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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-16
ADJUSTMENTS

B. F. KEITH'S THEATRE
CHESTNUT AND TWELFTH STREETS
Philadelphia Favorites' Week!
Sam Chip & Mary Marble
PRESENTING THE CLOCK SHOP"
Clifton Webb & Eileen Molyneux
socIETY's EXCLUSIVE DANCERS
Maggie Cline
THE IRISH QUEEN"
Kathleen Clifford; Harry Gilfoil; Avon
Comedy Four; Dewitt, Burns &
Terrence. Others.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-16
TO ELEVATED TRAlNo.
Honest to goodness!
THE MINSTREL

THE MINSTREL.
81 am the merry Minstrel, old aud gray,"
The NOrth-iriHd chants,
"The forest is mn harp and icheH I play
The sHoicfGkes dance"
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30

Modern Groom housekeeping apis.
65S Commercial. Ed Royce.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.

Bell Development Company. Loca-
ton of principal place of bsiness. Ell
Centre, Imperial county, California.
Notice is hereby given that at spe-
cial meeting duly called for the pur-
pose of the board of directors of the
Bell Development Company, held in the
company's office on the 18th day of
December, 1915, an assessment (No. 81
of ten cents per share was levied upon
the capital stock of the corporation,
payable Immediately to j. d. Foss, sec
retary of said corporation, at its of
fices in the City of El Centre, County
of Imperial, State of California.
Any stock upon which this assessme
shall remain unpaid on the 18th dav of
January, 1916, will be delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction,
and, unless payment is made before,
will be sold at the company's offices
on the 10th day of February, 1916, at
the hour Of 3 o'clock p. m, to pay
the delinquent assessment, together
with the cost of advertising and ex-
penses of sale.
BY order of the Board of Directors.
]. ID. FOSS, Secretary.
Office, Barbara Worth Hotel El Cen
tro, Imperial County, California.
MonJan17
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.

FL Centre Country Club. Location
of principal place of business, FL Cen
tro, California.
Notice is hereby given that at q
meeting of the board of directors held
the 18th day of December, 1915, an
assessment (No. ~ of two ($2.00)
dollars per share, was levied upon the
capital stock of the corporation, pay
able Immediately in United States gold
coin, to r. B. Moore, secretary, at the
office of the company, 585 Main street,
Ell Centre, California.
Any stock upon which this assess
ment shall remain unpaid on the 18th
day of January, 1916, will be delin2
quent and advertised for sale at pub
lie auction and, unless payment is
made before, will be sold Thursday,
the 3rd day of February, 1916, at IL
o'clock noon, to pay the delinquent
assessment together with the cost of
advertising and expenses of sale.
BY order of the board of directors.
r. B. MOORE, Secretary.
Office 585 Main street, FL Centre, Cal
ifornia, December Ia, 1915.
WedJanl
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30
THREE DISTRICTS
RUSHING WORK ON
SCHOOL BUILDINGS

Three school districts-Calipatria,
inland and Lone Star-are rushing
to completion buildings for which
bonds were recently voted.
In each case, in order to rush struc-
tural work, contracts for building
we're let before sale of bonds, subject
to receipt of the bond money.
This plan, worked out by County
Superintendent of Schools A. P. Shib-
ley, allows the contractors to get
everything in readiness preparatory to
actual operations on receipt of the
bond money.
Calipatria voted $4,000; Nilan1,
$4,000, and Lone Star district 3d.
900.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30
Cotton Up SLIGHTLY.

Advices to DAILY Brothers today in
dicate an upward trend of cotton in
eastern markets.
New Orleans
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30

Pianos moved with best of care any
where in valley. Ed Royce.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30

were hostesses at one of the most brill
liam balls of the year in the younger
set last evening at the Barbara Worth
ballroom. Much credit must be giver
the girls for the manner in which the
affair was handled. About 20 couples
enjoyed their hospitality.
X = y
"The Girl From His TOwn"-The
big Mutual masterpiece, "The Man
From His Town." with Margarita
Fisher and c. Elliott Griffin in the
leading roles, will be shown at the
Palace theatre tonight. This great
story was produced under the direc-
ton of Thomas Ricketts, and tells
the story of mock aristocracy and is
enlivened by a thrilling and daring
narrative of the theatre. Two good
comedies produced by the Mutual Film
Company complete the big bill. To
morrow night "Niobe" is the head
liner for the Palace patrons and is
sure to make a big hit. "Niobe' Is
one of the most successful comedies
ever produced and has probably made
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30
SEWER NOTICE.
To Residence and Building Owners i
FL CantrO.

