oc-plain-dealer 1924-01-14

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS True hearts spread and heave Unto their God, as flowers do to the sun. Give Him thy first thoughts then; so shall thou keep Him company all day, and in Him sleep. —Henry Vaughan MASTERS WHO DO MOST TO TEACH MANKIND If you were called upon to name eighteen men who have contributed most to learning, in the history of the world, whom would you name? With a questionnaire of this nature submitted to a wide circle of learned experts, the range of judgment doubtless would be broad as to some of the eighteen. There might be agreement all around as to a few. But, like selecting one hundred "best books," there would be diversities of judgment. It is interesting to study the selection made by professors of the faculty of the University of Washington, at Seattle. There was difference of judgment among them. But a composite list was chosen from their recommendations. No man of the 20th century is on the list. Benjamin Franklin is the only American. The list includes three Greeks, three Germans, three Englishmen, three Italians, one Scotchman, one Roman, one Frenchman, one Hebrew and one Dutchman. Truly a cosmopolitan selection. There are several in this list who, perhaps would be named by any competent committee of experts, making a selection of this kind at any time. It is interesting to study the selections, which are as follows: Homer, Greek poet; Dante, Italian poet; Goethe, German poet and philosopher; Shakespeare, English dramatist; Da Vinci, Italian artist; painter of the famous "Last Supper"; Beethoven, German musician and composer; Moses, religion; Plato, Greek philosopher; Herodotus, Greek historian; Justinian, Roman law- The list includes three Greeks, three Germans, three Englishmen, three Italians, one Scotchman, one Roman, one Frenchman, one Hebrew and one Dutchman. Truly a cosmopolitan selection. There are several in this list who, perhaps would be named by any competent committee of experts, making a selection of this kind at any time. It is interesting to study the selections, which are as follows: Homer, Greek poet; Dante, Italian poet; Goethe, German poet and philosopher; Shakespeare, English dramatist; Da Vinci, Italian artist, painter of the famous "Last Supper"; Beethoven, German musician and composer; Moses, religion; Plato, Greek philosopher; Herodotus, Greek historian; Justinian, Roman law-giver and administrator; Grotius, Netherlands, noted for international law and politics; Adam Smith, Scotch, sociology; Darwin, English biologist; Galileo, Italian scientist; Newton, English mathematician and scientist; Pasteur, French physician and scientist; Gutenberg, German, inventor of printing by movable type; Benjamin Franklin, American scientist, printer and statesman. There were 486 fatal accidents in Los Angeles during the year 1923. There were 219 deaths in automobile mishaps. War never caused such toll of life from Los Angeles as this. Wars come infrequently, but losses of life in war horrify the people and are deplored for generations. But here is a menace that is taking more lives each year than warfare does, on an average, in twenty years. Why do not the people deplore this intolerable condition and more determinedly to put an end to the extreme perils of traffic? Law must be respected and obeyed in this country, or anarchistic conditions will ensue. Freedom and security could not survive with this Nation half laueless and half law-abiding. $10.00 CASH THEN $10.00 PER MONTH PUTS ANY OF OUR Electric Washers IN YOUR HOME—TWENTY-FIVE DIFFERENT MODELS TO SELECT FROM. Washer Wilson Electric Washers IN YOUR HOME — TWENTY-FIVE DIFFERENT MODELS TO SELECT FROM. Washer Wilson 227 E. Center St. Phone 926 FREE LECTURE ON— Christian Science BY JUDGE SAMUEL W. GREENE, C. S. LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY, MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF LECTURESHIP OF THE MOTHER CHURCH, THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. UNDER THE AUSPICES OF FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, ANAHEIM. THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND Monday Evening, Jan. 14 EIGHT O'CLOCK FAIRYLAND THEATRE, ANAHEIM TURES Except Sunday r and Publisher Plain Dealer KEEN COMPETITION TAXI? RIGHT THIS WAY-MISTER! TAXI-MISTER? HERE Y'ARE! MELLON TAX PLAN DEM. TAX PLAN CONGRESS DEM. German Vinci, hoven, Greek n law- PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) The "bright minds" you hear about are seldom the kind that reflect. Evolution: Dress, $3.75; frock, $19.98; gown, $65; creation, $225. Of course, Americans trust in God. You can tell by the way they drive. You can say one thing for the hold-up man. He doesn't call it "economic pressure." Every preacher's wife longs ardently to express her honest opinion of the stock. As a rule the citizens who "try to run everything" are the only ones willing to do the work. A philosopher is a jokesmith who sits near a frozen radiator and writes merry jests about a coal shortage. Writing romantic poetry is more difficult now. So few things rhyme with henna. No mere vamp can wean a husband away