oc-plain-dealer 1924-07-26

DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS Never are kind acts done To wipe the weeping eyes, But, like flashes of the sun, They signal to the skies; And up above the angels read How we have helped the sorer need.—Henry Burton. SAFETY IN TRAFFIC IS WIDELY STUDIED A conference nation-wide in scope is being held in Atlantic City to consider ways and means to reduce the appalling number of tragedies in traffic on the streets and highways of the country. Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, is taking active part in this movement to cut down the deadly toll. Experts from many walks of life are conferring. From their deliberations may come measures for the relief of a situation that rapidly is becoming intolerable. Streets and highways are becoming shambles. The deaths from traffic accidents run into the thousands annually. Loss of life in traffic for a single year equals the loss of life in a great battle in war. In other words, in the midst of profound peace, the country is being despoiled of lives to an extent equal to one great armed battle a year. This should not be tolerated. The public should be protected against this deadly menace. The public thorofares of the city and country should be made reasonably safe and proof against deadly accidents, many of which are preventable. Particularly in centres of population, where traffic is congested, is the menace very pronounced. SCREEN CLEANLINESS IS PROMISED The solemn, specific pledge of the motion-picture industry is given to the American public to produce nothing but clean pictures henceforth. Will H. Hays, president of the Motion-Pictures Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., was instrumental in drafting the pledge for clean pictures, which was adopted unanimously by seventeen producers, representing 95 per cent. of the industry. The resolution for cleanliness is SCREEN CLEANLINESS IS PROMISED The solemn, specific pledge of the motion-picture industry is given to the American public to produce nothing but clean pictures henceforth. Will H. Hays, president of the Motion-Pictures Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., was instrumental in drafting the pledge for clean pictures, which was adopted unanimously by seventeen producers, representing 95 per cent. of the industry. The resolution for cleanliness is strong in its terms and should it be respected by the producers there should be no more reason to complain of the quality of pictures. This promised reform is extremely gratifying. The public should show appreciation, if the pledge of the producer is faithfully kept. The public should show its liking for good pictures by patronizing them. The very fact that the leading producers of America should accept this cleanliness program without demur augurs well for the future of the industry. The tendency toward impurity and immoral suggestiveness in pictures could not continue without injuring the industry greatly. Producers evidently have reached this conclusion and seem to be willing to bow to the decree of the decent taste of the country. Now, if some of the Presidential candidates had had the good fortune to be born in Ohio, the road to the White House might be smoother and surer. "After We Sell We Serve" Used Car Sale we have the best collection of rebuilt, refinished Studebakers, including Coupes, Sedans, Roadsters and Touring Cars to be found anywhere. Every car fully guaranteed. Many other makes too, at very low prices now. New Low Prices Big Stock-Standard Makes Look These Over 1923 Chevrolet Coupe $525 1922 Buick Roadster $725 Paragraphs By ROBERT QUILLEN Another name the old fogy has is "boss." Ambition is just envy plus determination to show 'em. Your friends are those who love you in spite of their envy. Home is a place where a girl can eat her fill without feeling vulgar. It is a rare child that grows up without losing its illusions and tonals. Man managed to keep woman subjugated until mirrors were invented. In a small town a store never is doomed until it begins to attract all the loafers. The man who deserves the favor he asks usually looks ashamed while asking it. You can always tell when you are on the wrong road. There are no detour signs. Few curves are dangerous unless some fool is coming as fast as you are going. One illusion makes three disappointments make one cynic. The rich may visit the jail at times, but only the poor can be classed as guests. In a village, however, a young Romeo can be "perfectly darling" on $15 the week. Ordinary massage won't remove fat, but massaging a floor with a broom helps some. No man can enjoy a grouch if company is present so that he must call his wife "Dear." If your time is worth $10 an hour and the book agent's price is $3.50, it's cheaper to sign on the dotted line. Pride is a curse. It tells a man's