oc-plain-dealer 1925-01-17

DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will He pay him again.—Proverbs 19:17. "The Lord's mercies are new every morning." Live a comforted, happy, and thankful life! Take up each day as it comes, certainty of this, that, whatever it lays upon you to do or to hear, it will bring new mercies for new needs.—A. L. Stone. GREAT BIOGRAPHICAL WORK FOR U.S. Thanks to the munificent gift made by Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, this county is to have a dictionary of American biography, to be prepared under the auspices and direction of the American Council of Learned Societies. The New York Times, as a gift to the Nation, has agreed to advance $500,000 for the preparation of a great, authoritative biographical book of reference. It is proposed to produce a work that will be marked by authoritativeness and high literary excellence, worthy to be compared with the British "Dictionary of National Biography" and the Germau "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie." Inasmuch as no book publisher was willing to advance the sum required for the biographical research and the preparation of a work of this character, the New York Times is to create a fund to cover this initial expense. It is announced, in connection with the gift, that the New York Times will not be either the maker or the publisher of the dictionary and will assume no control over it. This work is needed. There is no standard, authoritative book of American biography. And yet America has produced and is producing men and women of world-wide fame, whose biographies should be set down in true proportions, by scholarly persons who know values in biography. The publication "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie." Inasmuch as no book publisher was willing to advance the sum required for the biographical research and the preparation of a work of this character, the New York Times is to create a fund to cover this initial expense. It is announced, in connection with the gift, that the New York Times will not be either the maker or the publisher of the dictionary and will assume no control over it. This work is needed. There is no standard, authoritative book of American biography. And yet America has produced and is producing men and women of world-wide fame, whose biographies should be set down in true proportions, by scholarly persons who know values in biography. The publication of a great reference work of this kind would be a boon to the country. Appreciate honesty, wherever it may be found. It is one of the paramount virtues. Without it, the other virtues would be hopelessly handicapped. TOURISTS COMING NOW IN HORDES The falsehoods about Southern California, spread through the East and Middle West, have been too palpable and too stupid to influence intelligent folk. The answer to these defractions is a great influx of tourists. They are coming in great numbers, with many special trains arriving, and more to come. It should be remembered that many thousands of intelligent persons, representing a great many different localities in all parts of the country, have been to California one or more times, and are conversant with general conditions here. These folk, being intelligent and fair, have known all along that the reports about conditions here have been either exaggerated or made out of untruths. They have not been influenced by these fantastic and gruesome fabrications. And many of them have passed the word along to their friends and acquaintances who have not been in California. In this way, these slanders have been refuted in large measure, as they flew along. Many old friends of California are coming for the winter. They will pass the good news back to the home locality that this Southland is as sound and attractive as it ever has been, and that it has been maligned grossly and outrageously. It costs but little, in money or effort, to beautify premises. And beautification adds greatly to the appearance and value of property. Woodsheds an straps are things o' th' past, an' tday th' modern father leeks his son by cuttin' off his allowance. Elmer Purrvince's experiment o' raisin' a family on a salary is bein' watched with much interest. Quick Starting Quick Starting Four years ago, after many years of laboratory effort, Shell introduced Quick Starting Shell Gasoline. No substitute has been produced since then for Quick Starting Shell Gasoline. SHELL COMPANY Quick Starting Quality originated by SHELL maintained by SHELL sold everywhere by SHELL THE PLAIN DEALER, ANAHEIM, CALIF. FORE AND AFT! PULL FOR THE SHORE! WE'RE SINKING! STICK BY THE SHIP! BIG NAVY PEOPLE OUR PRESENT NAVY THE IVY GREEN Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals I ween, In his cell so lone and cold, The walls must be crumbled, the stones decay'd, To pleasure his dainty whim, And the mouldering dust the years have made Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy-green. Fast he stealth on, though he wears no wings, And a staunch old heart has bred How closely he twineth, how tight he clings To his friend, the huge oak tree! And siyly he tralleth along the ground. And his leaves he gently weave And he joyously twines and hurls around The rich mould of dead men's graves. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Whole ages have fled and the works decayed, And nations scatter'd been, But the stout old Ivy shall never fade From its hale and hearty greed The brave old plant in its lonely days Shall fatten upon the past; For the stateliest building the man can raise Is the Ivy's food at last. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green — Charles Dickens. Many beginners in golf—a many who are not beginners—grievously afflicted with the mady of stoppin gthe ball. A play whose efforts to cure himself this affliction only resulted in the reverse of the Couse formula addrest a professional with glory. PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN Americanism: Kitting birds and howling about insect pests. Bluff No. 3762: "Look it up in the dictionary and you'll remember it longer." The only people who are at home anywhere are flyverites and Englishmen. Humans are funny, and they really enjoy thrift unless it is thrust upon them. Men are inferior in some ways, but they can do without a wash rag. The man who first spoke of cars that turn turtle never saw a turtle move. We have reached the limit when modest men on a windy day must hold their pants down. It's no hardship to have a feminine neighbor who can't sing unless she thinks she can. Uncle Sam's European problem is to keep his hands off without removing his thumb. Once Dad's pants were cut down to fit Willie. Now they are not even cut down to fit Dad. Nothing in the world is utterly hopeless except the negro dialect of a New England author. By working cross word puzzles you learn a lot of new words that are useful nowhere else. And now mother can cut down dad's pants to make skirts for the girls. A hick town is a place where neighbors know how long your grocery bill has run. HEALTH & DIET ADVICE By Dr. Frank McCoy Author of "THE FAST WAY TO HEALTH" DESSERTS One of the most harmful dishes found on the average table today is some kind of tasty, sweet food, served at the end of the meal, and called "dessert." This is usually a palatable, pleasing mixture which one can eat easily even after a hearty meal on account of the agreeable