oc-plain-dealer 1924-09-26

PAGE FOUR Plain Dealer An Independent Newspaper Issued Every Afternoon Except Sundays PAUL V. HESTER Editor and Publisher Subscription Rate—In N. Orange co., per year, $3; 6 months, $1.77. Entered at the Postoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as second-class matter DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS Many need the discipline of great searchings after God in which they do not find Him. Some must agonize in prayers, which in the seeming are dead failures. Not otherwise can some natures grow into that massive and consolidated virtue and that masterful solution of religious problems which shall fit them for their predestined place as powers of control in God's plan.—Austin Phelps. NON-VOTER IMPERILS GOOD GOVERNMENT If California were jeopardized by a foreign armed foe, every loyal man, woman and child in the state would rise and mobilize for defensive action. There would be no "slackers." There would be no negligents. California, and every other state in the union, are menaced by a danger no less real than armed attack by a foreign foe—the danger of indifference, on the part of otherwise good citizens, to politics and to the activities which give complexion and form to government at Washington, at every state capital, at every county seat, in every city hall. In the primary, in this state, only a fraction of eligible electors voted. The percentage was pitiably small—perhaps not over 40 per cent. No armed attack by a foreign foe could be more dangerous than this apathy and neglect on the part of voters, carried to its logical sequence. There would be ready, eager and ample defense if the Nation were jeopardized by military assault. But because the menace of indifference to politics and government is so quiet end undemonstrative—so insidious and hidden from all that is starting on the surface—there is growing-neglect on the part of vast numbers of excellent citizens who will not vote. There is no use to scold the non-voter. But it is worth In the primary, in this state, only a fraction of eligible electors voted. The percentage was pitifully small—perhaps not over 40 per cent. No armed attack by a foreign foe could be more dangerous than this apathy and neglect on the part of voters, carried to its logical sequence. There would be ready, eager and ample defense if the Nation were jeopardized by military assault. But because the menace of indifference to politics and government is so quiet and undemonstrative—so insidious and hidden from all that is starting on the surface—there is growing-neglect on the part of vast numbers of excellent citizens who will not vote. There is no use to scold the non-voter. But it is worth while to reason with him, and to try to persuade him to see the menace that lies in his indifference. Heed the promptings of conscience and abide by the dictates of common sense, and you will not go far wrong. ..Watch for the Crescent Sign... Your Surety of Purity... CRESCENT CREAMERY CO. Alexander Smith & Sons PARAGRAPH By ROBERT QUILLEN Most of us are opposed to child labor as well as other kinds. The civilized peoples are those that pay the highest prices for beads. A hick town is a place when nobody cares how nasty the jail is. Comedy: Act I: "Preserve star rights." Act II: "Please send federal troops." It must be a comfort to have Mr. Dawes along when a time blows out. The plant can't be lucky always. People will quit denouncing after a time. We are a disrespectful people and most audiences snicker at joke that is hoary with age. Competition is becoming keen that only the big crimes go on the first page. It's only a question of time until anybody can be elected by the office-holder vote. Every man is a hero to his sceptre except the one who tries to help work algebra problems. The American standard of living seems to mean about 15 gals of gas each week. Nature is funny. 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PANDORA SOARING PRICE OF WHEAT BREAD BOX WHO'S WHO IN THE DAYS NEWS BARON KEISHIRO MATSUI The Japanese government has selected Baron Keishiro Matsui to succeed Ambassador Hanibara, envoys to the United States and awaiting only official approval, the selection by the U.S. Baron Matsui has been minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of Viscount Kyoura. He is close personal friend of Baron Kato and served as vice minister when the latter was foreign minister in the Okuma cabinet. The United States is not strange land to him. He served on the Japan embassy staff in Washington some 16 years ago. During the world war Baron Matsui held the important position of ambassador to France. After hostilities ceased he was selected as a delegate to the peace conference at Versailles. Baron Matsui has said that assumes full responsibility for course of his government during the crisis brought about by Ambassador Hanibara's not recent "grave consequences" that might follow the course of the S. government in handling immigration problem. SUNSHINE PELLETS A shallow will— Polluted water; A tolling bell— Typhoid got 'er. A soft artery turneth avapoplexy. A little fresh air is a danger thing. From dry sweeping comes more weeping. Talk's cheap—if you don't it with flowers. For there's a rat a riding RAGRAPHS ROBERT QUILLEN of us are opposed to child well as other kinds. civilized peoples are those by the highest prices for park town is a place where cares how nasty the jail in. dry. Act I: "Preserve state Act II: "Please send fedops." just be a comfort to have was along when a tire out. plant can't be lucky always. will quit denounce it time. are a disrespectful people, most audiences snicker at a that is hoary with age. petition is becommig so that only the big crimes get first page. only a question of time unbody can be elected by the older vote. y man is a hero to his son the one who tries to help agebra problems. American standard of livams to mean about 15 'galgas each week. re is funny. A cold stops head, but it never affects gne that way. her aid to fame is to posname people can remember and pronounce easily. ABE MARTIN DINNER SUSPICES A camera addict went big game hunting in Africa. One of his companions was chased by a lion, and fled for camp with the lion at his heels. As the poor fellow fled he heard a shout, and looked hopefully towards the thicket whence the sound came, for he thought salvation was at hand. But it was the camera addict instead. The addict came bounding forth with his camera raised. "Hold on, there," he yelled savagely. "Slower! You're too far ahead. I can't get you both in." It was an appeal case in a Colorado court, and on one side was a testy lawyer and on the other a number of inexperienced attorneys. The arguments on both sides had been heard. Suddenly one of the inexperienced lawyers got up and addressed the court once more. The testy lawyer stood it for a moment, but losing patience, he also rose and addressed the court in this wise: "Your honor, I would suggest, with all respect to the court, that my learned friend opposite is entirely out of order in addressing the court and, if I may be permitted to say so, the court has no right to be listening to him." The judge, who at the lime was writing, said, "Mr. Smith, it is a great piece of impertinence on your part to assume that the court is listening to him." Tom was a man who indulged freely in the luxury of inertia. "Tom," he was asked, "which do you think are the least undesirable, sins of omission or sins of commission?" "Sins of omission," he replied. "They don't take so much work." TO THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET Green little vaulter in the sunny grass. Catching your heart up at the feel of June; Sole voice that's heard amidst the lazy moon. When even the bees lag at the summoning brass; And you, warm little housekeeper, who claps. With those who think the candles come too soon, Loving the fire, and with your tricksome tune Nick the glad silent moments as they pass; O sweet and tiny cousins, that belong One to the fields, the other to the TAGGART'S DEPENDABLE USED CARS Arkansas farmer dropped while reading a letter from in college. It probably had no request for money. Have come far when a can promise to enforce the considered brave. Try once in a while you pick publication of some kind doesn't mention Wales. Savage desert tribes pay no taxes, so it is a way what makes them savage. Smaller the town the less is required to make him patronizingly of the "compeople." Protect this sentence: "He every cent he can," said the "but everybody calls him a yellow." Everyone except the small boy, an advocate of the back school movement. That Paris has decided to American jazz, London is about a crusade on Ameri-owboy steer-roping exhibit. Between them, France and may wipe out the exporta-plus of American civiliza- YOU CAN YOU MAY YOU SHOULD ---but Will You VOTE ON Tuesday, November 4, 1924 In Order to Do So You Must Register ON OR BEFORE SATURDAY October 4th, 1924 If You Have Not Done So Since January 1, 1924 THE PEOPLE DO NOT GOV-ERN WHEN THEY DO NOT VOTE October 4th Last Day to Register Registration books for November 4, 1924, election are now open. All who have not registered since January 1, 1924, or who have moved since registering, should register now. October 4, 1924, is the last day! Tom was a man who indulged freely in the luxury of inertia. 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Goethe thought it was a pity the request was refused, "for in a tranquil mind thoughts rise up at the close of life hitherto unthinkable; like blessed inward voices, alighting in glory on the summits of the past." Literature, Goethe observed, is a fragment of fragments: the least of what happened and was spoken, has been written; and of the things that have been written, very few have been preserved. "And yet with all the fragmentary nature of literature, we find thousand-fold repetition; which shows how limited is man's mind and destiny." Goethe contended that it is not language itself which is correct or forcible or elegant, but the mind that is embodied in it; and so it is not for a man to determine whether he will give his calculations or speeches or poems the desired qualities: the question is whether Nature has given him the intellectual or moral qualities which fit him for the work—the intellectual power or observation and insight, the moral power or repelling the evil spirits that might hinder him from paying respect to truth." The most original authors of modern times are so, not because they produce what is new, Goethe observed, but only because they are able to say things the like of which seems never to have been said before. "Thus the best sign of originality lies in taking up a subject and then developing it is fully as to make every one confess that he would hardly have found so much in it." 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