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Pueblo chieftain., 1921-12-18

In the Jail offices rcposed heavy
bag containing shaving articles, toilet
water. pajamas and other articles for
delivery. to Walsh.
Walsh. indicted for killing Adolph
Georg, Jr., and George Cast. was
placed in the jail hospital. although
the jail attendants admit he was not
Ill or even ailing. He is said to have
been ordered there by a high county
official who is TO be a candidate for
a higher office.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-12-18

d, dent of the Panama Railway steam
ship line, operators of the Panama,
who said that the Graham sought to
cross the bow Of the liner
Capt. VIM. f. Amsdep, the Graham's $
commander, and other naval officers
reserved their explanations of the
crash pending appearance before the
board of inquiry.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-12-18
COMMISSION AUJOURN.S
HEARING UNTIL JAN.

Washington, n. G., bee. Ion com
pletion by the railroads tonight OF pre-
lininary statistical arguments against
rate reductions tho interstate com
r,errc commission adjourned its in
vrsfiga tion into tho sunahlrncss of
transportation rates Until january 2.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-12-18
Forbcr acquitted OF
KidnapiMa Denrer Girl

Denver. Dec. 10. NJ. Farbcr was
acquitted by directed verdict ycster-
day of a charge of kidnapping Miss
Martha Daiss on November IS. MISS
Daiss' own testimony as ~osccuuns
witness, brought about the verdict
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-12-18
PATROLM .4N KILLS
CHICAGO M1N

Chicago, ELL. Dec 17.--Jcsse L. Bar
rigan was shot to death tonight by a
patrolman, following a chase which
started when pedestrian complained
that Barrigan and companion had
held him up. Barrigan failed to heed
the patrolman's orders to halt.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-12-18

IT. Mccarthy of Los Angeles, ar
rested hero today and also on bond;
and III. r. Harris. also arrested and
released on bond. Bond was made in
the sum of $4,000 in each case.
The New York herald., 1921-01-11
CHESTERTON HERE,
TALKS OF LIBERTY
Sees Paradox in Prohibition
Following the Declaration
of Independence.
BEGINS LECTURE TOUR
Calls Chicago and Jerusalem
the Extremes of Civ
iiiZatiOn.
BEGINS LECTURE TOUR

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, distinguished
English novelist and publicist. resting
his bulky frame yesterday In a lounge
Of the Hotel Biltmore soon after his
arrival on the Kaiserin Augusta Vic
toria for o three months lecture tour,
wondered as he smoked a cigar and
spilled ashes over himself-though care
full to put his burnt matches back in
the box-whether he wasn't violating
some amendment to the Constitution
by putting.
II don't know whether that's against
the Fourteenth Amendment or not" he
told the New York reporters-a species
ne was meeting for the first time, as
this is the initial occasion on which
ne has ventured to fabricate paradoxes
here. "As a matter of fact. don't
know which amendment in your Con-
stitution provides for prohibition. but
I know it's there, and / don't approve
Of 1t. Not because 1t affects me-" he
added hastily. when one of the report
ers asked II he had suffered since he
anded.
1T haven't been drinking fermented
liquors for some time. But that doesn't
affect the issue with me. No country
on earth could ever force me to touch
drop of cocoa, but IL any country
forbade Its citizens to drink cocoa j
The New York herald., 1921-01-11

Irish question: little irritated. per-
haps, by the Easter rebellion in the
midst of the war.
THE laboring classes sympathize with
the workers in Ireland for much the
same reason they sympathize with them
in Russia That Is due 20 ignorance,
and the laboring class needs education
in that respect. Our intelligent artisans
know fully as much as any one else
about the economic situation at home.
but the aristocratic system. by which
small group has heretofore hand ed our
foreign policy, has left the masses OF
the people with the Ignorance OF indif-
ference toward foreign affairs. In
France foreign relations always have
been a democratic affair. and the poor
Frenchman always has hated the Ger
mans as much as has the wealthy
Frenchman. All the French are on the
side of Poland because they know-as
our laboring class doesnt-that Poland
is an outpost of Western civilization IN
a tossing sea OF Islam. Bolshevism and
the yellow peril.
Changes I'm England.
''The war has precipitated some great
changes in England of which we aren
lly aware vet. Official interference
with the Individual. brought about under
the pretense of war regulations, mas m
creased. On the other hand, Pruss'an-
n has been knocked out--people no
longer talk Nietzsche. They do TAX
huma nitarianism that isn't humane ana
lot Of bosh about Bolshevism, put at
least their sentimentalism Is humane IN
f. tent-the superman has gone out.
However. I'm not in favor OF any recon
ciliation Immediately between tn intel
lectual classes of England and those OF
Germany. I've known some agreeable
German professors but on the whole the
professors and the literary men OF Ger
many acted in silly fashion over the
war and they should be allowed TO re-
member it,
He said that his sympathies lay with
| the working classes in the form of a
democratic Bolshevisn, under which all
property would be distributed and con-
| trolled by every one. He protested
against any Sociaistic system of gov
| ernmental regulation of property, de-
claring that, while a group of capital
| lists have brought evils. II would be no
different and no better to have property
controlled by another group who would
| be governmental officials"
Mr. Chesterton, who is accompanied
by Mrs. Chesterton, and who will deliver
ance of the Educated" said he did not
| expect to go further west than Chicago
since, having seen both Jerusalem and
! Chicago, think I shall have touched on
the extremes of civilization"
The New York herald., 1921-01-11

