oc-plain-dealer 1924-07-19

EDITORIAL AND FEATURES An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday Paul V. Hester Editor and Publisher DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS We praise God at intervals with our words, but our whole life should be a ceaseless song of praise.—Saint Augustine. CO-OPERATE FOR FUTURE OF CALIFORNIA There is curtailment of use of electricity throughout California, because of the dearth of water. There is limiting of use of water, in municipalities, and in irrigation districts. All Californians are urged to co-operate in this. All should cooperate. The lesson of the hour should sink deeply.The crisis of this season will pass. Next fall and winter may bring abundance of rainfall on the lowlands and heavy snowfall in the highlands of the state. But when the great subterranean reservoirs of the state are replenished, the people should not forget this season's lesson. Indeed, it is the part of wisdom to begin now and to work incessantly to amplify the state's reserve supplies of water—and to keep on working to this end, through wet seasons as well as through dry seasons. The day is past when California can play fast and loose with its water supply. Because of its phenomenal growth in population and its amazing development in industry, this state needs all the precipitation it gets. It needs to conserve all the rainfall and snowfall that comes to it, each and every season. Scientific control of floods is essential. Impoundment of flood waters is needed urgently. These are things to be thot of, earnestly and practically, year in and year out—not spasmodically. Political judgments, this year, should be formed in thoughtfulness and reason, not in blind passion. EXCLUSION ACT TO HOLD PERMANENTLY The United States was and is well within its rights in enacting a law excluding Japanese immigration. Secretary of State Hughes, in polite parliamentary language, so argues to the government of Japan. The plain intimation is given Japan that this country has entered upon a permanent policy. It also is impressed upon the government and people of the United States, in adopting this exclusion policy, are not manifesting "any lack of esteem for the Japanese people, their character and achievements." It is to be hoped that there may be no acrimonious disdied at Washington in dealing with exclusion of Japanese. Better to have the vexing question settled outright than to let it drag on for years, with increasing irritation inevitable. Meanwhile, news reports indicate that the anti-American feeling in Japan, which flamed up at first, after passage of the exclusion act at Washington, is subsiding. The intelligent element in Japan must appreciate that exclusion, in some form, was inevitable. It is to be hoped that there may be no acrimonious discussion of exclusion, either in the United States or Japan, but that it may be accepted as a closed incident. OPTIMISM IS NORMAL, REASONABLE Optimism, within reasonable bounds, is a normal state of being and feeling. The optimist, nine cases out of ten, has a sane, sensible view of life and conditions. If one looks backward or recent history or remote history, reviewing and surveying history and experiences, either widely or within the narrower bounds of individual experience, one is impressed by the fact that pessimism seldom has been justified and that optimism has been the normal, healthy, attitude, thoroughly vindicated by events. It is so today. Prophets of evil are false prophets, for the most part. Their dour auguries, in many, many instances, fail to materialize. The "slumps" that are predicted do not come. The "hard times" that are prophesied do not arrive. The disastrous conditions that are augured do not eventuate. In a word, the seers of dire things seldom foreshadow truthfully. Optimism not only is more comfortable and more satisfactory, but it is more reasonable and more trustworthy—more faithful to conditions as they are and as they come to be. Get into the optimistic frame of mind. It does one credit. It has very wholesome psychological effect. This country has been spared several periods of depression, no doubt, because the masses of the people and the leaders of thought and action persistently and consistently looked on the bright side of things. The "slumps" that are predicted do not come. The "hard times" that are prophesied do not arrive. The disastrous conditions that are augured do not eventuate. In a word, the seers of dire things seldom foreshadow truthfully. Optimism not only is more comfortable and more satisfactory, but it is more reasonable and more trustworthy—more faithful to conditions as they are and as they come to be. Get into the optimistic frame of mind. It does one credit. It has very wholesome psychological effect. This country has been spared several periods of depression, no doubt, because the masses of the people and the leaders of thought and action persistently and consistently looked on the bright side of things and talked cheer and acted accordingly. PERMUTET SOFT WATER TAKE YOUR CHOICE! Regular Finished, can't be beat. All Finished Family, by the pound, $1.50 min. Rough Dry, all flat work ironed, low rates. Wet Wash, 6 per pound, $1.00 min. All washed and rinsed in our Zero soft water. Clothes will last twice as long. Carl Oelke, Anaheim Agent, Phone 129 THE SANITARY LAUNDRY 238 WEST SANTA FE AVE. A.W. CLEAVER, MON. FULLERTON PHONE 26 Every telephone wire is our clothes line Window Glass Plate Glass MIRRORS Prism, Leaded and Art Glass Beveling and Edge Polishing Santa Ana Art Glass Works C. M. SCOTT, Phone 591-W 1204 E. Fourth St. Santa Ana, Calif. ST., Anaheim When we ferment the juice. ATURES moon Except Sunday editor and Publisher Plain Dealer SATURDAY Subscription B Entered at the THE AERIAL AGE IS COME! WAR IN THE AIR ERIAL BOMB PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN Let us keep our two great parties. Each needs the other for an alibi. And so Magnus did nothing? Ah, if only the others would do that well! It must be nice to be rich, even if you never expect to kill anybody. If you find Granny in a chimney corner now she is sitting out a dance. A good thing to use in conjunction with self government is self control. Exercise doesn't always increase the size of a muscle. Look at the tongue. The return of the prodigal cook, these days, arouses more enthusiasm than an assorted collection of prodigal sons. The Liberal party is the one in which so many people have fresh black eyes. The larger cars have bigger horns to toot, but men are made the other way. It was a love match if the June bride still feels romantic while cleaning ash trays. The American influence isn't so great. There is no marathon dancing in the Olympics. The Bible reference to "the smoke of their torment" didn't mean cigarettes with that kind of THER MUST BE LOTS O'MONEY IN DIXIE, FER IT'S GITTIN' SO SOMEBUDDY GOES SOUTH EVERY DAY. WE READ IN TH' "SOCIAL AN' FINANCIAL" COLUMN O'TH' WEEKLY SLIP HORN THAT MRS. LON MOOTS GITS TH' OLE FAMILY HOME AN' $5 A WEEK, AN HER HUSBAND GITS TH' OTHER WOMAN. For the ragweed, you'll remember, Sheds its pollen in September And you sneeze a month or so; If a vietlib, you'd remebber. How you suffer'd id Septebber Whed the autub breezes blow. REVOLUTION WILL FOLLOW ELECTION OF CALLES AS MEXICO'S PRESIDENT" Mexico has fallen into the hands of Bolshevists and a revolution, more terrible than that much-troubled country hitherto has experienced, will inevitably follow the election of General Plutarco Ellas Calles as president, according to Dr. Adolfo Ferrer, a graduate physician of the University of Pennsylvania, who owns a large banana plantation in Mexico that recently was confiscated. Dr. Ferrer arrived in New York recently to present documentary proof of his statements to the American people and soon will take up the situation with Secretary Hughes. "General Calles, backed by President Obregon, is to be forced into office by the use of arms and a terrorization of the Mexican people," Dr. Ferrer said. "As soon as he assumes the presidency he will put into effect Bolshevik doctrines, which he and his associates have been promoting for the last three years. Incontrovertible proof of this has been obtained from the private files of Felipe Carrillo, late Bolshevik dictator of Yucatan, who was executed in January after a court-martial at which were produced certain compromising documents." "The people of the United States have been kept in ignorance of the true situation in Mexico because of the systematic terrorization by President Obregon," Dr. Ferrer charges. "Newspaper The Liberal party is the one in which so many people have fresh black eyes. The larger cars have bigger horns to toot, but men are made the other way. It was a love match if the June bride still feels romantic while cleaning ash trays. The American influence isn't so great. There is no marathon dancing in the Olympics. The Bible reference to "the smoke of their torment" didn't mean cigarettes with that kind of smell. Man is funny. He will leave an uncut lawn and take a bag of clubs five miles to get exercise. The office optimist saved money by painting his own car. He says he needed a new suit of clothes, anyway. Note to the envious: Don't count the money in the plasterer's pocket; count the corns on his hands. It usually takes two Washington dinners and one reception to tame a wild representative of the people. We may be Godless in some ways, but we have enough religion to start some very good fights. Etill if a lawyer isn't able enough to serve big business is reable enough to serve the country? Correct this sentence: "He is the richest man in our town," said the native, "but nobody wishes to see him go broke." (Protected by Associated Editors, Inc.) Try a Classified Ad for results. TAGGART'S DEPENDABLE USED CARS CHEVROLET $550 Touring CHEVROLET $550 Coupe CHEVROLET $525 Truck CHEVROLET $425 Touring CHEVROLET $250 Touring CHEVROLET $175 Touring CHEVROLET $125 FORD $425 Sedan FORD $125 Touring FORD $100 BUICK $175 Touring DODGE $125 Touring HUPMOBILE $275 OAKLAND $150 Roadster We also sell New Chevrolets. OPEN EVENINGS These cars all offer splendid value at prices asked and can be purchased on very easy terms. F. P. TAGGART USED CAR DEPARTMENT 302 North Los Angeles St. For the ragweed, you'll remember, Sheds its pollen in September And you sneeze a month or so; If a vietb, you'd remebber. How you suffer'd id Septebber Whed the autub breezes blow. Dr. Ferrer charges. "Newspaper men have been murdered for telling the truth. Governors who would not help the present Bolshevik movement have been killed by firing squads or from ambush. The properties of Mexicans and other nationals who have refused to support the Socialistic politicians in power have been driven from their homes and left destitute. Many have fled to New York and other cities of the United States, where they are living in penury." Dr. Ferrer said the only encouraging sign was the refusal of the international bankers of another loan to Mexico. They, he said, realize that until Mexico purges itself of Bolshevism she cannot expect the support and sympathy of the leading democratic governments of the world. Jackman Anaheim 601 EAST CENTER SUITS CLEANED 'AND PRESSED $1.00 PHONE 137 I Call For and Deliver Try a Classified Ad for results. SATURDAY, JLUY NINETEENTH, 1924 Subscription Rate—In N. Orange-co., per year $3; .6 monts $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as second class matter COMMENTS of the PRESS What Editors Are Saying WOMEN SHUNNING DOMESTIC LIFE—Riverside (Calif.) Press Heads that are more or less wise are being shaken in prophetic alarm over the result of a questionnaire sent to the girls of high schools in Orange county on the subject of their aspirations and intentions after graduation. Of the whole number of replies only 63 said they intended to marry and operate a home. In contrast with this 981 said they desired to become school teachers and 405 to be stenographers. The remainder scattered over a great variety of activities. What is to become of the American home and the American people? ask those who are alarmed at this small showing of domestic inclination and large showing of business intention. This alarm may be allayed by the certainty that the maternal instinct of woman has not been lost and will assert itself in due season as it always has done. In the past women have been forced into matrimony as the only open door from a life of loneliness or dependence, and the results have not been entirely happy ones. She has now many ways to be independent and need not unwillingly grace any man's home as a dependent, a mere housekeeper and childbearer. This same question asked a like number of girls would have received a different answer, because conditions were different 25 years ago, but even then girls were wont to declare that they did not intend to marry, though with rare exceptions they all did, and with equally rare exceptions they will still continue to do so. That so many are prompted to use their education in the training of the young should be a matter of congratulation instead of regret. As for both the teaching profession and the business office, there is no record that they close the door to matrimony. Nature has her own way everywhere. But upon what theory do we predict disaster from a condition in which a considerable number of women prefer independent spinsterhood to dependent wifehood? Has not the world been blessed by women who have chosen careers of usefulness outside the family circle, and are not educated women to be a blessing in any active career they may adopt, even if it be but to keep the atmosphere of offices and counting rooms pure? How much has already been accomplished in that direction can be appreciated only by those who remember what was the language and the nature of such places before women invaded them. And is it a fear that the birth rate will decline which prompts gloomy forecasts? Already our economists are studying the problem of overpopulation which is facing the world. Except for soldiers, for cannon fodder, we would gratulation instead of regret. As for both the teaching profession and the business office, there is no record that they close the door to matrimony. Nature has her own way everywhere. But upon what theory do we predict disaster from a condition in which a considerable number of women prefer independent sisterhood to dependent wifehood? Has not the world been blessed by women who have chosen careers of usefulness outside the family circle, and are not educated women to be a blessing in any active career they may adopt, even if it be but to keep the atmosphere of offices and counting rooms pure? How much has already been accomplished in that direction can be appreciated only by those who remember what was the language and the nature of such places before women invaded them. And is it a fear that the birth rate will decline which prompts gloomy forecasts? Already our economists are studying the problem of overpopulation which is facing the world. Except for soldiers, for cannon fodder, we would be better off with a much slower increase in population. We do not half educate the young of the present day. The urge of economic necessity drives them into labor and the expense of their mental training, even their moral training, far too early in life. Surely a smaller and better educated and character trained youth would mean more to this and any other country than over-population of under-developed men and women. Are we always to let the shadow of war determine this matter of birth rate? "ALWAYS RIGHT" Voltaire braved imprisonment, death, when he put his thoughts into print. There was little tolerance in France in his time for a preacher of tolerance. There are persons, you know, who are always right. There is no country or race but their's; no church, no political party, no profession. Think of them as you read this little essay by Voltaire: "I know that men have disorders in, their brain. We have seen a musician die mad, because his music did not appear good enough. Some folks have imagined that their noses were made of glass; but if any were so violently afflicted as to fancy, for instance, that they are always in the right, would there be hele-bore enough for such a strange disorder? "And if these patients, in order to maintain that they were always in the right, should threaten with immediate death any who thought them in the wrong—if they appointed spies to discover those who were refractory—if they condemned a father upon the testimony of his son, a mother upon that of her daughter, to perish in flames—should not these people be confined, and treated like bedlamites?" That was written two centuries ago when men and women and children were burned to rid them of evil spirits. Humans are still being subjected to the inquisition by the Persons Always Right. You Should See the Oakland True Blue FIRST PRICES HERE: Roadster and Touring $1190 Oakland True Blue FIRST PRICES HERE: Roadster and Touring $1190 Sport Touring and Roadster $1295 3 Pass. 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