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Imperial Valley press., 1916-11-18
Milo Maize is Banner Feed
For Hogs Declares Lively

$4.37 for the next best lot.
The return on the investment OF
this lot of hogs was about 80 per
cent, which is better than can be ex-
pected from most farm products.
1t is estimated that these hogs cost
3 cents pound when they were put
OF feed. A farmer who is equipped
for the business should be able. un-
der the most trying conditions, to
PUT his hogs in the feed lot at not
to exceed A censs a pound.
The result of this experiment ought
TO be in the hands of every farmer
in California, and the outcome of il
should be that millions of bushels OF
milo maize will be grown on Califor-
ria farms and converted into pork
annually.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-11-18
HAVE YOU ANY

If you have any articles about your
premises you want to dispose Of, put
{. want ad in the PRESS. Good Sc
cend-hanG furniture, farming tools
and other equipment are always sala-
bic and it costs but 3 cents line to
let Imperial County people kno " what
you have to offer. Every day some
one reports a ready sale of some ar
tjcls advertised in our Classified De-
rartment, the use Of which is becom-
ing more and more general.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-11-18
NEW CHEVROLET
AGENCY At bRAWLty
GETS CARLOAD 49O'S

Sebastian & Brundage, local agents
for the Chevrolet motor car, are to-
cay unloading carload of little
Chevrolet 490s, Which are to be sent
tc Brawley.
Upon the arrival Of these cars in
Brawley, Sebastian & Brundage will
have added another branch office to
their already good string in the Val
ley.
Paul Allen, formerly connected with
the FL Centro National Bank. has been
placed in charge of the salesroom ir
tie northern city and has opened tern.
rcrary quarters in the Covington, De
Biois & Best establishment.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-11-18

Through the efforts Of the market
committee of the American National
Live Stock Association, shippers are
receiving better terminal and yard
service, better commission service
with a better feeling generally per-
vading various departments Of trade.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-11-18

The University Of Idaho, through its
extension department, is establishing
night schools at dozen different
points through the state. Economics
business administra ton, forestry
arithmetic and English are some Of
tie subjects taught.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
\ GOOD WORK, MIR. BLACK

COMMISSIONER BLACK, of the
" State Highway Department, starts
his administration with the state
mept that he intends to follow strictly
the lines laid down by the late Mr..
Cunningham in maintaining the merit
system in the employment and pro-
motion of men in the department. The
public will applaud. 1t is the only way
in which the efficiency of one of the
most important branches of the gov
ernment can be maintained Mr.. Black
is a business man of wide experience.
He knows the evils of favoritism and
the good results that follow the rec
ognition of merit wherever it is found.
The Highway Department can do
much to make possible the passage of
the proposed road loan-or it can ruin
it's chances of approval by the voters.
Mr.. Black knows this and his state
ment is assurance that he means to do
his part toward making Pennsylvania
a State noted for its good roads.
His appointment to-day of two
county superintendents from among
men who have worked their way up
from the ranks is a guarantee that he
means Just what he says.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
Is Life Held Sacred?

tFrom the Philadelphia Public Ledger. ]
One of the melancholy by-products
of the war is the diminished valuation
of human life to, which it leads. We
are so stated with the horrors of the
wholesale destruction of men that the
sinking of a ship with all on board
creates a ripple of comment where
four years ago, as when the Titanic
went down, our minds would have been
paralyzed by the anguish our sympa-
thetic imaginations compelled us to
share. War that has been the making
of man has brought home his minute
ness as an individual. In the millions
what does it signify whether he plays
the man or proves the Stacker? That is
the shameful mood of the pessimist
We must forever be on guard against
an attitude of mind that thinks of bat
talions, regiments, companies, platoons
and not of mothers sons or the hus-
bands of wives. The vast toll of hu-
man life taken by the war makes every
man who is left to carry on the worlds
work of greater value than he was. The
wholesale destruction magnfies in
stead of minimiZes the individual Fa-
miliarity with the easy thing IT is to
take life-a simpler feat than to
chop down a tree-must not breed con.
tempt for its value.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
LITTLE MILITARY
TALKS
BY Capt. Geo. F. Lumb
THE MAN AND THE GUN

