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Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-05
]. M. McCracken of Los Angeles i
registered at the Barbara Worth.

! j. M. McCracken of Los Angeles is
registered at the Barbara Worth.
Lee Nuffer has accepted a position
in the stock room of the Maxwell
agency.
Minor Driggers and Garland Ban
Ia are working in McCulloch's drug
store
Harry Hauschilds of Junian's store
us leaving for Los Angeles this even
ing.
The County Board of Education has
closed teachers examinations for the
year. But one applicant has appeared
thus far.
The many friends of Mrs. Earl Lee
Of Brawley will be glad to hear that
she is improving nicely from her op-
Grafton at st. Thomas hospital.
Bert Steelhead, principal of the Mt
Signal school, leavestcnight for Los
where he will spend the sum-
mer.
E. N. Parke and A. H. Rehkopf have
gone to Palo Verde valley on bust
mes strip, making the distance by au-
to, via INLAND and Glamis.
w. P. Sherlock of Pasadena, land
owner here, is in Ell Centro on busi-
ness, stopping at the Barbara Worth.
H. E. Dodge of the Western Union
is again in Ell Centre.
C. W. Baker and II. c. Bucket, the
latter former city police officer, have
undertaken the contract to haul S.
D. & A. railroad passengers between
El Centre and Campo by stage. The
distance is 20 miles.
Superior Judge Craig, of Riverside,
IS expected to give his decision on
The demurrer interposed by the county
10 the contest instituted by the liquor
men of Imperial against the wet and
Try election held there three weeks
ago.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
nas authorized it's agents to take ap-
plications for Liberty bonds, and to
sell them in cooperation with the
banks. The company has purchased
several million dollars worth of bonds
and expects to sell another million
dollars worth through their agents.
T. A. Iasigi is the local Metropolitan
a uant
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-05
PERSONAL and LOCAL MENTION

will return to her home in Milwaukee,
Wis, in two weeks.
Mrs. Jessie Hatch was appointed
temporary chairman CT a division of
the University of California extension
at Imperial yesterday.
Leroy Holt and d. A. McPherrin.
directors of the Imperial Irrigation
District, who are no win Washington
in the interest of the District, are not
expected back until next week.
Miss Helen Eadie, arr teacher in the
high school, will leave for her home
in San Bernardino next Thursday. Miss
Eadie is planning to take a course
in arts and crafts in the West Lake
School of Art and Design of Los An
geles.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-05
NEW MEMBERS OF
BOARD OF EDUCATION

Principal Randall of the High
School and Miss Florence A. Dun
ham have been appointed members OF
the county board of education this
morning by the board of supervisors
Miss Dunham is teacher l.: the Mag
nolia school.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Kneen of Red
lands are visiting in FL Centre.
C. w. Baldridge and family leave
today to make their new home in Es-
condido.
Sam Engleman, son of Mrs. Maggie
Engleman of this city, has undergone
az operation on his tonsils.
The graduating class of the Imper-
ial High School presented $50 Lib
elty bond to the school.
San Diego is preparing for the
early improvement of the road be-
tween that city and E. Centre.
Miss Anna Marquardt, who has been
visiting her sister on Brighton street,
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-05
Vocational School.

Mrs. A. G.. Bullefield is conducting
a summer school for children in the
grades desiring to make up work.
Mrs. Bullefield may be seen on school
mornings at the Lincoln building; al
ether times at the residence of Mr.
c. r. Collier.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-05

Little Press Want Ads have been
known to sell acres of land, to en-
.ploy hundreds of farm hands, to ef-
feet exchanges and sales of all COM
modities-at negligible price. Phone
YOUR wants to 26 today.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-05

The directors of the Irrigation Dis
tgict meet tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-05

See DR.. Hutchinson at Denver Rooms
tomorrow about your glasses.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Kneen of Red
lands are visiting in FL Centro.
The evening world., 1917-12-03
Need to Do Without Sweets
Always Plenty of the Great American Syru

Spread the childrens bread with Karo and
it's no hardship for them to save sugar.
It's secret among many good cooks that
Karo helps the flavor of cooking that calls for
sweetening.
In a million homes, Karo is the syrup for
griddle cakes.
Good candy is a necessity Karo makes
the best and most delicious home candy in the
world. Many homes are reviving this almost
lost art with the aid Of the candy recipes in
the Corn Products Cook Book Send some to
your soldier boy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29

