oc-plain-dealer 1924-01-26

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS The blessing falls; we call it tribulation, And fancy that we occur a sorrow's yoke, Even at the moment of our consecration. George Parsons Lathrop ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL TEMPLE Another beautiful temple is being erected in Anaheim, the First Christian church. Construction is well under way at the corner of Broadway and Helena st. The cornerstone will be laid at 2:30 p.m. Sunday by C. W. Canble, one of the leaders of the Christian denomination. The pastor, Rev. Leon L. Myers, will have charge of the impressive ceremonies. The structure will be commodious and modern in every particular, designed to take care of the denomination in rapidly growing Anaheim for some time. Such ambitions enterprise is to be commended. May Anaheim see more such beautiful church buildings. LABOR PARTY TO RULE IN BRITAIN The House of Commons formally has voted lack of confidence in the Conservative government, headed by Stanley Baldwin. The way is cleared for a Labor party government—which will be the first of its kind in the history of Great Britain. J. Ramsay Macdonald seems destined to be the first Labor Premier of Britain. This departure in government will be watched with the keenest interest throughout the civilized world. The Labor party in Britain numbers several able leaders, and it has the co-operation of the Liberals. Government from a new source and from a new angle is to be tested. Friends of labor hope to see the venture succeed. Mexico has been held up to the world as a "shining example" of peace and progress. Shall it go back again to the position of "horrible example?" DEADLINESS OF TRAFFIC IS HORRIFYING This departure in government will be watched with the keenest interest throughout the civilized world. The Labor party in Britain numbers several able leaders, and it has the co-operation of the Liberals. Government from a new source and from a new angle is to be tested. Friends of labor hope to see the venture succeed. Mexico has been held up to the world as a "shining example" of peace and progress. Shall it go back again to the position of "horrible example?" DEADLINESS OF TRAFFIC IS HORRIFYING Fifteen thousand persons killed last year in traffic accidents on the streets and highways of America; 1,700,000 injured. One person killed in traffic every 28 minutes. These are appalling figures. They should give pause to every thinking person. These figures, of themselves, should impel the masses of the people to demand safer traffic conditions. Reforms will not be made, as they should be made, until and unless the people make insistent demand for betterment. Fifteen thousand killed in one year! A death every 28 minutes. One million seven hundred thousand injured. Surely, these heart-rending statistics of traffic should impel the people to hold their representatives to strict accountability for the manner in which they enforce—or fail to enforce—the traffic regulations. If the entire population of a city of 15,000 inhabitants were destroyed by a tidal wave, or an earthquake, the world would be shocked greatly. And yet, each and every year, in this land, 15,000 lives go out in the merciless mazes of death-dealing traffic. PLAIN PLATE BEVELED PLATE SHOCKS RESILVERING Santa Ana Art Glass Works Phone 591-W C. M. Scott 1204 E. 4th St. Advisory Service for Everyone--- Advisory Service for Everyone--- BANKS SUCH AS THESE, THROUGH THEIR CONTACT WITH MANY DEPOSITORS — INCLUDING FARMERS AND BUSINESS MEN ENGAGED IN VARIED LINES—GAIN MUCH INFORMATION THAT DOES NOT ORDINARILY COME TO ANY ONE MAN IN A SINGLE LINE OF BUSINESS. WE ARE ALWAYS GLAD TO SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH OUR FRIENDS. MANY OF OUR DEPOSITORS ARE FINDING THE FRIENDLY ASSOCIATION WITH OUR OFFICERS AND A MUTUAL EXCHANGE OF IDEAS OF ASSISTANCE IN SOLVING THEIR EVERY-DAY BUSINESS PROBLEMS. FREE "ADVISORY SERVICE" IS PART OF OUR REGULAR "BANKING SERVICE." MAY WE SERVE YOU IN THIS WAY? COMBINED RESOURCES OVER $4,272,000.00 FIRST NATIONAL BANK AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK of Anaheim SAVINGS COMMERCIAL SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS URES pt Sunday Publisher Plain Dealer SATU Subscript Entered "DARN THOSE REBEL BUZZARDS!" UNDER THE REVOLUTIONICS AMERICAN OIL & MINING INTERESTS IN MEXICO PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) Isn't there a Muscle Shoals or something like that to pacify Hurah? A lick town is a place where the man with the manicured nails is a drummer. After all, perhaps the proper study of mankind is a boarding-house bath-tub. The Mexican method is deplorable. It is so much cheaper to stuff the ballot boxes. Don't ridicule a popular song. The music was stolen from numerous old masters. Ponxi and Doc Cook are out of business, but you can still lend money to relatives. The boss is the one over there who gnaws a cigar in order to look fierce and profound while loafing. Modernizing fighting ships is not such a big job. The same old gangplank is retained. A bachelor is much like a married man, except that he thinks all infants neuter gender. The objection to saying it with flowers in love affairs is that the flowers get the caressing. When the world is sane, there will be medals for the man who keeps seven children in shoes. You don't realize how small a man is until you discover what insignificant people he hates. ABE MARTIN LIVE AND LET LIVE We've made a heap o' progress since holdin' hands wuz regarded as about th' last stop this side o' th' altar. Mother kin flare up, but thank goodness she can't find another job as quick as a hired girl. DINNER STORIES Some jokes are immortal. A few years ago someone wrote in French Canadian dialect the story of the talking dog. It concerned a son who, wishing to visit the city, told his father that a man down there was teaching dogs to talk. Why not have their dog taught this accomplishment? The father grew enthusiastic and supplied the funds. The son returned without the dog. "Father," he said, "it was true. Our dog learned to talk beautifully. But what do you suppose was the first