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Imperial Valley press., 1913-10-03
Was a Hard Shake
(By United Press Association

(By United Press Association
Panama, Oct. 3--The damage from
Wednesdays quake was more seri-
Gus in the interior, though few de-
tails are available. The first shock
was SO severe it Jared the automatic
pen from the seismograph, making a
record impossible.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-10-03
To Prosecute Fighters
(By United Press Association)

(By United Press Association)
Los Angeles, Oct. 3-Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Joseph Ford has an
nounced that he will prefer charges
of prize fighting against Tim Nc
Crary, Jess Willard and nine others
concerned in globe match here, which
resulted in the death of Bull Young.
This means that no murder charge
will be filed. 1t is expected Earl Rog-
ers, attorney for the defendants, will
file demurrer. Judge Willis has al
ready decided that contests here are
boxing matches, in accordance with the
law.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-10-03

S. L. Roland, manager of the Bell
Development Company has returned
to the city after an absence of several
and says he will open an Of
flee here and the construction of the
Barbara Worth Hotel, for which the
excavation was made during the sum-
Imperial Valley press., 1913-10-03
Trolley Car Accident
(By United Press Association

Scranton, Pa, Oct. 3-Thirty per
sons were injured, several probably
fatally when suburban trolley car
bound for Dmmore was overturned.
Twenty-four were taken to the hos
pital.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-10-03
Fire on Manchuria

(By United Press Association
San Francisco. Oct. 3--Fire in ths
hold Of the Pacific Mail Liner Man
churia has damaged the cargo, accord
ing to a cablegram.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-10-03
Will Begin Construction On
Barbara Worth Hotel And
Crowd It To Completion

mer, will be begun at an early date
and the work pushed to completion
Mr.. Roland declares if any person
has an idea the hotel is not going to
be finished according to the original
plans he would do we'll to get that
idea out of his mind.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-10-03
Results

Philadelphia 8, New York 6 (unfin-
ished game).
New York s, Philadelphia 3 (second
game).
Philadelphia 4, New York 8 (third
game called in SIXTH.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-10-03
YESTERDAYS BASEBALL

Results
Venice IL, Los Angeles 9.
Portland 2, Oakland /.
San Francisco 8, Sacramento 2.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-10-03
American League
Results
National League

All games postponed, rain.
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"Pitiless Publicity"

Now that investigations are in order,
why not delve into the methods of OBJ
tanning information from the Comptrol-
ler's department? If one bank has
been favored over all others, the prac-
tice should be stopped at once. The
banking business is extremely sensi-
tive and should be like Caesars wife,
above suspicion. No one bank should
have private knowledge obtained
through any channels of the govern
ment Possibly the New York bank
that kept a clerk in the Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency showed
enterprise a little ahead of its compel
itors, which gave that bank some
advance news of financial value, but
notwithstanding the statement that
such news was open to the public, no
one unless he knew the ins and outs
of the governments methods could OBJ
tain such information as early as the
private Individual or Institution that
had their own employee look it up.
Uncle Sam is abundantly able to en-
ploy his own clerk to give out the kind
of news that is desired, and no private
concern should be allowed to have
frst-hand monopoly.
"Pitiless publicity is the policy of
the present administration. 1t is
good one, but no favoritism should be
shown.
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the amendment) was taken the Senator
had this to say:
1t seems to me that there is very
broad distinction which, if borne in
mind, will warrant not only this ex-
ception to the provisions of the bill,
but great deal of other legislation
which we enact or attempt to enact re-
lating to the matter of labor. When
you are providing to regulate the trans
actions of men who are making cor
ners in wheat, iron, and other products,
specializing, or when they are lawfully
dealing with them without speculation,
you are aiming at a mere commercial
transaction, the beginning of the end
of which is the making of money for
the parties and nothing else. That is
the only relation that transaction has
to the State. that is, the creation or
division of much of the ownership OF
the wealth of the community. But when
the laborer is trying to raise his wages,
or is endeavoring to shorten the hours
of his labor, he is dealing with some
thing that touches closely, more closely
than anything else, the government and
the character of the State itself. The
laborer who is engaged lawfully and
usefully and accomplishes his purpose
in whole or in part, endeavoring to
raise the standard of wages, is engaged
in the occupation, the success of which
makes republican government itself
possible, and without which the repub-
lie cannot, in substance, however it
may in formation, continue to exist.
What is more natural than that Mr..
Gompers and his followers should also
voice this sentiment and try hard to get
the amendment once more included in the
Sherman act But whether the lacking
it on as rider" to an appropriation
bill was the most approved method in
the effort to gain the point, remains to
be seen. In the light of the fate of
all riders" last year and the outspoken
disapproval on the part of President
Wilson, the outcome does not seem to
be at all sure. But in this connection
it may be of interest to learn that it
was Mr.. w. B. Wilson. the present
head of the newly established Depart
ment of labor, who, last summer, as
Representative from Pennsylvania, Of
fered this amendment in the last Con-
greSs.
There is talk at the Capitol of de-
sire to have pressure. brought upon
Congress to make this amendment per-
manent, after the sundry bill shall have
been passed, by the enactment of bills
introduced by Representative Bartlett
and Senator Bacon, both of Georgia
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-25
NEW BRITISH NAVAL PROGRAM