wife about his raise when he would prefer holding out on her. If riches are wicked, it is strange that no bug or pest is provided to handicap the banking business. Big Stock-Standard Makes Look These Over 1923 Chevrolet Coupe $525 1922 Buick Roadster $725 1923 Buick Commercial $625 Panel body, run very little, good rubber Ford Touring $65 1919 Maxwell Touring $30 1921 Ford Coupe $300 LOTS OF EXTRAS 1920 Ford Coupe $225 1918 Dodge Touring $195 GOOD RUBBER Terms ::: Open Sunday a.m. Harry D. Riley USED CAR MARKET PHONE 300 Corner Chartres and Los Angeles Streets, Anaheim A SAFE PLACE TO BUY A USED CAR WHO'S WHO IN THE DAY NEWS CLEM L. SHAVER "The original Davis man" is what they call Clem L. Shaver, the new chairman of the Democratic national committee. For Shaver is just that. He has been a Davis man ever since he and the Democratic nominee for the presidency were serving their political apprenticeships in West Virginia, many years ago. The two men were chairmen of committees in adjoining counties, Davis in Harrison and Shaver in Marion. The contact they began led to Shaver nominating Davis for congress in 1910. A lawyer by profession and a stock-raiser by avocation, Mr. Shaver still maintains a law office in Fairmont, but ceased active practice some time ago. He will devote his entire attention to his new job. Mr. Shaver is a native of West Virginia and is 57, just six years the senior of Mr. Davis. Since his service as chairman of the Democratic state committee of West Virginia from 1912 to 1920, his political activities have been devoted to the furtherance of the Davis candidacy. BY Sissy is Properly Snubbed By WINNER IT'S ALL RIGHT, SPIDER. I ASK MY MOM AN' SHE SAID I COULD GO CAMPIN' SO'D MINE HERE COMES OL' SISSY SMITH, WE DON'T WANT HIM ALONG LET'S ACT AS IF WE WAS SORE AT HIM, THEN WE DON'T NEEDA TELL HIM WHERE WERE GO IN HELLO HELLO WHATS DOIN' ? LET ON YOU DON'T SEE HIM DON'T DAY ANY ATTENTION TO HIM WHAT DID YOU HOLD HANK BY THE TAIL FOR? SO HE COULDN'T WAG IT AN ACTION FRIENDLY TO SISSY DINNER STORIES The novice at trout-fishing hooked a very small trout had wound it in till it was med against the end of the "What do I do now?" ask pupil. "Climb up the rod and it," was the instructor's reply. Two clubwomen were dinging the old familiar topic. "It is whispered," remen one, "that donizens from the fleet sometimes moor casc floating objects. These can to be picked up later." "In other words, it is much going to certain hotels." "As to how?" "You can get the stuff find the right bell-buoy." There is nothing sinful having a reasonable pride in belongings and estate, but a man has not the sense to his mouth shut about the becomes a general nuisance. A farmer of this order has a few of his acquaintances on market day, and, as usual, monopolized the whole of theversation, talking about steam thresher, his reaping chine, his barns, his this a that, until they were all tired of listening to him. He the first to go, however. "Aye," says one of them, has ye a win-mill!" "No, that's what ah hae." "Well, man, it's a peety y nae, for ye could blaw it yet. SUNSHIN PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMPS P is for pimples And poisonous pins; For these are the points Where the peril begins Where the sun shines the tor doesn't. In case of appendicitis a bag beats a money bag. Oh, do not scratch that patch, they oft' become m nant. RAGRAPHS ROBERT QUILLEN ABE MARTIN Dr. Moppa announces that his office 'll be open from six a.m. till ten p.m. durin' th' cherry pickin' season. Nineteenth o'th contentment is due t' laxiness. LINES FROM "IN MEMORIAM" I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linen born within the cage. That never knew the summer woods. I envy not the beast that takes His license in the fields of time, Unfettered by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes. Nor, what may count itself as bleest The heart that never plighted troth But stagnate in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, what'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most, Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. TENNYSON. UP TO BAR TO DEFEND COURTS AND JUDICIAL POLICIES AVERS JUDGE Discussing the subject of attacks on courts and judicial policies, Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer of New York, suggested that the bar should interest itself in such attacks and take the responsibility for preventing the public from being misled "by the uniformed." "When I speak of the uninformed," he continued, "I include two classes as utterly different as the North and South Pole. "I include the academic student or teacher of the law who knows nothing whatever about practical affairs and who with insufficient data assumes to criticize constructive efforts, and who in his cloistered environment knows nothing whatever of the driving, pulsing life