from a wife who knows the art of flattery. In a newly-formed republic, patriotism usually is an emotion instead of an appetite. Taking the teeth out may benefit the individual, but it doesn't seem to help the laws much. ABE MARTIN TH' automobile is a big help t' th' bandit in more ways than one. Per instance, when he shoots a cashier ever buddy thinks it's a tire. It seems like th' only way t' reach a ripe an' peaceful ole age is jest t' be downright an' everlastin'ly worthless. POEMS THAT LIVE TO ELECTRA I dare not ask a kiss, I dare not beg a smile, Lest having that, or this, WHO'S WHO IN THE DAYS NEWS Henry M. Robinson The first meeting of the allied and American experts who will investigate that part of Germany's financial resources which concerns her exported capital, will be held in Paris or London as soon as Henry M. Robinson, U.S. member of the group, can reach Europe. Robinson is one of three Americans named on the committee which will check up on Germany's resources. General Charles G. Dawes has been named chairman of it and Owen D. Young is the third American. The last two named will serve on the main group which will determine Germany's capacity to pay. Robinson is a Los Angeles man. During the war he was a member of the U.S. shipping board and assistant to Chairman Hurley, also representing the shipping board at Versailles. He was in President Harding's unemployment committee. He was on the supreme economic council at Versailles. In 1919 he was a member of the committee that settled the bituminous coal strike. He is now chairman of the War Finance Corp. for Southern California and Arizona and western vice-president of the chamber of commerce of the United States. Born in Ravenna, O., Robinson practiced law in Youngstown and New York before going to California in 1905. He is president of the Pacific-Southwest Trust & Savings Bank and is a member of the Union Oil Co. board of directors. He has been closely associated with A philosopher is a jokesmith who sits near a frozen radiator and writes merry jests about a coal shortage. Writing romantic poetry is more difficult now. So few things rhyme with henna. No mere vamp can wean a husband away from a wife who knows the art of flattery. In a newly-formed republic, patriotism usually is an emotion instead of an appetite. Taking the teeth out may benefit the individual, but it doesn't seem to help the laws much. You can say one thing for a hard-boiled egg. It doesn't run when something happens. You can save money by repainting your own car if your time and clothes are worth nothing. The man who thinks a car does not afford exercise, never argued with one for 30 minutes on a cold morning. In this sophisticated age few children reach 14 with their illusions and tonsils intact. Note to Europe: Consider the bee; it always dies when it quits work and tries to damage somebody. You can win the heart of any man by letting him talk about the time when he worked for a dollar a day. "Can people get married on $2000 a year?" Well, more easily, it seems, than they can stay married on $30,000 a year. Correct this sentence: "I do as I please," declared he, "and I don't care a whoop what people think of me." New York cop's wife hit him, so he arrested her. There's an idea for husbands. Join the force. Sacramento Star. A town may be famous for its beautiful women, but the iceman knows better.—San Jose News. Suicide is a sin. No man has a right to leave his share of taxes for some other man to pay. The strange part is that Ma Jongg attained such popularity without being denounced by anybody. POEMS THAT LIVE TO ELECTRA I dare not ask a kiss, I dare not beg a smile, Lest having that, or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss the air That lately kissed thee. —Robert Herrick THE RELAPSE O turn away those cruel eyes The stars of my undoing! Or death, in such a bright disguise May tempt a second wooing. Punish their blind and impious pride, Who dare condemn thy glory; It was my fall that deified Thy name, and seal'd thy story. Yet no new sufferings can prepare A higher praise to crown thee; Though my first death proclaim thee fair, My second will unthrone thee. Lovers will doubt thou canst entice No other for thy full, And if those burn thy victims twice, Both think thee poor and cruel. —Thomas Stanley Oh, the family tree, So graceful and tall; But, even from thee Some dead limbs fall. For an egg a day'll keep the hatchet away. If you want to see where a lot of good food is going to waste., visit your country club locker room. Before beginning self-medication, ask yourself: "What am I taking and why am I taking it?" Pastuerized milk, containing over 50,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter, has been improperly pastuerized or was, originally, dirty and unfit for pasteurization. Man, avaricious. Keeps hoarding his wealth: But nature, capricious. Puts a kink in his health; Starts him to pondering— Aimlessly wandering— Uselessly squandering. The bulk of his wealth. We suffer much illness and die young unnecessarily. Some we bring into the world as legacies, others are thrust upon us by prevailing customs and some we