oc-plain-dealer 1923-12-31

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS Did we treat the babes born of our bodies as we do the new-born graces and aspirations dawning in our souls, flinging them from us in weariness and revolt at the time they take to grow, how many of them would we rear to rich maturity? Yet, with a like miraculous process of God are we co-working in every daybreak of the new-born elements of a higher reason and a diviner will within us. —Francis Tiffany. PUBLIC AFFAIRS NEED GOOD MANAGEMENT San Quentin prison, according to direct charges made, has been and is mismanaged. There has been and is extravagance, waste and inefficiency, it is alleged, in charges filed with the State Board of Control. Should these charges be found true, there should be a shakeup quickly. This is the public's business, and should be conducted with honesty and efficiency. It is deplorable that a code of ethics—or lack of ethics—is developing among many who serve the public in various capacities. By this code, extravagance, mismanagement and wanton wastefulness are the rule. Any dereliction is in order, just so it is not found out—just so no ado is made about it. The people should take intelligent interest in public affairs in all phases. Management of state institutions should be scrutinized with care frequently. The quality of service given should be on a par with the service required in a well-managed private business concern. Public business must be placed on the same exacting plane of economy and efficiency as prevails in private affairs. But this will not be done unless the people intelligently, firmly and persistently demand it. Greece has not yet chosen its form of government. But evidently the monarchy is ended there, once for all. AID FOR INDIANS URGED UPON CONGRESS Greece has not yet chosen its form of government. But evidently the monarchy is ended there, once for all. AID FOR INDIANS URGED UPON CONGRESS Friends of the Indians—fortunately, they have some friends among humane Americans—are urging Congress to deal more liberally, in appropriations, with the Indian Bureau. The status of the Indians is not what it should be, on account of shortage of funds for the Indian Office, humanitarians say. An Advisory Committee on Indian Affairs, named by the Secretary of the Interior, has just met in Washington and conferred on the plight of the Indians. The late Dr. George Wharton James, of Pasadena, was a member of this Advisory Committee and was preparing to go to Washington in this behalf when death overtook him. The humane work of these unselfish friends and supporters of the Indians is quite commendable. There are too many whose interest in the Indian is measured by their own self-interest. From selfish usurpations and frauds the Indian has suffered greatly. This Advisory Committee, composed of one hundred prominent Americans noted for their humane works, particularly among the Indians, is a bulwark of protection for the red men. Secretary Work, of the Interior Department, evidences sympathy with the efforts that are being made to better the condition of the Indians. THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and scar. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the withered leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the Jay, And from the wood top calls the crow, through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lovely beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, the lovely ones again. —William Cullen Bryant During 1924 Will You “Get Ahead?” During 1924 Will You “Get Ahead?” WITH THE NEW YEAR JUST AHEAD, IT IS A GOOD TIME TO TAKE AN INVENTORY OF YOURSELF AND YOUR WORK. ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH THE PROGRESS YOU HAVE BEEN MAKING? ARE YOU BETTER OFF FINANCIALLY THAN YOU WERE SIX MONTHS—A YEAR AGO? ARE YOU “GETTING AHEAD?” WE ALL CAN GET AHEAD, IF THE WILL IS AROUSED IN THAT DIRECTION—and IF WE PER-SISTENTLY HOLD TO IT. MAKE THE NEXT YEAR COUNT FOR YOU. START A SAVINGS ACCOUNT AND DEPOSIT REGULARLY EVERY WEEK DURING 1924. HERE IS THE PLACE TO MAKE YOUR START. WE PAY 4% ON BOTH REGULAR SAVINGS ACCOUNTS AND CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB ACCOUNTS. FIRST NATIONAL BANK AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK of Anaheim EATURES Sunoon Except Sunday Editor and Publisher Plain Dealer BREAKING IN THE NEW PILOT 1924 PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) No. 1924; due at midnight. On time. The remarkable quality about most of the candidates is their optimism. A free county is one in which every man is privileged to feel superior to his betters. About the only way to attend a naughty play with a clear conscience is to be an investigator. A man isn't fit for self-government if he feels offended when the traffic sign says, "Stop." England is a funny country. It takes only one election to repudiate a policy over there. A cake-eater is just the trailler behind an oversgrown cigarette. ABE MARTIN DINNER STORIES Captains of the transatlantic liners, are, as a class, martyrs. Not only do they have the responsibility of the ship's safety in their hands, but they must also be host. In the latter capacity, they must, of course, face the thousands of questions of quisitive passengers. The captain of one North Atlantic liner was bothered by a woman who was always looking about the possibility of seizing a whale. A dozen times she besought him, to have her called if one hove in sigat. "But, madam," the captain asked her, rather impatiently, "why are you so eager to see whale?" "Captain," she answered, "no desire in life is to see a whale blubber. It must be very inpressive to watch such an enduous creature city." On another ship a portly woman of ever smiling expression A cake-eater is just the trailer behind an overgrown cigarette-holder. It won't be such a hard winter after all. There is very little "sheik" literature in sight. A peaceful country is one in which the army of jobholders is 643 times the size of the regular army. A green congressman is one who proposes a scheme that would cost the country less than ten million. It may be that girls go to the devil because they go to Hollywood, and then it may be the other way about. It isn't the untruth of it that makes a woman see red when friend husband intimates that she proposed to