oc-plain-dealer 1924-12-31

PAGE FOUR THE ORANGE COUNTY 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 Festoffice at Anaheim, Calif., as second class matter DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS The Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.—Psalm 84.11. INAUGURATION IS TO BE OPEN TO PUBLIC Plans for the inauguration of President Coolidge, the fourth of March, are proceeding. It is to be the most distinctively public inaugural that has ever been experienced. The ceremonies at the Capitol will be open to the public without restriction. But only a few thousand, at most, will be able to see and hear at the inaugural itself. Radio, however, will carry the inaugural address to all parts of the country, to millions who will listen in. This is an evolutionary development of thrilling interest. Compare the conditions when George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and other Presidents of the early days of the Republic were inaugurated, with conditions today. Then there was no means of communication any more expeditious than horseback riding or the stage coach. There were no railroads, no telegraphs, no telephones, no radio then. There were no steamships. Contrast the slowness of life's processes in those days with the swiftness of communication and of travel today! This is an era of instant and intimate communication, with tens of thousands of homes and offices and millions of human beings within hearing of what may be said in any part of the land, at any time. Such is radio today. But what radio will be five or ten years hence no one may foresee or foresay. It truly is an age of marvels. Philosophy does not banish aches and pains. But it teaches how to bear them patiently. BIG PRECIPITATION IS WINTER OUTLOOK San Francisco's flooding by a torrential rain is reminder that California is getting a big volume of precipitation. There have been several general rains, accompanied by snow on the mountains since the dry season was broken, in the fall. Frequent recurrences of rain—and snow in the mountains—indicates a winter of precipitation up to normal, if not above normal. The soil is in excellent condition now to receive the precipitation. The dryness of the last three seasons has mellowed the soil and put it in excellent condition for plowing and cultivation. This is one of the disguised blessings of a drought. It benefits the soil. It takes all sourness and sogginess out. Then when a cycle of years come with normal precipitation, the soil is easily cultivated and is productive. While California has felt the nippy weather of the last few days and nights, very little damage has been done by it. Timely use of smudge-pots in the citrus region warded the injury to fruit might have resulted. The region east of the Rockies is suffering intensely from the worst blizzards in many years. There is much suffering in large centres of population among the poor and several deaths are attributed to exposure to the severity of the world. California, fortunately, has no such menace as this. Happy New Year E sincerely hope that you are sheltered into the new year on a wave of prosperity. We are going to do our utmost to merit our patronage during the New Year and we want you to read Friday's Plain Dealer for our message of an important coming event. QUALITY SHOE STORE We are going to do our utmost to merit your patronage during the New Year and we want you to read Friday's Plain Dealer for our message of an important coming event. QUALITY SHOE STORE E. Center St. Anaheim The Golden State Bank is two doors west of us. 1925 To Our Friends— Here's hoping the New Year brings you genuine happiness. We shall strive to merit your patronage again throughout 1925. LANE'S CHAIN STORES, Inc. THE PLAIN DEALER, ANAHEIM, CALIF. THE CRYSTAL GAZERS! LOOKS LIKE A GREAT FUTURE FOR YOU OL'TOP! ATTA BABY! THE BUSINESS WORLD THE BEST OF ADVICE FRENCH WIT ON It is a double please receive the deceiver. When the foe fears dare everything. He who complains the most hurt. In love the first cut most completely cured. More proverbs of F up today's installment les of presentations of of the various peoples. We must have re speech, but we need silence. It is not the robe the monk. Love is the reign of The eagle in one h the next a fool. Marriage pits every place. Justice is ever on side. The art of pleasing of deceiving. The first half of l in longing for the second second half in regretti Prosperity makes fe Power is not shown hard or often, but straight. Reason on love, and lose your reason. The reason of the ways the best. Excessive justice is sive wrong. Prayer is a cry of h Quarrels would not the wrong were all on Offended self-esteem gives. Authority brooks no Wisdom is on the l PARAGRAPHS (By Robert Quillen) No. 1925. Due at midnight, sec. 31. On time. It is easy to get a reputation as intellectual. Just cuss morons. Man's greatest inventions are the radio, the X-ray and the sweet potato pie. A small man can be just as dangorous as a big one, but he selom is. Hand-holding doesn't appeal to the modern woman unless it's the ship hand. Still, if there were no strangers, whom would people practice good manners? Another test of blood pressure to be in a hurry and come upon placid cow on the highway. "When is beer intoxicating," peaking off-hand, we should say long about 11 p.m. To be alone and frozen and ungry is terrible unless you are waiting for ducks. Almost everything touches the arm heart of Congress except the oes of the white-collar man. Americanism: Three families settle down, they issue bonds. They ask for a Federal building. Inventions change few fundamentals, and the radio hasn't affected anything except bedtime. A good man need not fear noopers. No hawklike eyes watch him except his