The people. are urged continuously
to deprive themselves of certain arti-
eles of food. to some degree, in order
that a greater quantity shall be avail
able for export to our allies. There
are not sufficient ships to carry over
the supplies already on hand. Pro-
duction of food and other necessaries
will easily keep ahead of the produc-
ton of shipping. There is no reason
whatever why any one in the United
States should skimp. The storage
warehouses are filled to the bursting
point and the farmers bins are over
flowing with grain.
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water with a small portion of rice OF
farina for thickening. Soup is the
result
If, instead of using water, milk is
used, the soup is much more nourish-
ing and may easily be used in the
place of meat. A delicious milk-Veg-
etable soup is made by adding to the
finely chopped vegetables one cup
of milk, one-half tablespoon of butter
or other fat 4 fat from bacon or pork
give particularly good flavor) and
one-half tablespoon of flour. Melt the
butter, add the flour and cook one
or two minutes, being careful not to
brown. Then add the milk and stir
until the mixture thickens. Here is
Miss Hunts recipe for milk and string
bean soup, including the following ar
ticles: Two quarts of string beans;
onefourth cup of flour; one-fourth
cup or less of fat; one small slice of
onion; salt, pepper, and milk enough
to make two quarts of soup. Cook the
beans until tender in as little water as
possible. drain and rub thru a sieve.
Add the bean liquor and milk enough.
to make two quarts. Melt the butter
and the flour and cook carefully one
or two minutes. Add the liquid and
cook until mixture thickens. Season
with salt and pepper Part of the
beans can be cut into small pieces and
served in the soup. if desired. The adj
dition of large pieces of potatoes con-
verts the soup into a chowder.
Souffle Added to Menus.
Miss Hunt also gives a new recipe
for a green-pea souffle that has
caught the attention of a number of
hotel chefs. who have added it to their
luncheon menus. 1t calls for one
fourth of a cup of fat, one-fourth of a
cup of flour, one cup of SKINNED milk,
one cup of mashed cooked peas, three
eggs, salt, pepper and a few drops of
onion juice. The protein contained in
this recipe is equivalent to that in ten
or eleven ounces of average beef.
Thus in limiting our stapled diet,
the government also teaches us how to
get along with substitutes. If it takes
away bread with one hand, it hands us
out all sorts of potato connections
with the other; If it takes away sugar.
we are told how to use figs instead; if
we are denied meats. we are at least
informed as to recipes for using beets
and onions. War economy is broad
ening if nothing else, and dieticians
suggest an even greater consolation.
They claim that it is healthy.
Questions on the above or any sub
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation. should be addressed the To-
peka State Journal Information Blu
reau. Frederic ]. Haskin. Director.
Washington, D. c., with a 2-cent
stamp enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29
THE SOLDIERS
ISSUED by the War Department and all
rights to reprint reserved.
XXXVIII

