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Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26
MAY SET SIGN
PETITION DAY"
FOR WATER BONDS

The setting of "Sign the Petition
Day for a countrywide observance
for the signing by ranchers and prop
crty owners Of the petition to call a
special vote on the $2,500,000 water
bond issue may be put up to the Dis
trict Board at its next m2erln".
The reason for this concerted ac-
tiCn is obvious. Although the pet-
tions have been in circulation for three
weeks and though the Signatures run
nearly 600 in number. the necessary
valuation of $6,O00,000 is not yet in
sight
Checking of the petitions turned in
up to today show a total valuation
of but SO ,50l eco, on nearly $1,000 900
shy. BY deyoting one big day
throughout the Vallev to this work
it is thought the task can be COM
pleted.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26

Mr.. Zellnor, of the Zellnor Piano
Compan-' of Los Angeles, arrived in
FL Centre this morning on a short
business trip.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26

died and stay fresh, and for associa-
tion buyers in each city to collect the
eggs from the association members
daily ard to get them to the Los An
g2les market. A seller will be even
tually placed in Los Angeles to dis
pose Of the Valley output.
It is believed by local chicken men
thaJ . campai@n Of education in both
Les Angeles ard the valley will re-
suit in q raise in the prices for Val
lev eggs. 1t is pointed out by those
interested that q similar situation has
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26
INTERCHANGE OF
ROAD BOOSTERS

"San Diego, Calf, June 26, 1919
Chamber of Commerce, FL Centre,
Calf: San Diego county putting
forth its best united efforts for the
success of the road bond election next
Tuesday, realizing that this means
a completed highway from San Die
go to Yuma. The interests of San
Diego ard Imperial counties in this
election are identical and we are re-
lying on your active support.
"SAN DIEGO CHAMBER OF COM
MERGE"
"El Centro, June 2G, 1919.-San
Diego Chamber of Commerce, San
Diego, Calf: We are solidly back of
the road bonds and are advertising and
circularizing voters and boosting in
every way.
"EL CENTRIC CHAMBER OF COM
MERGE"
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26
.L0cZRM6

Miss Virrinia Brookheld. Mr.. and
Mrs. Symes and daughter motored to
San Diego yesterday to spend the
week end.
Mrs. Fishburn of Heber was an FL
Centre shopper yesterday.
Muriel Lauder and mother expect
to leave shortly for three weeks
vacation at coast points.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Clements of Green
leaf & Clements DRUG Co., returned to
FL Centre this mornir~ after most
delightful trip covering the principal
cities OF the eastern coast. They re-
pert the weather as having been very
warn and rainy throughout the east
and express themselves as .bei~~ very
happy to return to FL Centres milder
climate.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26

Mrs. Fishburn of Heber was an Ell
Centre shopper yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26
confronted other sections of tI

confronted other sections of tn
and has been overcome by q
tive sellino and advertisir~
The plan, when fully in oII
will place non-fertile eggs in |
geles the day after the are Il
before there is any possible
for the eggs spelling.
Another plan favored by thu
en- men was the continuation
poultry shows. An exhibitio
probably be staged this fall, a
definite plans have not been I
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26
SENATE ADDS To
NAVAL. AVIATION
APPROPRIATIONS
(By Associated Press)

Washington, June 26.-The Senate
today approved an amendment to the
naval appropriation bill increasing the
fund for aviation from the $15 100000
voted by the House to S35, 100000.
The Senate Appropriations commit
tee in reporting the Sundlv Civil Ap-
preparations bill increased the Ship
ping Boards shipbuilding program
from $276,000,000 to $491 100000.
The House appropriation of $780,
600 for salaries and expenses of mem
bers of the commission was elimi-
mated.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26
AMERICANS LOSE
-FOUR IN FIGHT
WITH RUSSIANS
(BY AssOciated Press

Washington, June 26.-An officer
and three enlisted men were killed,
two men wounded and an officer and
four enlisted men captured in recent
,fightinp with anti-Kolchak forces in
Siberia Major General Graves, COM
manding the Siberian eXpeditionary
forces, has advised the War Depart
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26

Texas newspapers and oil weeklies
can be had at Main Agency, SIP Main
street, FL Centro.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26
SPECIAL

Willys-Knight, 7-pass., all cord
tires, one extra; just overhauled and
pointed. AT vour price; must be
scld in two davs. Central Garage
632 Main street.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.
-, .......,..

