oc-plain-dealer 1924-01-05

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS I was thinking that, as you did not know I was watching you, so when we feel as though God were nowhere, He is scratching over us all the time with an eternal consciousness; that He is above and beyond our every hope and fear, untouched by the varying faith and fluctuating moods of His children.—George Macdonald. NO PROFIT IN PROSPECT FOR WHEAT GROWER The American wheat farmer has little hope of making real net profit out of wheat—at least, not for many years. The United States Department of Agriculture has conducted a survey, to ascertain the cost of growing wheat. The figures are startling. In many of the states the actual cost of producing a bushel of wheat is beyond the net price obtained for the wheat. This cannot go on indefinitely. The federal government is urging diversification of crops—lessening of acreage planted to wheat and increase of acreage planted to other farm crops. It is the purpose of the Department of Agriculture to make special study and experiment in cheaper production of wheat and to educate farmers in new, more economical methods of production. It would be poor business for the government to attempt to finance wheat farming, by guaranteeing profits to farmers under present conditions. The mistakes, in individual life, of 1923, should not be compounded in 1924. So long as the typical American home is pure and filled with love and contentment, so long will this Nation be safe. IMMIGRATION BRINGS UP CLASHINGS In a land of free speech, free institutions and widely diverse interests, there are sure to arise sharp differences as to policies and hence clashings of interests. This is shown in the divergent recommendations as to proposed changes in the federal immigration laws. The present quota as to alien admittance expires next June. In the National Immigration Conference three angles of opinion and So long as the typical American home is pure and filled with love and contentment, so long will this Nation be safe. IMMIGRATION BRINGS UP CLASHINGS In a land of free speech, free institutions and widely diverse interests, there are sure to arise sharp differences as to policies and acute clashings of interests. This is shown in the divergent recommendations as to proposed changes in the federal immigration laws. The present quota as to alien admittance expires next June. In the National Immigration Conference three angles of opinion and interest appear, affecting attitude on the proposed change in the quota provision. Manufacturers and farmers stand together in advocating selective immigration—in admitting greater numbers of aliens, to obtain laborers and lower wages for factories and farms. Labor elements insist that the restriction be tightened, rather than loosened. Representatives of European nations, together with welfare organizations for immigrants, term the present immigration restrictions inhungue and urge that the present requirements be modified greatly. These differing views and clashing interests are cited as an example of the problems of government, in this country. It is impossible, of course, to please all. The best that can be done is to compromise among these interests. And a compromise promise is never wholly satisfactory to any one. California is in condition to make 1924 its most prosperous year. The progressive, optimistic spirit of its people will help greatly to make the wheels of advancement go around. SOME CLOSED CAR BARGAINS No Dealer can offer you better cars or better value than we have in the following: Oakland Coupe—4-Passenger Kelly Springfield non-skid tires all around; some extra equipment. We've sold this car but the young man cannot meet his payments and some responsible person can take over his contract. Balance due $435.00 Buick "4" Coupe, 1922 Spare tires, bumpers and numerous other extras. We warrant this car to be in the best of condition. And we mean "positivle", too; Buick "6" Sedan $825.00 Run but $237 miles, lots of extra equipment and we guagantee the car to be in first class condition. Our price Oakland "6" Coupe, 1922 $1485 Newly painted, bumpers, front and rear, spare tire Spare tires, bumpers and numerous other extras. We warrant this car to be in the best of condition. And we mean "positivle", too; Buick "6" Sedan $825.00 Run but $237 miles, lots of extra equipment and we guarantee the car to be in first class condition. Our price Oakland "6" Coupe, 1922 $1485 Newly painted, bumpers, front and rear, spare tire and other extras. Folks this is positively the best Oakland car I ever drove $795.00 Ford Coupe, Almost New Double Hassler shocks, speedometer, spare tire, large steering wheel and other extras. This car is in exceptionally good condition. Our price is way below market, at $435.00 We have other cars to choose from— Dodge Roadster and Touring Buick Tourings Chevrolet Tourings Stearns-Knight Touring STUDEBAKERS—Well we have some buys in Studebakers which cannot be