of a great community of which the court is a part when it administers affairs of this character. Then there is the other type, the demagogue, whose main object is to attack and never to build." Coming to his proposal that the bar should establish machinery for defending judges against ignorant 23 New Buick at prices that the greatest move ever of Motor Sales Buick Distributors for Anaheim WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE DEVOTED TO THE FURTHER-DAVIS CANDIDACY. I include the academic student or teacher of the law who knows nothing whatever about practical affairs and who with insufficient data assumes to criticize constructive efforts, and who in his cloistered environment knows nothing whatever of the driving, pulsing life of a great community of which the court is a part when it administers affairs of this character. Then there is the other type, the demagogue, whose main object is to attack and never to build." Coming to his proposal that the bar should establish machinery for defending judges against ignorant or demagogic attack, Judge Mayer continued: "My purpose is to emphasize as strongly as I know how that, until some one comes forward with a sounder method of dealing with a subject matter of this character, the bar should not leave the contentious side of the question to the judge. When a professor of a law school or any other person assumes to pass upon the subject without any knowledge of it, it is time that the bar took it into its hands to protect the courts and the judges, because the judge cannot enter into a personal controversy, and the bar has been suphe in failing affirmatively to take up the cause of the courts against the academicians, whom I regard as infinitely more dangerous than the demagogues, because you can dispose of the demagogue readily, but the academician has his following of those who do not understand. "As indicated by my emphasis, I feel very strongly on this subject and I challenge the bar and may perbape have some part in assisting a little later on, when we have that sort of criticism, from certain quarters, to meet it fully and openly, and not to leave a judge or set of judges here or elsewhere to combat what was plainly fallacies." While the appendix of one man is worth no more than the appendix of another, the life of one man is sometimes worth more than the life of another—commercially speaking, of course. Try a Classified Ad for results. SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1924 DINNER STORIES The novice at trout-fishing had looked a very small trout, and wound it in till it was rammed against the end of the rod. "What do I do now?" asked the pil. "Climb up the rod and stab," was the instructor's naive reply. Two clubwomen were discussing the old familiar topic. "It is whispered," remarked, "that denizens from the rumor set sometimes moor cases to talking objects. These cases are be picked up later." "In other words, it is much like ing to certain hotels." "As to how?" "You can get the stuff if you and the right bell-buy." There is nothing sinful about ringing a reasonable pride in one's songings and estate, but when man has not the sense to keep mouth shut about them he comes a general nuisance. A farmer of this order had met new of his acquaintances on the market day, and, as usual, soon monopolized the whole of the conation, talking about his arm thresher, his reaping mane, his barns, his this and his tilt, until they were all heartily od of listening to him. He was first to go, however. "Aye," says one of them, "and ye a win-mill!" Na, that's what ah hae nae. Well, man, it's a peety ye had, for ye could blaw it yersel." UNSHINE PELLETS BY DR. W. F. THOMSON Is for pimpies And poisonous pins; for these are the points Where the peril begins. Where the sun shines the docdoesn't. A case of appendicitis an ice beats a money bag. Oh, do not scratch that scaly fish, they oft' become malignant. COMMENTS of the PRESS What Editors Are Saying STICK TO SCHOOL A LITTLE LONGER—Berkeley Gazette In many a home during the next few weeks the question of more schooling for the older children will come up for discussion. Shall the boy ready for college become as interested in his summer job that he thinks after all he had better stick to business and let college go? Shall the boy or girl half way through high school and becoming restive stop and go to work, or shall he by changing his course a bit get ready for college or for mechanical work of the higher sort? Shall the eighth grader be allowed to decide that he is educated enough, and never again look inside a school room, never read a good book or advance himself intellectually in any way beyond the necessary requirements of the nearest job, joining for life the great army of lowbrows. Asked what he thought about all this, the arguments for and against more school, an