him. When a small boy says he has learned to like arithmetic, he means that he has fallen in love with his teacher. In the old days, when parents knew nothing of child psychology, they just licked them and turned them into good citizens. And so many of the doctors' diplomas are fakes. Well, so are many of the alliments they are called to cure. Dull books may improve your mind, but of what use is an improved mind after you are bored to death? A sufficient commentary on mortals is the fact that the knocker always has a larger audience than one who throws bouquets. Bryan might give up his travelin' job for an alie in th' senate, but he'd never quit th' road for a seat. These are dandy times th' alius have two or three good alibis handy. SUNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMSON There's this to say about a rabid dog, he always makes a snappy appearance. Well intentioned but misdirected free medical service to the public, indiscriminately, is improper philanthropic dispensation. My farmer friend had just three sons, And these three sons were brothers; Typhoid fever captured one. And hookworm got the others. Doctor friend wants to amend the marriage ceremony; substituting "stop, look and listen" for the words "love, honor and obey." WINTER COUGHS AND COLDS With the changeable weather which we have at this season of the year coughs and colds are very prevalent. Be prepared for them. Have a bottle of FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND handy, and with the first sign of a cough or cold take a dose and prevent a serious allment. FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND has been the standard family cough remedy for over 35 years, bringing prompt relief and when once used you will never be without it. Sold by Heying's Pharmacy. Spiritualism has by no means been neglected by the jokesters. A more or less new concern a client who desired to get in touch with his late wife. Perhaps he wanted to know where she had put his winter underwear. Behold," exclaimed the medium, after the usual preliminaries, "before you is the spirit of your late wife." Speak! Don't you understand? cried the medium, "it is the form of your departed spouse. Speak to her." The client refused to get excited. Oh," he said indifferently, "it is her she will do all of the talking." MONDAY, DECEMBER THIRTY-ONE, 1923 Subscription Rate—In No. Orange co., per Ye. $3; 6 Months, $15 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as 2nd class matter. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS WHAT EDITORS ARE SAYING As a rule our minds are kits of tools with which any one of us may carve beautiful things and build great ones, yet for the most part we put them to no better use than the magnetizing of money, at which they fail more often than they succeed. And when they have failed us in this, we set them to the manufacture of misery, in which they are capable of turning out just as many kinds and colors as we will allow. There is nothing in this world more pitiful than the person who whines at you that he has had no chance, for he represents a mass of material that has been allowed to go to waste amid surroundings always favorable to some good and fairly profitable use. In most instances of this sort the cause of failure may be found lurking in this fact—that the complainer sought for everything and made no attempt to found his life on what was within himself. Time and time again we meet men and women whose beginnings in life would seem to warrant some such wall, but these are not the ones from whom it comes. Battleing with conditions that appeared to be hopeless, they have discovered the ever-present blue patch in the black sky and guided themselves by the stars seen through the opening. There are so many stars in the sky of life—even as in the sky above our heads—that the littlest rifts in the clouds will show at least one, and nearly always more than one. The one real world in which we live is that of our own thoughts. All things are largely as we think they are. It is, therefore, easy to see that failure to use the mind spells failure in almost any undertaking, if not all of them. And the reverse is true—that we succeed in just such measure as we think, and that the higher we think the higher our success. The happiest persons are not those who have the largest share of material belongings, but those who have made the fullest use of their mentality, gaining thereby such wealth as cannot be taken away, even though the bottom fall out of all markets. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT Dark brown face powder is a new style. It is said to be particularly good to lighten up the countenances of people who live in Pittsburg. There is no man so unpopular as the one who has a faculty of saying the right things at the wrong time. Arthur Murray is teaching the new dances by radio to all who care to listen in. It is hoped he has invented a static shimmy. Hi Johnson doesn't know where he is going but is on his way, which is the main thing with most of the present candidates. Health hint says: "Wear rubber heels." That's right, especially when you are getting home late at night. Debs refuses to support Henry Ford for the presidency, but in some minds this may be considered more of a boost than a knock. A New Year's Thought Do You Want To play an important part in building our community industrially and financially and to help carry thru a program on which we have devoted time, money and energy. Do You Want To play an important part in building our community industrially and financially and to help carry thru a program on which we have devoted time, money and energy. If So We would appreciate your asking for particulars regarding subscriptions to a secured loan or fund to be used in connection with the organization and preliminary operations of the Anaheim Metal Industries. Many Have Already Indicated Their Desire to Assist. Will You? Now? H. H. ARMBRUST, O. H. RENNER, JOHN Q. ROSCOE. PAUL BOCK, A. E. SCHUMACHER, NOTE—Full particulars including terms of repayment, interest rate and probable additional profit can be had by applying to Mr. Roscoe, cor. Atchison & Santa Ana Sts., phone 773 or P. O. Box 836, Anaheim. Subscriptions accepted in any amounts from $50 to $10,000 Checks and drafts should be made payable to John T. Roscoe, Trustee.