WANTED-Truck returning to Los
Angeles to haul load of furniture
within ten days. Inquire AL Fifth
street.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-06-26

WANTED-Man to work on ranch 3
miles east of Imperial; married man
preferred. G. H. Cannon, Imperial.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

I-Why was milk so cheap for many
years?
Seventy years ago New York pro-
duccd more Of many kinds Of agricul-
tural products than it produces to-day.
More corn for grain, wheat, rye, barley,
flax, were produced seventy years ago
than arc produced to-day. There were
ten times as many sheep, four times as
many hogs, more horses and more farm
ers than there arc to-day.
When village loses onc-third of its
inhabitants it's house rents become prac-
tically free. When state loses one
third Of it's farmers its farms often sell
for less than the buildings cost. A very
large proportion of the farms in New
York have been on the market for years
at less than the buildings are worth, to
say nothing Of the great expense for
other kinds Of improvements. The prod
ucts of New York farms have been sell
ing on this kind Of basis, which bears
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
Bv EL.ENE FOSTER

vEVER did | expect to see the
" day when l should take my
l. pen in hand" to give advice to the
,,,upg housekeeper. But with Cousin
Editha's experience fresh in my mind !
feel it my bounden duty to do my oest
n save both the time and the temper Of
other young war brides who may visit
New York on the same errand which
brought Cousin Editha here, namely, the
buying of household goods for the mod
est little house in which she and her sol
der husband are to begin their married
life
Every day brings its quota of trans
norts laden from bow to stern with
khaki-cad figures coming back home"
and scattered throughout the country are
hundreds of young women, wives and
sweetheartS of these fighting men, whose
main object in life at the present mo-
ment is to see to it that this home is as
nerfect as their hands and brains can
make it.
Small wonder that the ranks of the
canteen workers, the motor corps and the
Red Cross are depleted, and the shops
where household furnishings are sold are
thronged with eager, bright-eyed young
women all actuated by the same purpose
asmy Cousin Editha.
Things went very smoothly with
Editha during the first few days of her
shopping tour. The fact that she could
not always procure the articles on her
list did not trouble her, for there we're
always substitutes to be had, and this
cave an added interest to the task.
"This war has been wonderful thing
for this country she informed me, with
all the wisdom of her twenty years. ut
has developed resources that we never
dreamed that we had-why, there's a
substitute for everything under the shin
ing sun, made right here in this coun-
try, and most of them are exactly as
good as the imported article
And so she went on through carpets
and furniture, lighting fixtures, kitchen
utensils and all the rest until finally she
came to the buying of her household
linen.
Look at this" she called to me one
her quest for linen, "two brand new $50
bills, This is Aunt Barbara's present,
morning as she was starting forth on
500 to be spent solely on the household
linen. "A dozen of everything, my dear,
said she, 'and if there is anything left
over, you can buy nice silver fern dish
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
Buy Less But Get
More for Your Money

But how are people in moderate cir
cumstances able to afford linen at the
prices that are asked for it to-day"
asked Editha.
by putting quality before quantity,'
replied The Man Who Knows About
Linen. "By buying half as much as they
did when prices were half as high And
that is my advice to all you young women
who are just beginning housekeeping:
forget grandmothers rule for the linen
chest, "a dozen of everything Make it
half dozen until things get little more
normal buy the same good quality goods
bat buy fewer pieces. With little fore
thought as to the laundry and judicious
use Of the various pieces you can easily
get along with the half dozen'
But suppose should wait month or
two. I can do that, for am sure that
my husband won't be discharged before
that time. Won't the prices be lower
them" asked Editha
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

