oc-plain-dealer 1924-03-31

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS Life is blessedness. The life of the lower nature see call pleasure—the blessedness of the bird and the butterfly. The life of the social nature we call happiness—the blessedness of the fortunate and successful. The life of the spiritual nature—activity in usefulness, care, duty,—we call joy. CORDIALITY RESTORED WITH MEXICO Charles B. Warren, United States ambassador to Mexico, has arrived in the City of Mexico, ready to function as the official diplomatic representative of the United States government. Thus will be restored official relations between the two governments which have been severed for several years. Mr. Warren was given an enthusiastic welcome to the Mexican capital and his presence there is expected to promote friendship and cordiality between the two countries. With stable government and orderly constitutional processes in Mexico, and with that country treating justly Americans and their interests, there is no reason why friendship between the two countries; and desires to foster warm friendly. The United States has no design of conquest upon Mexico. This country desires to see the independence of Mexico maintained; desires to see mutually beneficial commerce grow between the two countries; and desire to foster warm friendship between Americans and Mexicans. When the masses of Mexicans learn the real drift of sentiment in this country; when they realize fully that neither the government nor the people of the United States desires to subjugate them or to treat them wrongfully in any way—when these things are comprehended, below the Rio Grande, the way will be clearer to sustained understanding and cordiality between the two neighbor republics. The United States has no design of conquest upon Mexico. This country desires to see the independence of Mexico maintained; desires to see mutually beneficial commerce grow between the two countries; and desire to foster warm friendship between Americans and Mexicans. When the masses of Mexicans learn the real drift of sentiment in this country; when they realize fully that neither the government nor the people of the United States desires to subjugate them or to treat them wrongfully in any way—when these things are comprehended, below the Rio Grande, the way will be clearer to sustained understanding and cordiality between the two neighbor republics. The United States Senate, while it is in an investigating mood might well investigate its legislative calendar and note how far behind it is in transaction of legislative business. RAINFALL IS GENEROUS AND FREQUENT Copious rains, up and down the state, with generous fall of snow on the mountains—this dispels fears, washes the ground from under the pessimist and shows the rainbow to the optimist. Providence may give this state a very agreeable surprise. Precipitation may come up to full normal before the dry weather of summer sets in. This is not at all improbable. The fact that heavy rainfalls began late, may foreshadow a prolonged rainy season. It may rain much during April and May. The ways of Providence are not to be defined and laid out by past averages or by weather charts for the last 50 years. April and May may not have brought much precipitation in the past. But these two months may bring a great deal of moisture this year. It is a time for sincere rejoicing and for profound thanks to Deity who sends "the early and the latter rain." There is no reason now to nurse fears as to water supply for the coming year. This is assured. But the people of California should not be lulled into a false sense of security. Active steps should be taken to conserve surplus water throughout the state. Every rain cloud has a silver lining and a fringe of gold for California. It should be possible to clean house at Washington without splashing the mud over persons of clean character. It would be a very oleaginous oil magnate who would be able to becloud the judgment of Curtis D. Wilbur and induce him to enter into a questionable lease of any part of the public domain. "The Merchant is the Mariner of business—his Ballast is Credit—his Mooring the Bank" "The Merchant is the Mariner of business—his Ballast is Credit—his Mooring the Bank" Shrewd business men of Anaheim know the value of proper "ballast" and of "mooring" to a strong Bank. For thirty years, these banks have helped them buffet the storms of business, and each year have grown stronger through added experience and increasing resources. Each year a larger number of Anaheim's "mariners of business" "tie up" with us. You, too, can find a safe "mooring" here. FIRST NATIONAL BANK AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK of Anaheim SAVINGS SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS COMMERCIAL COMBINED RESOURCES EXCEED $4,270,000 RES at Sunday Publisher Plaintiff Dealer BEN, BEN, BROTHER BEN, SHOT AT A CROW AND HIT A HEN!" OIL AND DEPT. OF JUSTICE SCANDALS CAW-CAW! DAUGHERTY INVESTIGATION BANG! BANG! TEAPOT DOME PUBLIC CONFIDENCE SOUARK! HEYBE KEERFUL SI-!!! WHOS WILL BE THE DAYS MAIN WILLIAM M. BUTLER The present year looms a busy one for William M. For the man selected to do campaign of President for nomination at the Re convention has also been the Massachusetts senator to strengthen the Republic in that state. His inten run for the senatorial s held by David I. Walsh, D has just been announced will seek re-election. Until Coolidge asked he lead his campaign for not little was known general Butler. He is one of the wealth men in New England. H and has been twice mar has five children. Butler's parents were When he finished his school education in New Mass., he entered a there as bookkeeper. On ber of the firm, Rufus A took a liking to "Young Soule had political ambition got Butler to manage Paign for election to the ture. Butler is given c Soule's success in politics ter eventually becoming p of the state senate. Butler law, meanwhile, and b practice it in New Bedford to decide that he might s death. So We turned to po At 28 he was elected state legislature. He had three years as city coun New Bedford before that ARAGRAPHS of the best cures for loss story is to have the deserted herit money. a disappointing world, and eek can give a shoe the polgives an apple. can say one thing for the commandments. It never is ry to write them in code. good doctor is one who what drug to use to overthe effect of the one he esterday. 