acquire arbitrarily. If you'll study the state of the weather—in your living room—you will find a very close relationship between it and the state of your health. MONDAY, JANUARY FOURTEEN, 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 FARMERS SOWING LESS WHEAT—Santa Ana Register American farmers have sown thousands of acres less in winter wheat than usual. That is expected to result in a production loss of about 100,000,000 bushels. The spring wheat acreage also will probably be curtailed. This is a natural reaction to the slack demand for the crops of the last two or three years, with their low price. Farmers collectively and individually are disinclined to continue raising any crop on the same scale when recent experience has shown that it does not pay, and prefer to substitute better-paying crops or even let the land idle. Nevertheless it is unfortunate for the farmers themselves. Perfectly obvious solutions to a big problem are often short-sighted. Nowhere is long-range vision more necessary than in agriculture. Such vision in this case would suggest not the concentration of effort on crop-production but on the stimulation of the foreign market to absorb a normal crop. Millions of people abroad are starving for bread. An organized effort to stabilize the economic life of Europe might revive a market which would take, at good prices, all the wheat this country could produce, along with great quantities of manufactured products. American participation in the German reparation inquiry is a good beginning in that direction. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT MARRIED LIFE THE THIRTIETH YEAR Helen arrived home from Missouri to surprise Warren. She drove to the apartment and then— Horrors upon horrors Warren's well-knit frame was not there. This thought flashed across her mind: "If Warren is not here he must be somewhere else," and she lay down on the couch and sobbed her heart out. What a brute Warren was not to be there when he didn't know she was coming. Tremulously she approached the telephone and called up his office. Warren was not at the office. He had just gone out. Oh, murder in the first degree. He had put out. MARRIED LIFE THE THIRTIETH YEAR Helen arrived home from Missouri to surprise Warren. She drove to the apartment and then— Horrors upon horrors Warren's well-knit frame was not there. This thought flashed across her mind: "If Warren is not here he must be somewhere else," and she lay down on the couch and sobbed her heart out. What a brute Warren was not to be there when he didn't know she was coming. Tremulously she approached the telephone and called up his office. Warren was not at the office. He had just gone out. Oh, murder in the first degree. He had gone out. Helen called his club. He had not arrived there yet. Oh, subordination of perjury and arson and homicide. He had not arrived there yet. Then she called up his mother's home. Warren was not there. Then Helen lost her appetite. Oh, for the love of Mike. She couldn't eat anything. Suddenly the telephone rang and she knew intuitively that Warren's well-worn voice was on the other end of the wire. She trembled as she heard his strong, broad-shouldered voice call her "kitten." Warren was not insinuating that she was a cat. It was merely a love term. He would be home in fifteen minutes. Oh, joy, ob, rapture and honey and chocolate eclaires. She was happy again and she then took a bath and put on her prettiest gown. How long will her happiness last? Probably only about fifteen minutes, for in that time Warren will be with her again with all of his well-knit and broad-shouldered brutality. Gosh, ain't that man the limit? It is a dull week in newspaper circles when Germany doesn't collapse. What the average marriage between movie people needs is continuity. An Iowa paper says the wild western bandit has died out. But he hasn't. He has merely moved East. The French say the Germans are sending all their gold money abroad. It is, however, next to impossible to spend some of the "good money" that finds its way over here. Don't Forget That The Ever-Ready Truck & Transfer Co. Is still able to do your hauling of any description CONTRACT HAULING A SPECIALTY Get Our Price O. J. LINNARTZ, Prop. Residence 211 E. Sycamore St. Uncle Sam Tells How to Cultivate Thrift Uncle Sam Tells How to Cultivate Thrift "Learn to distinguish between luxuries and necessities, and don't let your judgment be swayed by the seeming pleasures of the moment. "Keep track of all disbursements. Find out if you are wasting money, then plug the leak. "The best way to accumulate money is to resolve a bank a fixed portion of your income, no matter how small the amount." The above quotation is taken from the U.S. Government Savings System booklet, "How Other People Get Ahead." Take Uncle Sam's advice and bank a fixed amount in a Christmas Savings Club account. To what you save we add 4 per cent interest, which helps to make your balance grow. Combined Resources $4,272,189.43. FIRST NATIONAL BANK AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK of Anaheim SAVINGS COMMERCIAL SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS