oc-plain-dealer 1924-07-24

THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1924 Plain Dealer An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday PAUL V. HESTER Editor and Publisher Subscription Rate—In N. Orange co., per year, $3; 6 months $1.75 Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as second class matter DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS NEVER A WORD IS SAID BUT IT TREMBLES IN THE AIR, AND THE TRUANT VOICE HAS SPED TO VIBRATE EVERYWHERE; AND PERHAPS FAR OFF IN ETERNAL YEARS THE ECHO MAY RING UPON OUR EARS. —Henry Burton AMERICANS IN LEAD IN OLYMPICS American athletes are taking all the championships in the Olympic games. This country leads all the world in standings to date, including winter sports, track, field, fencing, swimming, pole, boxing, tennis and other events. The United States is 43 points ahead of its nearest competitor. This country is giving due attention to physical culture. The good effects are obvious. American young men and young women are outrivalling the strongest physical development of other countries and peoples. Scientific training, clean living, and wholesome activities in the open, keep American athletes fit. These contests prove to Americans themselves that they are leading the world in physical stamina and in dexterity. This is a distinction of which to be proud. It is indication that Americans are not deteriorating. California is especially well represented in the victories achieved by Americans in the Great Olympic tests now being held in France. FRUIT FREIGHT FASTER TO THE EAST The California grower of citrus fruits should benefit measurably by the swifter freight schedule to Eastern markets instituted by the Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe and the Union Pacific for shipments of oranges and lemons. A total of forty-five hours—almost two days—is to be cut from the freight running time from California to the market centers of the East and Middle West. This should assure an ample supply of refrigerator cars when they are needed. The shortened schedule will enable cars to make the round trip more quickly and thus will accelerate fruit delivery. FRUIT FREIGHT FASTER TO THE EAST The California grower of citrus fruits should benefit measurably by the swifter freight schedule to Eastern markets instituted by the Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe and the Union Pacific for shipments of oranges and lemons. A total of forty-five hours—almost two days—is to be cut from the freight running time from California to the market centers of the East and Middle West. This should assure an ample supply of refrigerator cars when they are needed. The shortened schedule will enable cars to make the round trip more quickly and thus will accelerate fruit shipments. The railroads are recognizing the great volume and immense value of the citrus fruit yield in this state. This bettering of the freight service is in recognition of the importance of the citrus industry and its pressing needs. With improved transportation for marketing, the industry should be stimulated. COMMENTS of the PRESS What Editors Are Saying TODAY'S DUTY TO THE YOUNG—San Diego Union A popular novelist recently wrote a book with the title, "Are Parents People?" Never having read the book, we cannot say whether or not the writer succeeded in settling the question—which we maintain was a perfectly valid one. We note with interest, though, the recent tendency to ask a similar question in regard to the youth of America. There seem to be so many people today publicly engaged in asking whether or not the young folks of America are "people"—in other words, whether youth is going to the dogs, or whether it still is entitled to respect and co-operation from those who are no longer youthful. The latest outbreak of this ailment of investigation comes from Los Angeles, where a national convention of General Federation of Women's Clubs held sessions. The verdict of prominent club women gathered in Los Angeles from all over the United States, was: "Young people of today are essentially right. Their imperfections arise from causes upon which we club women can't entirely agree—but the young people themselves are essentially right." To all of which we feel entitled to respond, with just the least possible shade of annoyance: "Well, why not? Who ever thought otherwise? Aren't they human—just like the rest of us? Aren't they people? Of course we have no business to be annoyed with the club women for their particular verdicts upon the youth of today. They were only answering a question propounded to them—and put to them, by the way, through the agency of a newspaper. Even though one of us newspapers were responsible for it, we insist that it was a fool question. "Is American youth all right?" That is the foolish question. The real question—the one that ought to have been asked, and the one that some of the club women answered indirectly—is this: "Are we all right? Are we grownups giving the youth of America an even break, and the chance to develop the good that essentially belongs to all of us?" If youth has broken down, degenerated, there is no hope for America—or for the world either, as far as that goes. If youth is on the down grade, there is nothing we can do about it, except to thank our lucky stars that our days of life on this little planet are numbered. If youth is not all right, then the world is going wrong and race suicide is the only hope of humanity. But if youth is all right—as it most certainly is—and the ruling generation just now is slack in its duty to youth, is careless overindulgent, immoral, then there is something we can do about it. There is no fundamental fault in humanity, but there are imperfections that are only temporary and susceptible to intelligent reform. PARAGRAPH BY ROBERT QUILLEM See the good-looker! Let's minate her for something. Well, why not hurry? So body must support the sarums. Oh, Religion! What darn poor politics is played in my name! A metropolis is a place where they have more nerve and more nerves. If winter comes we can look at a cloud without figuring on building. The kind of people who co-are their blessings don't need adding machine. As a rule an efficient wiffle one whose husband doesn't know where his clean socks are kept. A spontaneous ovation select costs the honored one more than 10 cents a yell. Sophisticated hick is one who knows whether it is varnish or "purty good liquor." The happiest people are those who don't know a rear tire is misiting treason. Some resort photographers poer and others haven't a wood fish on the premises. Every man should have a wiffle but it isn't a good idea to expire it if he is married. To pass or not to pass, that the question—to eat dirt in curity or to risk eating glass. "Are we all right? Are we grownups giving the youth of America an even break, and the chance to develop the good that essentially belongs to all of us?" If youth has broken down, degenerated, there is no hope for America—or for the world either, as far as that goes. If youth is on the down grade, there is nothing we can do about it, except to thank our lucky stars that our days of life on this little planet are numbered. If youth is not all right, then the world is going wrong and race suicide is the only hope of humanity. But if youth is all right—as it most certainly is—and the ruling generation just now is slack in its duty to youth, is careless overindulgent, immoral, then there is something we can do about it. There is no fundamental fault in humanity, but there are imperfections that are only temporary and susceptible to intelligent reform. Our predecessors helped to build the environment of today. We helped to form it. If the young people of today react to this environment in a way that's hurtful to society—don't blame youth; blame environment. We Restore Shoes! Not repairing in the ordinary sense of the word, but repairing that means restoration of your old Shoes as you originally bought them. Here's a service that's thorough at prices that you're glad to pay. EAST SIDE SHOE REBUILDING SHOP EMIL TITTMAN, Prop. 312 E. Center St. ANAHEIM IT'S A CASE OF OWIN' OWEN PAY HERBY! REPARATIONS AGENT GLEANING BY CLARK How am I to think? You pondered. "Have the books which been written for these two sand years taught me anything?" "We have sometimes a desire of knowing in what manner think, though we have so any desire of knowing how digest, how we walk." "I have questioned my reason and asked what it is. This tion has always confounded." "I have endeavored to dis by it, if the same springs make me digest, which makes walk, are the same where receive ideas. I never couldceive how and wherefore ideas fled when my bodyguished with hunger, or howare renovated after I have" "I discovered such a wideference between thought nourishment, without whishould not think, that I be there was a substance in mereasoned, and another tha-gested." "Nevertheless by consendeavoring to convince that we are two, I materialthat I was only one; andcontradiction gave me inpain." ARAGRAPHS BY ROBERT QUILLEN ABE MARTIN WHO'S WHO IN THE DAYS NEWS GEORGE E. BRENNAN Before the Democratic convention in New York draws to a close Geo. E. Brennan, long boss of the Democratic forces in Illinois, may loom as the biggest individual force in the party from a national standpoint. A somewhat undersized stout man, who walks with a cane; a man whose poker face carries an enigmatic smile, who rarely talks about things one would like to have him talk about. A man in the middle 60s whose tastes run to baggy, comfortable clothes, blue ruspenders, silk underwear and expensive cigars. A man who embellishes his conversation with a liberal sprinkling of hearty expletives but whose language can be as precise as that of an Oxford don. A man whose mind functions with the mathematical and emotional precision of a chronometer, a man who has the patience to wait when waiting pays and the courage to act wehn action is needed. Such a man is Brennan. Two years ago, Brennan covered himself with glory when he succeeded in electing a Democratic mayor in Chicago. To be sure, there were outside factors which aided him materially, but it was Brennan's political cunning that opened the path to victory for Mayor Dever. Brennan is one of the most picturesque figures of the Democratic convention. He holds the vote of the Illinois delegation in the hollow of his hand, and Illinois is the third most important state in voting strength. Brennan, in his personal characteristics, is a peculiar mixture of generosity and vindictiveness. He belongs to the old school of political leaders. Brennan has fought his way up from the ranks. He started as a "breaker boy" in the coal mines at Braidwood, about 100 miles from Chicago. Afterward he became a miner and, while he was THER'S SAFETY IN NUMBERS—'specially if ther's over three so a policeman can't read 'em. Not even a family o' two kin git anywhere without a boss, it say nothin' of a national convention. SUNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMSON In the heat of the summer The germs multiply, And that is the reason Why little tots die. The good old summer time is bad for young babies. Clean milk is of greater importance than clean lingerie. Go rise at dawn and mow the lawn, it gives you inspiration. You may swat 'til you're frantic At the fly on your table. In the heat of the summer The germs multiply, And that is the reason Why little tots die. The good old summer time is bad for young babies. Clean milk is of greater importance than clean lingerie. Go rise at dawn and mow the lawn, it gives you inspiration. You may swat 'til you're frantic At the fly on your table, But they'll come in battalions From your fly breeding stable. Well, anyway, Adam's apple wasn't covered with street dust. Wealth without health is nothing; health without wealth is everything. The mercury, the number of milk microbes and the infant mortality rate, rise simultaneously. Oh, follow the bend of the healthful trail 'Til you come to the end of the tearful vale; Whole wheat flour is more nutritious than bleached flour; but we want white bread, so the miller takes out the nutritious part and sells it for cow feed. And there you'll find happiness. Lolls in the lap of healthiness. POEMS THAT LIV A TRAGEDY Among his books he sits all day To think and read and write He does not smell the new-nown hay, The roses red and white. I walked among them all alone, His silly, stupid wife; The world seems tasteless, dead and done— An empty thing is life. At night his window casts a square Of light upon the lawn; I sometimes walk and watch it there Until the chill of dawn. I have no brain to understand The books he loves to read; I only have a heart and hand He does not seem to need. He calls me "Child"—lays on my hair Thin fingers, cold and mild; Oh, God of Love, who answers prayer, I wish I were a child! And no one sees and no one knows (He least would know or see). That ere Love gathers next year's rose Death will have gathered me. —Edith Nesbit. How am I to think? Voltaire ordered. Have the books which have been written for these two thousand years taught me anything? We have sometimes a desire knowing in what manner we think, though we have seldom the desire of knowing how we rest, how we walk. I have questioned my reason, I asked what it is. This question has always confounded me. I have endeavored to discover it, if the same springs that make me digest, which make me think, are the same whereby I receive ideas. I never could conceive how and wherefore these was fled when my body lanced with hunger, or how they renovated after I have eaten. I discovered such a wide difference between thought, and arithmetic, without which I would not think, that I believed there was a substance in me that seemed, and another that distracted. Nevertheless by constantly deceiving to convince myself that we are two, I materially felt that I was only one; and this contradiction gave me infinite pain. "I have asked some of my own likenesses who cultivate the earth, our common mother, with great industry, if they felt that they were two, if they had discovered by their philosophy that they possessed within them an immortal substance, and nevertheless formed of nothing, existing without extent, acting upon their nerves, without touching them? They thought I was jesting, and pursued the cultivation of their land without making me a reply." 3000 FISHERMEN THREATEN STRIKE LOS ANGELES, July 24—A tie up of the fishing industry in this port and vicinity loomed today as the result of demand of 3000 fishermen for higher prices for their catches. Canning companies have refused requests for increases. CHARGES DESERTION Desertion and non-support were alleged by Mrs. Bernice Ridgeway against Clyde Ridgeway today in her suit for divorce. The couple were married in Riverside in February, 1923, and separated five months later. DISTINGUISHED REALTORS COMING Some of the most distinguished realtors and industrial experts in So. Calif. will address the industrial conference under auspices of the State Real Estate Ass'n., which it is now planned to hold at the Elks' Club here Dec. 6. This is the gathering postponed from May 17, during the Orange Show. Everett A. White, vice-president of the eighth regional district, admitted today that the date was "very indefinite" and as yet tentative, but Secretary Glenn D. Willamon and White are making the outside arrangements with this date in mind. Among the speakers sought will be W. L. Brend, president of the Los Angeles Real Estate Board; Maurice deBrabant, assistant traffic manager of the Union Pacific; President Henry P. Barbour of the State Ass'n. and Secretary Williams; C. A. Arnoll, manager of the industrial department of the Los Angeles C. of C.; Fred Baker of the Baker Iron Works. Los Angeles; W. H. Daum, industrial expert W. I. 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