wife's. If he has that hunted look, his ult case may contain either a pay WHOS WHO IN THE DAYS THOMAS BROOKS FLETCHER Perhaps no man elected to a seat in the national house of representatives for the first time is more widely known than Brooks Fletcher of Marion, O., Democrat. For years he was owner and editor of a newspaper, rival of the late President Harding's Marion Star and a warm personal friend of Mr. Harding. Fletcher will represent President Harding's own congressional district, the eighth. Fletcher is a Chautauqua lecturer who has delivered more than 6,000 addresses. Nearly 2,000,-000 people have paid to hear him, nearly that many more have heard him for nothing. Fletcher is a fighter of Carrol-co O., his life like a page plucked in—farm hand, laborer mills, salesman in a store, waiter in a restraner of honors as an adsen to represent his coter-collegiate contests, circulation solicitor, thiring director of that later reporter, then buger and editor and filThe congressman-oscholar, business man, and a leader of men, author. DINNER STORIES Two Irishmen stood in front of a drug store in Dublin. In the window was a display of rubber gloves. "Now, I wonder what is them for?" asked one of the Irishmen. "Oh," replied the other Irishman, "ye can put them things on an' wash yer hands without gettin' yer hands wet." An ancient car chugged painfully up to the gate at the races. WITH the waning of the o' the welcome of the new express our thanks and apthose who have favored u' patronage. Inventions change few fundamentals, and the radio hasn't affected anything except bedtime. A good man need not fear noopers. No hawklike eyes watch him except his wife's. If he has that hunted look, hisault case may contain either a payoll or a quart. For that matter we might learn valuable lessons by trying anti-aircraft guns on the Los Angeles. A man is settling down in life when he isn't ashamed to ask the clerk for something cheaper. It is estimated that if all law violators were caught, the courts would be 17 years behind. The only music typically American is that made by the mocking bird, the saxophone and the cash register. Correct this sentence: "My maid was sick today," said she, and I've really enjoyed the housework." Two Irishmen stood in front of a drug store in Dublin. In the window was a display of rubber gloves. "Now, I wonder what is them for?" asked one of the Irishmen. "Oh," replied the other Irishman, "ye can put them things on an' wash yer hands without gettin' yer hands wet." An ancient car chugged painfully up to the gate at the races. The gate-keeper demanding the usual fee for automobiles, called: "A dollar for the car." The owner looked up with a pathetic smile of relief and said: "Sold." There was a terrible noise in the nursery, where the new nurse-mald, fresh from distant Connemara, was in sole charge. "Really, nurse," said her incensed mistress, as she entered the room, "can't you keep the children outeter than this?" "Faith, mum." was the reply, "and how can I kape them quiet if I don't let them make a noise?" HEALTH & DIET ADVICE By Dr. Frank McCoy Author of "THE FAST WAY TO HEALTH" SUGGESTIONS FOR A DAILY REGIME (Continued) Before retiring each night the same exercises should be taken that are taken before breakfast in the morning. These exercises should be completed in ten or fifteen minutes, followed by a warm shower bath. Sometimes it is the best plan to sit in an easy chair and read for a few minutes before going to bed after taking your bath, as the exercise and bath will often improve circulation to the extent that you will not be able to sleep easily, whereas if you relax and read for a few minutes you will be able to drop immediately into a refreshing slumber. When you do go to sleep be sure that it is with the belief that you will waken up with abundant strength and vitality. Keep that thought constantly in mind as you are going to sleep, and do not make the mistake of giving yourself such bad suggestions as the following: "I am so tired;" "I can hardly undress I am so tired." "I feel exhausted;" "I have had such a hard day's work I am all in." If you go to bed with these thoughts on your mind as sure as the sun rises you will waken in the morning with the same tired feeling that you went to bed with, while if you go to sleep with the constant thought of increased strength, repeating over and over to yourself such words as "Strength, Power, Vitality," you will find you will be much more refreshed from the sleep you enjoyed, during which time the mind was unconsciously dwelling upon these good suggestions. This is a very essential point indeed, and I assure you would not mention it here unless I considered it valuable. WITH the waning of the day the welcome of the new express our thanks and apologize those who have favored us patronage. These manifestations of concern indeed, gratifying and a toward greater effort to some service during 1925 Again we extend to you wishes for a prosperous New Year. THE Southern County COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS —BRANCHES— EL MONTE, CALIF. THE BEST OF ADVICE FRENCH WIT ON LOVE It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceler. When the foe fears us, we must dare everything. He who complains most is not the most hurt. In love the first cured is the most completely cured. More proverbs of France make up today's installment of this series of presentations of the axioms of the various peoples. We must have reasons for speech, but we need none for silence. It is not the robe that makes the monk. Love is the reign of women. The eagle in one house is in the next a fool. Marriage pits every one in his place. Justice is ever on the victor's