oc-plain-dealer 1924-04-30

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS Oh tune me, mould me, mellow me for use, Pervade my being with Thy vital force, That this else inexpressive life of mine May become eloquent and full of power, Impregnated with life and strength divine. Horatius Bonar. TEST FOR AUTO DRIVERS TO BE MORE RIGID Here is a proposed reform that should be genuinely welcomed throughout the state. From Sacramento comes word that Will H. Marsh, chief of the Division of Motor Vehicles, will recommend an amendment to the motor vehicle act providing a rigid examination for all applicants for licenses to drive automobiles. This recommendation is to be made to the Legislature at the next session. The proposed amendment would not only include thorough tests in driving and handling cars, but also an exhaustive test as to the applicant's physical ability to drive. This would meet a crying need. One of the most common sources of traffic peril arises from reckless and incompetent driving. Even the casual observer of traffic notes that persons are holding license to drive who are utterly unfit to drive. There can be no real and lasting betterment of traffic conditions until the test for drivers is made more rigid—until licenses are denied many who are careless, and many others who, from extreme nervousness, physical weakness or general incompetency should not be entrusted with a machine on a public thoroughfare. The man of courage may be denounced right and left. Those who denounce him respect him. PROSPERITY ABOUNDS, DESPIITE HINDRANCE The voice of the pessimist is heard frequently now. He is predicting dire things for California and the Pacific coast. PROSPERITY ABOUNDS, DESPITE HINDRANCE The voice of the pessimist is heard frequently now. He is predicting dire things for California and the Pacific coast. The hoof and mouth disease will ruin the live stock industry—he says this, whether he believes it or not. And there is to be a "slump"—according to this man. Just why, does not appear. But the pessimist claims to be very sure that this is to be so. Join the ranks of the optimists and help to neutralize the ill effects of pessimism and prophecies of evil. The live-stock industry of California is hurt temporarily—but not ruined. Crops are better than it was expected they would be. And building construction goes in phenomenal volume. Figures for this year, in leading California cities and towns, show betterment. In other directions, too, there is thriving. Cheer up! California is all right! Give the schools all they need as to housing and as to playground facilities. And give the teachers living salaries. Sometimes a severe attack of dyspepsia passes for a mean disposition. Send Us Your Blankets Before Storing Put them away clean and sweet—you may suddenly need them if there's a few cold nights. Efficiency in laundering is partly a matter of skill, and partly superior equipment. WE HAVE BOTH. CARL OELKE, Phone 129, ANAHEIM AGENT THE SANITARY LAUNDRY 228 WEST SANTA MAYE FULLERTON PHONE 26 Every telephone wire is our clothes line. PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLLEN The standpatter is safe so long as the people will stand patter. Acting that way to get a tip is servility; doing it to get votes is politics. Hint to the ladies: The thing that divides a well-matched team is a tongue. Probably the only man who knows just how Hiram feels is Mr. Bryan. The oil mess is bad, of course, but isn't it fine to hear a bat crack again! The reparations experts found about everything in Germany except a contrite heart. Old-fashioned courting couples pulled the shades down; moderns put the curtains up. Every man exerts an influence for good or bad, but only the few can get money for it. Adam would have fallen anyway when he began gardening and turned up a fish worm. Still, no party can make the country very mad by preventing the passage of more laws. Bananas in our songs! Apricots in our messages! God make the righteous fruitful. Investigators have at least demonstrated that birth control should have been practiced 50 years ago. We are a simple and righteous people, but there are few who don't know what a charred keg is for. To All our Friends and Patrons: Our large parking lot, corner of Los Angeles and Chestnut, (one block south of flag pole) is now at your disposal absolutely FREE OF CHARGE Make Yourself at Home Day or Night —For Your Convenience— WEST BROS. 24 HOUR COMPLETE AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE Anaheim Phone 31 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 PASTOR 512 R. Center St.—Phone 1197 RES Sunday Publisher Plain Dealer VERY DISCONCERTING, TO SAY THE LEAST GOSH·I'LL HAVE TO GET AFTER THOSE BOYS THE WORST THING WHICH WE ARE-ABOUT WHICH I HESITATE SAY ANYTHING, AND IN SAYING END TO OFFEND NO SINGLE INDIVIDUAL, IS OUR AMERICAN JUDGE ELBERT H. GARY, CHIRMAN U.S. STEEL CORP. DINNER STORY A red-headed Irish boy or plied for a position in a meaoffice. The manager after him sent him on an errand of the most fashionable diarHalf an hour later the man was called to the phone and following conversation took "Have you a red-headed working for you?" "Yes." "Well, this is the janitor Rex apartments, where you came to deliver a message." sisted on coming in the front and was so persistent that forced to draw a gun." "Good heavens! You shoot him, did you?" "No, but I want my gun" A certain novelist, with a for the simple life, moved farm and began raising chickWhen he had some hatchee he soon noticed that they languishing in their coops and parently about to die. He sulted a neighbor. "What do you feed them? Ed the neighbor, "Feed them!" exclaimed novelist. "Why, I don't feed anything!" "Then how do you suppose are going to live?" "I presumed," said the nowith dignity, "that the old had milk enough for them" At a big party in London, man of the newly rich and tatious class was sitting the wife of a prominent leader. The former began to about her jewelry. "I cleadiamonds with ammonia," said; "my rubies with Borwine, my emeralds with Dbrandy and my sapphires." AGRAPHS BERT QUILLLEN ABE MARTIN DON'T PARK HERE A thorn in th' side hain't in it with th' gillstenin' barrel of a 42. If it's as hard t' git President Coolidge's goat as it is his ear, he's purty safe. JULIAN PETROLEUM We maintain a close market in both the units and shares. Get our quotations before buying or selling. Immediate settlement, if selling. Immediate delivery if buying, from stock on hand. A World Repu The head of one of this course says: "The man who builds both beneficiaries of recontinuous spur and increase of all guarantees that Patronize the manufacturer of honesty and fair dealing." JULIAN PETROLEUM We maintain a close market in both the units and shares. Get our quotations before buying or selling. Immediate settlement, if selling. Immediate delivery if buying, from stock on hand. WE OFFER (Subject) 81 Seaboard Petro ... Bid 4 Contin'l Mtge U 115.00 50 Doble Steam M 7.50 200 Union Mtge com 3.25 400 Union Mtge pfd 8.00 422 Calwin Oil ..... .25 1000 Port Lobos ..... .30 15 King's Fd. Prod. 20.00 50 W. Auto Sup. pfd 8.00 100 Moreland pfd .... 