oc-plain-dealer 1924-02-07

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS To Shield, not shun; to save, not lose; No duty willingly refuse; To pray with tears, to work with smiles, Make sweet and pure what now defiles; To plant a flower, to pluck a weed, As on we pass—this is our creed. —Abbie A. Gould LAY BARE SCANDALS AND MAKE REFORMS That Teapot Dome deal should be the pivot upon which reform should swing. There should be a thorough cleaning with respect of transactions affecting the public. This scandal shows what transpired in one very openable deal. There may be other questionable deals. Public wants to know. The public has a right to know the public's business. There should be no sidestepping leading, in any quarter. Above all, there should be no from Politics. The people's business should be transacted an uncesslike way. There should be honesty and honor in every lease or other transaction affecting the public. Teapot Dome leads to a complete reformation and a cleansing, wherever cleansing may be needed in safe interests of the public with reference to the public. The nauseous business will have served a good purpose in handling of the public's business be lifted above cion of graft, corruption, or impropriety in any form. Enduring peace throughout the world will come only through a consistent, persistent longing, insisting and deeding, on the part of the masses of mankind, that wars and clauses of wars shall be wiped out once for all. SYMBOLS OF AMERICA ARE ITS GREAT ONES A character like Woodrow Wilson symbolizes the government and people, the power and the greatness of this country. SYMBOLS OF AMERICA ARE ITS GREAT ONES A character like Woodrow Wilson symbolizes the government and people, the power and the greatness of this country to other nations and peoples. Aliens have hazy notions about the American government and people. But they can grasp one great, solitary figure. Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were great symbols of America during these later days. Abraham Lincoln was, in his day. Alien peoples, living in distant lands, looked to these shores and millions gathered their estimate of this country, its government, its institutions and its people, from these outstanding figures. Well for the United States that this country and all that it holds sacred should be symbolized in its truly great men and women. For they, in their lives, exalt the virtues which appeal strongly everywhere. They stand for America. And their lives and their ideals make this land resplendent throughout the world. "Say it with flowers" of praise while great persons are not living. Do not be cruelly captious and unappreciative toward them in life and save all the plaudits for them after they have passed beyond hearing. PLAIN PLATE BEVELED PLATE SHOCKS RESILVERING Santa Ana Art Glass Works Phone 591-W C. M. Scott 1204 E. 4th St. DUTCHESS TROUSERS ONE DIME PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) A radical is a man who wishes he had what the conservative has. At present there is but one Latin country in armed rebellion against Uncle Sam. Arbitration is what you believe in if you think you can't lick the other fellow. If you wish to know a man's income, ask him where the surtax should begin. Things are different here. You never hear congress asking for a vote of confidence. As we understand it, the money speculators in Germany are living on the flat of the land. The best way to preserve your faith in your fellow man is to insist that he sign on the dotted line. Don't despair. The most celebrated wit is stupid much more frequently than he is brilliant. Habit is what makes a smoker reach under the covers to strike a match on his foot. Money isn't everything unless you are having an argument with a dry agent. Still, it must be admitted that skill is required to write 100,000 words than mean "sex." Another proof of determination and persistence is a diamond on the third finger of the left hand. DUTCHESS TROUSERS 10 Cents Button $1.00 Rip. Sound Judgment is just as necessary in the selection of your wearing apparel as it is in meeting your everyday business problems. It is a pleasure to serve people who buy values rather than low prices. Economy is the order of the day. Separate trousers spell economy. Invest in a pair of Dutchess Trousers—it will evidence good judgment on your part. "All sizes to select from" F.A.Y.U.NGBLUTE "BY ALL MEANS GET A FIT" The Home of Hart Schaffner and Marx Clothes 145 W. CENTER ST. Don't despair. The most celebrated wit is stupid much more frequently than he is brilliant. Habit, is what makes a smoker reach under the covers to strike a match on his foot. Money isn't everything unless you are having an argument with a dry agent. Still, it must be admitted that skill is required to write 100,000 words than mean "sex." Another proof of determination and persistence is a diamond on the third finger of the left hand. Dictionaryaries are funny. In defining a radical, ours doesn't even mention his hatred of railroads. Scandal: The thing that is called ugly gossip in a village and sensational news in a metropolis. The returns are not all in, but indications are that filling stations did about as well during thrift week. The latest alibi is that of the Kansas man who courted a vamp to make his wife worry and thus help her to reduce. For Choking Asthma New Discovery Gives Quick Relief and Comfort, Often in 24 Hours Asthma, Hay Fever and Catarrh are responsible for much misery and failing health. If you are a sufferer from wheezing, sneezing, difficult breathing, hawking, raising phelgm, etc., to prove that you can stop these troubles quickly and easily with the pleasant, scientific Florence