oc-plain-dealer 1924-01-08

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and His love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is His solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of His hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating.—Edwin H. Chopin. SPIRIT OF PROGRESS IS RIFE HERE Even a cursory survey of conditions in this virile Southwest—California, Arizona, and beyond—is convincing that the spirit of progress is animating all parts of this great section. In city and town, and rural region, the evidences of constructive advancement are to be seen upon every hand. Let one take automobile, and start within sound of the booming breakers of the Pacific, and travel eastward to the Arizona line, and then cross the Colorado into the neighbor state and continue the journey, and one thus traveling and observing, must needs be impressed with the many proofs of progress. The volume of building construction in this section is tremendous. Even out in the country—on the farms and amid the orchards laden with golden fruit, one sees new, modern houses taking the place of ruder residential quarters of earlier days. There is much advancement of a far-seeing nature. In other words, there is much of the empire building-spirit here, which prepares and builds for a greater future. There is the Boulder Dam project, for example; and the undertaking of Los Angeles to bring water from the Colorado River to replenish its supplies—an enterprise into which several Southern California cities may enter. There are other great forward movements in this section. There is reclamation of land and intensification of production. There are expanding cities and growing commerce and productive development of diversive nature. The hymn writers who thrill millions with their soulful melodies deserve well of mankind. Their services are beyond computation in terms of the mint. They develop soul riches. They give inspiration. They carry the weary and worn above and beyond the sordid cares of life. The hymn writers who thrill millions with their soulful melodies deserve well of mankind. Their services are beyond computation in terms of the mint. They develop soul riches. They give inspiration. They carry the weary and worn above and beyond the sordid cares of life. WRITER OF HYMNS GOES TO HIGHER MELODY Who has not been thrilled by that stirring religious air, "Onward, Christian Soldiers?" It has been the inspiration of millions. And who has not been soothed in spirit by "Now the Day Is Over?" The revered author of these two world famous hymns has just passed away—Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, British clergyman, novelist and hymnologist. He wrote much. But he is most widely known by these two soul-stirring hymns. The hymnologist gives mankind a service that is incomparable. There is no service for which money is given in compensation that ranks in quality with that which the composer of spiritual melodies gives. Music has a very vital part in fostering the religious spiri in man. And the religious spirit is a vital asset in all civilization and all worthwhile progress. Take religion out of the world, and there would be retrogression and and reversion to barbarism. The author of "Onward, Christian Soldiers," has wafted millions of souls nearer to heaven. He has given vast numbers of human beings impulse to fight on, to spiritual conquests. The spiritual values of such inspiration are beyond computing. May the soul of him who thus has left a rich legacy to his fellow men, rest in peace in the eternal realm! An open game of football, where keen wit and quick judgment and speedy action are required to make strides in the playing, is a fine test of young manhood. It keys men up to the highest pitch of unleavened. WEATHER HERE GOES OFF ON TANGENT The weather has not been normal in this Southland since November. There has been a decreased total of rainfall. There have been unprecedented winds. And now comes a succession of heavy frosts. Those visitors from the East who have keen sense of humor are busy twitting resident Californians about these vagaries of the weather. Especially do these jibing Easterners call up that word "unusual," which the California booster is supposed to use whenever something out of the ordinary occurs in connection with the weather. These abnormal climatic visitations are accepted by those conversant with normal here, as being infrequent and hot at all typical manifestations. The fame of Southern California's climate is too well established to be impaired by any number of character of uncommon visitations. FORESTS VANISHING IN STARTLING WAY There is need to sound the alarm frequently about the denuding of forests. If the swift work of despoliation is not arrested, the last of the standing timber in the United States will be gone in thirty years, say forestry experts. This is startling indeed. The only FORESTS VANISHING IN STARTLING WAY There is need to sound the alarm frequently about the denuding of forests. If the swift work of despoliation is not arrested, the last of the standing timber in the United States will be gone in thirty years, say forestry experts. This is startling indeed. The only offset to this approaching disaster is to conserve the timber now standing, and to replant systematically. California is an important timber-producing state. It has had and it yet has extensive forest areas. Its lumber production is immense and of great total