's definition of love: The on that it is easier to keep than to work behind a only race that seems to set er pace in spite of a mudk is a political race. when a stubborn jit stalls tracks and won't start, some satisfaction in sitting bank and watching it hapwe press agents were inthe actress who lost her couldn't find them on the age. imigration won't afages permanently unless dy has some influence with ery. note that the steel comloss, resulting from the ABE MARTIN DINNER STORIES An old lady in the London parish of the famous Doctor Gill made a nuisance of herself by constant interference in the affairs of others. As a gossip she was no-torious. It appeared to her that the neckbands worn by the doctor were longer than was fitting. She thereforeet ook occasion to visit the clergyman, and harangued him at length on the sinfulness of pride. Then she exhibited a pair of scissors, and suggested that she should cut down the offending neckbands to a size fitting her ideas of propriety. The doctor listened patiently to her exhortation, and at the end offered her the neckbands on which to work her will. She triumphantly trimmed them to her taste, and returned the shorn remnants to the minister. "And now," said the doctor, "you must do me a good turn also." "That I will, doctor," the woman declared heartily. "What can it be?" "Well," the clergyman explained, "you have something about you which is a deal too long and which causes me and many others such trouble that I should like to see it shorter." "Indeed, dear doctor, I shall not hesitate to gratify you. What is it? See, here are the scissors! Use them as you please." "Come, then," said the doctor, "good sister, put out your tongue." SUNSHINE PELLET BY DR. W. F. THOMAS A square meal and belly. Muscle doesn't a "hair make, nor a "hard boiled leader. With the appearance birds and bum poetry, assured. The shoe that gives y the fits is not the shoe the foot. Don't put a dirty salt clean wound nor a clean a dirty wound. Who nurses his wrath it warm usually has a child for his pains. The "skeeter" breeds in cans. In stagnant pools and pans. And in our cast off, crocks. Unless we screen the cri And put the whole darn rout. Our doctor friends will rocks. They've kept 'em covered up so long we don't believe we'd know a school girl complexion if we'd see one. Everthing's fair in love and war, or a garter's slippin'. POEMS THAT LIVE WARREN'S ADDRESS Stand! the ground's your own, my braves! Will ye give it up to slaves? Will ye look for greener graves? Hope ye mercy still? What's the mercy despots feel? Hear it in that battle peal! Read it on you bristling steel! Ask it—ye who will! Fear ye foes who kill for hire? Will ye to your homes retire? Look behind you! they're afire! And before you, see Who have done it! From the vale On they come! and will ye quail? Leaden rain and iron hail Let their welcome be! In the God of battles trust! Die we may—and die we must; But, O, where can dust to dust Be consigned so well As where heaven its dew shall shed On the martyred patriot's bed, And the rocks shall raise their head Of his deeds to tell. —John Pierpont. LINES FROM "THANATOPSIS" So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go, not like the quarry slave at night Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. —William Cullen Bryant. We're painting our houses, repairing our screens, For a little precaution Means dough in our jeans. they come and go "all the way" year after year 6 daily trains to Chicago & Kansas City also through Pullmans to St Louis Denver-Dés Moines-St Paul Minneapolis and Houston On your Santa Fe way you can stop over & visit Grand Canyon National Park-open all the year Fred Harvey Meal service Pullman reservations trains and trip details C. A. WALKER Anabim Pho MONDAY, MARCH THIRTY-FIRST, 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 WILLIAM M. BUTLER The present year looms up as busy one for William M. Butler, for the man selected to direct the campaign of President Coolidge for nomination at the Republican convention has also been put in Massachusetts senatorial fight that state. His intention to run for the senatorial seat now held by David I. Walsh, Democrat, is just been announced. Walsh will seek re-election. Until Coolidge asked Butler to lead his campaign for nomination, the state was known generally about Butler. He is one of the wealthiest millmen in New England. He is 62 and has been twice married and has five children. Butler's parents were not rich. When he finished his common school education in New Bedford, Mass., he entered a mill office there as bookkeeper. One member of the firm, Rufus A. Soule, took a liking to "Young Billy." Soule had political ambitions and not Butler to manage his campaign for election to the legislature. Butler is given credit for Soule's success in politics, the latter eventually becoming president of the state senate. Butler studied law, meanwhile, and began to practice it in New Bedford, only to decide that he might starve to death. So he turned to politics. At 28 he was elected to the state legislature. He had served three years as city councilor in New Bedford before that. Comments of the Press What Editors Are Saying SLANDERING THE PRESIDENT—San Diego Union Calvin Coolidge is a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination this year; he is also President of the United States. It seems that certain pitifully small partisans in