oc-plain-dealer 1924-01-21

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Heater Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS If we love God, the reward promised us is nothing less than the sight of God Himself, face to face; not transiently, not as a glorious flash of light, but an abiding vision, glory and a gladness, a marvelous rapture of the will, forevermore. F. W. Fuller RAIL SAFETY DEVICES ORDERED Railroading is to be made safer for travelers and for train crews. Great strides have been made in safeguarding human life in railroad traffic. But the recent serious disaster to the Twentieth Century Limited of the New York Central has impelled the Interstate Commerce Commission to order nearly all the first-class railroad mileage of the country equipped with automatic train-control devices before February, 1926. The new order will about triple the mileage that already is under this equipment. There is actual safety in these automatic devices for the control of trains. This equipment makes it impossible for an engineer, either by intention, neglect or accident, to take his train by a block or other signal requiring him to stop. Too much cannot be done to render railroad travel safe. The improvement in conditions along this line has been remarkable. There is room for other improvements. These are coming. This order by the Interstate Commerce Commission, when in full force, will remove a source of hazard in railroading. Other betterments may be expected. Not only is the protection of human life an irrefutable argument in favor of making railroad traffic safer, but it would be actual economy for the railroads, in the long run. New York gets the Democratic national convention, Cleveland gets the Republican convention. But the pivotal state in the 1924 election may not be New York or Ohio, but California, as it was in 1916. COMMERCIAL FLYING AND NATIONAL DEFENSE Admiral Moffett, chief of the bureau of aeronautics, has illustrated very strikingly, as the Kansas City Star well points out, the indemnity of the nation's air preparedness when he reveals in his New York gets the Democratic national convention, Cleveland gets the Republican convention. But the pivotal state in the 1924 election may not be New York or Ohio, but California, as it was in 1916. COMMERCIAL FLYING AND NATIONAL DEFENSE Admiral Moffett, chief of the bureau of aeronautics, has illustrated very strikingly, as the Kansas City Star well points out, the inadequacy of the nation's air preparedness when he reveals in his report to Secretary Denby that, of the 3000 air pilots necessary to a state of defense, the flying reserve now has in two of its essential classes only 210. Continuing its comment, the Star says: This fact bears out very fully the necessity, to which public attention frequently has been called by the experience of other countries, of an aerial reserve built up through the commercial development of the airplane. Admiral Moffett finds it will be necessary for Congress to appropriate one and one-half million dollars for training purposes for a single year, and of course this or a greater appropriation will be necessary every year if the training is to be continuous. A policy of continuing appropriations will be opposed; the funds may be available in one year and fail in a subsequent year—that is the history of appropriations when they are dependent on political considerations or financial expediency. It is obvious that Congress cannot be expected, in time of peace, to authorize an air reservoir of 3000 pilots, and it requires little calculation to show how long it would take to recruit such a force by the process now in use. An air force, however, is an absolute necessity of national defense, and as it requires at least six months to train an aviator, a condition of unpreparedness in this service is bound to continue unless some training other than that being given by the military and naval establishments is made available. That training can be supplied through the commercial use of the plane, and that use will follow if the government encourages private enterprise in this field, as it is being encouraged in Britain and on the continent. The first years of commercial flying will be losing years. Ultimately, it will pay, but until that time comes the government can well afford to absorb the loss in view of the immense advantage to the national defense of the large trained air force that would be made instantly available. If the government helped private enterprise to build the railroads when their military value was not particularly in point, it can help to develop for commercial use an agent already acknowledged to be a military and naval arm of the first importance. You