elderly man gave this answer, and it bears consideration: "There are two things which I have lived to hear many a man and woman regret not doing when young. Never have I heard man or woman regret doing them. One is getting a little more school-while there was a chance; the other is buying a little piece of land." "Not every boy or girl should go through college; not every one should buy a farm. But just getting one year more of school or music or acquiring the habit of reading good books while the mind is young and nimble is worth everything to the happiness of later life; and buying one good lot with the margin of the first salary establishes a foundation of credit and thrift for later comfort. "Tell the kids to stick it out just one more term. They will never be sorry." BILLY WHISKERS BY FRANCES TREGO MONTGOMERY A little girl and her father were watching Button out on the rock in the ocean. They thot he was a coat. Presently the little girl cried out, "Oh, pape, see! The coat is moving. Why it isn't a coat at all, but a cat!" "Sure enough, it is a cat. Most likely some bad boy has thrown it in the water with a stone tied to its neck, to try to drown it, but it has managed to crawl up on the rocks." "Poor kitty! Let us go get our rowboat and bring it in. Will you, papa?" "Yes, dear; if you want to, we will." the well. "Now, Billy, don't worry! I will soon find some one to get you out. If I don't, I promise you on my sacred word of honor to come here and die with you." It was not a rash promise on Stubby's part for already he had seen the man and his little daughter rowing out to take Button off the rocks. "Now is my chance," thought he. "Here is a kindhearted man going to the rescue of a cat. Why won't he be a good one to come to the aid of a goof? I'll go down by the shore and wait until they land. Then I will bark and is for pimples and poisonous pins; for these are the points Where the peril begins. Where the sun shines the docdoesn't. In case of appendicitis an ice beats a money bag. Do not scratch that scaly h, they oft' become maligever notice how much "pep" dark has, after a morning ver? Now why do we swelter? From June until fall? Just why are we worried With clothing at all? Any a rheumatic can thank decayed molar for the pain in nnee. The ability to swim well is no ner an accomplishment but an ation. We'll employ plenty of pure r, internally and externally, live eternally. Speak of the devil And his impas'll appear; But buy dirty milk and You'll angel wings hear. Presently the little girl cried out, "Oh, papa, see! The coat is moving. Why it isn't a coat at all, but a cat!" "Sure enough, it is a cat. Most likely some bad boy has thrown it in the water with a stone tied to its neck, to try to drown it, but it has managed to crawl up on the rocks." "Poor kitty! Let us go get our rowboat and bring it in. Will you, papa?" "Yes, dear; if you want to, we will." On their way to get the boat they passed within a few feet of the well, and though they heard bith Billy's and Stubby's voices they could see them nowhere, and the wind played sad havoc for it made their voices sound as if they came from the opposite direction. After stopping several times and listening without being able to decide where the animals were, they walked on. Billy and Stubby could hear their voices die away in the distance. Now, Billy, there is a chance lost, so stand up and let me see if I can't climb up on your back and get out." It took many trials, but at last by Billy putting his hind legs against one wall of the well and bracing his forehead against the opposite wall, Stubby managed to jump on his back and climb to his head, from where he gave a big leap and landed outside It was not a rash promise on Stubby's part for already he had seen the man and his little daughter rowing out to take Button off the rocks. "Now is my chance," thought he. "Here is a kindhearted man going to the rescue of a cat. Why won't he be a good one to come to the aid of a goof? I'll go down by the shore and wait until they land. Then I will bark and run up to the well and make such a fuss that they will follow me to see what is down there." Button was slitting on the little girl's lap enjoying the petting she was giving him when he saw Stubby standing on the beach, and he meowed to him, saying, "Well, old Chum, where have you been? And why didn't you come to help me off the rocks?" To which Stubby replied, "Good reason enough! I fell into a well and only just now got out. And when you land you must help me make this man go to Billy's rescue." "Why Billy's rescue? Where is he?" asked Button excitedly. "Down the well, sily!" "You said nothing about Billy being down a well, but only mentioned yourself. How in the world did you both happen to fall down a well?" (Monday they rescue Billy.) 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