Washington remember only the former fact, and forget the latter one. In attacking by innunoendo a Presidential candidate, they have not hesitated to aim their slander at the highest office in the Nation and at the man who holds this office. They have stepped beyond all bounds of decency, and thereby exposed themselves and their motives to public condemnation. Criticism of the President is not wrog; but insinuations against his integrity—insinuations utterly without foundation, and too flimsy to withstand the most cursory investigations—are beneath contempt. Thirty minutes of any Senatorial committee's valuable time would have served to convince every member that the Coolidge telegrams were entirely innocent of any bearing on the scandals now being investigated in Congress. That amount of investigation would have convinced the most obdurate that the President had not the slightest guilty knowledge of any of the obscure transactions that the Senate is busy investigating. But because the President is a candidate for re-election, his name was coupled with sly hints that he might "know something"—the rumor was broadcast one day, and the truth was left to take care of itself. In this country there is no individual so exalted that his actions must be kept immune to public scrutiny; yet surely the office of President is sacred enough that it should be inaccessible to merely idle or vicious innuendo. We are entitled to have a government that we can respect. When an official betrays his trust, his great crime is not measured by the public money he wastes, but—more fundamentally—by the citizenship that he mocks and injures. When an irresponsible scandal-monger strikes at the reputation of a good man in office, he strikes a similar blow at our citizenship, weakens our honest faith, and shakes the respect without which our institutions cannot endure. He, too, is a traitor—and no amount of Congressional immunity can alter that fact. We sincerely believe that President Coolidge is a good man and a good President. We do not believe that he has been "hurt" politically by the bitter and contemptible insinuations of the little men who so lately suggested that they "had something on him." We do resent the activity of those men in broadcasting these ru- Boule had political ambitions and not Butler to manage his campaign for election to the legislature. Butler is given credit for Boule's success in politics, the latter eventually becoming president of the state senate. Butler studied law, meanwhile, and began to practice it in New Bedford, only to decide that he might starve to death. So he turned to politics. At 28 he was elected to the state legislature. He had served three years as city councilor in New Bedford before that. When Butler left the senate Senator Murray W. Crane persuaded him to open law offices in Boston. There he became interested in street railways and eventually became president of the Boston and Worchester Street Railway Co. He has served as legislative counsel for the Boston Gas Light Co., the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and the American Woolen Co. In New Bedford he is president of the Butler mills, the New Bedford Botton Mills, the New Bedford Storage Warehouse Co., and the Mulset Mills—the four most important corporations in that thriving city. He has also been the Massachusetts member of the Republican national committee. SUNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMSON A square meal and a roundelly. Muscle doesn't a "he man" shake, nor a "hard boiled guy" a leader. With the appearance of songs and bum poetry, spring is assured. The shoe that gives your foot the fits is not the shoe that fits the foot. Don't put a dirty salve on a clean wound nor a clean salve on dirty wound. Who nurses his wrath to keep warm usually has a spoiled child for his pain. The "skeeter" breeds in old, tin cans, a stagnant pools and pots and pans. And in our cast off, broken crocks unless we screen the eritter out, and put the whole darn brood to rout. Our doctor friends will get our rocks. President is sacred enough that it should be inaccessible to merely idle or vicious innuendo. We are entitled to have a government that we can respect. When an official betrays his trust, his great crime is not measured by the public money he wastes, but—more fundamentally—by the citizenship that he mocks and injures. When an irresponsible scandal-monger strikes at the reputation of a good man in office, he strikes a similar blow at our citizenship, weakens our honest faith, and shakes the respect without which our institutions cannot endure. He, too, is a traitor—and no amount of Congressional immunity can alter that fact. We sincerely believe that President Coolidge is a good man and a good President. We do not believe that he has been hurt" politically by the bitter and contemptible insinuations of the little men who so lately suggested that they "had something on him." We do resent the activity of those men in broadcasting these rumors to the people. No admirer of the President should feel any bitterness toward honest opponents of his candidacy—but every citizen, regardless of politics, should rightfully protest against the effort to besmirch him by slander. We would like to feel that the investigations now going forward in Congress are honestly directed toward cleaning up the grave irregularities that we believe have existed in certain offices, and toward punishing those guilty of wrongful acts. We would like to believe that this effort is conducted in the open, without immunity for anybody. To see it turned aside, in this fashion, to the meanest kind of political attack, and to an utterly unjustified assault upon the President and his high office, does much to weaken our faith in the whole process. There are times when the investigation smells worse than the affair it is to investigate. This is one of them. 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