equalled in value by any new car at the same price. Better workmanship, better material. Oh well the new cars that sell around the price of our used Studebakers just will not stand the gaff. COME IN AND SEE THEM I KNOW WE CAN SAVE YOU SOME MONEY HARRY D. RILEY 151 So: Los Angeles St. Anaheim "A Safe Place to Buy a Used Car" URES cept Sunday and Publisher Plain Dealer SATU SubscripEntered NOT EVERY ONE FINDS THE NEW TAX BILL TO HIS LIKING TAX EXEMPT SECURITIES HEPPY NEW YEAR! "NORMAL" TAX PAYER TAX DODGER NOUVANCE TAKES PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Death is ennoling. Every little fur-bearing animal becomes seal when it dies. In a hick town culture consists in electing the local millionaire chairman of everything. Another old-fashioned institution you don't hear much about is the wedding anniversary. In a $4000 car you can run fast enough to out-distance everything, except the undertaker. He isn't a real high-brow poet, however, unless he can make "wase" rhyme with "cause." Queer that men should take up a life of crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. Modern wrecks prove that steel cars can crush nearly all the passengers in the wooden cars just ahead. Severe storms have their uses. They keep the family at home to get acquainted with one another. Not every fellow who is praised by the filling-station man could get a recommendation from his grocer. People are funny. They are too proud to buy second-hand furniture unless it is too old to be useful. The man who invented the theory that hot air rises, never lived on the top floor of an apartment house. ABE MARTIN THE STATistical department reports that the joke about farmers using canned vegetables for boarders has now been used 78,622 times. POEMS THAT LIVE THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again. And now you would never know There was once a path through TWELLY VIEW "BUDGET SYSTEM MUST BE SAVED TO PREVENT TAX RISE," SAYS BRITTEN A plea to the business men of the country to unite and oppose vigorously any raid on the budget system this winter in congress was made recently by Congressman Fred A. Britten of Illinois. The budget law, passed two years ago to prevent waste and inefficiency in the spending of public funds, is in real danger from its enemies at Washington, says Mr. Britten, and unless public opinion is aroused against such a move the budget system may be abolished. "I hope the business interests of the country will recognize the danger and see the importance of opposing any raid on the budget system," he said. "The national budget has already saved the business interests, and the public, and the country, thousands of millions of dollars." To destroy the present budget system is a sure way to increase taxes. To loosen up this system, to destroy its power, is to promote inefficiency and waste. From every point of view, to abolish the budget would be an economic crime. "The budget system should be improved, rather than destroyed. It should be strengthened instead of weakened. It is the only possible business basis for government expenditures." "The budget opponents are either members of congress with a crossroads instead of a national point of view, or they are bureau chiefs in government departments who have personal axes to grind." THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS They shut the road through the woods Severity years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again. And now you would never know There was once a path through the woods Before they planted the trees; It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones. Only the keeper sees That, where the ring dove broods And the badgers roll at ease. There was once a road through the woods. Yet, if you enter the woods Of a summer evening late, When the night air cools on the trout ringed pools Where the oiter whistles his mate (They fear not men in the woods Because they see so few), You will hear the beat of a horses feet And a swish of a skirt in the dew, Steadily centering through The misty solitudes. As though they perfectly knew The old lost road through the woods. But there is no road through the woods. —Rudyard Kipling Who would have believed, five years ago, that guests ever would be entertained by a report of the lard and beef market? Woman may be emancipated, but the hats in the ring don't interest her so much as those in the shop window. An experienced wife is one who pouts long enough to make her husband anxious before mentioning fur coats. One nice thing about being a grouch is that people won't ask you to keep the baby while they attend the movies. American opinion seems equally divided between those who blame the thyroid gland and those who blame the railroad rates. Correct this sentence: "I know the stockings look thin," she confessed, "but they keep my ankles nice and warm." SATURDAY, JANUARY FIVE, 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 STATES' DUTY IN PROHIBITION—Kansas City Journal