oc-plain-dealer 1923-12-20

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS “How shall I work today?” O soul of mine! Today stands on her threshold, girt to lead Thy feet to life immortal; strive with fear; Deep pitfalls strew the way; take heed; take heed! —Augusta Moore MURDERS FRIGHTFULLY COMMON Homicides are frightfully common throughout the United States. Murders by the thousands are committed in this country annually. The number of capital crimes steadily increases. Many murders are committed in cold blood, without any extinguating circumstances. Many homicides are by mere youths. This disregard of the preciousness of human life has become a menace to the nation. It must be combatted, systematically and effectually, or it will become more and more of a stigma and more and more of a peril. Sufficient stress is not given moral training of children, in the home and in school. Not enough is said about the abhorrence of murder. Children should be taught to respect and to protect human life. They should be taught to look upon murder as a crime superlatively horrible. Systematic, persistent moral training should go far toward counteracting “crime waves” and murder deluges. The “bloc” in Congress is blocking legislation. The serviceability of this is open to question. AUTO DEATH RATE HIGH IN CALIFORNIA California leads all the states in some things for which it has every reason to be proud. But there is one distinction which this state has for which it has no reason to be proud. It is well to emphasize this distinction, so that Californians may be impelled to work for reforms that will take this state’s name off the dark list. California has the highest rate of killings by automobiles of any of the 37 states in the census registration area of the United States. The rate of automobile deaths in this state is 26 per 100. AUTO DEATH RATE HIGH IN CALIFORNIA California leads all the states in some things for which it has every reason to be proud. But there is one distinction which this state has for which it has no reason to be proud. It is well to emphasize this distinction, so that Californians may be impelled to work for reforms that will take this state's name off the dark list. California has the highest rate of killings by automobiles of any of the 37 states in the census registration area of the United States. The rate of automobile deaths in this state is 26 per 100,000 of population. Los Angeles leads all the 67 cities reporting having a rate of 29.5 per 100,000. This denotes a situation startling enough. The sooner Californians face this problem in all its gravity, the better. Much of this startling loss of life is preventable. The same is true of the 11,665 automobile killings last year in the census registration area, composing 85 per cent of the territorial area of the United States. There is far too much criminal carelessness in driving, in this state and in other states. There are too many incompetent persons holding driver's license. There is far too much violating or evading of safety laws and ordinances. President Coolidge has spoken and his countrymen and the world are assessing him, in the light of his message. The "clean sweep" in politics is in order, now that women are participating actively in matters political. The multiplication of suicides is an indictment of this age. It is too strenuous. There are too many complexities. Life is too intricate. "From Contented Cows" CHALLENGE BUTTER TO Contented Customers holiday Excursions Between stations in CALIFORNIA NEVADA and UTAH Tickets on sale December 21-22-23-24-25 29-30-31 and January 1 FINAL RETURN LIMIT JANUARY 7th See nearest agent for fares and particulars Union Pacific C. J. ROWE, Agent RES Sunday publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer THURSDAY Subscription Entered at THE SYMPHONY DUET COOLIDGES' TAX REDUCTION PROGRAM REPUBLICAN VOTER DEMOCRATIC VOTER PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) A married man can always tell a bachelor—but he can't make him believe it. It isn't neutrality at all unless it is absolute, and then it is indifference. France is entitled to her pound of flesh, of course, but she mustn't spill any beans. Another good way to turn brass into gold is to ask your friends to sign notes for you. A pessimist is a man to whom the holiday season doesn't mean much of anything except indigestion. A republic is a land in which statesmen wonder anxiously, every four years, what the people want. The dove appears to be loafing on the job. But wars may be ended by persuading the stork to loaf on the job. "Colleges furnish the raw material of which our leaders are made." Probably means raw-raw material. Realist: A writer who has some facility at the business of making harmless things seem pornographic. Taking no thought of the morrow is sound doctrine, but it is ABE MARTIN Wise is he who never uses Messy salves on cuts and bruises; For protection, friend of mine, Just apply some lodine. When a mosquito has bitten you, you