TT has been demonstrated daily at
Verdun for several months that
three men with a machine gun
well placed are equal to two hundred
This is not due to the
efficiency of the machine gun so much
as the ineffciency of the infantry.
For more than eighteen months the
armies of Europe have been swelling
their ranks with, old men and boys
who never fired a gun until they were
on the firing line. A vital principle of
warfare is this:
The more accurate the fire on one
side the less effective it is on the other.
There is no mystery in the marks
mans art. A good eye, steady nerves
and a resolute will are the first requi-
sites. Any rifle will do for sighting
drill. Rest the rifle in a horizontal
position, sights up. on a box or two
forked sticks about the heighth of the
chin. Set up a blank sheet of paper
with stiff background about twenty
yards away. Fasten a black cardboard
disk as large as silver dollar to a
twelve-inch wooden handle
Make a hole in the center of the
disk large enough to admit a pencil
point. Have a friend move the disk
about the white paper. AS you look
along the sights you direct him by say
ing: Right" "Down!" Left" "Up!"
until the black disk is on a line with
your eye and the two sights of the gun.
Then say: Mark" Without moving
the disk he makes a pencil dot
through the center on the white pa
per. Without disturbing the rifle start
again trying to get three dots in the
same place. They won't be there. Af-
ter the third dot connect the three
with lines, write your name in the tri-
angle and give the other fellow a
chanCe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
HETTY GREEN'S RICHES.

TTETTY GREEN, who died recently,
left all of her more than $780,
100000 to her two children. Not
one penny of her vast estates goes to
charity or for public benefit. Just
what the two beneficiaries are going to
do with 500, 100000 or more remains
to be seen.
1t is this sort of bequest that is CIV
ing rise to a demand for an inherit
ance tax that shall compel the Hetty
Greens and the Jim Hills to give an
accounting of their stewardships.
Not so very long ago our captains
of industry" persisted in paying no at
tention to the rights of the individual.
Big business did as it pleased and un-
scrupulous capitalists feathered their
own nests at the expense of the people.
They paid no attention to growing dis
bodies of the land began the belated
work of correcting existing evils they
went too far with the result that hon
est business suffered along with that
whose management knew no law but
it's own selfish ambitions.
So it happens with respect to dis
position of swollen fortunes" If
their owners do not see to it that the
public at large receives some benefit
from their immense accumulations of
wealth. some day the public will, and
when such a law is passed beyond
question it will be far more radical
than it should be. This may sound
like a trend toward socialism, but II
is not. 1t is merely an Interpretation
of the handwriting on the wall. The
opinion is becoming stronger that the
makers of great fortunes are not their
owners, but rather their stewards dur
ing life and that they owe something
to the community, the State and the
country at large from which their
wealth was wrung.
Hetty Green will be remembered as
a very rich woman of frugal tastes
with vision no broader than the leaf
of a ledger and whose philosophy was
bounded by the covers of bank book
She might have left a memory that
thousands would have cherished. She
might have been a great promoter OF
public welfare
Perhaps those who inherit he1
wealth will be wiser in its admins
tration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
A Patriotic Boycott

philadelphia Public Ledger.)
Musicians of Boston who failed to
go to the front as bandsmen with the
Fifth, Eighth and Ninth regiments of
the Massachusetts National Guard
would have done we'll to take a leaf
from the score of the earlier exper-
ience of the mutinous band of the
First Regiment in Philadelphia. The
Metropolitan Park Commission has
visited a dire penalty on the heads
of the recalcitrant musicians by can
ceiling their contracts to play at forty
seven summer concerts. There is little
public sympathy with the men who re-
fused to go to the front because they
could make more money at home. OF
almost every soldier who serves in the
militia the same thing is true. 1t is a
roster of patriotic sacrifice. Philadel-
phia men of affairs have left all sorts
of business to their partners or to no
one and have lost large sums of mon
ey in order to answer their country s
call. Men have left sick wives and
families that needed their presence be-
cause they had taken the oath of alleg-
lance to a duty higher than breadwin-
ming or money-getting. In proportion
as their countrymen understand and
appreciate the announcement of those
who go, the action lof the pusillani-
nous deserter in the crisis is despised.
Those who have refused to take the
Federal oath in the mobilization of the
militia have virtually laid down their
arms in the fact of the enemy and left
their comrades to fight their battle
for them. They deserve the general
execration and the obloquy that is their
portion.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
Republican Chairman

