oc-plain-dealer 1925-01-21

DAILY GREETING TO OUR READERS As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.—Proverbs 23.7. "The Lord's mercies are new every morning." Live in assistance this is to carry with us in all our way-faring through this world.—A. L. Stone. ELECT PRESIDENTS BY DIRECT VOTE Overhauling of statutes relating to choosing of a President should there be a deadlock in the electoral college, is engaging the attention of Congress. There was a great deal of discussion of this possibility during the recent Presidential campaign. That there is a flaw in the constitutional provisions relating to this there is no question. But— Is it not time, in the evolutionary progress of the Nation, to abolish the electoral system altogether, and to elect Presidents by direct vote? It would seem so. The electoral college is archaic. It is out of keeping with present day methods. If this system were abolished and if Presidents were chosen by direct vote, there would be no such complications as are feared may rise under the electoral system. United States Senators, for long elected by state legislatures—which system gave rise to much deadlocking, undignified logrolling and corruption—gave way to popular election of Senators, which is much more satisfactory. If the electoral college were put aside and choosing of the President were put directly into the hands of the people, the process would be simpler, more representative and more democratic and more in keeping with the ideals of the age. The quality of government in this country will be no better than the quality of citizenship of the good citizen. The quality of government in this country will be no better than the quality of citizenship of the good citizen. INDIANS MADE RICH BY OIL ROYALTIES Riches have come to a number of Indians in Oklahoma from royalties on oil, discovered and developed on their lands. A deputation of forty Osages are on the way to Washington to visit President Coolidge and to appear before a Senate committee to have a hearing on who shall control their annual income of $12,000 each. These Indians traveled to Washington in private railroad cars. Shades of the primitive redmen! Indians riding in private cars, enjoying all the luxuries of palefaces! A wonderful evolution from wilderness days, when tribal customs prevailed and when there was no interference with primitive habits by the invading white man. The full-blood Indians of the Oklahoma region have developed many notable figures. They are educating their young, and there are intermarriages, of respectable type, among the whites and Indians. While there may be ground for grieving over the plight of some surviving Indians, the sympathy should not be wasted upon the Oklahoma redmen. They are faring well. There are others, in the West and Southwest, however, that are not thriving and that are not treated as well as they should be. Throwing off fear and worry lengthens and sweetens life. The loneliest place one can be, at times, is in the midst of a great throng of human beings. The true wealth of this Nation is not expressed in billions of dollars, but in the virtues of its people. DOES YOUR WATCH KEEP TIME? IF NOT, BRING IT TO US! Special Attention to Ladies' Wrist Watches E. C. KENDRICK, Jeweller 155 WEST CENTER ST. ANAHEIM, CALIF. AUTO LACQUERING BODY BUILDING LET US REFINISH YOUR AUTOMOBILE SYM-LAC SYSTEM A lacquer enamel finish with a guarantee against wear and check for one year—all old paint removed to the metal—a beautiful finish that is unbelievably tough and durable Car finished in three to five days. 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SANTA ANA PHONE 442 Tow Car Quick Service on out-of-town orders THE PLAIN DEALER, ANAHEIM, CALIF. NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN! LEAD ME TO IT! LO JIM! HOW ABOUT A LITTLE SHOT? GUESS IT'S ALL RIGHT—I'll TAKE A CHANCE IF YOU WILL SHUT THAT WINDOW! WHADDAYA WANT ME T'DO CATCH MY DEATH OF COLD? THE SAME MAN AT HOME AN HOUR LATER. WHADDAYA WANT ME T'DO CATCH MY DEATH OF COLD? PARAGRAPHS By ROBERT QUILLEN Well, well; it took us some time to pay LaFayette. Americanism: Demanding the best there is; paying a dollar down. People who howl for freedom usually mean freedom from sweat. Character sketch: "He wraps a 10-dollar bill around a roll of ones." As a rule you can judge a man by the size of the man he envies. Idealism originates in the heart: reactionary complacency in a full stomach. America is a place where the first duty of man is to keep woman dressed up. For that matter the dear things could save time by having their faces doze in shellac. The man who does his utter-most best at all times isn't a paragon; "he's a myth. Doubtless the first new word coined after the Tower of Babel incident was "patriotism." When age scolds youth it should remember that virtue often consists in Being fed up. Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands lose faith in the label. To catch suckers, merely offer unreasonable returns and let nature take its course. Women are queer. They joyously buy a coat for $18.95, but treasure it because the first price was $79.50. When the young lawyer reads the words "Sixty dollars a case." ALL NAMES DINNER STORIES "In the town of Paris, in my state," separator Ernest of Kentucky is fond of telling, "there lived a man betoved of the entire community for his goodness of heart—one Jimmie Hughes. He had inherited a fortune, which he literally gave away. He went broke and on his death hadn't funds enough to pay the underfaker. The hat was passed and every soul contributed. To do the thing right it was resolved to erect a handsome monument for Jimmie. The village poet, who hadn't a sou, but who had been the recipient of many a dollar from the dead man, wrote the epitaph: "'Beneath this stone lies Jimmie Hughes; His faults, good Lord, excuse; As he would Yours, were he the Lord, And you were Jimmie Hughes.'" A newspaper correspondent who had been staying at Stratford-on-Avon says that one day he asked his aged landlord: "Who is this Shakespeare, of whom one hears so much in this town? Was he very great man?" Whereupon the lady made reply as follows: "Lor, sir, when I was a girl he wasn't thought nothing on. It's the Americans as has made him wot he is." Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands lose faith in the label. To catch suckers, merely offer unreasonable returns and let nature take its course. Women are queer. They joyously buy a coat for $18.95, but treasure it because the first price was $79.50. When the young lawyer reads the words, "Sixty dollars a case," he knows they don't refer to jurisprudence. Wales' reported indifference to the crown may be due to the fact that George seldom appears in the headlines. Correct this sentence. "And all our lives." said the bride to the groom, "we'll tell one another everything." (Protected by Associated Editors, Inc.) I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers. From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast. As she dances about the sun, I wield the flail of the lashing hail. And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain. And laugh as I pass in thunder. —Percy Bysshe Shelley. At any sale the town drunkard can't claim that he inherited a taste for hair tonic. Old-style introduction: "Please permit me to introduce myself." New style: "Gotta match?" HEALTH & DIET ADVICE By Dr. Frank McCoy Author of "THE FAST WAY TO HEALTH" SUGAR SUGAR is a form of carbohydrate food which is used liberally on the average table, but the way in which it is taken generally does more harm than good. If it were entirely eliminated from the diet we would not be nearly so likely to suffer from the lack of those elements not contained in sugar which have to be derived from other foods, but which we are apt to go short on because these particular foods are crowded out of the diet to make way for the palatable sugar. It is used a great deal for flavoring starchy dishes and this combination with starch can always be relied on to produce excessive fermentation. It is this combination of sugar and starch which is so commonly used in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages, some liquors being made entirely by fermenting grains and sugars together. If such combinations are used in the human digestive apparatus, the same kind of fermentation takes place, although nothing like to the same extent as if allowed to continue for a week or two. Sufficient fermentation, however, actually does take place to produce a large amount of stomach and intestinal gas and at the same time certain foxie substances are generated in the production of the alcohol which results from this fermentation. You are perhaps familiar with the processes by which fusel-oil and other poisonous substances are distilled from liquors and now when so much illicit distilling is going on, many cases of sickness and even blindness and paralysis are brought on by drinkig these distilled liquors that have not been properly treated for the removal of these poisonous properties. Similar poisons are manufactured in the alimentary canal when sugar and starch are mixed together at the same meal. It is surprising to see how many chronic alliments disappear when the use of such combinations as are found in breakfast cereals flavored with sugar, puddings made with starch and sugar and eliminating from the starchy meal drinks flavored with sugar. (To be continued) COMMENTS of the PRESS What Editors Are Saying CRIMES AGAINST CREDIT—Punxsutowney Spirit New York City, for two years and a half has had, as a part of its judicial system, a "commercial frauds court," whose name explains itself. Magistrate Simpson, observing with satisfaction that 98 per cent of the defendants held for trial in that court have been convicted, makes these thoughtful remarks. "The work of this court is regarded as important because it affects the credit of the community. Safe and sound credit cannot be established without the punishment of those who make false statements and infringe upon the law governing trademark rights and commit other commercial frauds for their own gain." "Credit is built on character and reputation. The commercial crook is one who stabs in the dark, and no punishment is too severe for him." This is worth remembering the next time there is a gust of sentimental pity for an offender against credit. The credit of an individual or a firm, like that of a community, is a sensitive and precious thing, and cannot be maintained if crimes against it are lightly regarded. GLEANINGS FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE ARE THE INTELLECTUAL SCIENCES ADVANCING? It seemed to Bacon—Francis Bacon, one of the greatest of all English minds—that men do not rightly understand either their store or their strength, but over-rate the one, and underrates the other. "Hence it follows," he contends in the preface to the "Instauratio Magna," "that either from an extravagant estimate of the value of the arts which they possess, they seek no shelter; or else from too mean an estimate of their own powers, they spend their strength in small matters and never put it fairly to the trial in those when go to the main. These are as pillars set in the path of knowledge; for men have neither desire nor hope to encourage them to penetrate further." "And since opinion of store is one of the chief causes of want, and satisfaction with the present induces neglect of provision for the future, it becomes a thing not only useful but absolutely necessary, that the excess of honor and admiration with which our existing stock of inventions is regarded to be in the very entrance and threshold of the work, and that frankly and without circumstation, stripped off, and men be duly warned not to exaggerate or make too much of them. "For let a man look carefully into all that variety of books with which the arts and sciences abound, he will find everywhere endless repetitions of the same thing, varying in the method of..." AT AUCTION 20-ACRE RANCH To Settle Estate of the Late Henry J. Schultz I AM INSTRUCTED BY THE HEIRS TO SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDERS—ON MONDAY, JANUARY 26th, at 2 p.m. This 20 acres is located 5½ miles west of Anaheim on Lincoln Boulevard and 2 miles east of Cypress. This property has buildings and chicken yards which cover 8 acres and I will sell this part separately or the 20 acres as a whole, or anyway to suit purchasers. This ranch is ideal for small chicken ranches or for subdivision, with soil, location and everything favoring it: right on Lincoln Boulevard, only 5½ miles west of Anaheim, one of the most thriving towns in Southern California. HERE IS A REAL OPPORTUNITY FOR A SMALL INVESTOR OR FOR THE SPECULATOR This place must be sold to settle this Estate—Be Sure to Attend:"Watch for Signs for this Sale MATILDA E. and WALTER C. SCHULTZ, HEIRS TERMS:—10 per cent of Purchase Price at time of Sale. Balance—Terms announced at Sale. J. E. STEWART, Agent JACK MARTIN THE IRISH AUCTIONEER Phone Anaheim 365 SELL IT Quick Starting SHELL GASOLINE Demonstration is better than explanation. Shell is the Quick starting gasoline Quick Starting Quality originated by SHELL maintained by SHELL sold everywhere by SHELL