should consider II wrong-an infringe
ment of their liberty-and | should i'm
medtately want to drink 1t there. But
there. l shouldn't talk too much about
this point in a country which is my
host
At this point time out for a thought
full pause-a frequent trick with him
was taken by the author. who had pre-
viously told ship news reporters that
prohibition here was merely part OF
worldwide movement by capitalists to
enslave the other classes, but that there
would be a reaction--though he men,
toned no future dates. The pause gave
the observer time to note his volumi-
nous figure, quite imposing when ne
stands up, though not so abundantiy
Jonnsonian as his pictures lead one 70
expect He has crscae>-s OF gray hair
above a pinkly beaming face, rather
straggly blond mustache and eyes tha'
seem frequently to be taking up innnity
in serious way. His faisetto iaush
prominent teeth and general aspect are
rather Rooseveltian.
1.-THE approach up the bay was very
fine" he said. land the owered errec
of the skyline was striking. IT wouiS
be absurd for a man to so to his grave
without seeing America. I'm all for th'
Statue of Liberty. Coming up the ba!
| was tempted to take all the liquor OF
board and pour it out to the Statue IL
final libation."
Reference to the green color OF tn
statue led to some observations on tn
way metals-in common with politica
parties-change color. and final com
ment that here you started out witt
the Declaration of Independence ant
ended up with. prohibition" That wa
perhaps the most typically Chestertonia,
utterance he made. AS to Ireland. h
said that IL home rule had been granite,
twenty years ago. the Irish question
would have been settled.
On Foreign Policies.
England has done many outrageous
things to Ireland" he said. but
think the Irish, starting out with
rightful cause, have gone far towar,
making it wrong by their conduct. Dur
ing the war every Irishman at hear
sympathized with the Allies. But in
stead of thinking that Europe was thei
mother, they opposed the Allies caus
because they considered England wa
their enemy. The people I don't under
stand are the home rule Unionists.
should think at the prospect of hom
rule Unionist would go into a conven
and weep. The policy Of reprisals con
Quoted by the Government has been de
plorable. I don't believe 1t represent
the will OF the people. / think tn
average Englishman is bored by tn
Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-23

dam and the all-American canal had
been irrevocably united. When the
affairs of the district were in such
shape that they could be turned
over to newer man, Mr.. McPherrin
said that he would not only resigrt
But that he would insist that his res
ignaton should be accepted.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-23
c R | D / | G /
GAME WILL
BE R ca |
CONTEST
Central and Brawley to De-
eide c h a m p 10 n $ hi p
Alumni Promises Game
for Red Cross That'll Be
Hummer

