Imperial Valley press., 1917-12-21
GOING AFTER DEFICIT "''
OF MEMBERSHIP
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BY Garry Hamlin
Have you ever seen a base hospi-
tai Somewhere at Sunset?"
Have you ever seen real blood-red
blood-pulsing forth from jagged
hole in the torn and shattered body
of what was few moments before
human fighting machine?
Have you ever noticed the smoke
and carnage which flecks the rim of
mountains to the south of that little
insecure retreat and heard the heavy
detonations and disastrous effect of
exploding shrapnel and what is left
behind and the heartbreaking stories.
that never will be told?
Have you met My Friend of To-
day?
You will find her, if you care to
look and life doesn't hang too heav-
lily upon your ambitious shoulders,
seated in quaintly-patterned Red
Cross alcoves.
She is charmingly sweet, quantity
attractive in the costume which
means so much for humanity in the
future, and gently superior, owing to
the pleasing aid which she is so palms.
takingly rendering to worldly cause
which today is nourishing broken and
battered soldiers.
Ell Centro today is the apex of this
busy, dizzy old world.
Life here is the supreme personifi-
cation Of happiness. We have the
sunshine the cities of the East SO in
gloriously lack. Every day is ideal.
El Centro reposes upon a couch of
emerald-breasted valleys and faces
the soft wash of a summer sea that
is seldom storm-tossed and one whose
bosom, even from Nome to the Anti
podes, no iceberg ever floate.
However, to get back to earth.
On the national escutcheon at
Washington, D. c., they have chalked
up a membership of 5000 for Ell Gen.
tro. Just at this moment, as the
166th globule of sand is falling in the
time glass, but one-third of this
amount has been subscribed.
/ WHY? (The italics belong to the
staff and are printed in heavy black
because this is a colossal question. }
In the Pantheon Of the Nations it
is because not sufficient enthusiasm
has permeated the household, the
ranch abode, the kitchen, the school,
room and the mind and heart of the
citizens and individuals throughout
the city.
As an added impetus to this wor-
thy movement the Ell Centre Fire.
men (Tell me, quick, did you ever
know this valiant crew to ever fall
down in anything ever ever under
took? The noes have it.) are to take
over the reins Of government Sunday.
The Palace Theatre is scheduled as
the momentary alternating place for
every individual who hasn't lifted the
brick in the kitchen hearth and re-
moved therefrom one large standard
unit of currency. The peso de oro of
progress.
1t has to be done!
Germany can be beaten. Germany
must be beaten. Germany will be
beaten"
There you have it hot from the
platter in the even, patriotic tones
of General Jack Pershing himself.
Talk about the crumbling frontiers
of Germany!
Acting on this advice direct from
the front the Firemen intend lining
up every wayward apostle of flattery,
fame and grape juice Monday with a
whirlwind finish to shoot the Red
Cross marker around to 5000 before
stiff-gilled Boche can say "Gedhun-
kseit."
In the meantime, remember NV
Friend of Today and greet her as cor
daily as you like. It will be impos-
sible to miss her on the broad bou-
levards of this fair city. She will
approach you with the ruby scepter
of good fellowship and for the emolu-
ment so generously given she will
extend the proverbial dew of her