There were other acts of hostility
in addition to the submarine warfare.
In his Flag Day address delivered at
Washington on June IA, 1871 the
president summed up the events that
brought on war as follows:
1T is plain enough how we were
forced into the war The extraordi-
nary insults and aggressions of the
imperial German government left US
no self-respecting choice but to take
up arms in defense of our rights as
free people and of our honor as
sovereign government. The military
masters of Germany denied us the
right to be neutral. They filled our
unsuspecting communities with vi
cious spies and conspirators and
sought to corrupt the opinion of our
people in their own behalf. When
they found that they could not do
sedition amongst us and sought to
draw our own citizens from their al
legiance-and some of those agents
were men connected with the official
embassy of the German government
itself here in our capital They sought
by violence to destroy our industries
and arrest our commerce. They tried
to incite Mexico to take up arms
against US and to draw Japan into
hostile alliance with her-and that,
not by indircction, but by suggestion
from the foreign office in Berlin
They inpudently denied us the use of
the high seas and repeatedly executed
their threat that they would send to
their death any of our people who
ventured to approach the coasts of
Europe"
Tomorrow: Deep Motives for
War.l
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ing the highway" Joyce insinuated,
and Lauretta had the grace to blush
Jimmy Gains gIowered at Joyce
Jimmy had an odd feeling that Lau
retta was going to be the next and
last recipient of a proposal from him.
Things happened suddenly with
Jimmy. Already he had thanked the
imps of fate that had failed to give
him Blanche Markham. He had
known only a passing love for her.
well, 1 am lucky that ignorance
led me to posting ny letter in your
box Joyce said. 81 say, why don't
you put the old box back again? You
may catch some more messages and
and friendship-m maker combined"
Bright head" laughed Lauretta.
II will put it back at once"
TT is using government property for
fraudulent purposes" Jimmy put in,
peevishly fearful of whom Lauretta
might draw next into her net.
IF this is the result of fraudulent
purposes" laughed Joyce, gazing At
Lauretta, may we all become frauds.
I'm sorry you're not satisfied, old
chap" he added by way of rousing
Jimmy's wrath
Mr.. and Mrs. Carson exchanged an
amused glance. Lauretta went off in
search of the box and more iced tea.
Il am so satisfied" retorted Jimmy,
that I'll bet you I'll be a married
army officer before you're even in
khaki"
Before further words fell from as
tonished lips, Lauretta returned.
THE government property IS no
longer government property. A tiny
wren has taken possession of the old
mail box, and L haven't the heart to
disposSess her. A little bird has saved
me from Misunderstanding the high
way" She looked mockingly at Jim
my. well, has a bomb exploded
here"
Yes said Jimmy, grimly, and
gazed triumphantly at Joyce, and
I've taken the first enemy trench
GO to it. old man. Joyce said
1--WE don't wear khaki in the navy
nor do we have trenches to take I'm
married, so can't enter the race"
Jimmy found a sudden liking for
Joyce. He grinned and extended an
Apologize hand. ct fell so suddenly"
he confided, and a scant month later
told Lauretta of his Copyright,
1917. by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate3
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29
DINNER STORIES

The telephone bell rang with any
ious persistence. The doctor an
swered the call.
"Yes?" ne said.
"Oh, doctor" said a worried voica.
something seems TO have happened
TO my wife. Her mouth seems set and
she can't say word"
Why. she may have lockjaw," said
the medical man.
DO you think SO? Well, if YOU ara
up my way some time next week I
wish you you'd step in and see what
you can do for her.
Carl w. lunch. a millionaire DIVER.
said in Cincinnati:
Now we've cut off the neutraIm
Germany Is bound to fare as sparseIv
as the Schmidt family.
Mrs. Schmidt. you know. took har
large family of children to the CITY
one day. and when lunch time came
she led them into a restaurant.
Walter she said. ione sirIofn
steak and seyen Plates
THE waiter gave a start. Than
he lent over Mrs. Schmidt and whis-
pered res- fully:
Reg pardon. madam. but If Won
and your family was to take thar
there table by the kitchen door ana
sniff hard think you'd get more of
meal"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe

From the Atchison Globe.
crank usually imaginess he is a
great disciplinarian.
Men are not so universally gallant
as a good looking girl may believe.
People say things every day they
shouldn't and hear from them later.
Probably the most painful per
Torrance is paying a lawyer who lost
the case.
There is a big difference between
being nuts over nothing and nuts over
something.
Absence may make the heart grow
fonder. but that isn't the reason meE
leave home
He gets so many at home. it is hard
to understand why married man
wants to attend a lecture.
1t can be truthfully said of man
who rides a hobby that he is never
found bringing up the rear.
Generally speaking, the man who
lives in the mountains doesn't care
much for mountain scenery.
If you have a mind of your. own it
is going to break thru your neighbours
fences occasionally.
When some men have idle time
they immediately begin pIo n z
bitches across the road used by their
neighbors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29
A CALL FOR HELP.