From the Baltimore American
A man whose executive and admins
trative abilities are well known to the
people of New York and indeed of the
country, William r. Wilcox, who has
been selected by Mr.. Hughes to con-
duct his campaign, meets with approval
of every section of the Republican
party. His election is looked upon
generally as one of the initial decisions
which mark the high tone and capabil-
ity that will characterize the entire
Hughes campaign.
Mr.. Wilcox finds no objectors from
either the Republican or the Progress
sive sides of the party, inasmuch as he
has not been close enough to the con-
duct of either to become an object of
suspicion His activities as postmas-
ter, park commissioner and public SER
vice commissioner in New York, all en-
title him to the admiration and respect
or All persons who admire efficiency.
The Republican party is fortunate in
having this trained lawyer, this close
personal friend of Mr.. Hughes to con-
duct a campaign that will be hightoned
and intensive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
A TIGHT ROPE EXPERIMENT

NRYING over split milk is at best
~ a fruitless performance The
wisest thing is to make sure the
milk is not split a second time.
Theodore Roosevelt has done his part
to prevent a repetition of the spilling
of 1912, and 1t is now up to the re-
mainder of his followers to emulate
the example of their former chief and
join hands with the Republican party
in putting an effective stop to the
policy of ineffectuality that has
characterized the present (maD ad-
ministration at Washington.
No sane man would think of breath
ing or stirring during the progress of
q timorous performer across a tight
precipitate him into the water. Just
so the country is being careful not to
do anything that would embarrass
President Wilson in his undeniably
weak Mexican policy the fruits of
which have been showing themselves
for the past few weeks. And vet the
majority of right-thinking persons. on
the safe arrival of the tight rope per-
former upon terra firma. would take
good care to prevent a recurrence of
the dangerous experiment. The
analogy is self evident.
Woodrow Wilson slipped into the
Presidency through dissension in the
previously closely-knit Republican
ranks. The breach they made has
now been healed and the party is more
than ever fitted to present to the op-
position solid front that will next
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
Hyphenates in Congress
(From Leslie's.)

Hyphenates! There is loud complaint
at hyphenates, men who link the coun-
try of their adoption to the country of
birth instead of standing under one
flag. An appeal is made by these to
put patriotism before pride of birth.
1t is an entirely proper appeal. Every
good citizen is a citizen of only one
country, giving it his first and last al
legiance But what about Congress
men who represent not the national
spirit, but only localities, who ignore
legislation intended for the public
good and seek only to advance the in
terest of the districts which they rep
resent-in other words. the Congress
men of the pork barrel" variety? Are
these more patriotic than hyphen-
ates? Let the neglect of public busi-
ness, the failure to build up an sade-
quate navy and TO provide an army and
Icoast defense answer the question
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
A CHANGE IS DEMANDED
\ NTOTHING is so important for Har-

