oc-plain-dealer 1924-04-16

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS Blest to me were any spot Where temptation whispers not; If there be some weaker one, Give me strength to help him on; If a blinder soul there be, Let me guide him nearer Thee. —Whittier ANIMAL PLAGUE CALLS FOR PUBLIC AID Aid of the public is needed urgently in fighting the foot and mouth disease in this state. Not financial aid—just the use of ordinary thoughtfulness and consideration in co-operating with the constituted authorities in abiding strictly by quarantine rules and by lending any other assistance possible. The quarantine may be somewhat annoying to some—but what is a bit of annoyance, temporarily, compared with the stupendous interests which are threatened by this destructive disorder? The greater the measure of co-operation from the public, the more effective the quarantine will become and the sooner will the malady be brought under control and then the quarantine will end. Public spirit and good citizenship should prompt all to give whatever assistance possible to the swift banishing of this dreadful ailment from California. Study of the United States Constitution should be urged upon all the people, adults as well as children. No true American can be too familiar with the Constitution. "BLOC" DEVELOPMENT IS sooner will the malady be brought under control and then the quarantine will end. Public spirit and good citizenship should prompt all to give whatever assistance possible to the swift banishing of this dread ailment from California. Study of the United States Constitution should be urged upon all the people, adults as well as children. No true American can be too familiar with the Constitution. "BLOC" DEVELOPMENT IS HALTING CONGRESS In studying Congress and analyzing the causes of its inertia it were well to take account of the "bloc" and its logical fruits. A great deal of the delay in legislation at Washington may be laid at the door of "blocs." This does not necessarily demonstrate that the "bloc" must have a conscience in public service—that it must realize its responsibility toward the public. Congress must function with reasonable expeditiousness, or its usefulness is largely nullified. All elements and groups in Congress should be imbued with a sense of obligation to the public to proceed with eye single to the dispatch of public business and to the proper and useful serving of the people. They who habitually try to belittle others show how little they themselves are. The enduring salisfactions of life are derived from the good we do unto others. The life of this Nation should not become infected with the virus of selfishness. The standards of life of the average individual are gauges of the standards of life of the Nation. Too many men are in the United States Senate whose chief claim to distinction is that they foment scandal. There is the assurance in the gift of a Bible that will carry the spirit of the occasion in a most delightful manner. BIBLES PRAYER BOOK RELIGIOUS BOOKS EASTER GREETING CARDS There is the assurance in the gift of a Bible that will carry the spirit of the occasion in a most delightful manner. BIBLES PRAYER BOOK RELIGIOUS BOOKS EASTER GREETING CARDS Anaheim Book Store 228 E. Center St. Anaheim COMING—Tomorrow (Thursday) 7:30 Evangelist Bud Robinson "The Walking Bible" Nazarene Tabernacle North St. at Claudina America's best known preacher—having memorized the New Testament by Heart. Hear Evangelist C. E. Roberts this evening at 7:30 and join a Prof. Johes and choir from Pasadena University. REGULAR SPIRITUALIST SERVICES are being conducted Tuesdays 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.; Sundays 10 a.m., and 7:30 p.m. Lecture and messages. Ethel E. Purdy Meyers FASTOR 512 E. Center St. Phone 1197 CES Sunday Publisher Plain Dealer WEDNESDAY COME ON LIGHTNING—STRIKE!! DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION STORM CLOUDS HAW! DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL POSIBILITIES LIGHTNING ROADS UNDERWOOD — ALA. ROBINSON — ARK. MSADOO — CALIF. SWEET — COL. UMMINGS — CONN. ILL BRYAN — FLA. YOR DEVER OF CHICAGO STON — IND. SMALL — IND. WITHH — IDA A Little Talk on The By S. W. STRAUS (President American Society Thrift) "The United States has the highest percentage of illiterate among enlightened nations in the world." One finds this amazing moment in a report issued by the National Education Ass'n after a survey of illiteracy conditions out the civilized world. The percentage of illiteracy in the United States is given as 6.0; and other nations it is France, England and Wales, 1.8; land, 1.6; Sweden and Norway, 1.0 Netherlands, .9; Denmark. The number of absolute literates is officially given