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Page 20 FRIDAY July 6, 1923 Published every evening (except Sunday) by The Register Publishing Company. J. P. Baumgartner, Edltor-Manager; T. E.

Stephenson, Managing Editor; -Hi. A. Reuter, City Editor; Wm. H. Hanisy, Acting Buelnees Manager and Advertising Manager.

TELEPHONES: Advertising 87; Subscription News 29; Society Editor SO. Momber United Press Association (leased wire) and Audit Bureau of Circulations. SUBSCRIPTION RATES; Per year fn advance by carrier, six months. one month, 60c; per year In advance, by mall, six months, by the month, 60c; single copies. 3a Entered In Santa Ana postoffice as second-class matter.

Estab- llshed, November, 1906. Blade" merged, March, 1918. Editorial Features EVENING SALUTATION Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes. SHOULD SEEK THE REMEDIES According to the annual report of financial transactions of municipalities and counties of California for the year 1922, just issued by State Controller Ray L. Riley, Santa Ana is one of six municipalities of the state operating under the general laws for cities of the fifth class.

While the question of securing a city charter for Santa Ana has been definitely acted upon adversely in Santa Ana within the past few months, our position among the municipalities of the state is, nevertheless, interesting and a subject always for timely discussion and investigation. For that reason, let us examine the report. We find that Santa Ana is ranked as the nineteenth city of the 260 incorporated cities of the state, the basis used being the population figures given by the 1920 census. Of the eighteen cities ranking Santa Ana, all, with the exception of Fresno, are operating under special charters. Fresno is operating as a city of the third class, under general laws, and since it is the only city so operating, the general law to all intents and purposes is a charter for Fresno city.

Thirty-eight cities have special charters. One oper- ates as a city of the third class, six operate as cities 1 of the fifth class and the remainder as cities of the sixth class. There are no cities operating under state laws for cities of the first, second or fourth classes. The six cities operating under the state laws for cities of the fifth class are Santa Ana, which, according to the census, in 1920 had a population of Chico, with a population of Oroville, with a population of 3.3-40; Tulare, with salia, with and Woodland, with 4,147. If Santa Ana is to remain in operation as a city of the fifth class, it behooves our city authorities to give careful attention to the defects in the state laws governing cities of this class, to study the city legal handicaps with a view to seeking a remedy.

It is more than likely that the other cities of the fifth class are suffering under similar handicaps, and it is more than likely that the other cities will co-operate with Santa Ana in getting legislation that will rid them of those handicaps. It is worth thinking about, and now is a very good time to do the thinking. UNCLE SAM ON THE JOB Uncle Sam this fiscal year will collect 360 million dollars of back taxes covering 1919, 1920 and 1921. Some of this involved honest disputes. Much of it represents uncovered fraud.

The crooked dodgers are learning that when they get into an argument with the national government they are up against the real thing. Uncle Sam bunkoed and bluffed as easily as states and municipalities. The federal principal fault in the operation of its income tax work is that it is so far behind in its audits. Every should be put forth, and results secured, by which all income tax reports are examined within a year after they are made. The man who makes an honest return is entitled to an early adjustment, and the man who makes a dishonest return is much more likely to be caught in his dishonesty if the audit is made soon after the return is in.

American musical possibilities, chiefly by German critics, making much of the fact that America, in having no native folk lore, had no basis for national music. It is true that neither Indian nor negro folk tunes represent the thought of the American people. Yet i have become a part of the history. And the music based on these themes is not Indian or 1 negro or any separate music, any more than the clear- toned bell is any one of the metals which were thrown into the alloy from which it was cast. The hell is at once all of them and none of them, but itself, produced by the mixture of them all, and by the design of the artist.

foreign opera, given by foreign singers in New York, is all very fine and interesting. But it is quite possible that native opera coming out of California or Michigan may be more significant in the long run. The New Firearm Law Sacramento Bee. Many excellent provisions are embodied in the new state firearms law which goes into effect on August 17th. Persons who have once been convicted of a felony are not allowed under this law to carry concealed weapons of any sort, the penalty being a penitentiary sentence of from five to ten years.

