Imperial Valley press., 1912-01-16
EXPRESSES GRATITUDE
TO SISTERS OF MERCY
Valley Man Writes to San Diego Union
Of Splendid Services Being
Rendered Here to Sufferers

The following letter to the San
Diego Union is from W. H. Whelan, an
old time newspaper man of the coast,
and formerly city official of Brawley,
who has recently been at st. Thomas
Hospital in this city for treatment:
Editor San Diego Union: The ex-
celfent reports in the Union setting
forth Madame Tingley's exalted teach
ings reached the writer here, and un-
der circumstances calculated to i'm
press one with the great service the
Union renders in giving the lady a
| full hearing
While the Imperial valley is being
developed in the score of ways posi-
Bile, because of the remarkable assets
here, the gift of nature, the human
engine sometimes runs down in the
strife. Singularly enough-and as if
! to emphasize the bond between San
| Diego and the valley-your good Sis
ters Of Mercy of ST. Josephs Hos
pital have opened here refuse f""
those who have neither .horit. nor
| friends, and of all of which we, par
| donably, are proud here, no one thing
| is more praiseworthy-or helpful in
| the general way-than this same hos
pital.
The day is near at hand when the
new railroad must tie this valley to
your city in all bonds known to mod
ern commercialism, and, as corol-
larry, in all things that make for ma
terial good. That your Sisters of st.
Joseph's came here and faced primi-
tive and very trying conditions to
help the people who must fall in the
feverish race, has done as much to
win the hearts of the people of the
valley as any one thing of record.
Bonds Strengthened
That San Diego made it possible
in financial way-to pick and mar
ket our cotton, will always be remem-
bered by our people with the graft
tude born of a sense of real service;
but that we now have complete and
highly equipped hospital service, also
a gift from San Diego, will strengthen
all bonds and make both counties as
one, commercially, as they really are
geographically.
In my four years of constant service
as city clerk, recorder and justice of
the peace in Brawley, |, necessarily,
saw much of the "seamy" side of life
in the struggle, and the animus be-
among the men who fought and fell
hind this screed finds it's source in
the fact that now the poor and needy
do find help in sickness. and we have
to thank San Diego hearts therefor.
There are about me now the flot-
sam and jetsam of life as the strug-
gle here has developed them, and if
the teachings of real democracy are
true-and l believe in them-your
growing city has won the hearts OF
the common" people through the en-
terprse and self -abnegation of these
good women for all time. Political,
social and commercial tests must rule
life, as we now know it; but the touch
of human kindness will win over
them all.
Perfect Climate for Aiing
This valley has perfect climate
for ailing people and now that care
and scientific attention can be had,
those who look our way for health
may come feeling that these good wO-
nen will care for them.
Ii could make your capitalists
see The business game" here as it
looks to me, would bring them here
10 win the harvest due to come III
the next five years, from. iudicious in
estmcnt in loans, and so make the
new road, when once open, the high
way Of commerce to your beautiful
harbOr. Port charges and increased
travel will always be 2 handicap to
Los Angeles, and the lack of congo
NAL business fellowship now SO pow
Crfuily apparent ought to be a pointer
10 your men of action that now is
the time to control the trend of val
ley business.
However it is up to- your peo-
pie: and as we nave so much to thank
you for it would be the logical as we'll
as the happy fact that we could thank
you for a commercial outlet
w. II. WHELAN,
Late City Clerk, Brawley.
FL Centro, Cal.