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Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-09
MINIMUM WAGE
LAW Up IN AIR
COMMITTEE UNABLE TO AGREE
ON DETAILS.
HEARING is PROPOSED
AND CHILDREN
VITAL SUBJECTS.
Employers and Committee Are Far
From Agreement on Wage
Scale for Them.
HEARING is PROPOSED
(By Ass 5ciCted PresS)

(By ASS SJcl:sueu fTeSSt
San Francisco, June 8.-The Wage
Board of the Mercantile Industry
called by the Industrial Welfare Com
mission to recommend to it the mini
mum rate of wages to be paid to
women and minors in the State of
California, the proper wage for ap-
prentices, minors and adult learners,
and the method of their promotion
and advancement, made their recon-
mendations to the Industrial Welfare
Commission on Monday, May 28. The
Wage Board was unable to come to an
agreement on the question of wages
for experienced women and the basic
minimum wage and the proper wage
for inexperienced adult learners.
This leaves the final decision up
to the commission. This decision can
not be made until after the public
hearing called by the Commission to
be held in Department 2, City Hall,
at 8 o'clock p. M, June Is, at which
time employers, employees and the
general public are invited to be pres
ent.
The Board practically was in ac-
cord on the question of minor ap-
premiership, both the standard Of
wages to be paid and the method Of
promotion and advance. The follow
ing recommendations from either side
were made:
Employers Recommendation.
"Resolved, That the recommended
ton made by this Wage Board for a
minimum wage shall be understood to
mean not a standard or an average
wage, but the lowest rate of wages
that shall be permitted to be paid to
the workers possessing the least skill
and experience in the class to which
thehy belong.
That learners under seventeen (l7)
years of age be paid an initial week
ly wage for the first six months, or
until seventeen (17) years of age, Of
not less than six dollars $4,000 per
week; for the second six months, not
less than $3.50 per week; for the
third six months not less than $500
per week; for the fourth six months
not less than $3.50 per week; for the
fifth six months not less than $500
per week, and after that to be re-
Carded as adult experienced work
crs and paid wage Of not less than
$500 per week.
"That learnerns over seventeen (17)
and under eighteen (1S) years Of age
be paid an initial weekly wage foi
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-09
HOTEL LEE ROSA
3261, South Main St.

3Z6H South Main st.
Why spend all your money for ho-
tel bills? Why not save some for
pleasure and a good vacation? We
can furnish you with nice, large,
cool room, good bed, hot and cold
running water, baths if desired.
Everything clean, comfortable and
homelike. Personal attention TO all
guests by management. Center Of
theatres and shopping district. No
carfare. Rate, SOC per day and up;
$3.50 per week and up.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-09
SEE THE NEW s125,ooO ENDLESS PLEASURE PIER"
RedOndO Beach
THEIDEAL FAMILY RESORT OF COUNTLESS PLEASURES

will be noted this
the Coast Mammoth dancing pavilion Racing
the Zone Rdondo Beach famous the world over for Its
reasonable
TENT climate. A safe
family tickets and check baggage direct Write
Chamber Commerce Redondo Beach, California.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-09
"MARSHAL HALE,
SAMUEL LEASk,
&C. c. HOLMES,
civilian MARKS"
Employees Recommendations.

Employees Recommendations.
"Resolved, That the recommended
tions made by this Wage Board for
Il minimum wage shall be understood
to mean, not standard or an aver
age wage, but the lowest rate of wa
ges that shall be permitted to be paid
to the workers possessing the least
skill and experience in the class to
which they belong.
That all learners under seventeen
(1O years of age shall be paid an
initial weekly wage of not less than
six dollars $4,000 per week for the
first six months; for the second six
months not less than $3.50 per week;
for the third six months not less
than $500 per week; for the fourth
SIX months not less than $3.50 per
week.
"All learners between II and 10
years of age, regardless of the
length of their previous apprentice
slip, shall be paid an initial wage
of not less than $500 per week for
The first six months, and for the sec
ond six months not less than $3.50
per week.
All women 18 years of age or
over shall be paid an initial wage of
not less than $500 per week for the
first six months; for the second six
months not less than $500 per week,
ard thereafter they shall be regarded
as adult experienced workers and
shall be paid a wage Of not less than
$1,000 per week.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-09
Wanted

DISTRICT MANAGER for the Amer
lean National Assurance Company.
Splendid commission contract to man
who can produce business. All pol
c.es standard. Low cost and non-par-
ticipating. Assistance given in writ
ing business by an experienced man
when desired. Address the company
200 Ferguson Bldg, Los Angeles, Cal
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-09

Submitted by the representatives
Of employees:
MISS CLARA M. JOHNSON,
"MISS LULU BURKE,
"MISS MARY COUNIHAN,
"MRS. NELLIE GRANT"
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-09
CALL CEREAL CONFERENCE.

