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Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29
WAR HITS FOOTBALL
BIG GAME IN WEST, HOWEVER
SEEMS ASSURED
University of California to PA!
Washington Unless Unforeseen
Occasion Arises

San Francisco, Aug. 27.-While the
East seems destined to be deprived
of the majority of its classic football!
contests this fall owing to the war, the
big game Of the Pacific Coast here
abouts, that between the University
of California and the University OF
Washington, apparently is assured un-
less some unforeseen occasion arises
20 cancel it. The coaches in charge OF
the rival e,evens evidently are going
to have their hands for the reason
that so much of their old material
mo longer is available that pra> .!cally
new football machines will have to be
built up.
While the quality Of the play may
not be up to former seasons, the in
terest in the result is not likely to
be less. The fact that Washington
will have to reconstruct it's team vii
be large element in favor of the Cal.
ifornians who only have had two
years experience in the American
game after their return to it from
the Rugby code, and practically wi
place them on an even footing with the
Northwesterners. Washington's We
eran material has been the greatest
handicap which the green Californian
have been obliged to combat.
With new men on both teams th
outcome of the game will be an uncer.
tainty whereas, in the past two year
the principal question has been, hoy
low California could hold the Wash
ington score.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29
PEACE IMP P]SS|BLE

Continued From Page One)
that great people came under its con
troll or submitted with temporary ze
to the domination of its purpose; bu
it is our business to see to it that tn
history of the rest of the world is n,
longer left to its handling.
No Time For Peace
ITO deal with such power by wa,
of peace upon the plan proposed b,
His Holiness. the Pope, would, SO ia
as we can see, involve recuperatios
Of its strength and a renewal of it.
policy; would make it necessary t.
create hostile combination of nation,
'gainst the German people, who ar,
its instruments; and would result il
Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29
FIRE HOUSE
IS FINEST
IN COUNTY
FIRE LADS AND CITY PROUD OF
: NEW QUARTERS
FINE CLU B ROO M
TINTED WALLS AND MISSION
FURNITURE PROVE ATTRACTIVE
Boys Have Spetn Many Hours In I'm
proving New Fire Station and
Results Now Show

Local firemen are laying claim to
the possession of the best equipped
fire house and club room in city OF
like size in California, now that the
work on the building is finished and
the furnishing practically completed.
The club room and sleeping quarters
on the second floor of the fire house
are really matters to be boasted about,
both by the firemen and the city it.
self.
A large 25x35 club room, with pol
Iished hardwood floor, covered with a
large, rich-appearing rug, furnished
with mission furniture that blends
with the wall colorings which are
tastafully stained. The room is the
coolest appearing retreat in the city.
A large library table is yet to be
added as will other pieces of furniture
and decorations, since the work on the
building has been finished but a short
time
But the sleeping quarters and bath
arrangements really are the most
creditable sections in the building. The
large sleeping room, accommodating
six white enameled beds, is opened on
two sides to the breezes. A large
white room is given over to the show
er baths, while adjacent to this is a
bath room, containing tub and hot
water heater.
Six men sleep in the building every
night, giving the city adequate fire
protection at hours when it would
be difficult to round up the firemen
from the various parts of the city.
The firemen are proud of their es-
tablishment and we'll they might be
for what has been accomplished in the
building is largely due to the efforts
&C the men themselves. In a few
weeks when all the furniture is in
stalled, the fire lads will invite the
public to look over their new quarters.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29

and in the end worse than futne' NO
proper basis for peace OF any Kino'
least of all for an enduring peace.
That must be based upon justice ana
fairness and the common rights OIL
mankind.
Hits Kaiser
ave cannot take the word OF the
present rulers of Germany as a guar
antee of anything that is to endure
unless explicitly supported by such
conclusive evidence Of the will. and pur-
pose of the German people themselves
as the other peoples of the world
would be justified in accepting. With
out such guarantees, treaties OF set
tIement, agreements for disarmament,
covenants to set up arbitration in the
place of force, territorial adjustments,
reconstitutions Of small nations, II
made with the German government, no
man. no nation could depend on. We
must await some new evidence OF the
purposes of the great peoples of the
central Powers. Gcd grant it may be
given soon and in way to restore
the confidence of all peoples every
where in the faith of nations and the
possibility of covenanted peace.
| ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary Of State Of the United
States of America"
Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29
SEND a BOOK