The climax of the football season
of the Valley High School League
will be staged on Thanksgiving Day
on the local High School grounds.
The game is to be between Braw-
ley and Central and promises to be an
exciting contest as each team has
record of achievement behind it and
is out to make the final game a VIC
tory.
The lineup of Central will be from
the following: The back field will be
selected from these: Wakefield,
Kluek, Kliegel, Berry, Chambers,
Payne, House and T. Kluck. The
line will be from the following: Oak
ley, Barnes, Thomas, Walker, Finley,
Orr, Mauer, Ports, Quincy, Greer,
Hasha, Allen Jacobs, Gibbs and pos
sibly one or two others. AS a special
recognition of the occasion, the ball
will be put in play by Mayor Reamg
or Councilman Sones.
The indications are that this will be
the best game of the season and will
be the last chance for the fans to en-
joy this particular sport.
Owing to the fact that the alumni
of the Central High School could not
arrange a football game with the
CaleXico alumni to be played here
Thanksgiving Day as double header
with the BrawleyEl Centre game,
they have consented to meet the. FL
Centre High, if victorious in tomor-
rows game, the entire, proceeds 60,
ing to the Red Cross. The alumni
have seen the chairman of the Red
Cross and he is enthusiastically be-
hind theplan to raise funds to meet
the present deficit of the Ell Centre
chapter.
A game between the c. U. II. s.
alumni and the present High School
team will be one of the strongest
contested games of the season. The
FL Centre team so far this year has
not met with defeat, and so far out
classed all opponents that game
between the old members of the
school would be we'll worth seeing
In a practice game between these
| two teams the alumni held the fast
Central team to six to nothing
score This game, as far as known,
will be scheduled for Saturday, Dec.
3. Tickets will be printed and Of
fered for sale by members of the
Red Cross, and the public can be well
assured of receiving their moneys
worth at this game.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-23
ATHLETIC CLUB
IS TO REOPEN
SAT- TURDAy EVE
Best Program of Amateur
EUents EUer Presented in FL
Centre Marks Event

The Ell Centre Athletic lCub has
been organized and has been takel
under the management of w. J
Horros, one of the best box fighting
impresarios who has ever been bacl
of the game in the valley, and com
mencing Saturday night, the Tulane
theater will again be the scene Of
amateur ring contests.
Manager Horros is going to star
the renewal of the game off with one
Of the best and fastest bills ever pre-
sented in Ell Centre. There is going
to be double main event and fou
other contests, each of which will be
worth going far to see.
The contests are to begin prompt
ly at 9:15 o'clock, this hour being Sc
lected in order to let the business
men of Ell Centre and the workers
who have to keep later hours than
usual, an opportunity to attend.
TIE opener selected by Manager
Hor. os will be between Jess Wilson
and Homer Dietrich, both lis pound
El, Centre lads, who are fast gaining
prominence in the game. Both are
clever little men and their four
round go promises to be a hummer
Leo Wilson, of FL Centre, and Babe
Northam, clever and fast Mobile
scrapper of color, will be next in ap-
pearance in the ring. They fore
gather at 120 pounds ringside and
will fight from the tap of the gong
Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-23
DIRECTOR TELLS TROUBLES
THANKSGIVING.
BY THOS. Il. McCLEMENT

ny Abs WV -
1t is fitting that we, as indiyid-
uals and as nation, should rec.
ognizc the bountiful providence of
Almighty God in giving lis in
large abundance the fruits of the
earth for our maintenance.
Whether we meet in our churches
or not to pray and give thanks for
the marvellous prodigality of ma.
ture, we at least ought to bow the
knee in the quiet of our homes and
thank God for the sunshine and the
rain and the fertility of the soil
and; the harvests that make life
worth living, and give to each of us
the guarantee Of an nnfailing good
supply.
1t is eminently appropriate that
We should thank God for the .op.
pOrtunities that lie within the
reach of every child to secure an
education, that thereby he may
learn to realize his inbOrn possibil.
tiles.
A constitution that guarantees
to every man the right to life, lib.
erty and the pursuit of happiness
is constitution under which We
should be proud to live.
Nature in her large and increas-
ing generosity furnishes the physi.
cal basis of life.
The institutions of our civiliza-
ton create the opportunities fer an
education that alone esAp qualify
boy or girl for the intelligent dis
charge Of the duties of our Ameri-
can citizenship
The Constitution secures to every
man the right to live his life in the
way that he deems best.
The men that framed the Con-
stitution have put us under last
ing obligation to them for this
marvellous heritage that gives TO
us and to the men of the genera
tions that are to be the right to
think our own thoughts and TO live
our own lives, and to worship God
according to the dictates of our
own cOnsciences.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-23
CONTINUED on page two.)
GREAT RACE FOR
SPEEDWAY BOWL
(By Associated Press)