From the Naval and Military Record.
The programme of armored ships will
consist of five, as probably foreshadowed.
The five will be of a hybrid type, neither
battleship nor battle cruiser. They will
be vessels of about 500 tons, with an
armor belt of Ii 1-2 inches, a legend speed
of 3 knots. and an armament of eight
heavy guns, l6-1nch or l6.z3-inch. Inc
amalgamation OF type has been long ap-
preaching. In these vessels We shall
have arrived near the ideal of Lord
Fishers New Testament" ships.
Next there will be eight light-armored
cruisers about 300 tons heavier than those
laid down last year These will be
armed will four 6-inch and eight finch
guns, sufficient to knock out any light
cruiser yet designed by a foreign power.
But the most interesting change Will
be found in the programme of torpedo
craft. The destroyer is to disappear. In
her place submarine torpedo craft will
be built, which will far exceed the e.
and ''t'' class in power. They WILL,
in fact, be destroyers capable OF sub
mersion and, therefore, available for at
tack both night and day. The details
are as yet secret, but it is safe to
say that these craft will have a surface
speed approaching that of the River"
class of destroyer; that they will be well
armed with quick-firing guns and will
have a Greater radius OF action than
any destroyer afioat.
In addition to these, it is proposed
to build a certain number Of small sub
marines for the purpose of coast defense.
They will be about the size OF the a.
class, but will embody numerous i'm
provements in offensive power.
The development of aircraft has not
been overlooked in the plans of the adj
miralty. In addition to their main arma-
ment, the new battleships will carry
not only 6-inch guns, but also have 3-inch,
disposed behind armor and mounted in
such way that they may be available
for use against attack from the sky. .
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Ancient Surgery.
From Harper's Weekly.

From Harper's Weekly.
While the medical profession is agreed
that some rough form of surgery must
have existed from very ancient times, it
has always been a matter of wonder that
so complex and delicate an operation as
trepanning should also be one Of the
oldest.
There is authentic record Of this opera
ton dating back to the time of Hippo
crates, who wrote treatises on fractures,
dislocations, and wounds of the head,
wherein he described the method Of pro-
cedure to be followed in the case of a
fractured skull. His idea was to cut
away a piece of bone so that the pres
sure on the brain might be relieved.
The annals of this era show that a
file was used for this purpose, which, at
time when modern anesthetics were
unknown, must have been. to say the
least, painful.
According to Holmes, the operation of
removing pieces of bone was performed
long before historic times. The effects
on the skull are easily seen after death.
and are visible as long as the bones are
preserved. From inspection of certain
skulls of the later stone age in ancient
Britain, there has been derived the con-
clusion that some of these had under
gone the operation. which must have
been performed with stone implement.
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Look Ahead, Not Behind.