side. The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving. The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, and the second half in regretting the first. Prosperity makes few friends. Power is not shown by hitting hard or often, but by hitting straight. Reason on love, and you will lose your reason. The reason of the strong is always the best. Excessive justice is often excessive wrong. Prayer is a cry of hope. Quarrels would not last long if the wrong were all on one side. Offended self-esteem never forgives. Authority brooks no partner. Wisdom is on the line of those COMMENTS of the PRESS What Editors Are Saying BANK LAWS NEED LIBERALIZING—San Bernardino Sun More liberal laws governing the operation of national banks must be provided by Congress to halt the trend of financial institutions to state rather than federal control, according to the comptroller of the currency. This official has prepared figures showing that forty years ago the national banks had 75 per cent of the total banking resources of the country, while their combined force today represents only 47 per cent of the total. Since 1918, a total of 206 national banks, each with a capital of $100,000 or over, have surrendered their national charters to do business under state laws. These 206 banks took with them two and a quarter billion dollars. The trend from federal to state control is dangerous from a government standpoint, the comptroller declares. Twice in the history of the nation the national banks have proved the vehicle for the nation's war-time fiscal operations. The work of the federal reserve system during the world war was the greatest financial feat of the age. Continued withdrawal of banks from the federal system would eventually result in a loosely controlled system that would not be a great machine needed to aid the government at an instant's notice in a national emergency. National banks desire, among other things, a law that would permit them to make loans on improved city real estate for a term of five years, instead of the present one-year basis. A customer at a national bank can now be loaned funds he desires with the thorough understanding that the term is for the year only. The bank cannot tell him that at the end of one year the loan will be extended, although at the expiration of the year a new note can be issued. Bank customers are not willing to submit to the uncertainty as to whether they can have additional credit after the expiration of the year. State banks are not bound by such an obsolete regulation. They can make loans for definite terms satisfactory to the customer. The recommendations of the comptroller are that the loan period be extended to five years, that national bank charters be issued in a city of 50,000 or more with a capital of $100,000, that there be a clarification of provisions establishing a legal loan limit to one person, and that various other reforms be instituted. The government must either grant to national banks the reform necessary for modern-business methods or suffer the consequences, which will be withdrawal of financial institutions from the government banking system and operation under state charters. It is highly desirable that the banks remain as federal institutions. GLEANINGS FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE ON KNOWING WHAT GIVES US PLEASURE "To those, however, who are desirous of knowing what gives them pleasure but do not quite know how to set about it I have no better advice to give them than that they must take the same palms about acquiring this difficult art as about any other, and must acquire it in the same way—this by attending to one thing at a Prosperity makes few friends. Power is not shown by hitting hard or often, but by hitting straight. Reason on love, and you will lose your reason. The reason of the strong is always the best. Excessive justice is often excessive wrong. Prayer is a cry of hope. Quarrels would not last long if the wrong were all on one side. Offended self-esteem never forgives. Authority brooks no partner. Wisdom is on the lips of those about to die. Virtue would not go so far did not vanity bear her company. He who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks. Cowardice is the mother of cruelty. GLEANINGS FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE ON KNOWING WHAT GIVES US PLEASURE "To those, however, who are desirous of knowing what gives them pleasure but do not quite know how to set about it I have better advice to give them than that they must take the same pains about acquiring this difficult art as about any other, and must acquire it in the same way—this by attending to one thing at a time and not being in too great a hurry." "Proficiency is not to be attained here, any more than elsewhere, by short cuts or by getting other people to do work that no other than oneself can do. Above all things it is necessary here, as in all other branches of study, not to think we know a thing before we do know it—to make sure of our ground and be quite certain that we really do like a thing before we say we do. "Sometime you will feel you have done right. Anyway ere long you will know more about it. But there must have been secret treaty with yourself to the effect that the decision was provisional only." Our New Year's Wish Is that you will be prepared to grasp the opportunities which we hope will come to you during 1925. Orange County Business College Santa Ana, Calif. the waning of the old year and come of the new we desire to our thanks and appreciation to who have favored us with their ge. manifestations of confidence are, gratifying and an inspiration greater effort to be of wholeervice during 1925. we extend to you our best for a prosperous and happy Year. THE ern County Bank SAVINGS ANAHEIM, CALIF. —BRANCHES— BUENA PARK, CALIF.