President Coolidge virtually authorizes the announcement that the national administration will not assume any share of the responsibility for enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment which rightfully belongs to the several states. The executive takes the logical position that the states have a very definite duty to perform, not only as integral units in the sisterhood of commonwealths, but because most of them have state laws identical, to all intents and purposes, with the constitutional amendment. Some of those which do not fall into this classification have ratified the Federal amendment and thereby made it a part of their statutes, inferentially if not actually. Those states which did not ratify the amendment are bound by the terms of the solemn pact of statehood. The President cannot be charged with shirking any portion of the duty which devolves upon the government by the enforcement of national laws. But he refuses to permit states to shift their own burden upon the administration. In this attitude he affirms and emphasizes the inescapable duty of every state to enforce not only its own laws, but those by which it is bound through the medium of a constitutional amendment, whether or not it ratified such amendment. The states are morally and legally obligated to work in harmony and with all vigor to fulfill this dual obligation, as sovereign states and as members of the Union. The same obligation rests upon the national government. Neither can or should seek to evade that obligation. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT BALLAD OF AN ALTRUIST Once there was an altruist who thought that he would show some methods used by swindlers to extract the people's dough. He went from town to town to talk against the "ad" that lures—To knock the patent medicines and all the sure-fire cures. Although he did this wholly with a pure unselfish aim. The more he spoke and worked, the more disheartened he became. The people laughed and scoffed at him, threw missiles, called him crank; And each time that he started out anew his spirits sank. One day this altruist reacted in a singular way—He started manufacturing the things he once did flay. Once there was an altruist who thought that he would show Some methods used by swindlers to extract the people's dough. He went from town to town to talk against the "ad" that lures— To knock the patent medicines and all the sure-fire cures. Although he did this wholly with a pure unselfish aim. The more he spoke and worked, the more disheartened he became. The people laughed and scoffed at him, threw missiles, called him crank; And each time that he started out anew his spirits sank. One day this altruist reacted in a singular way— He started manufacturing the things he once did flay. If you've no hair upon your head and you are worried sick. Just use a little NUHAIR and the hair will come in thick. Why be concerned about your weight? It's shameful and a sin; My MAGIC FOOD makes thin folks fat and all the fat folks thin. There’s no excuse for hair like sticks in heads and pretty girls; Use OCEAN WAVES when you retire—next morning you'll have curls. For twenty years he advertised these products rank for sale. And money by the tens of thousands poured in with each mail. One day he passed away; in time his will was duly read, And every paper printed it because of what it said. "I tried to caution people once against the quack and fake, But they just mocked and jeered and hooted me each time I spake." "I want the work of manufacturing this junk to stop. Employes paid, the books all cleared and closed for 'er my shop." "Each dollar of the many millions that I leave behind Should go (in vain I fear) to teach the credulous and blind." —Samuel Goldman Mussolini has advised his government to recognize Russia. He must think the Italians are gifted with second sight. When we see thousands of smartly dressed private secretaries and stenogs on the streets during the luncheon hour we wonder what on earth can have become of the poor working goll. We haven't seen one of her in several years. Statistics show that one person in every twelve is working for the government, or to be more exact, drawing pay from the government. Occasionally in American politics a loud man is mistaken for a strong man. In fact that is about the commonest mistake we have made. One gossip can forgive another gossip anything excepting holding out on her. that the STAR CAR is the only low priced car using the following: Full pressure oil system to all main, connecting rod and crank shaft bearings. Dry disc clutch, does not slip or grab. Semi eliptic springs, easy riding, long life. Tubular back bone, prevents frame distribution and weaving. Silent chain drive for timing gears. Compare these features with cars selling in the $2000.00 class, over 400 Star cars sold in Orange County the first year. There is a reason, investigate. A phone call will bring a demonstrator. Appleby Motor Co. 119 No. Lemon Phone 891