Imperial Valley press., 1914-03-09

gin aG CdleXlcO, WHICH all inspected,
driving in from the cotton fields to
see how it is ginned.
Barbecue at C..M.
! At noon big barbecue was served
at the C-M ranch few miles from
Calexico. This is hundred thousand
acre proposition with wide reaches on
both sides of the border where ranch
ing is conducted on an immense scale,
A wild west show of broncho busting
and roping was put on. Another drive
took the party to Sharp's heading,
just over the international border,
where the water is taken from the
ancient Alamo river and turned into
the irrigating canals.
A wide detour had been made in
visiting these various places, but the
good border roads of direct route
brought us back to the county capital
in good time in the late afternoon.
| In the fine hall of the Masonic
temple banquet was spread for the
guests in the evening. E. F. Howe
editor of the Imperial Valley Press,
Spokesman of the Reclaimed Des-
ert," was the POSTMASTER. Ontario
folks will recall this sterling citizen
as editor of the Ontario Record for
a leriod Of A year or so about a de-
So4
Valley Press is to the Imperial val
ley what Horace Greeley's Tribune
was to his cause. Howe and the I'm
perial valley were and are esteemed
contemporaries. Howe and Holt put
the H in (H)Imperial valley. It is
the silent H, modest innately with
both, but just as vocal in proclaim
ing the future of the valley as the
egotistic and initial vowel l.
Lauds Children Crop ~
Friend w. Richardson, the affablc
and efficient head of the California
Press association, besought Imperial
ties not to overlook the crop of child
rem, with all their looking and Charles
E. Jones, chief of the Southern seq
ment of editors, although not yet a
benedict, nor soon, evidently, second
ed the motion.
Otis B. Tout, editor of the Morning
Progress, gave the greetings of Ell
Cenro. He typifies the. young spirit
of the valley. He it is who touts
the truth about the wonderland below
sea level. If Howe and Holt are
the Pauls who planted, o, tits Tout
who is the Apollos who watereth.
And there are two Touts touting I'm
perial valley all the time for Otis
Tout is ably assisted by his gracious
wife, Mrs. Tout.
AS the first figure in the valley
was w. F. Holt, so was he the fore
most figure at the banquet. Not that
he "played up" himself as the news
paper push would say, but because
he was and is the towering figure
in the valley, for it was he who came
first and he who has stuck fast in
his faith where the government made
it's adverse reports on soil conditions
and also when the Colorado made
its first and last attempt to get
back into it's ancient habitat. Mr..
Holt spoke little of the prominent part
he played in the valley, but he spoke
finely and largely on the spirit of
the valley, the spirit of the nobler
life, the spirit of service.
Down in Dixieland
Washington's birthday was fitting
ly spent in journeying to city with
a southern sobriquet, Dixieland. Hav-
ing been north, east and south, the
west side of the valley was visited
via the Holton Interurban and the
Spreckles San Diego and Arizona rail
roads.
At Seeley noon lunch was served
and the rapid growth of this city
shown. Westward the star of empire
took it's way and Dixieland, the cot
ton city, at the edge of the farthest
west canal, was visited. Here the
editorial party was greeted with a
vocal welcome given by quartette,
which sang Dixie land songs to num-
erous encores. This quartette was
feaded by Aubrey Moody, one of On
trio's sweetest singers, who lives
at Dixie land, where he represents the
National Lumber Company.
Back in Ell Centro the party re-
paired to the beautiful new High
school plant, where bevy of Ell
Ccntro high school beauties served
cafeteria supper.
That evening the crowd went to
The Euclid photoplay of Ell Centric
where George Wharton James. the