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23.-A field
of more than fifteen we'll known auto
racers of America and Europe is ex-
pected to compete for honors and
iplizes aggregating $4,000, in the an
tnual 250-mile auto race to be held
Thanksgiving Day, Nov. "a, on the
Beverly Hills race track, according to
Secretary A. M. Young, of the Los
Angeles Speedway Association.
The feature of the race is expected
to be the struggle between Roscoe
Sarles and Tommy Milton for the
1921 national championship. Sarles
went into the lead over Milton bv 265
points when he won the 150-mile auto
race at Cotati, Cal, on October %.
Ralph De Palma, the Italian who
won the spring races at Beverly Hills
last March, and Earl Cooper, who has
been out of the game a number of
of entering, according to Mr.. Young.
Jimmie Murphy, who won the 1921
tltAS4l NidIlu iiN. IIiule IledIUe,
the 1919 national champion. Eddie
Miller, Tom Alley, Joe Thomas, Ralph
Mulford, Joe Boyer, are all expected
to start, the Speedway Association
officials stated.
Dario Resta, who in the seasons of
/ 1915-19l6 Won speedway events at
indianapolis, Sheepshead Bay, Gin
cinnati, Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha
and Providence, will attempt come
back" Mr.. Young declared.
"Howdy" Wilcox, indianapolis
1919 race winner, and Art Klein, are
two others who have signified their
intention of entering the Turkey
Day" event.
Jerry Wenderlich, the European
Raymond Lampkin, the Englishman
Jules Ellingboe, Canadian national
champion, and Nick Zwick, the Nor.
wegian, who have never raced before
on the Beverly bowl, will also be
among those who will start, Speed
way Association officials asserted.
A purse totaling $4,000 has beer
offered by the Los Angeles Speed
Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-23
FINAL APPEAL
FOR RED CROSS

A final appeal went out today from
the Ell Centro chapter of the Ameri-
can Red Cross to the residents and
business interests Of the city urging
full cooperation in the Red Cross roll
call now in progress.
Failure Of the roll call, it is point
ed out, will mean that many ex-ser-
vice men and others now on the re-
lief list of the Red Cross, and receiv-
ing assistance of various kinds, may
become dependent on the general
public this winter.
1t also means that many of the
needful and helpful activities Of the
Red Cross in the Valley must cease
or be greatly curtailed. There is a
very apparent apathy in response to
the present Red Cross enrolment and
the people should get to work at
once, TODAY, andA make it big
success.
The greater part of the money col
lected here stays right here. 1t is
spent with local business men and in
other ways for relief work, so that il
returns to immediate local circula-
tion.
And the prideful people of Ell Cen
tro ought not let the word go out
that we have fallen down on the JOB
The Red Cross work has received
the endorsement and approval Of al
the leaders in the nation and the To-
cal business and civic bodies and pas.
tors of all the churches.
As they said "over there" Let's go!
Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-23
COST
T0M0RR0W'S
DINNER FOR
FA N L !
With Turkey at Maximum
OF 55 Cents Pound and
Fixin's cheap, Chefs Fig
ure Out Total

Thanksgiving Day without at least
one meal at which roast turkey is
served, will seem an empty sort of
day to the average native born Amer
lean, regardless of where or how he
or she dimes on that day. The eagle
may be Americas national bird, but
for popularity, the turkey has it on
the bird of freedom, from every an
gle, Thanksgivingly speaking.
But turkeys this year, while they
will be cheaper than last year, will
still come high in price. All of the
big Ell Centro meat and poultry
deaers agree that the price of dressed
turkeys today, when the majority of
housewives will make their purchases.
will range between 81 and 55 cents
per pound.
With the probable price of tie
most important article on tomor-
rows menu fixed at a maximum of
So cents per pound, The Press called
upon one of the leading local chefs
to figure out just about how much it
will cost the average Ell Centre house
wife to serve an ample Thanksgiving
turkey dinner for six with the accus-
toned and expected "fixin's."
Like a good general chef he called
into the consultation another chef.
1t seems that everything that goes on
the menu decided upon except turkey
is cheap this year, lettuce. sweet pc
tatoes, cranberries, pumpkins and
the like being especially so.
For dinner for six the cost for
these minor necessities will not
amount to much. The chefs did not
know whether to start off with soup,
but both agreed that if soup was
served. it should be good soup, and
first class soup, they said, would cost
a half dollar.
Both derided the idea of having
anything but pumpkin pie for des-
sert and as pumpkins are cheap, they
figured that they can buy enough
pumpkin to make two pies for 20
cents.
In all it will cost the average fam
lily Of six $6.79 for a turkey spread
that will insure all present getting
up from the table feeling exceedingly
we'll fed. The menu prepared bv the
chefs with the cost for each of the
various articles follows:
Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-23
HARDING WILL
FREE WAR TIME
CONV|CTS SOON
Those COnUicted of OUert Acts
Against Nation win Not BE
Included