Going back to King Charles |, who
stood pat as long as he could before
the insurgents, called the Round Heads,
for a decision that will, in the. lingo
of the law, stand on all tours with the
Glover-Sims affair is distinctly a trib-
ute to those useful ancients whom our
conservative orators thunder forth as
THE Fathers" Also, it is a pleasure
to our people, who are pardonably
proud of their families, past, present,
or future, to know that their Repre-
sentatives have, as their authority, af-
fairs affecting some of the best people
that anybody ever descended from.
For those more nearly inclined to
the spirit of "None but Americans on
guard tonight" there will be precedents
in plenty, showing how persons of our
earliest Congresses conducted them
selves and were protected therefor and
therefrom. For some of us, whose busy
life it is to live nearly, If not quite, in
the present, there will be the affair of
Walter Fahy, whose fairly buzzing
resentment over an insult delivered
from the sanctity of the floor led to
his exclusion from the House galleries,
whence there is looking, down quite
as significant as the looking up. More
recent still is the splendid pursuit of
William Rockefeller by the Money
Trust investigating committee, which,
by the aid of several attorneys, host
of process servers, and very formid-
able array of medical and surgical sa-
wants, determined that Mr.. Rockefeller's
money had settled in his throat and he
was incompetent rather than in con-
tempt as to the assiduous investigators,
who drew off, sympathetic, but unin-
formed.
= Conservatives and progressives alike,
unanimous in their regret of an unfor-
tunate incident, are sure to find a
solace that everything will be done, in
the language of Tom Sawyer, 'by the
book" Whether Charles or Walter af-
ford the precedent, the nation will feel
a pleasurable security in knowing that
the affairs of our republic, in the one
hundred and thirty-seventh year of its
are being conducted with
due regard to the Fathers
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HATS
Nv GEORC
BY GEORGE FITCH,
Author Of cat Good Old siwash.~

A hat Is a roof for a man. Nature
didn't give him any caves. The hat pro-
vides the proper caves and drainage and
keeps the rain from soaking down into
the upper story and warping the mental
furniture.
Hats have existed for thousands OF
years, but more severely at some times
than at others. There are now about
600 kinds of hats in the world. The Mex
lean wears a volcans-shaped hat dbo II
three feet high, with a brim as big as a
washbowL. When he takes 1t on al
night he sleeps under it. The college
freshman wears a green cap which mere
ly covers his bump of audacity, and can
be worn in the vest pocket when not in
use In England society among men is
divided into two grades. One grade wears
the tall silk hat and the other the green
golf cap.
The derby hat is worn by many modest
men. 1t is black felt hat modelled
after an ostrich egg, and must be pro-
tectcd like an infant. Thousands of
derby hats are sat upon each year with
the most dlscouraging results. The straw
hat Is light, cool, ard also handsome
for the first fifteen minutes after 1t is
bought. After that 1t Is rained on and
looks like a work basket in its dotage.
The Panama hat is composed of one
third straw and two-thirds bunk. 1t is
woven under water in the thick Of the
moon, and costs IS much as the seller
thinks the buyer can be worked for.
When a man is seen wearing a vast
Panama hat with its brim languidly
Tapping in the breeze like the edge of a
circus tent. it is a sign that he can also
be sold automobiles. perfumery, and
handmade shoes.
The world has various paroxysms over
hats. Two years ago millions of pussy
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Court Gossip Of Interesting
. Epents on THO Continents

