oc-plain-dealer 1924-07-28

PAGE FOUR THE ORANGE COUNTY Plain Dealer An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sunday PAUL V. RESTER 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 day is given, But it lones the after years, And it carries up to Heaven, Its sunshine or its tears; While the tomorrows stand and woll— The silent mutes by the outer gate.—Henry Burton. FARM PRICES SOAR AND FARMERS IN GLEE Rising prices of wheat, corn, oats, rye and other staple farm products, are adding immensely to the wealth of the country. It is estimated that American farmers have profited $1,000,000,000 from the price advances of the last few weeks. Great quantities of held-over stocks of grain are being sent into market and the higher prices now prevailing are being realized. Farmers are coming out of their state of discouragement and the world looks brighter to them. Meantime, with this bettered state of the farmer, the whole economic fabric catches the reflex and business and industry are stimulated. The economic situation, in general, is becoming more favorable throughout the country. With Congress adjourned and with all interests adjusting themselves to the new tax law; with the political party nominations made and platforms enunciated; and with probability that the reparations controversy in Europe soon will be settled, all factors and influences are tending toward betterment of the general status of business and industry. A cheerful, hopeful attitude, is the best philosophy of life. The cynics and the presumists are not true philosophers. The economic situation, in general, is becoming more favorable throughout the country. With Congress adjourned and with all interests adjusting themselves to the new tax law; with the political party nominations made and platforms enunciated; and with probability that the reparations controversy in Europe soon will be settled, all factors and influences are tending toward betterment of the general status of business and industry. A cheerful, hopeful attitude, is the best philosophy of life. The cynics and the pessimists are not true philosophers. COURTESY IN A CROWD Foreigners are always looking for something to criticize when they visit this country, and when a French woman recently said we were lacking in courtesy she had some grounds for the charge. We may know all about etiquette and practice it in our homes and in the homes of our friends, but when we get out in the street among other people we forget the little niceties of social intercourse. Did you ever stand in line waiting for some service, where each was expected to take his turn, that some one did not try to crowd ahead? Women are the worst offenders in this regard. Sometimes they have a disarming smile and the excuse that they are in a hurry. Those who are quietly waiting their turn are never in a hurry. And sometimes this woman, or man, is just plain rude in the way he elbows his way to the front. The pushing and the scramble, to be first to get aboard and get the best seats, that sometimes takes place when a number of people are boarding a car would be more fitting in a drove of cattle. Whenever there is a crowd there is an effort to get the best of everything for ourselves. Little thought is given to courtesy, to giving others the first choice and the first chance. We push ahead even when there is no advantage in getting ahead. People seem to lose some of their human instincts when they get in a crowd. Courtesy under such circumstances is very rare. This should be a clean political campaign. Adversities and rebuffs are friends in disguise. They make character. It will be a campaign of oratory. It remains to be seen how effective a wordy canvass will be in influencing voters. Reason and breadth of vision should be in evidence in the conference on reparations in London. This should be the final fruitful consultation on this vexing problem. Faithfulness in the performance of duty is one of the crowning virtues. Faithfulness in the performance of duty is one of the crowning virtues. Summer Trips Santa Fe most everywhere SAN DIEGO and colorful CORONADO. GRAND CANYON National Park and off the beaten path to sky-cities of the Pueblos and prehistoric cliff palaces. COLORADO ROCKIES and Old Santa Fe—bulk three centuries ago. CHICAGO and the Great Lakes. NEW YORK CITY and Atlantic seaboard resorts. Low Round Trip Excursion Fares C. A. WALKER, AGENT ANAHEIM PHONE 217 SAFETY LAST FOR THE CAR OUT LOOK PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN 1910: "May I go out, mamma?" 1924: "I'll be in before daylight, old thing." Few men are an important as some men can feel with $10,000 in a small town. Eve beat all the other girls getting married, but her press notices didn't amount to much. Nature is wonderful. Clay beautifies the ladies and mud conceals the age of the jitney. A soft answer turneth away wrath, but it encourages bores to call you on the telephone. One way for a candidate to get beat is to express his convictions and let nature take its course. No, Ethel, never marry a man to reform him. The rites won't right him and the altar won't alter him. The equal rights woman is the one who says: "We won't have much supper tonight; I'm not hungry." The short and simple cuss words of the poor make poverty less annoying when applied to the rich. It is especially annoying to be arrested for speeding after you have got by several hundred times. In the old days tax receipts went to the crown and the church; now the whole system is going to the devil. God-bless sales ladies who can keep a man from feeling embarrassed when he is shopping for his wife. There are two classes: dreamers and doers. One howls for light wine and the other plants grape vines. ABE MARTIN DINNER STORIES In the early days of the war a New York newspaper sent over a "live wire" to its London office. He proved to be a veritable new broom, even going so far as to attend the office on a Sunday morning. Of course, no one else was there. But the Sunday papers were lying on the desk. Plecking up the Observer his eagle eye came across a dispatch announcing that the British fleet had arrived in the English Channel with decks cleared for action. At that time—1914—the Germans were dangerously near Boulogne. The correspondent, now thoroughly excited, worked the telephone and dragged the resident correspondent from a warm bed. "My God," he panted, "The British fleet is out and there's no one here." "Where did you get that from?" queried the old-timer. "The Observer carries it." "Oh, yes, I saw it," yawned the O.T., "but read the headline again. He did. It ran "from the Observer of 1814." Uncle Si was a hard-headed old countryman. One day one of the neighbors started twisting him about a shady horse deal that he had been concerned in. "They're