To Residence and Building Owners in
FL Centre:
The Board of Trustees having
agreed to construct "Y" connection
lines from the new sewer to the prop
erty line in every case where there
are now buildings to be served, hereby
give notice to said owners TO, at once,
notify Charles II. Field, sewer SUI
perintendent, at the City Hall, eX-
actly where ON the property line they
wish this extension to be located, as
otherwise the connection will auto
matically be made five feet from the
lower property line. A prompt COM
pliance with this request will save you
expense and annoyance.
f. w. BURGER,
213 Sewer Commissioner.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30

This fact, rather than wages, has
been the determining factor
But within the last year a power
full new influence to relieve enforced
idleness has been created here. 1t is
the free employment agency main
tanned undeE the national plan of the
Tilted States Department Of Labor.
Since March, 1915, the Seattle of
flee has found jobs for over 1000 idle
men. And this despite problems OF
organization and the slow response OF
employers.
The ready availability of white Labor
seems to have been solved. Under the
direction of Immigration Commission
er II. NJ. White, the work of the gov
ernment employment office here has
been popularized among fruit Gamers
wheat, berry and hop ranchers.
Now State Labor Commissioner OF.
son is urging the fish Gamers as wei
to patronize this bureau and municipa
free agencies, so that the American
Itoilers may regain the jobs from which
the Asiatics have ousted them.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30
MAINLY PERSONAL

Judge Victor E. Shaw of Los An
geles is spending a few days in the
valley looking over his holdings.
Dr. Metzger OF Los Angeles will
open dental rooms in the FL Centre
National Bank building as soon as re-
pairs on the building are completed
After spending their honeymoon at
various cities in Texas, Mr.. and Mrs.
Buck Estes are spending few days
in Ell Centre with relatives. They
will make their home in Yuma, where
Mr.. Estes is agent for the Southern
Pacific.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30
BY Jack Jungmeyer

Seattle, Dec. Wholesale substi-
tuition Of white labor for Oriental in
the fish canneries of the Northwest is
to be attempted by the State Of Wash
ington as a solution to annual unem-
ployment problem.
Every season between 14,000 and
$4,000 Japanese and Chinese are uti-
lizei in the Puget Sound salmon and
cod canneries.
This number far exceeds all the
unemployed white men in Washington
and Oregon at any one time.
State Labor Commissioner E. Olson,
taking the initiative, have already re-
ceived encouraging promises from
some of the big cannery interests en-
ploying Asiatics that white men here
after will be given preference.
Chinese and japanese labor got its
foothold because white labor was not
always available when most needed.
A system of contracting with Oriental
bosses sprang up. They always had
their countrymen on hand in suffi-
cient number.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30
Oil Chemist Is
Stricken at Work

At 10 o'clock this morning Adam
Hardin, an oil chemist, was busy
working in the laboratory of the I'M
perial Valley Oil and Cotton mill. An
ohur later his lifeless body was found
prone on the floor by Superintendent
Moore when he stepped into the room
A coroner's jury, following an in
quest by Coroner Peterson, ascribed
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30
CITY AND VALLEY

Disturbed the Peace-Bob Glenn,
colored, was fined SO this morning
in City Recorder Whitelaw's court, for
disturbing the peace of the East Side
in the darker hours.
x = y
Light Rain Today-The storm which
prevailed ON the coast brought the
valley a slight rainfall about noon
today, while the sky is fully overcast
this afternoon and more rain may
come at any time.
x X y
Business Meeting-There will be d
business meeting of st. Pauls Epis-
copal church this evening at o'clock
and, as matters of Importance are to
be voted upon, a large attendance of
the communicates of the church is
looked for.
X x X
Fined for Contempt-Justice May
field this morning imposed $50 fine
on C. NJ. Moody for contempt of court
for telling the justice he had let a
guilty man go free when an unsavory
case was dismissed ON the defendant
proving an alibi.
y X X
Coming to Tulane-Theatre Tulane
wishes to announce the coming Of
Sunday" a fine 5-reel feature pic
ture, on Friday night On Saturday
Charlie Chaplin, in 2-reel comedy
"Shanghaied." This will be shown il
addition to the regular program.
X y y
Girls Give Ball-Members of tn,
Fire Girls Club of the High Schoo
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30
DEcBER 20 g