Formula, I will send you a $1 bottle postpaid and free of charge or obligation. If it satisfies, tell your friends and pay me only One Dollar, otherwise the loss is mine. Merely send your name today for this liberal free introductory offer—good only for 10 days. F. SHEARER, 7028 Coca Cola Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. RES Sunday Publisher. Plaintiff Dealer THURSDAY Subscription Entered at t THERE'S A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW FOR HIM SMALL TAX PAYER 25% TAX REDUCTION ON ALL 1923 PERSONAL INCOMES - EMERGENCY PROVISION Timely View "Feeling Created Between Prisoner and Law Helps Make Prison Situation Serious" "That the subject of prison is great and a grave one that is no doubt, but we make greater and a graver one by establishing factional feeling between the governing and the arrested—the man in power trying to overweigh him shorn of power so says Dr. B. Ogden Chishan member of the international prison commission, in a recent article. "The subject of prison is one of which the public knows but little. It is too busy making money, selling automobiles, each fellow has some private scheme to try and reform brother; and all this takes us great deal of time and thought." "Most of the prisons that exist in the country today were built at a time when people believed that when a man committed a crime he was possessed the devil, and any place was given enough to put him in. Some them are veritable traps of case and death, where no respecting persons would keep dog over night, and yet into the foul-smelling places we sent men to spend their lives. Can wonder that prisoners are inclined to rebel and that riots and turbances occur once in a while. Riots are caused usually by justice on the part of the governing classes or improper classification, placing an insane man among a group of normal ones." Prisons Very Much Alike "There really is very little parity the world over in the handling of prisoners. They are pretty much alike; that is, THE POOR WAYFARER WAS ABOUT TO GIVE UP THE UNEQUAL STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE - TO TAKE THE COUNT- CAIN IN- TO LAY DOWN AND DIE-HIS BURDEN HAD BEcome ALMOST UNBEARABLE - WHEN JUDDENLY A RAY OF LIGHT STABBED THE STYGIAN GLOOM-WITH A GREAT SHOUT OF JOY HE AROSE AND STRuggled ON WITH RENEWED HOPE AND VIGOR-HE HAD NOT BEEN FORGOTTEN+ GRAPHICS By Robert Quillen) ABE MARTIN STUDENTS GET OPERA AT COST CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—"Opera at cost" for high school students, an innovation in the movement to make good music as popular as jazz with the coming generation of critics and patrons, received its world premiere here recently. Chicago civic opera stars probably never sang to a more enthusiastic and appreciative audience than that which filled the huge auditorium at the first performance. Nearly 4000 students were there to hear "Hansel and Gretel" in English, the Humperdink opera, with whose score and story they were thoroughly familiar, to judge by the appreciative silences and well-timed roars of applause. There were children of every class and many races, and it was quite apparent they enjoyed every minute of the performance. Women seem t' succeed at everything 'cept standin' back when passengers are tryin' t' git out of an elevator. Th' worst thing about readin' in bed, next t' rememberin' where we left off th' night before, is ruinin' th' eyesight. POEMS THAT LIVE THE PLOUGH Above you sombre swell of land Thou see'st the dawn's grace orange hue, CROSS EYES CORRECTED THIS MUSCULAR DEFECT CORRECED AND STRAIN RELEIVED BY PROPERLY ADJUSTED GLASSES. DR. W. R. BLAKELY OPTOMETRIST ANAHEIM CALL Respecting persons would keep dog over night, and yet into the foul-smelling places we sent men to spend their lives. Can wonder that prisoners are inclined to rebel and that riots and turbances occur once in a while. Riots are caused usually by justice on the part of the government classes or improper classification, placing an insane man among a group of normal ones. Prisons Very Much Alike "There really is very little parity the world over in the handling of prisoners. They are pretty much alike; that is, they are the products of the brothel home, neglected as it were from childhood. One of the great questions in the proper handling of prisoners is the length of time that he should stay behind bars. Bars. Modern views of malefactor considering his life convince us that the prisoner is mentally sick and he need treatment more than he need punishment, but the antiqual view is that time is a cure for crime. There never was a great fallacy. No judge has a right sentence a man looked upon normal to a definite sentence without some means of light ing that sentence when the mans is ready to be released. How to Repay Victim? Another problem that never been fully thrashed out during the handling of prisoners, yet it seems to be one that should be foremost in the minds of people, is: How may we make delinquent indemnify his victim? If a man steals a silver platter worth $100 and pawns it $50, and then upon squandering the money, is arrested and put prison, it seems as if some scheme could be worked out to make a prisoner earn $100 to be given back to the owner of the plate. "The question is how this can be done. As a matter of fact, the prisoner becomes at once on terring the prison a debtor to state, which feeds him clothes him and amuses him. That is the first charge against the inmate. The second charge is a sufficient sum put aside out his earnings for the man who he is released to keep him free becoming a pauper and a burden upon the community, otherwise he will soon be in again and come a recidivist. Part of the sum from time to time