According to expert authority quot
ed by the Brooklyn Eagle, there are in
cold storage today from 100000 to
5000. 900 cases of eggs. each case con-
tanning $50 eggs. There are more than
1000 900 cases of eggs in storage now
than at this time last year. The
same authority says that housekeep-
ers are not using eggs as they formerly
did. Many women are making egg
less cake, or are at best using one egg
where they formerly used four.
If the food conservation propa ganda
hit the cold storage egg spectators
it will have accomplished something
for which the public may well rejoice.
Taking advantage of the people in the
matter of procuring necessaries Of life,
the egg spectators filled the cold
storage warehouses with eggs pur-
chased in April, and calmly awaited
the rise in price which experience had
convinced them was inevitable. Now
it is announced, cold-storage eggs can
only be sold at much less than they
cost, even without interest and storage
charges. What is still more serious,
from the point of view of the specula-
tor. there is substantially boycott on
co1d storage eggs, altho it takes the
form of quite general disposition on
the part of housewives and hotel peo-
pie greatly to curtail their use.
These spectators now are appealing
to the government to make eggs part
of the soldiers rations in order to help
these same spectators out of the hole
in which they find themselves. They
also are asking the government to fix
minimum price on storage eggs.
The public has, by reason of the
boarding of eggs in cold storage ware
houses, been forced to pay extravagant
prices. Now that the corner has con-
fessedly failed, it is a violation of the
equities to ask either the soldier boys
or domestic consumers of eggs to
shoulder the losses of the SPECTATORS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29
ON SPUR RE ri MOMENT
Ncw TRAFFIC RcguIations.
BY ROY X. MoULroN

Abel Greenstein has telegraphed in
the following new traffic laws for the
further protection of automobiles from
pedestrians:
1. Any pedestrian wishing to cross
the highway shall indicate such iHten-
ton by sounding kIaxon horn.
2. To obviate damage to- passing
auto on dark nights. pedestrians must
carry fore and aft signal lights.
3. Any pedestrian running into an
liable for damages. the same to be
fixed by the court.
=. Baseball players in spiked shoes.
with hatpins must not be permitted to
This rule is to obviate the danger Of
biles being pupctured.
New York theaters have begun a
war on scalpers.
We're willing to bay small bet on
Remember the Custer massacre.
The esteemed Digest" after ma
ture deIiberation, presents the fol-
lowing definition of "camouf1age":
"Humbugging disguise
See camoufle; camoufleur."
Example: Jim Ham Lewiss
whiskers
1t sounds familiar, but we are will
ing to publish Ted VS. suggestion
that John DIS favorite poem is The
Charge of the Light Brigade"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29

8 Time was when we were told that
-the foreigner paid our tariff taxes.
That the conditions have undergone
"a change is Indicated by the follow
ing from the American Economist, the
official organ of the Protective Tariff
league: whenever an American
elects to purchase an imported article
in preference to an American-made
article, that foreign-made article
rightly belongs in the category of lux
uries and should be taxed by a pro-
tective tariff In that case the pur-
chaser pays the tariff from choice and
not from necessity. If he can afford
to prefer, he can afford to pay, and
he ought to be made to pay" in an
other column the paper -bemoans the
fact that war taxes are so high when,
as it points out. we might make the
foreigner pay a large part of our war
expenses, thru the medium of a tariff
on the goods which he sells US: Per-
haps the Economist can reconcile
these two views. but we can't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29
TRAWELETTE
The City of Clubs.
BY NIKsAH

London has the name of the worlds
greatest club city. but as a matter of
fact, in this respect it is very poor
second to Havana, Cuba. The clubs
of Havana are larger, more numerous
and more powerful than the CLUBS OF
any other city in the world. Every
body in Havana belongs to club.
There is one club there with $4,000
members. Out of population OF
$4,000, it is estimated that the total
club membership exceeds 10000 NO
other city can even approach this pro-
portion.
cial and commercial life pivots on the
clubs They are a tremendous lnflu-
ence in every way. They are of all
kinds. of all sizes. of all degrees of ex-
pensiveness and eXclusiveness. The
largest are the so-called centres.
which were founded under Spanish
rule. by men of Spanish birth. in or
der to furnish a bond. and meeting
place for men from the same province
of Spain Thus the Centre Gallego"
was founded for Galicians. and the
Centre Asturiano" for Asturians.
The former of these is now the largest
club in the world.
Besides these centres. there are nu-
merous other sorts of clubs. There
are clubs for the laboring man, where
for $3.50 a month. he gets not only the
social and convivial privileges of the
clubhouse, but benefit and protective
insurance, night school advantages for
his family. hospital for himself even
the services of dentists and opticians.
One club goes so far as to maintain an
asvlum ON the other hand, exclu-
sive clubs of the conventional type
are not lacking-clubs for the rich,
yacht clubs. athletic clubs and politi-
cal clubs. Havana's motto seems to be
ITO each man club according to his
needs"
clubs, large and small. have housed
themselves in beautiful buildings
White marble walls. statuary and
mural painting. pillared halls and
fountained courtyards reflect the ar
tistfc spirit of Latin America. Ha-
vana's clubs go far toward making
her a beautiful CITY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29

