oc-plain-dealer 1923-12-27

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS “Hold Thou me up!” is still my cry, As o’er the rugged road Of this, my pilgrimage, I move, That leads me nearer God. —Horatius Bonar RESPECT FOR LAW BASE OF SECURITY One of the staunchest supporters of law and eloquent pleaders for its respectful observance is Federal Judge Bledsoe. Far above petty considerations and local frictions, Judge Bledsoe places the vital need of respect for the law on the part of the masses. In a recent pulpit deliverance in Los Angeles, Judge Bledsoe quoted this sentiment from the Attorney General of the United States: “This government will endure on the rock of law enforcement or it will perish in the quicksands of lawlessness.” Laws can be changed, but they cannot properly be disregarded, evaded, violated. The people have it in their power to amend or to repeal any law on the statute books. But while the law is on the books, unrepealed or unamended, there is no warrant for its evasion or violation or for disrespectful usage of the law. There is very serious danger—very menacing influence in the practice which is becoming all too common among persons of responsibility and standing in the community to flout laws which irk them—to set the example of disrespect for law. This wields a poisonous influence upon many who are less responsible. Regard for law—obedience to law—should be the unalterable course of each and every good citizen. When laws are found to be defective, or inequitable, the people have their redress—through legislative or referendum channels, to repeal or to amend. Keep the screen free from moral pollution. There is infinite field for clean, uplifting, refining films. There is no excuse for the filming of salacious, suggestive scenes. NEW FACES FOR OLD, IN CONGRESS NOW In Washington they are sighing over the going of oldtime members of Congress. Many eminent men have gone, called by death, or relegated by defeat at the polls. Faces and names that were familiar to the Nation and to the world, are gone. New faces are in the Sixty-eighth Congress—many new faces. The person who, a few years ago, might have visited the Senate or the House gallery and easily have recognized a score or more of the members because of their eminence, would be stumped today in trying to recognize more than a bare half dozen members of either house. It is pathetic, in a way. Those who watch the vicissitudes of public life—who keep conversant with public men and public affairs—are swept by waves of sentimental regret, at times, in noting the passing of picturesque statesmen—many of them lovable. But all things are transitory. It is the order of the universe. In a free land like this, where democracy holds sway, tenure of office oftentimes is brief. Sometimes the greatest of statesmen fall under the tidal waves of electoral disapprobation. And sometimes those who are defeated in one election, come back triumphantly in some subsequent election. It is a fascinating study, to follow the course of public opinion in these things. There is no excuse for reckless driving. There should be no policy or influence that would shield the careless or let him go scot free. CHILD LABOR IS MARKED FOR ABOLISHMENT That a child-labor amendment to the United States Constitution will be proposed erelong, there is good reason to believe. Sentiment is strong for this. In many states, in mines and factories, and on farms, children of tender years are worked long hours, under conditions which stunt their physical beings and retard their mental development and vitiate them, morally. These things should be corrected. It seems to be impossible for Congress to enact a general law against child labor that will withstand the test of validity before the United States Supreme Court. The remedy, therefore, lies in a Constitutional amendment. The people undoubtedly would ratify an amendment of this nature overwhelmingly. It is to be hoped that this measure will be brought forth, either from Congressional action, or by initiation of the states. The people should have opportunity, in the near future, of registering their convictions on a proposed child-labor amendment. WHO WILL WIN THE $10,000? The giant strides of Southern California population, business and especially motor traffic have raised some vital questions. Ten thousand dollars have been offered by the city of Los Angeles to the genius who can tell her what to do with all her fine cars—in short: solve that city's traffic problem. We don't offer a solution — but here's a suggestion for motorists everywhere: Be careful in your choice of gasoline. In the busy streets of the Southland, for example, "Red Crown" provides a quick, sure pick-up — your car gets away promptly at the signal to "go." And on the long, stiff grades of the hill there's no dropping back into "second" or "low" because of poor gasoline. For years "Red Crown" has established a dependable standard for the quality of gasoline refined and marketed on the Pacific Coast. Forty brands, or more, to choose from. ONE you can be sure of. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) TURES Except Sunday and Publisher Plain Dealer RECIPROCITY I'll see if I can catch a few of Cal's cod fish! DELEGATES MASS. I'll just help my self to some of Hiram's fruit! PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Usually, a tip is just a little expenditure you make to preserve your self-respect. A winter resort is a place where people talk about prices, fashions and symptoms. The quality of mercy isn't inherent. You learn to sympathize with asses by making an ass of yourself. The chief objection to a man who brags about his "open mind" is that his mouth gets the habit also. If he spends money on her before marriage, he calls that love; if he spends money on her afterward, he calls that generosity. Fortunes are not built in a day. You must save the nickels and dimes until you have enough to buy a good sucker list. The reason the pioneers were hardy was because they didn't sit down to a dish of cereal and a vase of flowers and call it breakfast. The reason war endures is because it is glorious to charge the enemy and easy to charge the bill to posterity. As we get better acquainted with the "oppressed" of other ABE MARTIN We like t gib Christmas cards, for if we jest feel sure our friends are thinkin' of us we'll gladly buy our own lbungin' robes an' safety razors. 'Bout th' only real, safe way t' fool with, wheat is t' go in th' bakin' business. A rather youthful pair, boy and girl, were speeding along a country road when they were taken in tow by a constable and hailed before the local justice of the peace. "Ten dollars and costs," announced the justice within tak WHO'S WHO IN THE DAYS NEWS HON. ARTHUR HENDERSON The name of the Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson, a member of Great Britain's war cabinet, is mentioned in connection with the discussion of a successor to Stanley Baldwin as premier. The Baldwin government suffered defeat in the election, falling to win a majority of seats other the combined opposition. Henderson, a Laborite, was born in Glasgow in 1863. He served his apprenticeship as a molder in Newcastle, England. He has held a number of positions in connection with his Trade Society and the trade union movement. For some time he served as a member of the Newcastle city council and Darlington borough council. In 1903 he served as mayor of Newcastle. He also served as magistrate of the county of Durham. He is known as an astainer. He was chairman of the parliamentary labor party from 1908-10, and from 1914 to 1917. He was also secretary of the labor party. He was a member of the railway royal commission in 1911 and has also served on numerous government and departmental committees. He was president of the board of education, 1915-16. In the latter year he served as paymaster general and labor advisor to the government. The reason the pioneers were hardy was because they didn't sit down to a dish of cereal and a vase of flowers and call it breakfast. The reason war endures is because it is glorious to charge the enemy and easy to charge the bill to posterity. As we get better acquainted with the "oppressed" of other lands, we begin to understand why they were oppressed. It must be wonderful to feel important enough to tell the reporter that you are not a candidate for the Presidency. Will-power is the quality that enables you to keep your mouth shut when you hear two people exchanging misinformation. Provincialism is the gratitude you feel because your section of the country isn't as wicked and low-brow as other sections. Evolution has been going on a long time, and it isn't likely that a little opposition will stop it now. Unless he changes considerably little Willie will grow up to be a strong advocate of simplified spelling. About the only thing you can put over now with the certainty that it won't be unconstitutional is a tax levy. The funny part is that the parent who thinks himself faultless still condemns the old-fashioned methods of raising children. You can estimate a man's calibre by the size of the income required to make him speak patronizingly of the "common people." The world is so near normal that one can spend money for luxuries without feeling that he should have given it to Europe for ammunition. A rather youthful pair, boy and girl, were speeding along a country road when they were taken in tow by a constable and hailed before the local justice of the peace. "Ten dollars and costs," announced the justice, without taking any evidence. "Why, Your Honor," protested the young man, "we were on our way to have you marry us." "Twenty and costs, then!" orried the J.P. "You are more reckless than I thought you were." OPERATED ON FOR APPENDICITIS FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER: Many times, no doubt, you have seen the above headline in your newspaper. Very often it has told of some friend suddenly stricken with dread appendicitis. The newspapers, however, neglect to state that appendicitis is usually preceded by stomach trouble. They don't tell you that the afflicted person suffered frequent attacks of heartburn long before he went to the hospital. While heartburn is not always a sign of an infamed appendix, it is always a warning that something is wrong. In many cases it results from indigestion, which is one of the predisposing causes of appendicitis. If you suffer from a burning, gnawing sensation in the stomach, excessive gas, sour stomach, nausea or other distress after eating, go at once and obtain a bottle of Smith Bros.' M.A.C., the guaranteed stomach treatment. This pleasant, harmless liquid rids the stomach of catarrhall mucus, allays inflammation, helps digestion and cleanses the bowels of poisonous waste matter. Price $1.25. Heying Pharmacy will supply you. A mountaineer walked some 40 miles through the hills to take his over-grown