shoot go to the support of his dependents. If after all this is done there is anything left, it should go to indemnify the owner of the plate." Correct this sentence: "No matter, if you are rich," said she, won't marry you until you have some regular and useful job." POEMS THAT LIVE THE PLOUGH Above you sombre swell of land Thou see'st the dawn's grave orange hue, With one pale streak like yellow sand, And over that a vein of blue. The air is cold above the woods, All silent is the earth and sky, Except with his own lonely moods The blackbird holds a colloquy. Over the broad hill creeps a beam, Like hope that gilds a good man's brow: And now ascends the nostril-stream Of stalwart horses come to plough. Ye rigid Ploughmen, bear in mind Your labour is for future hours: Advance—spare not—nor look behind— Plough deep and straight with all your powers! —Richard Henry Horne FRUIT TREES And Ornamental Plants Largest assortment of varieties in Southern California. All select, healthy stock, guaranteed true to name. Plant now for best results. Illustrated catalog on application. Orange County Nursery Co., 835 N. Los Angeles St.; Phone 654-J. Anaheim. MIDWAY CITY 4 hours Tour FREE See a City in the making Lot Prices Increase $200 Feb.10 MIDWAY CITY BUSSES LEAVE123 North Los Angeles St., Anaheim daily at 2 p.m. H. HARRIS, Anaheim, Sales Agent 123 No. Los Angeles THURSDAY, FEBRUARY SEVENTH, 1924 Subscription Rate—In N. Orange co., per year, $3; 6 months, $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as second class matter. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS What Editors Are Saying WAR'S PITIFUL REMINDERS—Riverside (Cal.) Press A woman engaged in the preliminaries of house-cleaning opened a desk drawer. Among the first objects that met her eyes was a photograph of a fine young chap about 30 years old, dressed in khaki, standing by his horse's head, smiling. Tears blotted out the spring sunshine that had inspired her housewifely efforts. That smiling, confident young face has lain under French soil for nearly six years. The woman had a sudden vision of all the women in this and other countries whose spring housecleaning will involve the handling of just such heart-wringing tokens. "It came to me with fresh force," she said later, "that this is what war really means—the slaughter of youth, and heart-broken wives and mothers 'carrying-on' alone, and crying over keepsakes. I felt a sudden quickening of righteous rage that in all this time we have come no nearer to the prevention of wars and the firm establishment of peace. "It makes no difference where the mothers and wives are. They have suffered enough. They all feel the same. They all want peace. Surely if all the women to whom this homely task of house-cleaning has meant a re-opening of their wounds will work together and refuse to be misled by greedy interests or ambitious politicians, we can save the next generation of women the agony of such pitiful souvenirs as we must handle." ON THE SPUR OF MOMENT "YOU DON'T SAY SO!" In apartment houses many are chilled but few are frozen. It is a wise man who sends his daughter to Europe for music lessons. It does away with a lot of useless racket around the house. Many a woman can truthfully say that when she loosens her hair it falls to the floor—even if she has to stoop over afterward and pick it up. A despondent man committed suicide the other day by tipping a wafer a dime. Genius has invented a self-tapping cigarette for the benefit of lazy actors. When a man buys a cottage on the installment plan some people refer to him as a cottage cheese. Enforcement agents in Philadelphia now wear dress suits, but "YOU DON'T SAY SO!" In apartment houses many are chilled but few are frozen. It is a wise man who sends his daughter to Europe for music lessons. It does away with a lot of useless racket around the house. Many a woman can truthfully say that when she loosens her hair it falls to the floor—even if she has to stoop over afterward and pick it up. A despondent man committed suicide the other day by tipping a waiter a dime. Genius has invented a self-tapping cigarette for the benefit of lazy actors. When a man buys a cottage on the installment plan some people refer to him as a cottage cheese. Enforcement agents in Philadelphia now wear dress suits, but they are easily recognized, for the dress suits are all rented and don't fit. No man's as bad as he's psycho-analyzed. Helen of Troy had a great reputation for beauty, but she never had to ride all night in a pullman. Even a woman who's not naturally religious can't help praying that motha won't get into the fur coat she bought during the January sales. The real test of a man's love comes when he has to carry a mattress upstairs. It's not hard to give up one's seat in the subway to a stunning blonde, but the stunning blondes seem to have other means of conveyance. EMILE COUE (Himself) Every day in every way, I am getting better and better—" Lecture and Demonstration SANTA ANA HIGH SCHOOL Saturday eve, Feb. 9th ONLY APPEARANCE IN ORANGE COUNTY Tickets $2 and $1 plus tax SEAT SALE AT SANTA ANA BOOK STORE The Business of Banking The Business of Banking THE AVERAGE PERSON USUALLY LOOKS UPON A BANK MERELY AS A PLACE WHERE HE CAN DEPOSIT HIS MONEY FOR SAFE-KEEPING. WE WANT THESE BANKS TO MEAN MORE THAN THAT TO YOU. WE WANT YOU TO LOOK UPON US AS A BUSINESS FRIEND AND COUNSELOR, TO WHOM YOU CAN COME FOR INFORMATION ON FINANCIAL MATTERS, WHERE YOU CAN BORROW FOR LEGITIMATE NEEDS, WHERE YOU CAN INVEST YOUR SURPLUS FUNDS IN SOUND BONDS AT A GOOD RATE OF INCOME—IN SHORT, WHERE YOU CAN GET ASSISTANCE AND SERVICE IN ALL YOUR FINANCIAL DEALINGS. 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