Have you hook in your library
that you are willing 70 give 70 the
soldiers Send il 10 the Les Ange.ea
1. N. N. c. and II viii be forwarded
through the national war work coun-
rit OF the Y. VI. c. A. TO one of the
eantonmentS Oh the Pacific coast fol
the use Of the enlisted men.
AT the three large training camps
AT Linda Vista, Menlo Park and
american Lake, Wash, moro than
10000 nnen will be stationed and
there viii be number equal 10 this
at Other camps and military posts in
the West. These men must have
reading matter. Books are essential.
VII you help in supplying them?
Books of fiction and drama are
wanted most, books Of adventure, sea-
stories, detective stories, historical
novels and collections of short stories.
Such authors as Jack London. Peter
r. hyne, Charles Van Loan, kipling,,
Doyse, o I3euy NcCUtcteoa Tark-
Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29
SALTS FINE FOR
ACHING K|DNFl s
We Eat Too Much Meat, Which Clogs
Kidneys, Then the
Back Hurts.

Most folks forget that the kidneys
like the bowels, get sluggish ane
clogged and need flushing occasion.
ally, else we have backache and dul
misery IN the kidney region, severe
headaches, rheumatic twinges, torpit
liver, acid stomach, s.eeplessness and
all sorts of bladder disorders.
You simply must keep your kidneys
active and clean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain in the kidney
region, get about four ounces of Jad
Salts from any good drug store here
take tablespoonful in glass of wa
ter before breakfast for few days
and your kidneys will then act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid Of grapes and lemon juice, COM
bined with lithia, and is harmless to
flush clogged kidneys and stimulate
them to normal activity. 1t also neu-
tralizes the acids in the urnie so it
no linger irritates, thus ending blad-
der disorders.
Jad Salts is harmless, inexpensive,
makes delightful effervescent lithia-
water drink which everybody should
take now and then to keep their kid
neyg clean, thus avoiding serious COM
plications,
A well known local druggist says
he sells lots IF Jad Salts to folks who
believe in overcoming kidney trouble
while If is only trouble.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29

@AAN w q PaL tlI1p1sROas SF~~"
terms, in the economic opportunities
of the world-the German people OF
course included, if they will accept
equality and seek domination.
"Ihe test therefore, Of every plan OF
peace is this: Is it based upon the
faith Of all the peoples involved or
merely upon the word of an ambitious
and intriguing government, on the one
hand, and of a group of free peoples
on the other? This is test which
goes to the root of the matter; and it
is the test which must be applied.
"The purposes of the United States
in this war are known to the whole
world-to every people to whom the
truth has been permitted to come.
They do net need to be stated again.
We seek no material advantage of
any kind. We believe that the intol-
cradle wrongs done in this war by the
furious and brutal power of imperia!
German government ought to be re-
paired, but not at the expense Of the
sovereignty of any people--rather a
vindication Of the sovereignty, both of
those that are weak and those that
are strong. Punitive damages, the
dismemberment of empires, the estab.
lishment of selfish and exclusive eco
nomic leagues, we deem inexpedient
Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29
abandoning the newborn Russia to the
intrigue, the manifold subtle interfer-
ence, and the certain counter revolu-

aD2nCOnlnG tnG noW-oOrn huSSla u WIG
intrigue, the manifold subtle interfer-
ence, and the certain counter revolu-
ton which would be attempted by all
the malign influences to which the
German government has Of late ac-
customed the world. Can peace be
based upon a restitution of its power
or upon any word cf honor it could
pledge in a treaty OF settlement and
la convention?
Desire No Reprisais
Irresponsible statesmen must now
Everywhere see, if they never saw be-
/ fore, that no peace can rest securely
upon political or economic restrictions
meant to benefit some nations and
cripple or embarrass others, upon vim
dictive action Of any sort, or any kind
of revenge or deliberate injury. The
American people have suffered terri
ole wrongs at the hands of the impe-
,rial German government, but they de-
sire no reprisals upon the German
reop,e, who have themselves suffered
al things in this war, which they did
lrot choose. They believe that peace
hould rest uron the rights of peoples,
rot the rights of governments-the
| ights of peoples great or small, weak
cr powerful-their equal right to free
lom and security and self government
Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29
THE CITY GOVERNMENT
Civic developments are beginning