Citizens of known good character may, however, carry such weapons after obtaining a permit from any peace officer. These permits re to be for a specific weapon, and include a record of its caliber and the serial number. Further provisions of the law- prohibit the delivery of firearms by merchants to customers on the day of purchase; prohibit the mutilation or alteration of the serial number on firearms; prohibits aliens from carrying concealed weapons under any conditions; prohibits all courts from granting probation to persons found guilty of violating the section first mentioned above; and provide that weapons stolen from their legal owner may be returned to him on proof of ownership, instead of being destroyed by the police as is the case under most present laws. All these provisions are good and aim at making the lethal career of the criminal as difficult a- possible, without in any way hampering the freedom of reputable citizens to bear arms for legitimate purposes of self-defense. The most important provision is, of course, the one first cited, which makes it a felony for a man who has already served a prison term to carry a weapon.

The next most important is the one which forbids probation in such a case. That this law will entirely do away with the carrying of concealed weapons by crooks is not to be expected. But by making this carrying a crime, irrespective of other circumstances, it may be expected to act as a strong deterrent. And that is the most that any law can do, besides being a great deal more than any present law does. On the whole, this law' is highly commendable, seeming to contain no provisions that can be objectionable to a law-abiding citizen, and a good many that will be highly objectionabb to citizens of the other sort.

Odds amd lEsads ENDURANCE The endurance dancing craze fizzles. It taught that real strength is in the will power, not in muscles. Similar contests come In every generation, so as rational as our ancestors. In 1899 Miller and Walker, bicycled 2733 miles, beginning' Monday and ending Saturday! night. Twenty-two years before that, I William Gale, a Welsh book-1 binder, walked 1500 miles in 1000: hours.

A man in Utica, N. lifted himself on tiptoe 20,000 times i without stopping. A girl In the Sandwich Islands swam forty miles against running surf. Nothing is futile, as long as it entertains bored humanity. SAVED War Department saves over $141,000 in a year by paying bills promptly to get per cent discount if paid in ten The government as a whole could save millions by doing other things 'big saving by cutting costly red tape.

Delay is the weakest spot of democratic government. HUMOR Sense of humor is coming back strongly, indicating that the world is emerging from its war trance. In England a labor leader discussing the Ruhr situation, says: is using a whale as bait to catch a small He means the game will not be worth the candle, financially. Strongheart, Indian chief, who toured as a Liberty loan speaker, visits New York, goes to the top of the Woolworth building. He says the view from there was excellent until he noticed the Statue of Liberty, which reminded him that is offered to almost al! persons except those who originally owned the He refers to thousands of Indians he claims are not allowed to vote.

QUEER In Alaska U. S. Marshal Webster, while an Indian charged with murder, collapses with appendicitis. The prisoner ties Webster to a sledge and rushes him 100 miles to the jail hospital. A white prisoner would have run away.

The Indian afraid of the marshal, hut he was afraid of the law back of the marshal. Like the Royal Mounted, our police force in Alaska their the lawbreakers know it. Nothing disheartens a crook as much as the knowledge that he will be hounded until caught, no matter how many years it takes. MeaMlhi Motes Different By Berton Braley SUNSTROKE AND HEAT STROKE Heat stroke occurs in river valleys and lowlands and appears to be due to saturation of the hot air with moisture so that the perspiration cannot evaporate and keep the body cool. Other conditions that tend to have the same effect are cloth- I says the Optimist; you should lose your hard- earned pelf, especially Keep up your head, out yer written stuff like that myself.) at your never groan, Be they counsel us, but when Mr.

Harding For Second Term Pasadena Star-News. That Warren G. Harding will be a candidate to succeed himself in the Presidency seems to be assured. From present indications, the Republican party will follow precedent and renominate Mr. Harding with little opposition.

That Mr. Harding is a receptive candidate for renomination there is no reason to doubt. It is revealed, in news dispatches, that Mrs. Harding has told friends that her husband Is to be a candidate. This has been assunrd at all times conversant with political affairs.

Mr. Harding was represented as being ruffled because some of his ardent political friends launched his boom so early. But there has been no indication, from any source, that Mr. Harding would decline to become a candidate for renomination and re-election. According to figures compiled by the Georgia association 229,000 negroes have left Georgia for the North within the past three and a half years, or since the beginning of 1920.

The figures show, moreover, that 77,500 of this number left during the first six months of the current year, indicating that the exodus is on the rise instead of on the wane. James S. Peters, president of the association, takes a common sense view of the situation in presenting four suggestions which he believes will go far toward inducing the negroes to remain in Georgia, namely: First, wages must be increased to meet the level of the North and East, and living conditions improved. Second, care of the quarters of the negro, the sanitation of their sections of towns and rural communities improved. Third, our educational facilities must be improved, and the negro given a better chance to educate himself.