Washington, June 9.-An interstate
cereal conference has been called to
meet at Kansas City, Mo-, June IL to
ia, the Department of Agriculture an
nounced today, to take up the SUBJ
Ject of increased grain production.
Slmiler conferences were held at Berk-
eley, Cal, in 1915 and at St. Paul in
1916.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-09

The Huntington Beach Tent
City Company announces the
following conventions to be held
this season, beginning Llne %:
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
NESS ASSOCIATION,
June 29th to July 9th.
EPWORTH LEAGUE INSTI-
TUTE, July 18th to July 22nd.
HU NTIN CT ON BEACH
METHODIST ASSEMBLY, July
23rd to August 9Th.
so UTHERN CALIFORNIA
VETERANS ASSOCIATION G.
A. r., August 9TH to August
18th.
THE ADVENT CHRISTIAN
CONFERENCE, August 18th 70
August 9th.
The Tent City grounds cover
13 acres of shady grove in the
heart of the residence district
OF Huntington Beach within easy
walking distance of the surf.
Tents fully equipped can be
had for any or all of the above
meetings at very low rental.
For full particulars and pro-
grams address HUNTINGTON
BEACH COMPANY, AGA Ocean
Ave., Huntington Beach, Cal.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-09

the first six months, or until eigh-
teen (1S) years of age, of not less
than $3.50 per week; for the second
six months, not less than $500 per
week; for the third six months not
les sthan $3.50 per week; for the
fourth six months not less than $500
per week, and after that to be re-
Garded as adult experienced workers
and paid wage of not less than 5000
Per week.
"That learners over eighteen 1S)
years and under twenty-one (21)
years of age be paid an initial wage
Of not less thar $500 per week for
the first six months; of not less than
$3.50 per week for the second six
months; of not less than $3.50 per
week for the third six months, and
after that to be regarded as adult
experienced workers and paid not
less than 5000 per week.
"That learners .tWenty-one CID
years of age and over be paid an
initial wage of not less than $500
rer week for the first six months; not
less than $3.50 per week for the
second six months, and after that to
be- regarded as adult experienced
workers and paid not less than 5000
Per week.
Submitted by the representatives
cf employers:
"MARSHAL HALE,
SAMUEL LEASK,
&C. c. HOLMES,
civilian MARKS"
Imperial Valley press., 1917-06-09
New ROsegrOve Hotel
532 Flower St, Los Angeles

Unquestionably the neatest, cIeauest,
very moderately priced hotel in the
West l2O rooms If solid comfort, thor
oughly modern, close 70 theatres, cafes,
dcpots. LOOK into the hOtel and you
stay. like many now with US, who come
10 Us every season. We are good people
;, est sixth 81. car in front Of depot.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-12
Strap Hangers In Tokyo.

After one has ridden for few weeks
on Tokyo trans he realizes that more
than 100000 people. living within a
radius Of three miles of the imperial
palace, require many trans to carry
them. Seats are always al premium.
Even the New York subway is not as
continually crowded. The trans are
fast, well handled and plenteous, but Il
moving stairway or sidewalk covering
all the tram lires in the city would
scarcely fill the bill.
There are five or six stations from
which trains depart for different parts
Of the empire, but these stations are
only joined by city trans. so that if
one wants to 20 from Tokyo station.
the terminus of the Shimonoseki line
to Europe, to Ceuo station, whence
trains depart for Nikko, KaruiZa wa,
Sendai and IIolikaido, he must take a
riksha. a taXicab or street car or else
circle the city for more than twenty
miles in more than an hour to reach a
station that is only mile and a half
away as the crow tiies.-Maynarl
Owen Williams in Christian Herald
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-12