CIVIC developments are oeglhhllg u
show that the voters of El Centre
who named the most conservative
board of trustees that had ever gov
erned the city had notions of civic
needs and requirements that other mu-
inequalities might do well by copying.
Substantially as q dominant char
acter ever demands respect, and e.
Centre today is substantial.
The city board of trustees, rs
body, has accomplished what the vot-
crs of FL Cetnro intended it should.
A report from the various funds nee
essary for maintaining the city gov
ernment. made at Monday evening s
session of the council, showed, for the
first time in the history OF the city,
a probable surplus in every fund but
one at the close of the fiscal year.
For hours the board of trustees
studied the various needs Of the city
for the coming year, in an attempt
to fix the new budget without raising
the existing tax rate. Money was
iuggled from one fund to another,
needs were weighed, demands consid-
cred, until at last q budget was
framed that promises value for every
cent to be expended by the city during
the coming year.
Full value is really the feature in
which tas-taxpayer is interested. FL
exentro, with an increased tax rate,
could be improved proportionately
with the increased expenditure. Not
a person in FL Centre would be un-
willing TO see bouievards stretch
where dirt streets exist, parks spring
up where waste land now stands. nor
any OF the myriad things that viI,
come a. the city grows up 10 them,
and, from its own resources, afford
without unjust taxation the improve
ments that appear with growth.
Disillusionment due TO civic pride.
IN oVerestimating what work can be
aone on the assessment allowed from
the city's valuation is the common
error OF those who demand that new
works start and that taxes decrease.
The city government Of FL Centro
is neither wasteful nor extravagant.
II is doing the most that can be done
with the money given it by the tax.
payers. 1t is not trying TO mimic A
city Of 25,000 on the taxes from the
valuation Of city of $500. I, is
building substantial foundation for
improvements that are 10 come. and
no body in FL Centre is surer OF the
future Of the city than are the mem
ners Of the civic government who are
IN position 10 feel the pulse of FL
Centre.
Criticism upon what the city council
mas not accomplished is merely new
way of asking for an increased tax
rate. II is doubtful whether or not
FL Centre wants Increased taxcs-or
possibly, not SO very doubtful after all.
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Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29

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Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29
Coal Mines Closes
(By Associated Prsss)

Bloomington, ILL.,, Aug. 29.-~1na
McLain county coal mine closed to
day, paying off the men and locking
the gates. President Lyman Grah1..
stated that he could not pro1lcc coal
at the prices set by the government.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29
To Issue Milk Cards
(By Associated Presal

(By Associated Press>
Paris, Aug. 29.-The Paris f>od
commission is considering ths issu-
ing of milk cards to prevent th, veal
thy classes from buying up the milk
supply for the winter months Wien
there is a shortage.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-08-29
Call Russian Meet Farce
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
Amsterdam, Aug. 29.-Garma:.
newspapers call the Moscow confer
ence a comedy intended to incjtc the
people 10 greater sacrifices.
The Detroit times., 1917-05-21

Let us look our times squareiy
in the face
The history Of his old world Of
ours Is uu o. disappearance Of
civilizations Central and South
America have abundan, and unmis.
,akable evidences of st. Under.
meath tho debris and erosions N
Europe and Asia are the splendors
os old Romes. Old Troys old Baby
Ions. old nations. old Civilizations
hat made up The world q the time
az certainly as We nos make up
The world of those times Those
old civilizations bun' a. we do.
sometimes better. they worshiped
their god or gods az faithfully az
We 40 ours their aspirations we're
In many respects a. high a. Ours.
and. IN some instances, they on.
ioyed social and governmental sol
ldari'y greater than ans 70 have
today Pvt their peoples the'r
works. their civilizations are AT
gone.
The civilization ~ today fares A
ca,sclysm. II must meet The test
~ war and famine The issue be
fore our civilization IL one ~ 70
version n barbarism. which. IN pro
cess of time means the fate ~ those
old dead and buried civilizations
Our civilization Is founded upon
tho teachings Of Jesus whose doc
trine was love and helpful. unlifting
progressiyism Two thouAand years
ago. he not only sowed The Aeed Of
enlightenment and higher civiiiza
tion. but named the antidote FOR
war and famine IN the Golden Rule
One ~ the ver8 gKfat naflonT lo'
our day hAs abolished What rliIe and
mbstltufed FOR 90 The obsessi0n 'hst
might e. right Germany l8f'lfes
slaughter and starvation az lndly.d
ual. selfsh necessities So' al the
world IS a. YET aroused 20 'he fact
bui German autocracy surely means
The Detroit times., 1917-05-21
This Is a Time When
All Work Is Dignified