telling all kinds of lies about you, Si," said his informant. "What are you going to do about it?" "Do?" replied Si coolly. "I'm going to do nothing. I don't care how many lies they tell about me; it's the truth I'm frightened of." SUNSHINE PELIETS BY W. W. THOMAS Better to bear The pain or ache Than succumb to The dope we take. Too often the mortality table It is especially annoying to be arrested for speeding after you have got by several hundred times. In the old days tax receipts went to the crown and the church; now the whole system is going to the devil. God-bless sales ladies who can keep a man from feeling embarrassed when he is shopping for his wife. There are two classes: dreamers and doers. One howls for light wine and the other plants grape vines. Before knocking the other fellow stop and consider whether it's a case of the corkscrew calling the pretzel crooked. Children are logical. They usually receive with astonishment the news that dad is an important citizen. The strange part is that there were lawyers in the old days before the word "aforesaid" was invented. It's a hard world, and if the average man had absolute freedom, his conscience would hold him in check. Fast mail service is all right in a way, but too often one's checks get back before one can deposit the money to protect them. Correct this sentence: "We have been married ten years," said she, "and John never yet has forgotten my birthday." DOEMS THAT LIKE LOVE'S LORD When weight of all the garnered years Bows me, and praise must find relief In heavest song, and smiles and tears Twist in the band that binds my sheaf; Thou known Unknown, dark, radiant sea In whom we live, in whom we move. My spirit must lose itself in Thee, Crying a name—Life, Light, or Love. —Edward Dowden. COMMENTS of the PRESS What Editors Are Saying POLICIES IN 1884 AND 1924—Fresno Republican We reprint, on another part of this page the editorial summary of "Forty Years Ago" on the nomination of Blaine and Logan by the National Republican Party. A few of us can remember the sort of partisan enthusiasm that could utter and even write stuff of that sort. It is not our political habit in rhetoric today. Nor, we can be equally thankful, as it our habit to indulge in the sort of abuse of political opponents that was to be seen in newspapers and board on the streets—of Cleveland, for instance, by Republicans, and of Blaine, by Democrats. We are not do that sort of thing now. We do not, as in this editorial speaking of Blaine, say: "Party differences and the calumnies of his enemies within and without the party will be swept aside as straw before the storm-created waves of a mighty torrent." It's too bad that we do not have at hand to reprint the parallel boost of Cleveland in some Democratic paper. The result happened to be that Cleveland was elected President with an electoral majority, but a slight popular minority, an indication, if nothing else, that the "masses" were not unanimous for either Blaine or Cleveland, no matter how excited they might have been. To be sure they were much more excited in 1884 than in 1924. But that does not show that they were excited to any more purpose. The last year in which there was this sort of excitement in Fresno was in the campaign of 1909, when we had street parades and torchlight processions. The Republican processions were distinguished by "the full dinner pall," in which the symbol was filled with hot and somewhat smoky air. On the Democratic side there was an equally noisy, if not quite so symbolic, an appeal against "Imperialism." As we have had since that time, both Democratic and Republican administrations, both anxious for full dinner palls and both equally philosophical and practical on the question of "Imperialism," we can see that this sort of "excited" political rancor is not necessarily productive of result. But we are, in this year 1924, much more intelligent in our view of national politics than we have ever been before. We understand more about the purpose and the differences of parties and more about the hot air of our leaders than ever before. The people of the United States will be in a position and a frame of mind much better this year to choose between Coolidge and the Democratic nominee that they were between Blaine and Cleveland. THE COST OF HAPPINESS There are persons in the world who cannot feel grateful unless THE COST OF HAPPINESS There are persons in the world who cannot feel grateful unless the favor has been done them at the cost of pain and difficulty. Robert Louis Stevenson calls this a "churlish disposition", and goes on to say: "A man may send you six sheets of letter-paper covered with the most entertaining gossip, or you may pass a half an hour pleasantly, perhaps profitably, over an article of his; do you think the service would be greater if he had made the manuscript in his heart's blood, like a compact with the devil? Stevenson contends pleasure are more beneficial than duties because, like the quality of mercy, they are not strained, and they are twice blest. "There must always be two to a kiss, and there may be a score in a jest; but wherever there is an element of sacrifice, the favor is conferred with pain, and, among generous people, received with confusion." There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy." Stevenson continues. "By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor. "The other day, a ragged, barefoot boy ran down the street after a marble, with so jolly an air that he set everyone he passed into a good humor; one of these persons, who had been delivered from more than usually black thoughts, stopped the little fellow and gave him some money with this remark: 'You see what sometimes comes of looking pleased.' If he had looked pleased before, he had now to look both pleased and mystified." "For my own part I justify this encouragement of smiling rather than tearful children; I do not wish to pay for tears anywhere but upon the stage; but I am prepared to deal largely in the opposite commodity. "A happy man or woman is better than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good will; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted." "We do not need to know whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate the great Theorem of the Liveableness of Life." Something More! After meals you want something more—a bit of sweet with a change of flavor. WRIGLEY'S is that "something more" and it's more than that! It is a great aid to your good health, as medical Something More! After meals you want something more—a bit of sweet with a change of flavor. WRIGLEY'S is that "something more" and it's more than that! It is a great aid to your good health, as medical authorities say. 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