Fourth, race prejudices. I do not believe that the negro is given exactly fair consideration and thereby a fair deal in all transactions, and this should not be tolerated. Continuing, Mr. Peters(says: exodus of the negro has left in its trail a but as great as that wrought by the march of army from Atlanta to the sea As a result of the exodus of the negroes to the North and of the white people to the city, we now have vacant 46,676 farm dwellings in Georgia, and 55,524 idle plows. Based In the first six months of 1923 there were only 11 interest is whetted, lynchings in the United States, one-third as many as in the first half of 1922.

There have been several instances where enforcement officers have made deli termined stands against a mob bent on a lynching and frustrated its designs. Even Georgia shows signs of an awakening in that regard. If all sheriffs had the courage to do their duty there would be a sudden end to the lynching evil. The chief interest, as to nominations, turns upon 0,0 Iarm awemngs in ueorgia, ana idle plows. Based the action of the Democrats.

There the nomination llPon a production of $500 to the plow, which is 'very low, it will is obscured in doubt to such extent that the public be observed that loss of wealth from her farms this int.PTPSt I vpar amnnnt tho anm moro than 3 9 7 AHA AAA As the Guest San Diego Union. TRAFFIC A DECADE HENCE Sidewalks raised above the street level of the busw ness section, to suit a are suggested by the Chicago Tribune. The elevated walks would run along the fronts of the buildings, giving access to all business establishments and affording easy means of crossing the street without getting mixed up with motor and trolley traffic. The present street surface could be widened, because narrower street-level sidewalks would suffice. Thus all traffic, vehicular and pedestrian, would move far more easily and safely.

advantages could not be says the Tribune. of persons who shun the Loop because of the congestion would welcome the chance to do business there in the certainty of comfort and safety. The total added income for Loop business should the entire cost of the Such a development seems inevitable, in the larger perhaps in the smaller cities, too. It would be a great convenience now in scores of American communities. How will it be in Chicago a decade or two from now, with population and motor cars increasing at their present rate? And how will it be in Santa Ana? In Balboa? In Anaheim, or in Orange, or in any other city of Orange county? On the highways of Orange county? The handling of traffic is a problem that is of growing concern, and we are not doing much about it in this county.

Perhaps the time has not come for us to build special roads for trucking, for us to parallel the state highway and make one-way traffic rules, but it takes no stretch of imagination to see the necessity. Our Fourth of July congestion may become an every Sunday condition ten years hence. Chicago may raise its sidewalks, but what are we going to do? A CALIFORNIA OPERA A was heard at the recent annual meeting of the Pacific Musical Society in San Francisco, the work of a California woman, Mary Carr Moore. The opera, called Flaming is based on a Hopi Indian legend. The music is said to be interesting, and the work was well received.

This bit of news may or may not be important, according to the point of view. But it indicates, taken in connection with music reports from all over the country, a most healthy growth in American music. A good deal used to be said in disparagement of As President Harding proceeds upon his tour of the country, forced to observe that although it is no doubt a splendid thing to be a guest of the United States, it is not by any means a comfortable thing. inclined to deduce from that and from our memory of Mr. Harding's presidential campaign, that this swing about the country is probably not undertaken, as some folks believie, for political purposes.

Imagine yourself in the place. Your nod or smile of recognition is a thing sought by thousands, young and old. Your handshake Is a heart-warming gift, coveted by everyone. You are passing continually through cities and towns vying to do you honor, and to the people of which you are obligated by every rule of gratitude, high responsibility, courtesy and political expediency. You are not the guest of a few.

You are guest. You have thousands upon thousands of temporary hosts. You are a permanent guest. Your hosts in any city may, when you have left, go home and go to bed and get a good sleep about you. You are passed on to the next town, to meet several thousand more hospitable people, whom-you wish to, evade, slight or forget.

For a day or two, this might be a stirring experience and one greatly to be desired. Extended into weeks or months, it must be a terrific strain upon every fibre of a being. Mr. Harding knew this before he started upon this trip. He knew it before he was elected President, for he was not at that time, as you know, a political tenderfoot.