several producers independently rich
There is a laugh in every inch of film
and the situations are such as to mage
a lasting impression on those who
witness it. "Niobe' will be at the Pals
ace Friday and Saturday night, with
the ladies' and children's matinee Sat
urday afternoon.
= x =
Chasing a Fire-At ! As this after
noon the fire alarm sounded. The pub
lie looked to the south, saw a great
cloud of smoke and made dash to
Orange street, where the smoke was
seen to come from a sewer dltching
machine. Just then a heavy mass Of
smoke arose to the north, and the pub
lie charged up to Commercial street
only to discover another ditcher
Meanwhile the department had heard
of the false nature of the alarm and
laid quiet while hte public had plenty
of exercise.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

HAVE YOU No. l water stock to
sell cheap? If so, address Water
Stock, Box 412, Imperial. X209
HAVE YOU got poultry for sale ?
Fritz Hebron pays highest prices
Drop a postal card. Box 635, FL
Centre. X21C
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30

acute alcoholism as the cause of
death
! Hardin had been in the valley for
several months. His family, living in
Natchez, Miss, have been notified of
the death.
The body was removed to the NOR
tuary of C. A. Shafer.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-30
REALTY TRANSFERS

stract and Title Company:
Charles F. Perry ct uX. to William
r. Gilmour ct AL, south so acres of
tract 169B, 1914.
Mary C. Gillett ct al. to Kelly w
Tower, lot 20, block 5, Holtville.
Kelly w. Tower to Charles V. Crom-
well, same property as above.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-15
AN ELECTION SCHOOL

TNHERE is more truth than fiction
about the statement made from
the bench in several counties of
PENNSYLVANIA the last few days that
there is need for school for election
officers. NeveR before in the history
of the present election system have
so many instances of downright blum
dering been reported and more men
have been hailed into court to explain
tangled election returns in Philadel-
phia than recorded in a generation.
The chief difficulty is that the way
to vote in Pennsylvania has been so
safeguarded that it is as difficult to get
a ballot marked and recorded as IT is
to go hunting or fishing without law
book. The election laws have been re-
formed until they are fright to the
average citizen who thinks about his
ballot on just two days in the year
primary and general election days.
The realm of election laws has been a
joyous romping place for the reformer
and he has made voting onerous for
the citizen and burden to the election
officer. 1t is going TO be rather hard
to get competent men to sit as election
officers if ballots grow so large that it
is like handling sheets to work with
them and if so many things are pre-
sented for voters action that it takes
twenty-four hours to count.
The proposition is either to simplify
the ballot, which means making more
offices appointive. or restricting the
referendum, or else to send the cleo
tion officers to school, at public ex-
pense, for a couple of days before the
primary and general elections. Our
governmental specialists say the free
mans will must be recorded as he
wants it. no matter what the cost.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-15
REVENUE AND PROTECTION

IMPORTS entered the 13 principal
customs districts of the United
States, handling 81 per cent of our
total imports to the value of S32,-
SS4,043, for the week ending October
80, 1915. On these imports duty OF
S3,540,656 was realized, or an aver.
age rate of duty on our imports oil
1913 per cent.
People who believe in the policy OF
free trade ought to be pretty well
satisfied with this showing, but the
attempt of Secretary McAdoo to make
buckle and tongue meet 4as revised
that gentleman's private views on the
tariff considerably.
The average rate of duty on i'm
ports for the month of August, 1913
under Republican law, was 1928 per
cent and the Treasury surplus was
thoroughly reassuring.
To-day imports of goods competing
with American products have reached
truly Democratic proportions, but the
Government revenues have become
negligible. The Underwood tariff law
is one of those poor laws which work
both ways.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-15
FIGHTING BY NIGHT