6.75 1000 West Chemicals .19 20 Star Petro ..... 3.50 1400 Texal Oil & Re..... .05 25 Monolith com. .... 9.00 60 Monolith pfd .... 6.50 100 Acme Signal ..... Cheap 600 Sespe L. & Pr. ..... .32 1666 Natl. Security ..... .24 10 Julian Petro U. 72.00 10 Brazos Bryan .... Bid 55 Star Motors ..... 7.00 6 E.G.B. Units ..... 40.00 10 Fifty-fifty ..... 13.00 WE WILL BUY Doble Steam Cal. Co-op No.1 Motors Rio Grande Oil Lincoln M. U. Julian No. 3 Harvey R. & WCal Mex. Oil & W. Auto Sup. Ref. com. E. L. Smith Oil U.S. Mtge. U. Julian Units Riekenbacker Miley Mills 2 Motors Special Del, 1,2 Vanderblit and 3. Newspapers Calif. Refnrs. We are active in all markets Leonards and Co. Stocks and Bonds 228-229 Spurgeon Bldg. Santa Ana Phone 2390 WEDNESDAY, APRIL THIRTIETH, 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 EDUCATION THAT IS ESSENTIAL—Santa Barbara News "To read the English language well, to write with dispatch a neat, legible hand, and be master of the first rules of arithmetic so as to dispose at once with accuracy every question of figures which comes up in practice, I call this a good education. If you add the ability to write pure grammatical English, I regard it as an excellent education. These are the essentials. You can do much with them, but you are hopeless without them. They are the foundation, and unless you begin with them, all your flashy attainments, a little geology and other ologies and osophies are ostentatious rubbish." These are words from the writings of Edward Everett, and there never were truer words uttered. The plain citizen is in need of reading well, writing well and figuring well. If he has some geology, it is well, but this is not essential to the citizen who takes up the work of the ordinary citizen. The ordinary citizen has no need of philosophyinhisdaily work. He may not know a rule of logical reasoning and yet reason well. He may not know the first principles of psychology, and yet be a good carpenter, a good plumber and a better architect or builder. You may replace the arithmetic by a good course in psychology, and you have not improved the course of study of the schools. You may replace an ability to read well, by a smattering of physics and you have not improved the schools. The average citizen at this day knows nothing of physiology. His own body is unknown to him. For fifty years schools have attempted to teach pupils that have gone in and out of the schools, the mysteries of the human body. Just how much has been accomplished in this teaching can easily be determined, by the man of 30 of today, examining himself as to just how many facts relating to the human body still are retained in his memory. Just let him sit down and try to trace the movement of the blood through the human body. How it goes from the heart through the arteries outward, and how it returns back to the heart and deposits the refuse that it has gathered in its course. We insist upon physiology being taught in the schools. How much do the children carry from the schools of this physiology that we require to be taught, and for which we expend thousands of dollars in the payment of teachers and appartus. There is no question but that every subject of human knowledge should have competent schools in which it is taught. But the first essentials of all teaching is to read well, to write well and to cipher well. When this has been taught the pupil, then it is time to teach such as will be benefited by the teaching various Just let him sit down and try to trace the movement of the blood through the human body. How it goes from the heart through the arteries outward, and how it returns back to the heart and deposits the refuse that it has gathered in its course. We insist upon physiology being taught in the schools. How much do the children carry from the schools of this physiology that we require to be taught, and for which we expend thousands of dollars in the payment of teachers and appartus. There is no question but that every subject of human knowledge should have competent schools in which it is taught. But the first essentials of all teaching is to read well, to write well and to cipher well. When this has been taught the pupil, then it is time to teach such as will be benefited by the teaching the various other branches of learning. No man ever learned too much. Many have learned that which is of no value and have failed to learn that which might have been of value. It is time that the public schools devoted their attention to making of the pupils that attend the schools better citizens than they would have been had they not been at the schools. If the ologies can be taught in addition to this let the ologies be taught. If the osophies can be taught in connection with good citizenship, let them be taught. But let good citizenship be the first object of the public schools. Worth-while Reputation of one of this country's great manufacturing institutions man who builds and the man who buys are beneficiaries of reputation. To the one it is auous spur and incentive—to the other, the strong-all guarantees that what he buys is worthy.” the manufacturer or merchant who has a reputation for fair dealing. Such motives must actuate the con- the man who builds and the man who buys are beneficiaries of reputation. To the one it is a frequent spur and incentive—to the other, the strongall guarantees that what he buys is worthy." the manufacturer or merchant who has a reputation for and fair dealing. Such motives must actuate the convertiser. The man who invests real money in building on for himself and his merchandise cannot afford to if it by taking unfair advantage of his customers. He in the good-will of the buying public. Without this, cannot succeed. he advertises he puts his reputation in your hands. acts or the wares he has for sale must make good. His must be as advertised. why it pays to read advertisements, to deal with adverto buy advertised goods. it is worth your while to read the advertisements