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-Presi.
dent Harding intends soon to liber-
ate many so-called political prison
ers, now serving varying terms in
|penitentiaries, for violation of war
time laws, it was announced at the
White House yesterday.
1t was expressly stated, however,
that those prisoners who had been
convicted of overt acts against the
United States would not be included
in the general opening of prison
doors.
The President has asked the de-
partment of justice for the complete
digest Of the cases of all the social
ed political prisoners.
He will study each of them, it was
STATED, and afterward he will issue
la proclamation proclaiming amnesty
for those whose offenses were not
covert acts" against the United
States"
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader,
now in the Atlanta penitentiary, prob
ably VIII mot" be pardoned BY
Thanksgiving Day, Attorney General
Daugherty said. There have been
many reports that President Harding
would pardon Debs before Thanksgiv-
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-23

Three boys of Manila, P. l., were
wounded recently by the explosion of
a "dud" shell that they found at the
bottom Of dried-up well and which
they "peprered" with stones. The
shell was fired by Admiral Dewey's
fleet at the battle of Manila Bay in
1898.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-23
Los ANGELES
FALLS DOWN
ON THEIR
SCHE N {
Power Officials Now oHpe
to Foist on Taxpayers of
State Plan to Grab BOul-
der Dam e.

LOS Angeles Power Bureau off.
Gals have practically abandoned the
idea of carrying a municipal bond is
sue to finance the Boulder CANYON
project. They are getting behind the
state water power amendment as their
only hope of getting the money for
a municipal development on the Col
ofado river" declared r. H. Ballard
vice president and general manager
of the Southern California Edison
company at the Kiwanis Club lunch
con in Riverside, where he spoke or
"Hydro-Electric Development"
What passage of this state amend
ment, bonding the state for $780,
100000 would mean to the smaller
cities and to the farmer was graph
cally shown by Mr.. Ballard on the
may of Ontario, Canada, which has
for some years past been operating
4 state ownership system of supply
ing hydro-electricity dominated by the
hydro commission and Sir Adam
Beck, father of the plan.
The proposed water power amend
ment which will be voted on in Cali
fornia next year. is modelled on Sir
Adam Beck's system.
Without adverting to the fact that
Ontario has Niagara in its front
yard, Mr.. Ballard showed how "pow-
er at cost" works out there. The
larger cities, having high load fac
tors, get low rate, which ascends
as the load factor drops in the small
er towns, so that the map shows va
Iriation in rates per annum per horse
power from $50 to $156. These DIFF
ferences We're marked on the man.
"Them as has, gits," declared the
speaker. "The high load factor of
the larger cities makes the low rate
which captures and holds industry
The smaller places, no matter how
ambitious, are hopelessly handicapped
and never get chance to start.
AS for agriculture, the rates
charged under this system are simply
prohibitive. even supposing exten-
sions of service could be made to
supply this field.
| From the officially published re-
port of committee of the Ontario
Legislature into the affairs of the
hydro commission, made this year,
Mr.. Ballard read extracts recommend
! ing that the system be subjected to
a tax, levied on a horsepower basis;
that it be subjected to regulation by
supervisory authority analogous to
our state railroad commission, and
that rates be equalized in such a way
as to enable the agricultural sections
of the state to use hydro electric pow
er.
According to the latest census, the
rural districts of Ontario have lost
over 100000 in population during the
period of public ownership by hydro
electricity. Of a total of 900
horsepower developed, less than one
iper cent goes to agricultural dis
tricts, and this fraction is available
only in few favored localities.
"Under state regulation of private
lily owned companies, uniform rates
obtain here in California. This
amounts to an equalization by which
the smaller communities and the
farming districts, though the service
r
Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-23

Continued on page four.)
Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-23
BIG BALL GAME
IS TOM ORROW

The big ball game between FL
Centre and Holtville is to be play
cd on the HoltvilIe diamond tomor-
row, Thanksgiving Day.
There will be extra aud ample
transportation facilities furnish
ed for this occasion and every ball
fan in the town is urged tn turn
out and root for his fsyoritc team.
way Association. and q purse OF $l0,-
600 donated by Los Angeles mer-
chants will be awarded in lap prizes,
Secretary Young announced.