Still Have TimeJoin our Christmas Club —AND HAVE PLENTY OF SPENDING MONEY NEXT CHRISTMAS. Join our Christmas Club —AND HAVE PLENTY OF SPENDING MONEY NEXT CHRISTMAS. HOW THE PLAN WORKS Increasing Classes SAVE 5c FIRST WEEK, INCREASE 5c EACH WEEK FOR 50 WEEKS AND YOU WILL HAVE $63.75 PLUS INTEREST NEXT CHRISTMAS. SAVE 10c FIRST WEEK, INCREASE 10c EACH WEEK FOR 50 WEEKS AND YOU WILL HAVE $127.50 PLUS INTEREST. Decreasing Classes SAVE $2.50 FIRST WEEK, DECREASE 5c EACH WEEK FOR 50 WEEKS AND YOU WILL HAVE $63.75 PLUS INTEREST, ETC. Fixed Classes SAVE $2 EVERY WEEK FOR 50 WEEKS AND YOU WILL HAVE $100 PLUS INTEREST, ETC. TO WHAT YOU SAVE WE ADD 4% INTEREST. FIRST NATIONAL BANK AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK of Anaheim Savings Commercial Safe Deposit Vaults TURES Except Sunday and Publisher Plain Dealer MO Subsc Enter "THE COVERED WAGON" MS ADDOO'S DEM. PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION CAMPAIGN ILLINOIS PRIMARIES DELEGATES OR BUST PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Cultured folk: The third generation produced in the gentle glow of easy money. If it's a hick town, and his wife keeps boarders, you can find him at the barber shop. The liberal who says you can't reform men by force is the one who beats his children. A happy wife is one who hasn't yet discovered that she has more sense that her husband. The crop is short, but there will be enough cotton to preserve the purity of all-wool suits. Hate the rent collector while you can. In a little while you'll need all of it for the umpire. We wonder if the world is finer since kids quit reading dime novels and began to read Freud. The more you study mankind, the greater your wonder that so few go to the poorhouse. The man who hasn't time for public work does the most kicking because somebody else runs the town. "Will your friend share his last drop with you?" asks a cynic. Our friend, the aviator, won't. A juror is a man who decides a case according to the evidence and his opinion of the lawyer. ABE MARTIN Wives are wonderful things—they either want t' spend everthing, or save everthing. It seems like it takes an unusually smart feller t' git by with a good education. DINNER STORIES The current controversy of the "modernists" and the "fundamentalists" over the Bible recalls the story of the Scotch Presbyterian parishioner who formed a secession with a few others unable to accept the doctrines of the church. But when the pastor, friendly interested, called on this man and asked him if he and the others worshiped together, the answer was: SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NAUGHT AVAILETH Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be in you smoke conceal'd, Your comrades chase 'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through crecks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly. But westward, look, the land is bright! —Arthur Hugh Clough The more you study mankind, the greater your wonder that so few go to the poorhouse. The man who hasn't time for public work does the most kicking because somebody else runs the town. "Will your friend share his last drop with you?" asks a cynic. Our friend, the aviator, won't. A juror is a man who decides a case according to the evidence and his opinion of the lawyer. Every man should do at least two fine things if only to lend a little variety to his bragging. Too many "charitable" people feel cheated if they don't get a dollar's worth of gratitude for their money. Famous last words: "Now that I've poured the kerosene on, I'll have a good fire in a moment." Yet any girl obsessed with a desire to go to Hollywood can work up a spicy little scandal right at home. It is easy to tell when you are approaching a center of culture and art. The billboards become more numerous. The strange part is that the Dutch boy who thrust his finger in the dike leak did it when no reporters were about. When a man says the low-down element is running the organization, he means only that he has lost control. Correct this sentence: "It was only a nut that needed tightening," said the plumber, "and a quarter will be enough." The current controversy of the "modernists" and the "fundamentalists" over the Bible recalls the story of the Scotch Presbyterian parishioner who formed a secession with a few others unable to accept the doctrines of the church. But when the pastor, friendly interested, called on this man and asked him if he and the others worshiped together, the answer was: "No, the fact is, I found that they accepted certain points to which I could not agree, so I withdrew from communion with them." "So, then," the clergyman continued, "I suppose you and your wife carry on your