This famous but foolish duke believed
In keeping up the dignity of his position.
He would drive to the race meetings in
a coach and six, with twelve outriders.
When sent as Ambassador Extraordinary
to st. Petersburg for the coronation Of
Nicholas he spent f5o0oo in excess Of
the sum allowed him by the British gov
eminent.
Though the late Str Frederick Caring
ton is said to have possessed the finest
mustache in the British army, 1t was not
30 long as that worn by King Victor
Emmanuel II, whom the Duchess of
Sutherland described as the only knight
of the Garter who looked as IL he Ger
tainly would have the best % it with the
dragon. The first ruler Of United Italy
allowed his mustache to attain such
length that, in his later years, he would
never eat anything at a public banquet.
He was obliged to tie it behind his head
when taking food, and this he believed
to be undignifled in the presence Of per-
sons not belonging to his immediate cir
Gle
The Cafe Anglais, in Paris, which was
the favorite dining resort of the late
King Edward Of England on his visits
to Paris. had serious rival in the Cafe
Richie, which has now vanished. OF
-
said: Pour diner au Cafe Anglais ii faut
etre richie, mails pour diner au Cafe
Richie ii faut etre Anglais." But at the
time of their caustic epigram the Eng
lish were not so popular in Paris as they
have since become.
The latest instances of a general en-
forcement Of laws concerning dress oc-
CURED at the time of the French Revo-
ItIffn ruhap ha r1IIa 81
states forbade their subjects to wear
trousers. these being held to indicate
revolutionary opinions. The Elector of
Hesse-Cassel. besides prohibiting the
obnoxious garments, had the convicts
employed in road-sweeping dressed in
trousers. so as to inspire disgust for
"sansculotte'' fashions. No general pro-
hibition of this kind was issued by Prus-
STA. but until 1898 all Prussian officials
were restricted to knee-breeches for
their neither garments. Trousers were
held to be ''unbecoming to the dignity
and gravity Of any holder of an official
position In attempting to regulate
women's attire, the Ohio Legislature re-
wives the practices of early colonial
days. Massachusetts passed a law in
1854 against new and immodest fash
IONS" the last clause of which ran: IF
any man shall judge the wearing Of the
forenamed fashions, or long hair, or any
thing of a like nature to be uncomely
or prejudicial to the common good, and
the party offending reform not the same.
he shall be bound to answer it at the
next court; provided. that men and
women shall have liberty to wear out
such apparel as they are now provided
of, except the immoderate great sleeves.
slashed apparel. immoderate great wells.
long wings, &c" FLANEUR.
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lwO uuu IIoTSCSs
from the Chicago Post.
The tout picked out tough one when
he tried to interest a German in the
horses. He had steered him against a
poker game in which, miraeulously
enough he won. He went back and
won, and then announced that he would
play no more; the profit satisfied him
and he applied it to his yeast business.
He said frankly that he did not un-
derstand the racing game and all ita
involved details, but his adviser did not
lose heart. He got ahold of him from
time to time and outlined conjectured
profits, showing what certain parlay
would have paid the day before.
The German listened to this with di-
minishing patience, but with no out
breaks. He was almost apathetic when
the tout said:
Look out of the window-it's raining!
Banana Peel Is in light today in a soft
field and she loves the mud-yes, sir. she
fairly loves the mud"
'I.ufs the mudt, didt you say?"
That's what said-she loves it."
''All right, gif her some
A nearly similar remark was made on
a track when two men who had backed
their convictions were watching the race.
Their selection was going great guns,
causing one of them to exclaim:
"Pipe that mare in the soft going!
Why, she just eats 1t up!''
AS he spoke the mare stumbled and
fell to her knees. giving John Bright the
cue for this:
Eyes, and she's going down for a
mouthful OF 1t now"
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Lemons.