have been stung by a blood-thirsty woman. The male members of the mosquito family are compelled to seek sustenance from succulent grasses. We'd never hear o' most colleges if it wuzn' fer football. When it comes t' relievin' th' farmer, nothin' 'll ever take th' place o' th' ole-time lightnin' rod agent. SUNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMSON I like the doctor With a smiling face, Who calls me a patient And not a case. Cease work and cease diving. Elgin Select your Christmas waits liable timekeepers. Your g the Jewel Box. The dove appears to be loafing on the job. Dut wars may be ended by persuading the stork to loaf on the job. "Colleges furnish the raw material of which our leaders are made." Probably means raw-raw material. Realist: A writer who has some facility at the business of making harmless things seem pornographic. Taking no thought of the morrow is sound doctrine, but it is hard on the establishments where you have charge accounts. Perhaps it is good economy to chase the rum fleet. The navy can save the expense of going south for target practice. Our guess is that a diet of humble pie will become general on the Continent. The menu will be in French, of course. Virtue may be its own reward, but the boil weevil ate the cotton crop and the rye crop came through without ablemish. Fable: Once there was a man who was invited out with his wife, and left home expecting to have a good time. That philosopher who says no new crime has been invented in a thousand years hasn't heard many of the new popular songs. Still woman's intuition is little better than man's reason when it faces the task of making selections in a cafeteria. And so it is unlucky to get married on Christmas day. In other particulars, however, the day differs from the other 364. A prominent radical says what this country needs is a shaking up. Why not eschew these generalities and come out boldly for Henry? Correct this sentence: "Oh Mamma," wailed Willie from his upstairs bedroom, "you forgot my castor oil." SUNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMSON I like the doctor With a smiling face, Who calls me a patient And not a case. Cease work and cease living. Sickness is a community expense, death a community loss. A little fresh air and a little learning are dangerous things. The Secret of Good Baked Beans KITCHEN BOUQUET does for baked beans what it does for gravies—greatly adds to their flavor and improves their color. In Boston, where the preparation of all kinds of beans has reached a perfection that is the despair of all other sections, KITCHEN BOUQUET is most liberally used. Preparing for the oven, add a tablespoonful to a quart of beans. Prepare your beans the Boston way. KITCHEN BOUQUET THURSDAY, DECEMBER TWENTY, 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 MALE TEACHERS SCARCE—Santa Barbara News Pasadena has just added three men to the teaching force of the city schools and with the announcement is the statement that these men were secured with great difficulty, as there are few men teachers available. The teaching profession all over the country, which formerly was largely made up of men, has fallen almost entirely into the hands of women. There is little to indicate an immediate change in this condition, as the proportion of women to men in practically all the teachers' colleges is about in the ratio of ten women teachers to one man. There was a time when the low salaries paid to teachers turned men away from the schools. They could do much better in other lines financially. But with the increase in salaries of school teachers during the past few years, this situation has changed. The school principals receive high salaries, while the salaries of the teachers generally, both for men and women, are fully equal to those paid in the business world, particularly when it is recalled that the teachers in most places work only ten months each year and are required to be at their desks only five days each week. It is an economic principle that demand brings supply. If the demand for men teachers is as urgent as the school authorities of Pasadena indicate, there ought to be an increase soon in the available number of men teachers. From the universities a constant stream of young men trained in the various special branches of science as well as in English and mathematics is going out. It would seem that this source ought to furnish the material for the schools. Surely the openings for such men, if they are thoroughly equipped for their work, are numerous in every part of the state. Instead of flocking into overcrowded professions or seeking jobs at comparatively small pay in big corporations, it would seem that these young men with fresh sheepskins would do well to look into the school department of the state. The Swedish royal ballet, she ban arrive in these United States. The Swedish anchovy movements will come as a relief from the long run of Russian caviar dances. 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