1t has been phrase common IN Amer
ica that work Of all kinds is dignified.
But while it has sounded good from
the platform. it has been hard for the
man in the ditch or on the farm to take
much stock in the dignity of his job.
What we call dirty work" has never
attracted many men because of any idea
Of dignity that they attached to It.
Now We are about to put real dignity
into work of all knds-just so il Is use
ful work.
Every resource of the nation is in the
balance-in for the fight to free world.
Every bit of useful work helps to bring
victory There is new inspiration
about all work now, no matter Of what
kind. if it is only useful.
Whatever work there is that needs to
be done now is work for all humanity.
On the face of it, the job may not look
that way without some thought about it
but it is that way.
Every stroke of real, useful work done
now is part of the great struggle for
freedom.
If there is inspiration and dignity in
this great struggle for human rights
and never was there more in anything
then that dignity attaches in full
measure to every effort that contributes
in the smallest measure, to winning that
conflict
And whatever helps keep this nation
in running order, our cities in running
order, our machinery of civilization
working, helps to win the war.
Today as never before work counts,
work is dignified, work is the foundation
of things.
Take new look at your job, workers
Of America.
Take look and think about this new
Importance, this new dignity. this new
inspiration that is yours, as you do your
share TO make America clean and strong.
The Detroit times., 1917-05-21
The Land
BV DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Craue)


What seems TO me a momentous utter
ance is that recently made by the Coun-
tess of Warwick. owner Of $4,000 acres
of English soil She calls upon the aris-
tocracy of England to follow the exam
pie of the Russian grand dukes and turn
over their feudal lands to the state.
"We must go, she says. "The aristoc-
racy OF England, in its position of heredi-
tary land owners, must go.
''Fhe country rings with suggestions
for the betterment Of the conditions un-
der which land is cultivated. but as | see
things the suggestions are in no instance
drastic enough. The only cure for the
present eivls seems to me to be state
ownership, the abolition of all priavte
property in the earth that was given TO
all of US in comomn.
For the betterment of social condi-
tions in England a supreme sacrifice is
required. 1t is no more than justice that
the men who have offered their lives in
this war for Britain should have the
freedom of Britain for their reward. II
is not justice that calls men to fight for
the land and leaves it in the hands of
fraction of those who fought. To me it is
impossible that in the future his grace
or my lord should own square miles of
the mother earth for which Tom died
and Dick was sore wounded and Harry
fought unscathed.
"The country has great needs. If il
is 10 remain solvent the united work of
one and all is necessary. The old feudal
landlord will be an anachronism, the new
money spun landlord an abonimation.
Only the state can own the land in trust
for those who can make it productive.
We who are in the high places in Eng
land should retire from them in the real
halo of remuneration. and our act of sac
rifce would be a better memorial than
the best of us could nave hoped TO gain"
When the nobility Of England gets TO
talking like that Il makes one want to
take lack all he ever said against them,
to take Off his hat to them. to recognize
them rs bleTiHdeed.
If this war. as one Of its by-products,
shall make men see the right of all men
10 the land, it shall not have been in
vain
All wealth comes from the land, d.
rectiy or indirectly. The right of pri-
vate property is property sacred among
civilized people. But ones right to land
should rest upon his making it produc-
tive
The eventual problem that every ma
tion will have to solve before liberty
shall be an accomplished fact is the land
problem.
The Detroit times., 1917-05-21
We Are Nearing the
Hour of the Game-DOn't
Worry About the Lineup