value. It is quite fitting, therefore, that this great commonwealth should take the lead in replanting its forest areas as they are cut over. It would redound to the credit of this state to take up this transcendently important work and to push it vigorously. It should be done without delay. In the light of the old adage—"What is everybody's business is nobody's business"—it behooves civic, patriotic and public-welfare organizations throughout the state to take this matter up concretely and arrive to institute reforestation on extensive scale in California. Only by agitation of this kind by vigorous pressing by the people, will this great conserving and supplementing work, to save the forests, be launched effectively. Mirrors PLAIN PLATE BEVELED PLATE SHOCKS RESILVERING Santa Ana Art Glass Works Phone 591-W C. M. Scott 1204 E. 4th St. TURES Except Sunday r and Publisher THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer TU Subs Enter NOW ALTOGETHER—EVERYBODY KICK IN! 1924 OPTIMISM OUTLOOK BUSINESS DISCOURGEMENT FINANCIAL BLUES INDUSTRIAL PATHY PROSPERITY CROWE HANGER HARD TIMES CROAKER OL'MIAN PESSIMISM BANKERS FARMERS INDUSTRIES LABOR POLITICS BUSINESS PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Opportunity is seldom called "she." It knocks but once. A man never loses faith in women until one of them hurts his vanity. Great man: One whose good work is remembered, and whose idiosyncrasies have been forgotten. Private business: Any business that 17 government agents are prying into. A republic is a land in which a man never gets too important to be asked for a match. Good manners are not forgotten. Some children have their parents trained not to interrupt. Another good intelligence test is the highway sign, "Snarp curve ahead." If he asked "What'll it be?" in the old days, he was a bar-keeper. Now he is a host. It was some group's theory concerning a more equal distribution of wealth that prompted the building of the first jail. The people who yet tremble in fear of Reds are the same yellows who once trembled in fear of the U-boats. Man may be a god, but one-third of his happiness depends on his liver and the other two-thirds on the weather. Congress is not easily discouraged. It keeps on passing laws in an effort to find some that will work. ABE MARTIN ELITE DRUG STORE LOOK! LOOK! BIG DARGAIN DINNER AS COST AS ASPIRIN Th' President's message t' congress not only made a big hit, but it showed he wuzn' a demagogue or he'd urged immediate relief fer th' farmer. We kin cajole a woman, but we can't drive her t' nothin' but desperation. DINNER STORIES For years there was a playwright around London who had more venom than ability, declares London Opinion. He could always pick a success to pieces and invariably did, but he had never produced a success of his own. One night at the Savage Club he became so foolish as to attack the immortal hard of Avon. POEMS THAT LIVE "SWEET EVENINGS COME AND GO, LOVE." Succet evenings come and go, love, They came and went of yore; This evening of our life, love, Shall go and come no more. When we have passed away, love, All things will keep their name; But yet no life on earth, love, With ours will be the same. The daisies will be there, love, The stars in heaven will shine; I shall not feel thy wish, love, Nor thou my hand in thine. A better time will come, love, And better souls be born; I would not be the best, love, To leave thee now forlorn. —George Elliot OF CLEMENTINA In Clementina's artless mien Lucilla asks me what I see, And are the roses of sixteen Enough for me? Lucilla asks, if that be all, Have I not cull'd as sweet before: I still deplore. DINNER STORIES For years there was a playwright around London who had more venom than ability, declares London Opinion. He could always pick a success to pieces and invariably did, but he had never produced a success of his own. One night at the Savage Club he became so foolish as to attack the immortal bard of Avon. "Shakespeare," he spluttered, "lifted half his plots." This was too much for an old critic, who came back at him in a flash: "Then lift one of his and write a play around it. Show him up." Persons who know the habits of rattlesnakes probably will find fault with this story, but we plead literary license. Workmen on a project in the West, most of them from Naples or thereabouts, were warned to look out for rattlesnakes. They were assured, however, that the snake would never strike until after sounding the rattles. One day, while seated on a log, eating his lunch, one of the workmen saw a rattlesnake colled ready to strike. He lifted his legs carefully, with the intention of darting away on the other side of the log the moment the rattles should sound their warning. But just as his feet cleared the top of the log, the snake struck out and its fangs were buried in the log only a fraction of an inch to the side of the Italian's trousers. The man fled madly, but he took breath to shriek over his shoulder: "Son of a gun! Why you no ringa da hell?" The boy of 16 gets his first great thrill when he climbs into the chair and the barber says: "Shave, sir?" —George Elliot OF CLEMENTINA In Clementina's artless mien Lucilla asks me what I see, And are the roses of sixteen Enough for me? Lucilla asks, if that be all, Have I not cull'd as sweet before: I still deplore. I now behold another scene, Where Pleasure beams with Heaven's own light, More pure, more constant, more serene, And not less bright. Faith, on