Lord Northcliffe advises the news
papers of this country to give their
readers facts about the war. 1t is
hoped that he will extend that advice
to the authorities at Washington.
More untruth and less truth have
come out of the national capital than
have come from the newspapers. The
department heads have made strenu-
Gus effort thru the censorship. to
prevent facts from reaching the pub
lie. Much of the so-called informa-
ton which has been sent out lis with
out foundation in fact.
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tablespoons butter to crumbs and
let soak until crumbs are soft. Then
add two well-beaten eggs and one
half cup flour sifted and mixed with
one-half teaspoon salt and four tea
spoons baking powder. Cook same
as any other griddle cakes.
Leftover.
Leftover fish is good in croqnettes
with potato or rice in salads, or
cooked a second time in the oven.
Chicken fat may be tried out and
used as other fat. 1t is good even in
pie crust.
Leftover gravy is good in gTiddle
cakes, in soups, for seasoning any
thing where flour and fat are needed.
Try it and you will be convinced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29

As soon as the Germans have
whipped the Italians by force of su-
perior numbers. they may be in posi-
ton to attend to the armies Of Cen
eral Petain and General Haig. Altho
the allies have an immense advantage
in men. it is notable that there has
been no fighting in German territory
since. the Russian invasion was hurled
back in the early days of the war.
Better direction and more unity of &C
ton must prevail before victory can
be attained. The Teutonic alliance,
in people and resources, is a mere
dwarf when compared to the entente
giant, yet the war drags on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
The Table.

Graham Pop Overs-Mix and sift
two-thirds cupful wheat -four. one
third cupfuI -four and one-quarter
teaspoonful salt Add milk gradually
(about -eighths of a cupful)
beating vigorously until smooth
Add one well-beaten egg and one
half tea spoonful melted butter. and
beat about two or three minutes with
egg beaten Pour into Kissing hot
pop-over pans and bake thirty or
forty minutes in hot oven.
Bread Griddle Cakes - Prepare
one and one-half cups fine stale
bread crumbs. Add one and one
half cups scaided milk and two
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-29
sTANDARDIzED SHIPS.

While United States shipbuilders
have been preparing for constructing
standardized ships, England has been
engaged in their actual building.
The first of the standardized ships
built under the specifications of the
British government has completed it's
final tests, and has been put into COM
mission as a cargo carrier. In every
respect the trial proved an unqualified
success. 1t was of a most exhaustive
and comprehensive nature. and the ex-
perts who We're aboard were unani-
nous in their praise of the ship, which
marks a new epoch in the maritime
history of Great Britain.
The standardized vessel was de-
signed with the idea of providing a
good type of cargo carrier in the
shortest possible time. with the min
imum expenditure of material. having
regard to war conditions, which in
volve the question of speed.
The keel was laid in February. 1917.
and on August %. 1917, in less than
six months, the first ship was fully
loaded and ready to proceed on its
maiden voyage.
The machinery and engines, as we'll
as the hull. are standardized. so that
the first engine goes into the hull
complete. This is a great advantage,
as builders have frequently had the
experience of being compelled to wait
some time for the installation of the
machinery. Engines and machinery
lend themselves more readily to stan
dardizstion than the ship itself, it is
said. as variations occur in the con-
struction OF the vessels owing to the
difference in facilities at the respect
i've yards
Special attention has been devoted
to the question of speed, with a view
to attaining the maximum number OF
knots for the service in which the
vessel Is to be employed. Features OF
the general equipment are the very
large hatchways, which make the ship
as nearly self trimming as possible
This greatly facilitates loading and dis
charging In fact. the central idea is
that such steamers not only should be
pable Of being worked economically
and speedily. In the opinion of the
experts. the type is a very efficient
cargo carrier. and there should not be
the slightest difficulty in selling such
vessels to private owners after the war