Our country is soon to feel the grip
of war
1t has not felt it yet.
When President Wilson addressed
congress, asking for declaration of
state Of war, we sensed tinge-just a
slight tinge-of that indescribable some
thing within US which we know is there
but not always where it is.
When congress, acting upon President
Wilson's recommendation, had declared
war, We felt it again.
And then we lapsed.
It had set the wheels in motion and
the machinery of yter was at work, and
working so smoothly that the earlier rip
pies entirely disappeared and the condi-
tion OF the country became the calm of
lake when the sun is sinking.
Now, again, our pulses beat faster, as
our hearts are quickened again and moth
ers look more intently upon their sons.
There were many happy family gath
erings yesterday around the table at
many Sunday dinner; there are to be
fewer of these in the immediate future.
There were many happy mothers, rem
deying silent thanks to the Almighty for
the privilege of having the boys and the
girls with them for another day.
There are to be fewer happy mothers
in this country in the near future.
Their prayers will take another turn.
But they are the country's real pa
triots-never forget that-and they will
meet their bit with strong and courage
GUS hearts.
President Wilson has issued the call
for the first 100000 men. and dis
patches to France in that call Americas $
first expeditionary force Of $4,000 reg
ular troops.
The regulars are TO go as soon as
deemed practicable, so it will not be long
before word comes back that the first
Americana have fallen.
They win give a good account Of them
selves. They may be trusted TO do that.
but some Of them will fall.
The first German bullet to sting an
The Detroit times., 1917-05-21
Anniversaries

isi7-Edgnr y. wadhaus nrst
Catholic bishop ~ OgdensburR. "
= born IN EsseK county. y = Died
at OgfensburR. Dec. 8. 1891
fs2t-John Gatllsrd ~ south Caro-
lima vas reelected presid~nt protein
~ the United states senate
fs52-First ao-catied Democratfc
convention met IN Baltimore. and
nominated Andrew Jackson for presi-
dent
1sss- Republican national conven
tion nominated General Grant FOR
president.
1879 Naval engagement between
Chillan and Peruvian ironclads on
Tquiqute
IDA delegation Of Kings
Daughters left New York FOR Russia
20 distribute money among the fam
inc sufferers
Manchester ship canal form
ally opened by Queen Victoria
ONE YEAR AGO TO-DAY ~ THE
WAR
Italians started counter-ofrenslve
on the Iavarouc plateau.
State department at Washington
protested 10 France and England
against Interference with mails.
quarrles at verdun. but suffered
from severe assaults on Dead Mans
Hill and Hiii 3O4.
ToDAY,s BIRfuDAYs
Gustav Lindenthai. tho engineer
who superintented the construction
Of the new He'll Cate bridge. born
IN Brunn. Austria, 81 years ago to-
day
Ellen Wilson McAdoO. daughter of
the secretary of the treasury and
granddaughter ~ President Wilson.
born IN Washington two years ago
today
GiAnn " Curtiss, 20 whom tho
world fs largely indebted for ne per
Hammandsport ~ Y, 80 years ago
TODAY
piimmnn Dudley. noted me-
chantcsi anRineer and rail expert -
the New York Central lines. born
IN Freedom. ohm. "a years ago to-
day
Augustus o. STANLEY. governor "
Kentucky. horn IN shelbyyilie, KY.
50 years ago today.
The Detroit times., 1917-05-21
Lest We FORGET
e. NJ e A.

cataclysm 20 the civilization Of the
times. an epoch In all human affairs.
without liberty. equality. justice.
democracy our civilization goes
backward and is finally buried as
were those old ones.
war and famine. a cataclysm
We have 20 kill war by crushing
Germany. and famine IS the effect
- war What sacrifice of blood
effort and treasure can be TOO
great Close upon the hunger that
rules turnout the world presses ac-
fual starvation. Starving. tho hu.
man animal Is Ike any other. mad
ly reckless. without principle or
reason We'll may those who have
much give much 70 the cause Of
saving The civilization of our era
The Detroit times., 1917-05-21
Pointed Paragraphs

Going 10 law IL often a prelim
mary 10 going broke.
Meet people with a smile unless
they want 10 borrow something.
Look out for things that won't
bear looking into
a boy IN the school room is worth
a dozen In the poolroom.
Naturally a man would rather
part HIS hair than part with n.
All our thoughts are original
either With ourselves or others.
You can't always keep your neigh
bnrs from saying foolish things. but
You can close your ears.
Formerly a bride know how to
keep house. Now she "a lucky II
ehe knows how to keep q cook "
A woman gets almost az much
Fatisfao'ion out ~ good cry-as a
man does ouf ~. good laugh
More advice would be taken N n
were not given IN manner lead
ing the recipient 10 believe that the
giver IL anxious 10 get rid OF 10.