as A matter of course from Germany,
expects that German diplomat shall
plot against the country to which he
is sent. and expects that the nature
of his plots will be atrocious. EX-
plantations at this stage of the game
are merely fatiguing and excite nell
Their interest MOI attention.
1t is Sweden which has to explain
to the world as well as to Argentina.
Sweden will find the Allies much
more keenly interested in her eXpia-
nation than the country Wdose nos
pitality she has abused The eN-
PLANTATION she offered yesterday is not
the explanation for which the world
is waiting The world wants to know
not what was the general custom
about sending kilograms from betllg-
erents, but why the private mall OF a
Swedish diplomat, inyiolate from IN
spection by international courtesy,
was used to convey military informa-
ton to Germany for use IN making
secret war upon neutral country.
The Allies are particularly interes-
ted in knowing how far this practice
extends and whether the alliance be-
tween Germany and Sweden covers
any other points than a friendly ar
ragement that Sweden shall aid Ger
many in the assassination OF neu-
trails. The world wants an explana-
ton which shall be broad enough to
make it understand how far it can
trust any Swedish diplomat, whether
a Swede in office is necessarily dis
guised agent of Germany or not. 1t
wants particularly to know about the
Swedish officials who received the
murder messages, and its interest IN
them is even greater than in the
Swedish officials who forwarded
them. 1t wants to know how extern
sive and how binding were the rela-
tions between these officials and Ger
many, and in what other and unre-
yealed ways they have been aiding
Germany in the prosecution OF wal
against the Allies and the neutrals.
Argentina appears to be stunned
by the discovery of the contempt ard
hostility with which she has been
treated Foreign Secretary kuGhl-
mann says it is necessary to study
the psychology of neutrais' He has
good subject just now in Al gen
tina. If Argentina s establishment at
the discovery that German officials
could be at once so base and so cruel,
at a time when they were wearing a
smiling mask. appears little sur
prising TO us. let US remember how
short time it is since we ourselves
were trying 10 believe German
promises, were bandying notes with
German statesmen on the assumption
that they We're men of honor. We
were deaf, then. to what was told us
by other nations about Germanys
cool and deliberate preference for
wrong over right as rule of con-
duct, and We learned only from our
own experience, not from the expert
ence of others. Argentina is going
through the same school-N. y.
Times.
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The Man Who Thinks.

A man with dirty face and hands,
shirt soaked with perSpiratiOn, stopped
laid down his dinner bucket, rolled a
broken knuckle out of the pathway be
tween the tracks, put it close up against
the ends of the ties, where no one could
stumble over It, picked up his dinner
bucket and plodded home.
More than fifty other employees had
preceded this man, each one carefully
picking his way around the obstruction.
l asked this man why he took the
trouble to roll the knuckle out OF the
pathway He seemed surprised at such
a question and said. Why, some Of the
boys might get bad fall IL that knuc-
kle was there after dark" said, "All
the other men passed it by" and he re-
piled: "Oh. they're all good boys.
They'd have done the same thing If
they'd thought about it,
He said something, didn't he?
IF they'd thought about it" All,
yes, '1f they'd thought about it"-Erie
Railroad Magazine.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-12
A Leap Into Fame.

How many actors have begun their
stage career as leading man? Probably
Sir tombstone Forbes Robertson Is the
only instance. Que night when Sir
tombstone was a young man of twenty
one his father. who was an art critic
and journalist. Went to see w. G. Wills
Mary Stuart" aud after the perform
ance Wills accompanied him to supper.
In the course of conversation the dram
atiSt asked his host how he thought
Castelard the leading part, was played.
why. my son there. who has never
acted would do it fifty times better"
The very thing" cried Wills, will
you try. JohEStOne:
The young artist modestly assented,
went with Wills next day TO rehearse
and week later made a sensational
debut. Since then he has always been
4 leading man.-I.oudon Standard.
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Pot and Kettle.