away my toys, and hang up my clothes,
and brush my teeth, and-oh, lots of
things like that. SO when wanted some
thrift stamps mother said that she would
give me five cents toward them for every
thing I remembered. We had lots Of
fun making list Of all the things.
Mother keeps that. ] can't see it be
cause it wouldn't be remembering if ]
looked We go over it every night and
see how well ! have remembered At
first | missed a lot Of things; but now
] have the habit, and almost never miss
ono. And it is such fun It saves mother
80 much worry about me that she calls
the big stamps Worry Saving Stamps
instead Of War Savings Stamps"
The commutcr had to leave the profit
able conversation at this point; but she
went her way visualizing the fun that
there had been in evolving this useful
slogan. Evidently Bonnie was of house
hold that turned it's sense Of humor to
account. II. 3. q.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
An Interview.

The reason why milk was so cheap for
SO many years was that it was being pro-
duced by a declining agriculture, just
as rents are cheap in village that is
declining.
2-Waa the dairy farmer losing
money all these years?
The dairy farmer who built a barn or
improved his farm was, in general los
ing money. The farmer who bought his
farm with buildings On the place and got
it all for less than the barn cost may
have made money on his investment.
The farmer who allowed his buildings to
decay, impoverished his soil, sold his
wood lot and never spent any money, did
not lose any money. He could not lose
any if he never spent any. The worst
that could happen to him was that he re-
ceived low wages for his time.
3-Why did the farmer continue to
sell milk at a loss?
The farmers did not all continue to
sell milk at loss. One in every three
of them quit In 1910 there were 49,
954 persons engaged in agriculture in
New York State; in 1910 there were
376,19S. On April q, 1917, the total
number of males fourteen years old or
older, living or working on farms, was
329, 019.
On June 1, 1900, New York State had
1,5O1,608 dairy cows; on February /,
1918, it had 1,375,793.
The reason that the city gets its sup
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
Dismal Prophecies
On Near-Future Prices

Let me explain" said The Man no
Knows-About- Linen. ''The flax from
which linen is made is raised, for the
most part, in Russia, Germany, Franco,
Belgium and Ireland (two-thrds of the
entire amount, by the way, comes from
Russia). Now. with conditions as they
arc in Russia there isn't much hope of
obtaining fax from there, at least not
during 1919. Germany is out Of the
question. The flax fields of Belgium and
Northern France have been entirely dc
molishcd, and it will take quite some time
to get the soil in good condition again, to
say nothing Of finding laborers to do the
work.
"This leaves practically only Ireland to
supply the flax for the next year at least
The Irish linen was all Communicated,
you know, by the British government
during the war for the making Of aero
plane wings, and after the armistice was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

substitutes for linen. We bought quite
large quantity of it, but we are selling
it off at cost because our customers do
not want it,
"Why not?" asked Editha
ut doesn't lay as well on the table as
linen, it doesn't launder nearly as well,
and in time the pattern wears bury, but
the main reason that we can't sell it is
because it is cotton, and the ancient pref
udice against cotton on the table is too
strong for the average housewife. She
just can't use it."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
When Hope Flies
From the Hope Chest

1t was after 6 o'clock when a weary,
bedraggled little figure presented herself
at my door.
1--WE had a perfectly wretched day."
she moaned, "and l take back all that
said about the war and our resources
and substitutes! never was so discour-
aged in all my life. Cousin Elene, there
is no substitute for linen" And she
sank down, crumpled heap, on the sofa.
"And they talk about Hope Chest"
she went on; take it from me, a Hope
Chest at the present writing is the most
utterly hopeless thing in the whole
world. I've spent the whole ivelong day
in linen shops. I've been from The
Grande Maison de Blanc, in Fifth Ave
nue., to Hearn's, in Fourteenth Street.
and 1t is the same story everywhere.
Linen is worth its weight in gold, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
Mushrooms and Pirnentoes