California produces about one-half
of the lemons consumed in the United
States, substantially all the remainder
are imported from Southern Italy and
Sicily. Under the present tariff law
the lemons imported pay a duty of
liz cents per pound; the Underwood
bill proposes to reduce this duty to ap-
proximately I-2 cent per pound. This
proposed reduction has drawn from
the Californian lemon growers an en-
phatic protest, which was voiced by
Representative Hayes a few days ago
on the floor of the House. During his
speech he gave the following reason
for protecting the lemon culture:
There is a reason for protecting the
lemon and other industries of Cali
fornia, | wish to remind the House,
that does not exist in most cases (;
namely, the long and expensive freight
haul to reach the principal markets of
the country.
This argument amounts to asking
lHS SONSlILiiCnl " PiOlSNt uiS NoAi
fornia lemon growers against differ
ence in freight rates. 1t asks that the
duty be high enough to enable them
to sell their product in the markets
east of the Mississippi River in COM
petition with the Sicilian lemons.
To the unprecedented, the fact that
the lemon industry is about 5000 miles
away from the Eastern market is an
argument, not for, but against protec-
ton. 1t is a strange peNersion of the
protective doctrine which asks the gov
eminent to equalize differences due to
geographical distances. These differ
ences in the nature of things, can never
be removed. The proposition is that
the consumer of the United States
shall pay the freight rate on lemons
from California to New York, so that
the California grower may sell in the
Eastern market. The reduction in the
lemon duty will not destroy the in
dustry; it will simply limit the ter
ritory in which Western lemons can
be sold.
There is no more reason why the
grower of lemons in California should
be guaranteed an Eastern market than
the producer of any other article. Their
argument would sound as we'll in the
mouth of the Western apple grower or
the farmer who produces eggs and but
ter in the Middle West, and must COM
pete with the Canadian. The logic of
the. lemon growers argument indeed
is that the government should protect
one section of the country against an
other if the former has a geographical
disadvantage.
1t is argued that it is more desirable
to build up the industry in California
and employ labor there than to build
up the industry in Sicily. This state
ment involves an old economic fallacy.
If it is not profitable to build up a
domestic industry in competition with
a foreign branch OF the same indus
try. it is safe TO assume that Ameri-
can capital may be more prohtably en-
ployed in some other line
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STA TESME N-REAL AND NEAR
Ry FRED c. KELLY

sweeping editors before II and relentless
ly carrying them in Congress. Ander-
son III. Walters. Representative-at-large
from Pennsylvania. is editor of the Johns
town Tribune, and Warren Worth Bailey,
who now represents the Johnstown dis
trict, is editor of The Democrat.
Representative John r. Clancy, hard
ware manufacturer OF Syracuse. is a
great man for trees. Not long ago he
was about to build a fine new manufac-
turing plant and there were a number
of apple trees on the site that the archi-
tect said would, of course, have to be
cut down. Clancy wouldn't stand for
running good trees just to put up a
building. He made the architect get up
new set of plans. and they finally
built the plant around the trees.
Copyright, 1915 by Fred. c. Kelly. All rights re-
served
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That Labor Exemption order"

The debate on the sundry civil ap-
preparation in the House centers upon
the provision exempting labor unions
from the operations of the Sherman
act. In the course of the discussion
there is, of course, great difference
of opinion as to the intent of the franz
ers OF the Sherman bill. When that
measure was offered to the Senate in
February, 1890, Senator Sherman him
self offered the following amendment,
proposed by his colleague, Senator
George, from Mississippi:
Provided that this act shall not be
construed to apply to any arrangements,
agreements, or combinations between
the laborers, made with a view of less
ening the number of hours of labor
or the increasing of their wages: nor
to any arrangements, agreements, or
combinations among persons engaged
in horticulture or agriculture, made
with view of enhancing the price of
agricultural or horticultural products
The bill, including this amendment,
was passed by a vote of 81 to 28,
and the measure, made specific by the
exemption of labor unions and farmers
organizations, was sent to the Commit
tee on Judiciary. Several weeks later
this committee reported the bill back,
but without the above amendment, and
in this form it was passed. Mr. Com
pers, president of the A. F. of L., in
speaking of the present desire to have
this amendment again adopted, says:
Though at the time we doubted the
wisdom of that amendment being omit
ted, we were assured by several that
under the reconstructed bill, labor. and
agricultural organizations were not in
GUIDED
What prompts the labor leader to be
so assured does not appear. 1t is well
known that labor unions have been
prosecuted under the Sherman act re-
peatedIy. Still, the records show that
il was the intent of the father Of that
bill. that labor unions should be ex-
empted Senator Hoar of Massa-
chusetts was a member of the commit
tee Judiciary, which framed the bill.
Before the first vote Chat including