devotions together at home?" "No, not exactly," the man admitted. "I found that our views on certain doctrines were not in harmony. So there has been a division between us. Now she worships in the northeast corner of the room and I in the southwest." This is the favorite golf story of Chick Evans or Gene Sarazen, we forget which. "Fore!" yelled the golfer, "ready to play. But the womaa on the course paid no attention. "Fore!" he shouted again with no effect. "Ah," suggested his opponent in disgust, "try her once with '398.'" A traveler in the South stopped to chat with Uncle Mose, an aged negro, whom he met in the road. "I suppose you were once a slave," he said after a while. "Yes, suh," Uncle Mose responded. "And, so, after the war, you gained your freedom," the visitor continued. Uncle Mose shook his head sadly. "No sub," he declared, "Not persistently. I didn't get mah freedom suh, after the war—I done got married." MONDAY, JANUARY TWENTY-ONE, 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... RIVALING THE SUN ARTIFICALLY—Berkeley Gazette It is now well known to poultrymen that hens may be made to lay more egg by lighting their pens electrically to reduce the hours of darkness. It is found now that a plant's *working day* may be lengthened in the same way. Experiments conducted by the Westinghouse Company, in collaboration with Columbia University, have shown that flowers and vegetables can be "forced" through artificial sunlight. They can be put to sleep by darkness and awakened at will by light. Flowers can be made to bloom at any predetermined time. Vegetables can be produced when wanted, by supplying the light on dark days, especially in the winter, and can be matured in less time than nature ordinarily takes for the process. Sunshine is light and heat both. The artificial light contains little heat, but that is a simple matter—the heat is supplied by the usual bot-house methods. The usual procedure is to let the forced plants sleep for an hour after dark, then turn on the light for several hours, then let them sleep again until daylight comes. Light of about one-fourth of the sun's intensity is used. No doubt human beings respond to light no less than plants, though the effects are less obvious. The medical profession is only beginning to adapt light of various colors and it sensities to the cure of disease. Our posterity may use artificial sunlight in the winter to lengthen the day and promote the health of both body and mind. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT MARGE Once I knew a kindred spirit, Joyous, vibrant, free. A happy, roguish, loving nymph; But she's forgotten me. Once we scampered hand in hand O'er rocks or sat 'neath tree, To whisper little thoughts of joy; But she's forgotten me. Once we strolled by harvest moon, In God-sent ecstacy Of life, and love, and happiness; But she's forgotten me. Once her brown eyes looked in mine And said, "You have the key To open wide this heart o' mine." Now she's forgotten me. So I sit in solitude, And dream in reverie Of golden hours in days agon; Since she's forgotten me. And as my mind is wont to dwell On her sweet memory, I sigh and try hard not to think That she's forgotten me. —J. B. Dusenberry Once I knew a kindred spirit, Joyous, vibrant, free. A happy, roguish, loving nymph; But she's forgotten me. Once we scampered hand in hand O'er rocks or sat 'neath tree, To whisper little thoughts of joy; But she's forgotten me. Once we strolled by harvest moon, In God-sent ecstacy Of life, and love, and happiness; But she's forgotten me. Once her brown eyes looked in mine So I sit in solitude, And dream in reverie Of golden hours in days agon; Since she's forgotten me. And as my mind is wont to dwell On her sweet memory, I sigh and try hard not to think That she's forgotten me. —J. B. Dusenberry One historian says there never was an Adam and Eve. Well, then, upon whom are we going to blame all our troubles? MARCELETTE He did not like the theater; but he often went. He did not like to play Mah-Jong; but he often played it. He hated to dance; but he did dance. He never enjoyed concerts; but went to them. He loathed exhibitions of paintings; but he went to them. Why did he do all these things? He was mavried and his wife made him. HOT FIGHTING: The rebels now claim that had it not been for the loss of their ablest commander, Gen. Pimiento, they would certainly have won the battle of Tabasco. —From A. P. report. Santa Fe Through the heart of romantic America East and there are all year excursions at reduced round trip rates to midcontinent and Atlantic Coast points Stopovers anywhere Fred Harvey meals for details and reservations C. 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