thing he said? He started to tell everyone that he'd seen you kissing our hired girl behind the door. I couldn't stand for that and I got so mad that I killed him. "My son, you did right," said the father. Will Irvin said recently that this joke has been traced back through medieval French, late Latin classical Greek, clear to the Sanskrit. An Indian town in the old days boasted of two characters—an official mean man who never did a good deed if it was possible to do a mean one, and an official optimist who had never been heard to speak an evil word of any human. In the fullness of time the bad man died. On the day of his funeral the usual crowd gathered at the postoffice to await the distribution of mail. Naturally, the life and works of the late unlamented came under discussion. The deceased was painted as a miser, a liar, a thief, a scandal-monger, and a back-biter. The optimist, who was present listen- Modernizing fighting ships is not such a big job. The same old gangplank is retained. A bachelor is much like a married man, except that he thinks all infants neuter gender. The objection to saying it with flowers in love affairs is that the flowers get the caressing. When the world is sane, there will be medals for the man who keeps seven children in shoes. You don't realize how small a man is until you discover what insignificant people he hates. Divorce: Proof that people found out about one another before they got used to one another. Another eternal triangle which demands attention consists of an amateur hunter, a shotgun and a wire fence. An experienced husband is one who can guess what in thunder his wife is weeping about now. If only Father Winter had been content with that G. O. P. slogan, "Let well enough alone." Let's have no dealings with the murderous reds. They have a nasty way of talking about our lynchings. That superiority complex does not mean that you are a wonder, but only that you associate with 'two by fours.' ENJOYED A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP "I wish to say that FOLEY PILLS worked O. K. on me in a couple of hours and the pains left me at once. I took a couple of them in the afternoon, went to bed and had a good night's sleep and have slept good ever since," writes Con Thiel, 118 E. Columbia St., Fort Wayne, Indiana. FOLEY PILLS are a diuretic stimulant for the kidneys and will increase their acidity. Refuse substitutes. Sold at Heying's Pharmacy. Leonards and Co. Offer (Subject) 1000 Gwenwood . . . $ .05 5 Julian Petr. . . 67.50 5 Twin Bell . . 42.50 2 Julian Pico . . 37.50 1000 Port Lobos . . 40 5 Fifty-fifty . . 20.00 5 Miracle . . 7.50 500 Eresno United . . 65 2090 West Seaboard Bld. 12 Snowolene Oil . . 18.00 200 Harvey Rim . . 20 5 Kings Food . . 25.00 5 Imp Cotton com . . 45.00 8 Mtg tcd . . . 8 U Mtg com. for 100.00 25 Acme Signal Bld. 25 Gilmore Oil . . 25.00 3 White Star Ref. 2 pfd & 1 cm 125.00 WANTED (Net—No Commissions) 15 See Tr & Sav, at $308.00 9 C. C. Julian No. 1 27.50 5 Daneiger Units ... 125.00 100 Julian Pump ..... 60 4 Industrial No. 1 ... 10.00 2 Co-Operative No. 3 ... 10.00 5 Henderson Pet. ... 110.00 We Are Active in All Markets' Leonards and Co. Stocks & Bonds 228-229 Spurgeon Bldg. Santa Ana Tel. 3290 E. E. HEINZE BUILDING CONTRACTOR Established 1906 Homes built on Easy Terms Free Plans and Suggestions 1114 W. Center St., Anaheim Phone 450-R SATURDAY, JAN. TWENTY-SIXTH, 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 REASONING WITH FARMERS—Kansas City Times The head of a farm organization in a North Missouri county said recently: "The trouble I have with the farmers is to get them to use their brains—to think. They are mad clear through, and naturally it is difficult to get them to listen to reason." The speaker then talked about taxation, and the wastefulness of the state legislatures. What could be done about it? The farmer was told of Amendment No. 2 to the state constitution, which is to be voted on February 26, to limit the expenditures of the Legislature for clerk hire. In former years the expenses of the General Assembly has been nearly $1500 a day. The proposed amendment would limit the expenditure of the house to $400 a day and the senate to $800 a day—a net saving of about $500 a day. "I never heard of that," said the farmer in surprise. "Guess I have something to tell the farmers about—something that will benefit them directly." The head of the farm organization possibly was right. There are many things that may be done to help them. What the farmer lacks is someone to tell him what to do and how to do it, then maybe he will listen to reason. ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT "Chorus Girl Will Give Address," says a headline. But a lot of old guys wouldn't give a nickel for any chorus girl's address. Anyhow, maybe it won't be the same next week. When a full-grown man starts to pound a little sense into a boy, that's just what he does pound in—a little. When the papers used to say that a man was knocked out by a bottle they meant that somebody had hit him over the head with it. One expert says Swiss cheese has not gong up in price. Perhaps not, but the holes are a good deal larger than they used to be. They tell us that about 30 percent of the motion picture activities now take place in New York, and that Hollywood is losing ground very rapidly. The colony itself is slowly but surely moving eastward. When they have all left Hollywood, the Wild West will be gone. SLASHING PRICE REDUCTIONS ON PREST-O-LITE AND COLUMBIA BATTERIES Compare these prices with any others!! Make of Car Prest-O-Lite Prices Columbia Prices Ford, 490 Chevrolet, Buick 4, Durant 4, and others $20.00 $14.85 Buick 6, Chandler, Durant 6, Hudson, Hupmobile, Studebaker, Maxwell, and others $24.55 $18.65 Dodge, Franklin, and others $30.00 $22.65 Official Headlight Adjusting Station, No. 155 We Specialize in Tuning Up of CARBURETOR AND IGNITION Generators, Starting Motors Repaired by Experts Rayfield Carburetors Radio Parts and Equipment ROBT. V. JENSEN Carburetor and Ignition Work 242 East Center Street Anaheim, California POWER POWER thrill W. R. 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