873 miles of motion picture film and at the end would not be able to remember the plot. He would accumulate 3,459 vacuum cleaners in various stages of repair and a large barnful of decrepit lawnmowers and discouraged baby cabs. He would be hit by 4,563 Fords. He would have 5,693 patent leadpenell sharpeners, 3,986 glass cutters, 45,892 keys of various sizes and shapes, without knowing what any of them were for. 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