When he was campaigning for the presidency, he chose to show himself only to a comparative to show himself to them at his best, unwearied by the strain of a campaign to trust to the newspapers for the rest. In undertaking a gruelling experience of the sort now, pretty tvell persuaded that he actuated by any desire to get the Republican nomination or to be things that seem pretty certain and could be better accomplished in other ways, anyhow. After thinking the thing over, willing to accept the motive for this tour tin the desire to promote certain measures near to his heart, and to render direct to the people an account of his stewardship as their President. year will amount to the sum of more than $27,000,000 and in a decade to more than While Georgia appears to be the most intense sufferer the negro exodus from the South to the North has been cause for much worry on the part of many other Southern States with the possible exception of North and South Carolina where many new textile mills have been recently built in which the negroes are able to find employment at greater remuneration than they could secure on the plantations. Harsh treatment and low wages are undoubtedly the main reasons for the exodus.

As Mr. Peters says: did not require labor agents to take from Ireland almost one-half of her population and transplant them on the shores of North America. Superior living conditions and better wages did Nor is the from the agricultural to the industrial centers confined to the negro. Farmers in the North, East, and to a lesser extent in the West, are finding it difficult, well-nigh impossible, to secure adequate help because of the white exodus to the cities and manufacturing towns. According to one report dealing the Kentucky farm loan district, even farm owners have been leaving their acres and going where they could secure exceedingly high wages now paid by the mills and in the building trades.

The fact is industry is bidding against agriculture for the labor supply, ahd successfully. If agriculture should be compelled to pay wages equal to those paid in industry the price of foodstuffs would be beyond the reach of those who comprise the so-called class, and the increased cost of living would soon be followed by demands for further increases in wages by industrial ever mounting and vicious spiral. The situation is beyond the powers of statesmanship to handle. It is not a subject for legislation. It must be solved, if at all, by a people which prides itself on the ultimate rule of common sense.

ittle 5-1 Beflflys ote oo hy QQ ape I had a ingagement with (Mary Watkins to go for a wawk Sundey aftirnoon, and I had a good ideer to take my black and wite dog Yardo along, so.Sundey morning I gave him a bath to take some of the dert off, and Sundey aftirnoon I went erround to Mary Watkinses followed by Yardo, and she was setting on the frunt steps on 2 cushions waiting, saying, Well Benny Potts, for goodniss sakes, you meen to tay you ixpect me to go waw'king with that dred- fill looking dog. Wy, wats dredfill looking about him? I sed. All of him, Mary Katkins sed. Ive got too mutch pride in my reputation to be saw out wawking with sutch a looking thing, she sed, and I ted, Aw heck, wizz, you imagine it, this is a swell looking dog, all rite, take him home agen, then. Wich I started to do, Mary Watkins keeping on waiting on the 2 cushions, and Loretta Mincer was setting on her frunt steps in the next block in a bewty looking new red dress, saying, theres that cute looking heavenly little dog M-eening Yardo, and I sed, Do you like him? and she sed, I love that dog, got sutch intelligent looking eyes and besides that I think reel bewtiful all over.

Do you wunt to take a wawk? I sed. Wy yes, I dont mind, she sed. Wich her and me and Yardo started to do, Loretta Mincer saying, I thawt you had a ingagement to take a wawk with Mary Watkins this aftirnoon. Wy, how did you know? I sed, and she sed, She told me. Her and Mary Watkins being jelliss of each other, and I thawt, I wonder if she reely ment that about Yardo.

But we kepp on wawking jest the same on account of it being too late to change agen enyways. ing tlmt is too tight or too Th'ey strike some troubles of their and drinking too little water. In the July issue of Hygeia, Dr. Morris Fishbein describes the varie-1 own, Well, ihat Again! ties, discusses causes and preven tion and outlines first aid measures for treatment of this afflic- Although your courage tion, Sunlight is not the essential cause; the heat of the boiler room. is Something Else strong, You cannot smile; may be always sporf a the laundry or steel foundry may Sometimes when things are going equally cause heat bet- wrong, ter term than sunstroke.

Among It dres vou good to grouch preventive measures the most im- awhile, portant are proper clothing, plen-: The other Ills, in truth, ty of water to drink and suitable! You oid him bear; but now and then During hot weather people When YOU have got an aching should eat lightly, particularly of tooth, sugars and fats which produce Well, that is Something El 3 much bodily heat. They should: Again! take at least eight or nine glasses; of water a day and should wear i says the Optimist, Hght garments that are loose and; And an easy thing to permit the escape of heat from say, the body and the evaporation of But w'hen bad fortune will persist water from the body You wonder How They Get that The essentials for Way; treatment are removal for immed- whine; grumble. moan or Is cheerful dope for bards pen, to they treatment are removal to a well ventilated, cool place and loosening of the clothing. If the temperature is low, hot ap- But do they practice what plications should be placed around preach? the arms and feet sa os to restore1 Well, that is Something Else the circulation. If the body teni-! Austin.

perature is high, the patient may (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service. placed in a tub of water Inc and the body vigorously rubbed with ice. The condition is often For team work the cigarette Rtuh serious and a physician should be and the baste-basket have backed summoned as quickly as the spark and powder-keg off the -Boston Herald. Help Peace In Mexico Pasadena Star-News. With differences between the two sister republics about to be ironed out, it is timely to discuss future relations between the United States and Mexico.