There is a proyerb much heard now
adays that we never could see the sense
Of. The pot can't call the kettle BLACK"
Why not, we should like to know? The
kettle is black. 1t ought to be called
black. Who has better right to speak
with confidence about the faults Of the
kettle than the pot, which has for years
hung on the same crane and inhaled
the same smoke? If there is anything
that would make the pot seem less
sooty in our eyes it is giving US a clear
reflection of the image of the kettle.
Shall no one point out blackness any
where unless he knows himself to be
speckless? Would the pot rise in our
estimation if it followed the custom
of its critics and said, The kettle is
white, as white as I ami"-Independ-
ont
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-12

the apple comes every year. bringing
ioy to the hearts of all who love its
personality even better thal Its caste.
Whether one knows Baldwin from
a Spitzenbers. King from russell
Whether the autumnS OF boyhood
found us answering the h"Il Oh the
little red schoolhcuSe or the sum
mons OF some metropolitan hail OF
learning, they bring 10 all tiike the
instructive apple hunger. which we
must satisfy. as willing victims of d
worthy passion.
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The Apple Instinct

1t is not without reason that the
serpent chose an apple for the temp
tation of Eve, thereby insuring his
chances of success. In due course,
the race of man falls anew each year
when the first shining beauties ap-
pear in the markets. There is some
thing about an apple that starts a
mighty longing in the human breast;
perhaps tang of the high and far
off times of youth which never quite
fade; days when the long grasses,w wet
with early October dew, reluctantly
revealed to the late-rising sun the
treasures hid in their tangled depths.
Days when you munched apple after
apple en- your way to school-and
how they chilled your front teeth
always finishing a core in time TO hit
the tenth fence post beyond.
But you saved the ripest treasure,
polished with care and dubious
sleeve, for the adornment of Teach
er's desk. Was it always a bride,
that best, that choicest offering upon
the altar of pedagogy? How you pin
ed for it in secret, longed to bite in
to its seductive redness; but only
while it fingered neglected. When
the tutelary deity turned from the
blackboard and actually dropped her
chalk in her delight, it wasn't bad
world after all, and you wouldn't
have the prize back for kings ran
som. How the heart warmed and
expanded when you permitted 1t TO
be noised about that the mysterious
donor of the Biggest Apple was none
other than yourself. Little did the
admiring populace realize how your
avid little soul reached out through
your proud and naughty demeanor to
gather up hungrily every atom of
glory.
If Teacher knew her pupil-and it
is surprising to remember how thoro
ughly she did understand your shy
boy soul-she would detain you on a
casual preteXt at recess time. She
never could eat all of it herself.
but if you would help her out? OF
course. if she put it that way, the
magnanimous benefactor must com
ply with the lady's request. Which
circumstance may help to explain the
daily presence thereafter on her
desk of a succession of apples; until
the grass dried up and the frosts
came, and ones mind turned to 9TH
er things than women.
The mists of sGemory dissolve, but
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-12
BATHS A MONTH LONG.
Natives of Japan Take Them Hot and
Sleep In the Water

Natives of Japan Take Them Hot and
Sleep In the Water.
The number Of baths taken daily by
the japanese at the hot springs and
the length of time they remain in the
water run counter to all western med
ical opinion regarding the utility of
hot baths for lnyalids. Five or six
times a day for an hour or longer at a
time would not be considered an IN
common regime.
A smile of incredulity was raised
some years ago when Professor Cham
berlain told Us of a tiny spa where the
bathers stayed in the water for a
month or more. with stones OIL their
laps to prevent them from floating in
their sleep Yet could name another
remote little spot where very old man
well advanced in the nineties, In fact
has literally lived in the shallow
warm water of the spring for years,
his knees and neck supported by a
beam, from early morn till midnight.
The high temperature at which the
baths are taken has excited the wonder
Of many travellers. At Kusatsu, for in
stance. that Of the chief bath is 1913 de-
grees F., but such a temperature neces-
sarily involves special precautions be-
fore entering the bath, with a limit Of
from three and onehalf to four min
utes' immersion.
When We remember that water at
115 degrees F. can just be borne by the
hand, but not by the whole body, it is
possible to realize the agony Of afflicted
humanity in the Kusatsu baths. At the
same time the japanese skin cannot be
so sensitive as that Of the European,
for the daily bath Is enjoyed by the ma
tive at temperature that makes the
boldest Of US wince.-Herald Of Asia.
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Germany Need Not Speak

1t will save great deal Of useless
language if We all keep firmly in our
minds the essential fact that Ger
many has nothing to explain about
the murderous dispatches which
Count Luxburg sent through the
Swedish Legation at Buenos Aires
Germany is not called upon to ex-
plain. 1t is true that Luxburg is a
German diplomat, occupying a sacred
office. the scrupulously respected
guest of Argentina, and that he used
this hospitality to plot the murder of
Argentine citizens and the destruc-
ton of Argentine property under Gov
Ell of this sacred character. But, al
though the usages of diplomacy make
it necessary for Germany to offer
whatever excuse she can to Argen-
tina, she has nothing to explain to
the world. 1t has long ceased to be
necessary for Germany to explain her
treacheries. The world expects them
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-12
Keep Them at School