son to a school in Perry County, Kentucky. "This here boy's larnin'," he announced. "What's yer bill o' fare?" Our curriculum, sir," corrected the schoolmaster, a recent arrival from the lowlands of the Blue Grass, embraces geography, history, all of the branches of mathamatics, including trigonometry. "That'll do," interrupted the father. "That'll do. Load him up with triggernometry. He's the only poor shot in the family. Properly alarmed by the news that thousands of immigrants, on reaching these shores are daily adopting the name of Cabot, as befits the publication of a university long affiliated with the family, the Harvard Lampoon suggests a change in a famous American bit of verse. It should read, it allows, as follows: Here's to the city of Boston. The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells have no one to talk to Since the Cabots speak Yiddish, by God! In the role of an educator on public health matters, the public health nurse is a highly important personage in the community. THURSDAY, DEC. TWENTY-SEVEN, 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 CALIFORNIA LEADS IN CO-OPERATION—Riverside Press Senator Capper of Kansas is one of the leading members of the farm bloc in the United States Senate and is naturally deeply concerned in the present problems of the farmers. In an editorial in his paper, the Topeka Capital, he strongly endorses co-operative marketing as one of the hopeful solutions for the present agricultural difficulties and he gives California the credit for the best co-operative organizations in the country. Speaking of the California Fruit Growers Exchange the Capital says. "While the unorganized grain growers have failed to obtain a cut in freight rates, the orange growers of California will come into the market this winter with a reduction in freight charges amounting to $3,000,000, the reduction going into effect next week." "Organized marketing by producers has been a good thing for the citrus fruit growers, who this year in California alone will market these fruits at an estimated return to them of $71,000,000 and at a cost of freight and refrigerator charges of about $34,000,000. The growers got out of the crop more than twice as much as the railroads, and if this were the case with fruits and vegetables in general farmers would be more prosperous. "By co-operative marketing the citrus fruit growers have been able to triple the production and market it profitably while the population of the United States was increasing one-third. People are consuming more than twice as many citrus fruits per capita as twenty years ago. Co-operative marketing has had much to do with this improved market. The citrus growers do not seem to have had much trouble in getting reduced freight rates. When other producers are as well organized they will be more effective in dealing with railroads as well as middlemen." ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT PROP. STEINBREGE SAYS: The relative position of wealth and charity has been discussed. From any attempt to measure this relativity, the question is still open. Charity is an unknown quantity, relatively speaking, to the one who indulges in the pleasure. I mean, as we keep before us the general truth. Society with a genuineness at times barely discernible indulges in the gratification of charity. There is humor in the subject, perhaps deep and tense. To give a dollar might mean great sacrifice. To give much more might mean something humorous. Perhaps, it might mean a selfish motive; but that is cynical. To be properly charitable according to one's wealth. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT PROP. STEINBRUNGE SAYS: The relative position of wealth and charity has been discussed. From any attempt to measure this relativity, the question is still open. Charity is an unknown quantity, relatively speaking, to the one who indulges in the pleasure. I mean, as we keep before us the general truth. Society with a genininess at times barely discernible indulgues in the gratification of charity. There is humor in the subject, perhaps deep and tense. To give a dollar might mean great sacrifice. To give much more might mean something humorous. Perhaps, it might mean a selfish motive; but that is cynical. To be properly charitable according to one's wealth could not be established by legislation. The human element enters into this question, like every other question, and that is the unknown quantity. THE REAL PROBLEM The white-collar men have a union. They claim that their cause is just. Their salaries are not sufficient. Increase them at once they must. But the white-collar men's real problem, And this we can prove is right, Is how, in a city like this one, Can they manage to keep them white? HOLIDAYS Excursions to many places on Southern Pacific Lines. Tickets on sale Dec. 21-22-23-24-25-2930-31-Jan. 1 Return limit Jan. 7 Special rate of one and one-half fare for the round trip where the one-way fare is not more than $45.00. OUR AGENT WILL QUOTE FARES, MAKE RESERVATIONS, ETC. Southern Pacific Lines D. G. Maltby, Agent Phone 123 OUR AGENT • WILL QUOTE FARES, MAKE RESERVATIONS, ETC. Southern Pacific Lines D. G. Maltby, Agent Phone 123 holiday excursions at reduced round trip fares via the Santa Fe Tickets for use December 21-22, 23-24-25-29-30-31 and January 1st Grand Canyon National Park offers an unusual mid-season outing open all year Ask any Santa Fe agent C. A. WALKER Agent, Anaheim. Phone 217