"a nocturnal attack on the firing
line looks like an exhibition of fire.
works magnified a thousand fold
says a writer in the November Popu-
lar Science Monthly and Worlds Ad-
vance, describing the various devices
used by the warning armies to illu-
inmate the batlefields.
AT the first shot in the blackness
brilliant searchlights, mounted on mo-
tor trucks, criss- the battlefield
with their binding shafts of light,
confusing the attackers and exposing
them to the death-dealing fire of guns
and rifles. A sound like giant sky
rocket is heard. and over the opposite
trenches a huge rocket bursts, and,
descending slowly under parachute,
an incandescent ball throws down a
fan of light, which illuminates the
surrounding territory for several
take its place, keeping the field un-
der brilliant light during the entire
engagement. A glance down the
length of the line reminds one of the
drop lights of the stage. magnified a
thousand times As far as one can
see these lights are dropping, shedding
their lights the better to allow their
makers to kill.
1.-THE whirr of an aeroplane's pro-
peller is heard overhead. Another
danger is added TO the melee, and
the swift machine. The searchlights
flash upward, sweeping the sky, and
finally focus their pencils of light up
on the fragile, flying thing. One beam
holds the range, while the rest return
to lthe battlefield. Guns fire in quick
succession and IL series of fireballs
chase across the Sky.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-15
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

MYTH a record of four defeats at
w the hands of smaller colleges,
the humbling of whose teams in
former years had been but a matter of
chronology; with the somewhat weak
ened confidence of still loyal horde of
hopeful students and graduates rejuve-
mated by the prospect of stirring bat
tie: with coaching system that but a
week before had been turned inside
out; with popular opinion conceding
the victory to the opposing team be-
fore the game started; with the betting
five to three against them, a Yale foot
ball team. inspired by that indefnable
something that carries the individual
beyond himself and enables him to do
things never expected of him, defeated
Princeton team on Saturday by six
points.
The game was watched by sixty
thousand eager partisans of either uni
versity-for one simply. cannot remain
neutral when one hears the singing
and cheering and sees the riot of color
and youth in the huge Yale bowl. The
details are history and need not be
repeated. but when a blue-jerseyed
battler drops field goal from an
almost inconceivable distance between
his own goal posts In exactly the same
manner as did blue-jerseyed battler
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-15

little stores of poison were exhausted,
and all of the horror and suffering
they had held in check came to the
surface.
Almost maddened by their \ need,
many OF these unfortunates rushed to
them for their drugs. They crowded
the halls and corridors of revenue Of
fees, begging for relief.
Went Into Hysteria
Being refused, they often went into
hysteria or rage. In one such corri-
dor man of education and position
beat his head against the wall until in
sensibility came. At another place
the collector found it necessary to sur
round himself with aN bodyguard.
These addicts suffered collapse by the
score, and were turned over to hospi-
tails and physicians for treatment.
There were thousands of them
throughout the country who had been
practicing their vice i'm secret, and
who now raved in the open
streets. Among the Illicit dealers in
these drugs q deck of snow" the un-
derworld name for a package of CO.
caine, rose in price from 25 cents to
$3.50.
Letters that rival de Quincy's
"Opium Eater" have poured into the
Washington office An old man wrote
to the Secretary of the Treasury, say
ing that both he and his wife had
been addicted for thirty years. He
CONTINUED on Page 14.1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-15
THE DEATH OF EDITH CAvELL
[FrOm Golfers Weekly.l

L rom SOllleI weekly
When the Government of a great
nation incurs the moral condemnation
of mankind it is essential that the
facts involved be clearly understood.
Edith Cavell had been over twenty
years in Brussels as the head of a hos
pital there. She was not in the pay
of any government, she was not con-
spring or spying against any govern
ment Her sympathies led her to
shelter certain Belgians and English
men and to help them escape from
Belgium. For this she was secretly
tried and hastily shot by the German
authorities under Sauberzwe1g, Kissing
and Lancken. When American news
papers such as the San Francisco
Chronicle" and "The State of Col
umbia, S. c., speak of Miss Cavell rs
a Spy" they are utterly mistaken, and
to parallel the Cavell murder one
must go back to Alice Lisle, beheaded
by order of James II on September 2,
1856, for harhoring two refugees from
Monmouth's defeated army. (Mrs.
Surratt was hanged in Washington be-
cause she had given shelter to and
had known of the conspiracy which
resulted in killing Lincoln, yet Rhodes
and other historians unite in .deploring
her eXecution.) The French in the
last year have executed two or more
women, confessed spies and paid for
their spying, but Edith Cavell had no
part in any murderous conspiracy.
German newspapers may heap con-
tempt on English cant" and revile
Brand Whitlock, but they will be ex-
planning Edith Cavells death just as
long as they have to uphold the pres
ent system of German Government. AS
a great French writer, Lamartine has
said: "The murderer has but one
hour; the victim has eternity"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-15
A MAYNARD TONGUE