as 5,000, but it has been estimated that there are from 5,000,000 to 15,000,000 additional people whose education is so limited that it practically impossible them to discharge intelligence their duties as citizens in theocracy. No less than 24.5 cent of our young men are so limited in their command of the English language that they are able to read newspapers or letters. The late Franklin K. H., while secretary of the interim estimated that our country losing $825,000,000 a year through illiteracy. He stated that 10 percent of our country folk can read or write, thus cutting off from the benefits of building on agriculture, farm publication newspapers, etc. According to educational thorities illiteracy at its pro-rate of decrease will continue be a national problem in the DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION AGRAPHS ABE MARTIN SUNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMSON When a 30-year-old man has an 80-year-old heart he shouldn't play golf; when an 80-year-old man has a 30-year-old heart, he should. Remembering that the healthy body, during activity, is within itself, even in the coldest weather, wear only sufficient clothing to insure comfort during activity. Most laws, like all babies, are born without teeth. In whom burns the fire of youth, there's seldom need for other. It isn't what one comes across, in this world, but who. To see the average American at supper you'd think it was his last. The RADIO PROGRAM KHJ—THE TIMES 6 to 6:30 p.m. — Art Hickman's Concert Orchestra from the Biltmore Hotel. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. — Children's program presenting Prof. Walter Sylvester Hertzog, stories of American history. Catherine Craig, reader; Selda Anthony, pianist. Dick Winslow, Mary Elizabeth Hughes and Helen Edwina Hughes, singers. Bed-time story by Uncle John. DINNER STORIES The mother called in vain for her young son. Then she searched The late Franklin K. while secretary of the interim estimated that our country is $825,000,000 a year through illiteracy. He stated that 10 percent of our country folk can read or write, thus cutting off from the benefits of built on agriculture, farm publication newspapers, etc. According to educational thorities illiteracy at its pro- rate of decrease will continue be a national problem in the next 100 years. Such widespread illiteracy any material standard, and, as its moral and mental aspects, is forcibly reminded of Addis- words: "The philosopher, saint, the hero, the wise, the giver the great man, very often concealed in a plebeian w proper education might have interred and brought to life." WHOS WHAT IN THE DAY'S NEW REAR ADM. LEIGH C. PALY The new chairman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation sumes his new duties with thorough knowledge of ship conditions generally and the way of the fleet corporation and Shipping Board in particular. Was originally slated to succeed Ed P. Farley as head of the shaping board but was named chief man of the fleet corporation der reorganization plans which will make the board a subsidiary body to the former organization in the future. He has been listed on the shaping board's roster for some time as board director for Brazil. The past three months he has attached to the office of the chapman and, when appointed chapman, had just completed a tour Europe with Edward P. Farley the purpose of investigating shaping conditions there and organizing the U. S. Shipping Board European agencies. He is a native of St. Louis still calls that city his home though he has spent most of time of late years in Washington. He has seen naval service in parts of the globe. He was charge of the bureau of navigation of the navy department during world war, after which service was chief of staff of a division Atlantic battleship fleet. He was born Jan. 11, 1873, graduated from Annapolis 1896. He participated in the tide of Santiago, in the Cuban campaign and the Bicentennial. Fortune smiles on some folks, an' it's no wonder. If th' rich lived as well as th' folks who run in debt wouldn' business be great? DINNER STORIES The mother called in vain for her young son. Then she searched the ground floor, the first story, the second, and the attic—all in vain. Finally, she climbed to the trap door in the roof, pushed it open, and cried: "John Henry, are you out there?" An answer came clearly: "No, mother. Have you looked in the cellar?" The sympathetic and inquisitive old lady at the seashore was delighted and thrilled by an old sailor's narrative of how he was washed overboard during a gale and was only rescued after having sunk for the third time. "And, of course," she commented brightly, "after you sank the third time, your whole life