NOTHING is so important for Har-
IN risburg at the present time as
the maintaining of the public
spirit which has been largely respon-
sible for the city's progress during
the last fifteen years. Anything and
everything tending to lessen the
momentum of public energy and
initiative should be discouraged in all
our public activities.
1t is not conceivable that our pres
ent city administration has anything
save the interest and welfare of the
community at heart, but it must not
be forgotten that when our officials
fail to feel the impulse of an awakened
public spirit back of all their activities
they will almost certainly lose that en-
thusiasm which goes so far toward
efficient and effective administration.
AS the Telegraph has frequently
observed, and which conviction is
deep-seated with this newspaper, the
breaking down of the active CO.
operation which resulted from the
volunteer activities of the several
auxiliary bodies. such as the Park
Commission, the Board of Public
Works and other collateral agencies,
will certainly prove disastrous unless
there is some change of attitude re-
garding the fixed and definite improve
ment policies of Harrisburg.
We are decidedly of the opinion that
the best thing that could happen to
this city and all other cities of the
third class in Pennsylvania would be
the repeal of the commission scheme
of government for these cities and the
substitution therefor of an optional
form of municipal administration pro-
viding for single council, to be COM
posed of citizens serving without pay
and acting somewhat as a board of
directors for the municipal corpora
ton. OF course, such a change would
contemplate the control of the differ
ent departments through appointment
OF superintendents. Under present
circumstances the disposition to in
dulge in og-rolling to the detriment
of the best interests of the city is ever
manifest and this sort of temptation
ought to be eliminated by some such
change as is here indicated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06

tice was that accorded to Gen. Scott
after leading his brave little band
from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico
in series of victorious conflicts which
thrilled the world. AS he and Gen.
Taylor loomed up large as presiden-
a series of snubs and indignities very
different from the treatment due to
those who had won added glories for
their country's flag.
Early in 1S4S. Scott was notified
that he had been suspended in his
command of the army by the authori-
ties in Washington. This piece of black
ingratitude to a gallant soldier was
done by the Polk administration on
the most frivolous grounds. A court of
inquiry was called and sat in Mexico
to investigate any complaints that any
sorehead might have to bring. 1t af-
terwards adjourned to Washington,
and, after a brief session there, COM
pleted its inglorious labors and passed
into oblivion. Nothing was developed in
the inquiry to sustain in the least the
premature and ineXcusable action of
the cabinet in suspending Scott from
command. 1t was an exhibition of
petty malice against a brave officer
that offended the spirit of justice of the
American people.
General Scott was less fortunate
than General Taylor in reaching the
presidential chair. He was made the
candidate, in 1852, of the Whig party
then in the death throes of it's disso-
luton. Monster mass meetings were
held and miles of parading men shout
ed for Scott, but, when the votes were
counted, Scott had carried but four
Of the thirty-one States then in the
North and Kentucky and Tennessee in
the South. And it was the irony of fate
that Scott was defeated by a man, al
most unknown outside his own State,
who had been under him in Mexico
for a short time as brigadier-ge general
Continued on Page 140
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06

Americanism seems to be the domi-
nant note of a new publication issued
by Walter Pulitzer in New York. Its
platform is outlined in the following
pleasantly alliterative way: Power
through political purity, preparedness
for peace, and prosperity through pro-
lection. What more thorough synopsis
of the Progressive party's
program could one desire? These words
carry weight throughout the country.
Based on the fundamental truths which
the time of Washington and the Conti-
mental Congress established for this
nation. Pulitzer's Review will take It's
place unchallenged among the leading
commentaries upon the current events
and political developments of the day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
They Suspect Us
(Hartford Courant.l

the great mass of people in South Am
erica are hostile toward the sudden
military activity in the United States
They look with distrust upon the
action of the president. Much has been
done in recent years by our statesmen
to remove the distrust of our neigh
bors and to promote in them a belief
in our sincere interest in their well
fare. We have been making progress
but much of the old suspicion remains
and the South Americans have been
particularly hostile to any disposition
on our part to invade Mexico They
are unable to see in such an invasion
anything but the indulgence of an am
bition to extend our territory to the
south.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
DALo ALTO, Resaca de la Palma,