tablespoonsful oleo Il ID. mushrooms
sliced canned l cupful milk
.pmentoes ] tablespoonful flour
IL tablespoonful Salt and CAYENNE 70
tomato catsup taste
Melt oleo in saucepan, add sliced
pimentoes and brown slightly. Stir in
the catsup and add cleaned broken mush-
rooms. Simmer about seven minutes.
Mix flour in little of the milk and add
it with the remainder Of the milk to the
mushroom mixture. Season to taste with
salt and cayenne and bring to boil.
Serve hot on toast.-R A. w, New York
City.
The broiled or sauted mushrooms with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

goods if they were buying them from
the wholesale houses at the present time.
Fortunately for the consumer, many of
these merchants had very large stock
Of linens on hand when the war broke
out, and they therefore have not been
obliged AS yet to replenish their stock,
and they have been generous enough to
give their customers the benefit Of their
foresight. But just you wait until they
are obliged to buy of the dealers at the
wholesale prices Of the present time and
you will see the linen soar higher than
it ever did on an acceptance
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

sands of persons who are skilled in it are
not working at it. The consumers need
have no fear that farmers can hold prices
too high. There are thousands of trained
farmers working in towns, villages and
cities all over the state, and there are
thousands of acres waiting for them to
farm, and thousands more acres that are
only half farmed. Thousands of other
farmers and farmers sons sleep on their
farms, but neglect their farms and dailv
go to cities to work. The minute the
prices of farm products rise so as to
make farming pay better than city labor
these persons return to farms bv the
hundreds. And the minute city wages
pay better than farming, as they did in
1918, the movement is to cities. There
is no monopoly in farming and no limi-
tation in output. Since farm families
are large, there is a great surplus of
persons skilled in farming who are al
ways ready to work at the job-when it
pays.
But they are not going to work at it in
sufficient numbers unless they have bet
ter school facilities, better medical SER
vice, better housing conditions. more
convenient barns, and higher wages than
New York farms now have.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

cept on the basis of paying the farmer
reasonable wages.
The time has come when the great
agricultural resources of New York and
other Eastern states must be developed.
This development is not to help the
farmer, but is necessity for our cities.
The farmer can escape from intolerable
conditions as he has escaped in the past.
There are only two persons working on
New York farms, where in 1910 there
were three. OF the sons of the present
farm operators in New York 46.367 are
working at some industry other than
farming. In the year ending February
l, 1918, 81 ,430 persons left New York
farms to go to work in other industries,
and 1884 came back to farms from
other industries. The individual farmer
has way Of appearing in town when
farming conditions get too bad
But the city cannot afford to develop
at the expense Of agriculture. We have
had too much of this unsound growth in
the past The only sound basis for de-
mocracy is to have the reward for
given amount of industry and skill as
great IN one industry as in another.
SIS there danger that farmers will
cxtort too high prices for food?
Farming is free industry and thou
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

the same relationship to prosperity that
a trent free" house bears to prosperity
in a town.
A declining agriculture has made
farm products sell on the basis of little
return for the buildings and improve
mcnts previously made on farms But
when demands for food are not satisfied
by the quantity produced on this basis
agriculture must be built up.
"A farmer may use an old dairy barn and
count It's value as nothing rather than
stop business, but when expansion is dc
manded he viii not build new barns un-
less he has hopes that the money will be
returned. A very large part of the
farms Of New York need new barns, or
decided improvements to present barns
Farmers may continue to use land
that is cleared and drained and count it
of no value rather than abandon the
farm, but they will not drain and clear
new land unless they hope to be paid for
the labor. Nearly all the land in New
York State needs tile drainage Rela-
lively speaking, very little land has been
cleared or drained in New York for fifty
years.
Men viii exhaust the lime and phos-
phorus IN the soil and count it Of no
value rather than leave the farm, but
they will not buy lime and phosphorus
and put them on the land unless they
hope to get their money back. Nearly
all of New York State needs ropeatod
applications of lime and phosphorus.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

EDr. G. F. Warren, Of the New
York State College of Agriculture, is
the author of the famous Warren
formula for determining the cost of
production Of milk, which played such
conspicuous role in the recent
milk strike" We have no quarrel
with the formula, but maintained then,
as now, that it was never intended to be
used a weapon for price fixing and
promoting strikes on vital food ncccs-
sity like milk. We are glad TO print DIR.
Warren very clear cut answers to these
pointed questions on New York farming
conditions sho wing the reasons for the
rising price Of milk The milk problem
is more important than all other food
problems combined and the that
most vitality concerns women and chill
drcn.
Women arc the food buyers, and their
failure to understand food conditions is
serious factor in tho problem in its last
snslysis--whcn buyer and retailer meet,
often in anger. Every woman ought
to know where she stands on the milk
question, and what she thinks should be
done about solving il. AS Professional
Housekecpers with the families of the
state to, feed, or as New Citizens, with
the power Of the vote to WELD. they must
look at all aides Of the situation in order
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

preciable extent, and it will never-no,
never-bc as low as it was before the
war. Therefore my advice to you is this:
If you are contemplating buying linen
at any time during the next two years
DO 1T NOW, for you will probably have
to pay even more in few months from
now than you do to-day
AS a matter of fact he continued,
"the Majority Of the linen shops and the
department stores are selling linen to-
day at retail for less than they themselves
would be obliged to pay for the same
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
For and Against South Sea
Island Cotton Damask

"How about cotton goods" | asked.
Il understand that the price Of those has
gone up even more than that of linens
1T has advanced about 800 per cent
within the last year was the reply, but
recently there was quite little slump
in the prices, though they are still very
far from normal, and it is difficult to
predict just what is going to happen in
this line of goods
"Some one recommended South Sea ISL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

and cotton damask," said Edtha. ut
looks exactly like linen damask, I was
told, and wears almost as we'll Do you
know about that"
The Man Who Knows About-Lnen sent
for tablecloth of the Sea Island cotton,
and when it came neither Editha nor l
could have told it from the linen damask.
ut is woven on the same loom as the
lincn,' he explained, "and in the same
patterns. The cotton is grown in the
South Sea Islands, and there is no lint
from the fabric 1t was one of the war
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

but not one could compare with the
good, old-fashioned linen cloth for dura-
bllity. for resisting all kinds of weather
and for the quality which made bullet
leave a clcan-cut hole with no ragged
edges or tearing of the threads. Small
wonder that the flying men refused to
fly with anything but pure linen wings.
ITS the same with the housewives"
he continued; cas- the advertisement says,
Having once used linen, I will use no
other. No substitute has come out of
the war; tho matter remains as it has
been for centuries, the choice is between
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
Away With the
Linen Sheets

Are linen sheets as high as other
linen goods asked Editha, because |
want at least one pair of linen sheets
most awfully.'
They are just about three times as
expensive as they were before the war"
answered The Man Who-Knows-About-
Linen. I'VE get $40 a pair for linen
sheets and that isn't high for them, as
things are now. If l were you Ia sub
sttute in most cases nice, fine cotton
percale at s5.25 pair"
ut looks as if | should be obliged to
do that" sighed Editha And if | did
that, can you tell me just how much
l could get for my $100?'
A salesman was asked to make out
list, which is given in Table No l. Bed
ding is of percale, table napery and
towels of linen, and the miscellaneous
small pieces of cotton.
Lets suppose that we could per
suade Aunt Barbara to double her gift"
l suggested what could be done for
$1,000"
The answer is given in Table No. 2.
"Thc 500 list is quite good enough
for poor folks said Editha, "only I
must insist on stripes on my table
cloths.
AS we left the shop, after having
placed the order and selected the pat
terms, Editha turned to me:
THAT lovely silver fern dish is buried
in linen shroud,' she said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
IA 500 Hope Chest
Aunt Barbara's 500 won't even buy the

Aunt Barbsras 500 won't even buy the
tablccoths.'
Lets forget it for tonight I said
well have d nice dinner uptown and
we'll go to a theatre, and tomorrow
will take you to a man who knows all
about linen, and he'll find way out of
your trouble, I am sure
And so the next morning bright and
early we sat in the little glasscd-in
Office in the corner of big Fifth Ave
nuc linen shop and listened to the Wis
dom that fell from the lips of Thc-Ma
Who Knows About-Lincn