passed before your eyes." "I presoom as how it did, mam," the sailor agreed. "But bein' as I had my eyes shut, I missed it." The guide introduced a tourist in the Rocky Mountains to an old hunter who was reputed to have slain some hundreds of bears. "This feller," the guide explained to the hunter, "would like to hear about some of the narrer escapes you've had from bears." The old mountaineer regarded the tourist with a disapproving stare. "Young man," he said, "if there's been any narrer escapes, the bears had 'em." My ads. are not as large as some, Or to cure disease take I as long, Nor make my fees as big a sum; So with ills acute with pains borne long. My treatments get, my praise you'll hum. DR. NETH, Chiropractor KHJ—THE TIMES 6 to 6:30 p.m.—Art Hickman's Concert Orchestra from the Biltmore Hotel. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.—Children's program presenting Prof. Walter Sylvester Hertzog, stories of American history. Catherine Craig, reader; Selda Anthony, pianist. Diek Winslow, Mary Elizabeth Hoghes and Helen Edwina Hughes, singers. Bed-time story by Uncle John. 8 to 10 p.m.—Program arranged through the courtesy of Estelle B. Mills, vocal instructor, presenting Emma K. Strelitz, mezzo-soprano; Harold Lloyd, tenor; Edmond Gattone, violinist. Dr. Mars Baumgardt, lecturer. Burkman Brothers' Hawaiian Quartet. 10 to 11 a.m.—Art Hickman's Orchestra from the Biltmore Hotel. KFI—EXAMINER 4:45 to 5:15 p.m.—The Evening Herald. 5:15 to 5:45 p.m.—The Examiner. A. W. Olmstead of University of Southern California, lecture. Dr. Ralph L. Power, on education. 6:45 to 7:30 p.m.—Anthony Program presented by Nick Harris, detective. 8 to 9 p.m.—The Evening Herald. Concert. 9 to 10 p.p.—The Examiner. Johnson's Blue Boys' Orchestra. 10 to 11 p.m.—Anthony. Hollywood Community Orchestra. 11 to 12 p.m.—Ambassador Hotel. Max Fisher's Cocoanut Grove Orchestra. KPO—SAN FRANCISCO Bradfield's Band will broadcast a musical program from the Palace hotel, San Francisco, from 8 to 11. RADIO? ASK BEVILLARD Est'd 1912 He Sells The Best European agencies. He is a native of St. Louis still calls that city his home though he has spent most of time of late years in Washington. He has seen naval service in parts of the globe. He was charge of the bureau of navigation of the navy department during world war, after which service was chief of staff of a division the Atlantic battleship fleet. He was born Jan. 11, 1873, was graduated from Annapolis 1896. He participated in the tide of Santiago, in the Cuban val campaign and the Philippine Insurrection campaign. He served as naval aldea to Secretary of State Root for a time and to President Taft. PLAIN DEALER CLASSIFIED ADS PRODUCE RESULTS Do you know that the very newest and best assortment of millinery is to be found at the PARISIAN MILLINERY 209 E. Center St. Rub It On At Bedtime for All Deep Chest Cold Absorbed Like a Limb ment and as a Vapor Vicks Quickly Reaches The Affected Parts. When a cold goes down deep threatens to turn into bronchitis pneumonia—with soreness, tight breathing and a heavy, hollow cough, to the external vaporizing treatment. First redden the skin over throat and chest with hot, wet towels to open the pores. Then massage with Vicks for five minutes, spread on thick and cover with two thicknesses of hair flannel cloths. The penetrative and stimulative effect of Vicks thru the skin helps to relieve congestion. At the same time the vapors, inhaled with each breath night long, carry the medication directly to the affected parts. VICKS VAPORUNG OVER 17 MILLION JARRS USED YEARS WEDNESDAY, APRIL SIXTEENTH, 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 Little Talk on Thrift By S. W. STRAUS President American Society for Thrift) The United States has the best percentage of illiteracy among enlightened nations in the world. The finds this amazing state in a report issued by the National Education Ass'n after a surge of illiteracy conditions through the civilized world. The percentage of illiteracy in the United States is given as 6.0; among our nations it is France, 4.9; Ireland and Wales, 1.8; Scotland, 1.6; Sweden and Norway, Netherlands, .9; Denmark, .2. The number of absolute illiterates officially given as 5,000, but it has been estimated there are from 5,000,000 to 100,000 additional persons whose education is so limited as to make it practically impossible for them to discharge intelligently duties as citizens in the decayy. No less than 24.9 per cent of our young men are so limited in their command of the English language that they are unable to read newspapers or write. The late Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior, stated that our country is losing 825,000,000 a year through