The universities and the technical
schools OF the country, as we'll as the
preparatory schools, very clearly IN
uerstoou at first hand what the shock
or war would mean to the higher
education of the country. The shadow
they ruresaw, which has fallen over
many OF the institutions, depicting
them CT instructors and professors
and large percentage OF the norman
student body. is one whose menace
tor tie time is however, secondary 10
the greater menace for the future
unless steps be taken TO meet the
exIgelicy that exists. That the
schools and institutions ale getting
ready TO meet this situation and nave
called public attention TO IL Is theTe-
fore ole of the encouraging features
OIL all issue which might prove Tor
midaDle if ignored. For there can De
no question about it that the thlns
to do is to keep the future specialists
and engineers in school and at col
lege and train the more efficiently
than ever for the work which VIII
fall on them after the war.
This was indeed the issue which
was raised when red tape in the War
Department threatened to invade all
the medical schools and draft the
medical students and internes into
what was essentially civilian work,
ignoring their technical and profess
slonaI training and actually cutting
down constant supply of doctors,
not only for the army, but for civil
han life as well. Again in the spring
when the educational world was
threatened with the stampede OF
those below the draft age into all
sorts OF services connected with the
army and navy. and Industrial lie,
il was brought out clearly that the
word OF the day should be Keep
Them at school, Instead of depict
ing their classes the high schools,
business schools, technical schools
and colleges should, ii anything, IN
crease their quotas above the normal
Indeed, as the thirty-siX universities
and technical schools which have
made their appeal to the public 1ndl-
cate, unless we meet this issue in the
most thoroughgoing manner we shall
find after the war has taken its usual
toll of youth and ability and expert
ence that We are without the equip
ped and trained student body to take
threir places that the country will
Sorely need.
However, the recognition OF this
critical situation is half the battle.
The responsibility now lies at the
door of parents who can easily afford
to let their sons and daughters con-
tinue at school and college and who
should. indeed. be urged to special
sacrifices Moreover, ii the possible
rewards are any incentive, it is clear
that the trained will have greater OPP
portunities after the war than ever
before, since all lines of activities,
industrial and professional. will de
mand technical training OF the high
est order for that real war of legitl-
mate competition of brain allied to
Drawn, which will by then be on d
scale unknown in the past.-Ledger.
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An Exercise Fer TWISTS.

Is 1t Of any value to know how to
say the alphabet backward? A CORE
spondent says: Il think this is new, as
| am the inventor, and it IS Of some
for nothing else. The twenty-six let
ters of the alphabet are used as initials
of words divided into five groups of
four initials and one group of six. The
groups are connected as follows:
Zebras Yoked. Telephones whacked.
Voices United To Sing
Read Quick. Pass On.
Nature May Lack Kindness:
Juices Inside Hanging Grapes
Friends, Enemies, Dogs, Cats Bats, Ants.
Now 7 prk Sun
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New York City's BRIDGES.

Irrespective Of the elevated railroad
system comprising the Second, Third,
Sixth and Ninth avenue lines and the
elevated portions Of the Broadway and
Lenox avenue sections of the subway.
New York city has forty-two bridges
spanning the East and Harlem rivers,
Newtown creek and other waterways.
These roads over rivers, including the
Brooklyn. Manhattan. Williamsburg
and Greensboro spans, among the great
est in the world represent. with the
real estate requisite for their ap-
proaches, an investment by the munich
pality of more than S13:i,000,000.
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A Way the Dutch Have.

The Dutch have delightfully."- orig
tnal way Of collecting their taxes. II
after the notice has been given the
money is not sent the authorities place
one or two hungry militiamen in the
house, to be lodged and maintained at
the expense of the defaulter until the
amount of the tax is paid.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-09-12

Did you say that the times are out
of joint?'
Yes" replied Hamlet You see, l
have to he content with old time phrase
ology If l could have used modern
terms | should have said that our en-
CINE is missing or that we're running
on a fiat tire"-W Washington Star.