l.
Monterey, Buena Vista, Vera
Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras,
Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Chapul-
tepec, what a brilliant string of vic
tories for brave American soldiers, to
say nothing of the lesser fields of glory
won by Lane, Kearney, Doniphan and
other subordinate commanders. have
told you very briefly the story of
these. Ten thousand deeds of glory
remain untold, for 1 was not writing
a history, but a series of short sketches
intended to bring wildly before the
generation of to-day the high points
of a war in which the arms of our
country did not meet with a single de-
feat.
But there was black side to the
Mexican conflict. At every point our
brave soldiers in the field were ham,
pered by a total lack of national pre-
paredness for even the most insight
ficant conflict, and by inefficiency of
civilians in authority.
The treatment accorded to those
two great leaders, Taylor and Scott,
was far from creditable to the ad-
ministratlon at Washington. Again
and again they were halted for months
in their victorious careers by want of
men, lack of supplies and peremptory
orders to cease hostilities until
Nicholas Trist, clerk in the State
department at Washington, had dis
cussed matters with the Mexican Of
ficials. The small regular army of that
day was magnificent body of men un-
der rigid discipline and grandly Of
ficered. The volunteers who went from
the States were as brave and excel
lent troops as ever marched beneath
the starry flag. But, despite all the VIC
tories in the field, they were subjected
to a perpetual handicap so that a
war, that should have been terminated
in a very few months was drawn out
over almost two years of time.
The Treatment of General Scott
About the grossest piece of injus-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06

It is the hope of the Wilson admins
tration that a sop to the country in the
way of a tariff commission will serve to
pacify great business interests and the
working men in the impending cam
paign. 1t doesn't appear to occur to
these Democratic statesmen that the
appointment of tariff commission by
President Wilson will be about as salts
factory as the tariff law passed under
his tutelage with undue haste and ut
ter disregard of the interests of the
country. An alleged nonpartisan tariff
commission appointed by a near free
trade President will not satisfy the mil
lions OF people who believe in the pro-
tective system for this country. 1t
would be about like placing the lamb
in the custody of the wolf
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
Church Publicity

Just before the final adjournment Of
the General Assembly of the Presby-
terian church in the United States of
America. at Atlantic City, NJ j., the
compittee on bills and overtures sug-
gested the establishment of depart
ment which might obtain helpful and
official publicity of the Assembly's
activities" and the Assembly will have
q press agent hereafter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06

Fail be the irresistible force meeting
ana crushing the movable body, viz:
the forco now in power.
Diplomatically a series of rhetorical
masterpieces, the utterances of Will
son are already beginning to fade be-
fore the clean-cut, strongly moulded,
conviction-bearing words of Charles
Evans Hughes. The cartoon printed
in this paper during the Chicago con-
vention, composite OF the photo
graphs of Teddy and Charley en-
titled ''Hughesvelt," was not so far
wrong in its suggestion of similarity
in the beliefs and convictions of the
two advocates of unadulterated Amer
icanism. And T. RS share in the
inevitable come back" of Republican
principles and Republican policies
will be the final conclusive step in the
Coloners rehabilitation in the eyes and
hearts of Americans.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06

War orders brought prosperity to
miners in New Mexico to a marvellous
degree. The entire population of the
state is about $4,000. The value of the
output of copper Zinc and other metals
for 1915 was sS.229,O0O greater than in
the previous year and will be far
greater in 1916. There is no definite
information as to the number of peo-
pie engaged in mining, but the increase
in value of the output is an average OIL
about s2l for every man, woman and
child in the State. or about s120 for
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
THURSDAY EVENING. JULY 6

1t may be proved toith much GER
tdinty, that God intends no man to liUe
in this t1orld t0ithout t0orbing; but it
seems no less evident that He intends
every man to be happy in his cork.
1t tods toritten: an the S1Oedt of thy
broU," but it t1dS neUer tCritten: an
the breaking of thy hedrt."-RUsKIN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-06
"Somewhere in Franceo

There are plenty of examples of the
English phlegmatic temperament. A
gunner, lifted into the afr by the con-
cussion of shell, said after he came
down: I wish they had provided
cushions" A corps commander, after
all plans were complete for the attack
at 100 in the morning, said before
lying down to sleep: wake me at
7.45; the first reports win be in by
than