literacy. He stated that 10 per cent of our country folk cannot write, thus cutting them from the benefits of bulletins, agriculture, farm publications, papers, etc. According to educational authorities illiteracy at its present decrease will continue to national problem in the U.S. Comments of the Press What Editors Are Saying DEMOCRACY INVADES ISLAM—San Diego Union Of all the strange and unprecedented things that are coming to pass in our own day and age, few outrank in strangeness the revolutionary change that is coming over Turkey—and probably overcoming Turkey. At this distance from the scene of action, we of course don't get the full, picturesque details, but the large picture of what is passing offers the spectacle of a change much more revolutionary than that which has overtaken Russia or Germany or Italy. Behind the change in political forms, lurks an unprecedented revolt against one of the most powerful of world religions. The national assembly at Angora apparently intends to depose the Caliph, "Commander of the Faithful," and to drive him and all his dependents into exile. Perhaps the thing has by now been accomplished. Beside that piece of news, the soviet revolt against religion appears but an act of mad horseplay—an Oriental imitation of the curious attempt to set up a "God of Reason" in Paris, in the year 1793. The sinister power of Turkey, the splendor of Turkish potentates and the ruthless cruelty of Turkish oppression everything by which Turkey has been known to the world for centuries past—had its foundation is what is now being overthrown. The revolution that is going on today, then, aims its blows at the very fundamentals of a nation's life. We can remember when the mere threat of a Holy War made the great nations of Europe tremble, and comes a move to abolish the leadership that alone made such a frantic uprising possible. The factor that made a Holy War a thing to be feared was the religious unity of more than 200,000,000 human beings, and the revolution in Turkey must be measured by a similar standard. We all know that Turkey has exerted an undefinable power in Europe. The ramifications of that power perhaps could never be late Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior, stated that our country is losing 825,000,000 a year through literacy. He stated that 10 per cent of our country folk cannot write, thus cutting them from the benefits of bulletins, agriculture, farm publications, papers, etc. According to educational auctions illiteracy at its present of decrease will continue to international problem in the U. S. The next 100 years. With widespread illiteracy in a nation which counts its wealth at a rate in excess of $300,000,-100 is a manifestation of pubriftlessness. His loss cannot be computed by material standard, and, as to moral and mental aspects, one certainly reminded of Addison's: "The philosopher, the hero, the wise, the good, great man, very often lies trailed in a plebeian whom our education might have disdained and brought to life." We all know that Turkey has exerted an undefinable power in Europe. The ramifications of that power perhaps could never be fully traced, but if rested on religious authority. It was not the depotism of the Turkish government itself, nor the purely military power of Turkey, that exacted a deep "respect"—of a certain sort—from the great powers. It was the fact that the leadership of Turkish affairs and the leadership in a militant religion of these 200,000,000 human beings, were combined. To defy one was to challenge the other. The "Sick Man of Europe" had at his elbow a vast powder magazine of racial hatreds and religious fanaticism. No one dared annoy him, lest he set a match to the powder! This reform that has come over Turkey seems likely, then, also to overcome it—for Turkey without supreme authority in the Mohammedan world is a Turkey shorn of its ancient and sinister power. In becoming "better," Turkey has also become weaker. There is possible, however, one element of strength in Turkey's new position. This break with official religion offers an open door to Turkish democracy, but it appears doubtful, at least, if education and citizenship in Turkey have advanced to the stage where they can play any powerful part in the nation's advancement Depotism and bigotry have ruled too long. Tremendous as the change is—fraught with significance for every great nation that attempts to rule a Moslem population anywhere—the reason for the change is probably only political ambition in the minds of a few. Perhaps the ambition is altruistic, perhaps not; but it will be a long time before Turkey can be compensated for the power she now gives up. 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