The chairman of the committee was
addressing meeting at a teachers
institute:
my friends. the schoolwork is the
bulhouse of civilization. l mean-ah
-"
He began to feel frightened.
THE bulhouse is the schoolwork of
civ"
A smile could be felt.
The workhouse is the bulschool of
HeAwas evidently twisted
The schoolbul is the housework-''
An audible snigger spread over the
audience.
THE bulschool-"
He was getting wild. So were his
hearers. He mopped his perspiration,
gritted his teeth, and made fresh
start
The schoolhouse. my friends"
A sigh of relief went up. Hamlet
was himself again!
He gazed serenely around The
light of triumphant self-confidence
was enthroned upon his brow.
rs the woolbark-"
And that is when he lost conscious
ness.-Answers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-15
CURING A MILLION DRUG FIENDS
By Frederic J. Haskir

VTTHEN the antinarcotic law was
wv passed. men of experience with
w drug addicts prophesied that it
would have no effect in checking this
traffic. which has enslaved a million
Americans. There were State laws on
the subject, but nearly all of them had
proved failures. The secretiveness
and cunning of the habitue, and his
desperation when deprived of the
drug, made a problem apparently too
subtle for the law to solve.
The Harrison measure has now been
in operation eight months. 1t has
been rigidly and successfully enforced.
The misery horror and disgrace which
it has brought forth are the best
proofs that the addict and his panders
have at last been outwitted.
This unpleasant but imperatively
necessary task of uprooting the traf-
fic in habit-forming drugs has fallen
to the internal revenue office of the
Treasury Department-the same that
hunts out the Illicit still of the moon
sinner, and the deceptive product of
the man who sells oleomargarine for
butter.
The men of this service had already
a machine of investigation and detec-
ton that operated in every part of
the United States. They applied it to
the drug traffic when the law went
into effect on the first of March. For
a time there were no results. Most
of the addicts had laid in a supply of
their favorite drugs. But soon these
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-15
IF BATTLEsHIPs RAN ON LAND

The captain of the Pennsylvania
VIII WELD weapon more intrinsically
powerful than the German Standing
army; and this control of it will be
more absolute than is the Kaiser's
control of that army" This surpris-
ing statement is made by Rear Ad-
miral Bradley A. Fiske in the Novem-
Der Popular Science Monthly and
Worlds Advance.
After comparing the fighting
strength and mobility of a great bat-
tleship and an army in the field, Rear
Admiral Fiske says:
Possibly the declaration may be
accepted now that battleship of &c.
600 tons such as the navies are build
ing now, with, say, twelve 12-inch
guns is greater example of power.
under the absolute direction and con-
troll than anything else existing; and
that the main reason is the concen-
tratlon of tremendous amount of
mechanical energy in a very small
space, all made available by certain
properties OF water. Nothing like a
snip can be run on shore, but if an
automobile could be constructed.
carrying twelve 12-inch guns, twen-
ty-one 5-inch guns and four torpedo
tubes, of the size of the PENNSYLVANIA.
ana with her armor, able to run over
the land in any direction at 20 knots
propelled by engines of twenty thou
sand horsepower, it could whip an
army of million men just as quickly
as it could get hold of its component
parts. Such a machine could start at
one end of an army and go through to
the other like a moving machine
through a field of wheat and knock
down all the buildings in New York
afterwards, smash all the cars, break
down all the bridges and sink all the
shipping"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-15
ANOTHER RESPONSIBILITY

TINE world at war, and we the one
great nation at peace. Strained
relations with England, and none
too good an understanding with Ger
many. Americans lost on the Ancona
Whitlock in trouble in Belgium. These
with the Mexican situation, a growing
deficit in the treasury and a split in the
Democratic party, are the weighty re.
sponsibilities the President faces. Ir
all conscience, these ought to be suffi.
cient to keep the President busy, but
we learn from Washington that the
occupant of the White House has still
another problem on his hands. He
doesn't know where to put his wed.
ding presents.