flavor. PUDDINGS are always made from some combination of sugar and starch, and this combination is one of the worst from the standpoint of physiological chemistry, because fermentation will always take place. In addition to the sugar being added to the starches some kind of fruit or fruit juice is often thrown in which makes the combination even worse. FRUIT WHIP may be made from either prunes, figs, apples, pineapple, pears, apricots, or berries, by mincing or grating up any of these fruits and adding them to the white of an egg, which has been well beaten. They should be beaten in thoroughly with the white of the egg, and it is not necessary to add any other seasoning. Prune whip is about the only kind that is commonly used but it is altogether spoiled from a dietetic standpoint, by the addition (To be continued.) And now mother can cut down dad's pants to make skirts for the girls. A hick town is a place where neighbors know how long your grocery bill has run. How did the primitive husband express himself when there were no doors to slam? We have a leisure class in this country, but it keeps rather busy counting calories. All you need to appreciate the blessings of poverty is an income of ten thousand a year. It isn't difficult to love a bad man unless he has a better time than your conscience will permit. (Protected by Associated Editors, Inc.) DINNER STORIES In one of the most desolate areas of Montana, a claim was taken by a man from Iowa. The nearest neighbor, from twenty miles away, visited the homesteader's shack, and introduced himself. "Where did you come from?" the visitor inquired presently, and when he had been told: "I can't understand why anybody should want to get out of that civilized country to come and live in this lonesomeness." "Fact was," the man from Iowa explained somberly, "I didn't exactly like it down there any more. You see, it was this way. They got to telling things about me. Why, they even said I was a liar and hoax thief, and not better than I ought to be. And, by Jemima, I jest pulled out and went right away from them scandalous folks." "Well, I swan!" the visitor exclaimed indignantly. "You can bet I wouldn't leave a place for any reason like that. I'd make them prove what they said." The homesteader sighed dismally as he answered: "That's just the trouble—they do prove it!" SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1925 COMMENTS of the PRESS What Editors Are Saying "SLEEPING WHITE LADY" AWAKES—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The "Sleeping White Lady" is awakening. Istaccihuati, the magnificent guardian of the valley or Mexico, is showing signs of eruption. From her snow-crowned summit smoke is curling, and the natives are in awe. Popocatapetl, the "White Lady's" maid, has not infrequently been active, and has been more or less in a state of eruption for the past five years, but Istaccihuati has been so sound asleep that no one believed she would ever awaken. The twin volcanoes are among the most imposing of the world's great mountains. Popocatapetl attains a height of 17,500 feet, and Istaccihuati is but 500 feet less majestic. Both were worshipped by the ancient Mexicans, and both are today viewed with reverent admiration by travelers from afar. Always Istaccihuati has been the gentler giant. Always Popocatapetl has been feared as the restless and terrible. Popocatapetl is the strong man; Istaccihuati the white lady. For many centuries Istaccihuati has been in a state of repose so profound that men believed it could never be broken. She seemed to be as extinct as any volcano can be. Now she appears to be proving that once a volcano always a volcano. Complete extinction may come to be regarded as a fallacy. Lives of volcanoes are not measured in terms of human generations, but rather in terms of centuries or millennia. GLEANINGS FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE IS YOUR MIND YOUR OWN? "What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what people think," wrote Emerson. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. "It is harder," Emerson pointed out, "because you will always find those who think they knew what is your duty better than you know it." "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you, as seen by Emerson, is that it scatters your force. "It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character," he added. If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party either for the government or against IT ADVICE McCoy WAY TO HEALTH and on the average table served at the end of the rally a palatable, pleasing he hearty meal on acsome combination of sugar the worst from the standfermentation will always added to the starch, thrown in which makes other prunes, figs, apples, incing or grating up any white of an egg, which estates in thoroughly with try to add any other send that is commonly used, standpoint, by the addi- "It is harder," Emerson pointed out, "because you will always find those who think they knew what is your duty better than you know it. "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you, as seen by Emerson, is that it scatters your force. "It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character," he added. "If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers—under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. A man must consider what a blind-man's-bluff is this game of confirmity. If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument. I hear a presacher announce for his text and topic the expediency or one of the institutions of his church. Do I not know beforehand that not possibly can he say a new and spontaneous word? Do I not know that with all this ostentation of examining the grounds of the institution, he will do no such thing? Do I not know that he is pledged to himself not to look but at one side; the permitted side, not as a man, but as a parish minister? He is a retained atttorney, and those airs of the bench are the emptiest affectation. "Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of those communities of opinion. "This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars." "The result of all this confusion is that one affirms the essence of justice to be the authority of the legislator; another, the interest of the sovereign, another, present custom, and this is the most sure. Nothing, according to custom, is just in itself; all changes with time. Custom creates the whole of the equity, for the simple reason that is accepted. It is the mystical foundation of its authority; whoever carries it back to first principles destroys it. Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He who obeys them because they are just, obeys a justice which is imaginary, and not the essence of the law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more. He who will examine its motive will find it so feeble and so trifling that if he be not accustomed to contemplate the wonders of human imagination, he will marvel that one century has gained for it so much pomp and reverence. WM. J. ROSS, President WM. J. ROSS, President 1st Vice-President 2nd Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Representative Sales Representative Shop Superintendent URBINE ENGINE CO. INCORPORATED CAPITALIZATION $250,000 UNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS ATCHISON STREET, ANAHEIM, CALIF. 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