whose breast the Loves repose, Whose chain of flowers no force can sever, Aná Modesty who, when she goes, Is gone forever. —Walter Savage Landor When a man appears who does not break any law, men will listen patiently while he scolds them about breaking one. No vamp can beat your wife at the business of showing you a good time if you will spend as much money on your wife. When you hear a man talking bitterly about the rich, he means that at last he has given up hope of becoming wealthy. SORE THROAT Gargle with warm salt water — then apply over throat — VICKS VAPORUB Over 17 Million Jars Used Yearly TUESDAY, JANUARY EIGHTH, 1924 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 CHARACTER HEAD BY MANDWRITING—Berkeley Gazette There seems to be considerable excitement in London over the discovery of a couple of pages of manuscript attributed to Shakespeare. Judging from the usual reproductions of the great poet's signature, the anti-quarials may have pronounced the writing as Shakespeare's because it is too illegible and irregular to be anybody else's. Most of us could never be sure that Shakespeare's signature was spelled "Shakespeare." No such doubts seem to bother Ralph Schermann, an expert "graphologist" brought from Vienna to London to size up the manuscript. It is explained that Schermann did not know anything about the specimen he was to examine. But after a brief, intense inspection he made the following report: The writer of that old manuscript was "a dead man who had a big forehead, oval face, short pointed beard and eyes like an eagles." Furthermore, he was a man of deep feeling, and unhappy. He had been happy as a boy, but had never finished his early education. Yet he was highly cultivated through "education of the subconscious", and wrote from the heart—with occasional help from someone else with whom he exchanged ideas. He had come from a small town to a big city and had been both playwright and actor. Any Missourian reading this characterization will naturally be curious to know whether the Viennese graphologist is a clairvoyant or a reader of Shakespearean biographies. If graphologists can really tell so much about a man's mind, life and work from a casual specimen of his penmanship, perhaps the profession had better be suppressed. There must be some privacy left to sensitive human beings. Perhaps it is just as well that penmanship is giving away to typing. The typewriter tells less. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT FUTILITIES AND FALSE ALARMS 1. Saying something constructive and sensible when the barber holds the mirror back of one's head after haircutting. 2. Cluttering up a Pullman washroom in the morning with contents of a 79-piece traveling vase, invariably brand-new. 3. Trying to alibi a soiled neck onto last summer's sunburn. We have just received the following sentiment from Mr. Chester W. Shafer, which speaks for itself: "Last year I wished a Happy New Year to sixty-three (63) persons representing our two most important sexes. "Fourteen (14) of this number are now out on parole. "Thirteen (13) have made application to transfer to another penal institution with better culinary." FUTILITIES AND FALSE ALARMS 1. Saying something constructive and sensible when the barber holds the mirror back of one's head after haircutting. 2. Cluttering up a Pullman washroom in the morning with contents of a 79-piece traveling vase, invariably brand-new. 3. Trying to alibi a soiled neck onto last summer's sunburn. We have just received the following sentiment from Mr. Chester W. Shafer, which speaks for itself: "Last year I wished a Happy New Year to sixty-three (63) persons representing our two most important sexes. "Fourteen (14) of this number are now out on parole. "Thirteen (13) have made application to transfer to another penal institution with better culine. "Twelve (12) were hit by speeding motorists and are now playing oboes in Beulah Land. "Nine (9) have cholera morbus. "Six (6) have fallen for Mah Jongg and her family. "Two (2) were bitten by mad dogs. "One (1) went north to hunt deer and was shipped back. "The rest are under surveillance." "I wish you a Happy New Year." About the only instrument that can be heard in the concert of the powers these days is the French horn. We are surprised to note by the foreign dispatches that the late Baron Rothschild "had the finest collection of fleas in the world. He has been collecting them for a good many years and had every variety known to science." We believe we may safely say that this collection will stand as the best of its kind for several centuries. At least, even though we are fond of collecting things, we will never attempt to beat it. We will stick to canceled postage stamps and vacuum cleaners. Special Clean Up Sale ALPHA BETA Store No. 12 "We believe in cleaning up" — Money Saving prices to you. SUNNY MONDAY SOAP 7 Bars 25c SHILLINGS SPICES 2-2 oz cans 15c 4-OZ. 2 Cans 25c VINEYARD RUN RAISINS 3 Lbs. 25c 25 Lb. Boxes of PRUNES Small $1.75 Med. $2.50 SOAP 7 Bars 25c 2-2 oz cans 19c 4-OZ. 2 Cans 25c RAISINS 3 Lbs. 25c 25 Lb. Boxes of PRUNES Small $1.75 Med. $2.50 25 Lb. Box Sunmaid RAISINS Bleached $2.75 Unbleached $2.25 Rain Water CRYSTALS 23c or 2 for 45c VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT Lettuce Head ...05c See us for Reasonable Prices FREE ONE LOAF BREAD With Every Dozen Do-Nuts E. A. TRUE BAKERY "BEST FOR LESS" Gerrard Bros. & Hanson 249 East Center St. (10c Del.) Phone 297