Government and people of the United States should do all possible, in co-operation with the constituted authorities in Mexico, to preserve domestic peace in that republic. Attempts to start unwarranted bloody as prevailed for be discountenanced on this side of the international line. The whole moral influence of the Nation should be exerted to prevent a recurrence of the bloody chaos which scourged Mexico for years. It is shameful to confess that much of the plotting against the peace of Mexico was done on this side of the boundary. This never should be again Measures should be adopted to drive all mischief! makers out of this if they be Americans tn rpalroin thorn NIGHT CHOIRS Velvet dark and shining star, Drowsy birds in crooning trees, From the seacoast, sings, afar, Sweet and salt, a lazy breeze.

Now the great golden rim Rises with a sound like flutes, Tree toads tinkle, frail and dim, Little jade and silver lutes. Their small, whispered songs, I find Much like distant sleigh bells are, And upon a sudden wind, Comes the singing of a star. Mowers tremble in the grass To a little, fragrant tune, Wrapped in fragile sound, there pass Night and star, and slim, young June. Faith Baldwin, in N. Y.

Sun and Globe. IN THE LONG AGO From the Register Files Sad thing about wearing light underwear all winter is you have no heavy to pull off for summer. Feed her dog dynamite. Kick the dog- This will help you stay jingle through June. Girls not catching husbands this year worry.

Next year is Leap Year. July 6, 1909 The hoard of supervisors withdrew the signature to the petition asking that Broadway trom Sixth to Hickey be paved. The board had signed thinking the property owners wanted the pavement. Dr. J.

G. Bailey told the board that the property owners are not ready for the In a controversy at the meeting of the City Trustees, City Attorney W. F. Heathman told Street Superintendent Charles Ward to attend to his own The city attorney wrns instructed by the City Trustees to prepare an ordinance prohibiting the standing of street and steam cars on city streets for long periods of time. Officers elected by the Santa Ana Fire Underwriters association are: President, Frank Ey; vice- president, C.

A. Kingston; secretary-treasurer, Mac O. Robbins; grievance committee, J. C. Quick, W.

N. Baker, O. M. Robbins. R.

H. English just threshed twelve acres of barley for H. T. Metzgar and got 309 sacks, averaging 120 pounds to the sack. English says this is the largest yield he ever threshed.

rmTTTTTT flTTT ITT III rhTTTTTf He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 53:5. Look ahead. For that purpose are your eyes in the front of your Magazine. I A Harvard professor says nervous prostration is a luxury.

The poor must keep on Colorado Telegram. Solomon was the wisest man. and he 700 wives. Figure it out for sonian. adventures OFTHE TWINS Olive Barton NO.

MAGIC BUTTON you like to go with me to Rainbow Land?" asked Mister Sky Bow, the funny fat little Rainbow Lander who was bowed all over. "Oh, we cried the Twins. I see any good reason why take he said. see you have on magic shoes. So come right along.

But there! I forgot! Perhaps we can't get in after all. shut how I happen to be out! you see the rainbow is a big door. Rainbow Land is on the other side. I dropped my hat into that field there and was reaching for it, when door shut behind me and shut me out. And here I am.

And here stay and here all stay unless I can find the magic Magic exclaimed Nick. is I sh Mister Sky Bow put his finger to his lips and looked cautiously around. so he whispered. do for everyone to know where the magic button is. on the side of that big gray rock where the moss grows.

see if we can find it. Come!" All three of them tip toed over to the big rock Mister Sky Bow felt all over it carefully. it he whispered. found it. Now all I have to do is to press on it like a door-bell.

Then a wonderful thing happened. The big rainbow door slid up into the sky like the curtain in a theater, leaving an open space through which the Twins could see a wonderful fairyland beyond. beckoned Mister Sky Bow. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.).

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