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Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-24
Report of Deposits Unclaimed During
Preceding len Years

itCcuiiiS iSu cars
In the First National Bank of Ell
Centre, Calf, as of January /, 1921.
Mcclure, c. A, Meloland, Cal,
alive or dead (unknown). ....$ $500
Nash, J. P, Thermal, Calf,
alive or dead (unknown) >. 315.1O
/, F.. j. Gianola, the undersigned
cashier of the First National Bank,
located at Ell Centro, Cal. do solemnly
swear that the above is a full true
and correct list of unclaimed deposits
of said bank as of January /, 1921,
of depositors known to be dead; or of
depositors who have not made further
deposits or withdrawn any moneys
during the preceding ten years, ex-
cepting such as are known to me to be
living:
F. J. GIANOLA,
Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to this 14th
day of January, 1921, before the un-
dersigned, notary public in and for
said county.
E. CLAY WILLIAMS,
Notary Public.
. (NOTARIAL SEAL)
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-24

1t is said that position affects ones
sleep-especially a position as night
Watchman.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-24

One may buy peck of Russian
rubles for an American dollar, but
why should one?
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-24
4NULdI I
(NOTARIAL SEAL)

The more reason man has for in
dignation the less comfort he gets out
of it.
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1t is the single takers who are able
to get their platform on postcard,
but nobody'll lend 'em postcard.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-24

The meaning of CDR" depends al
together upon whether it is placed be-
fore or after a mans name.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-24

Russia suffers from having too
many fronts and no rears to speak Of
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from and
Jus werei old when
o
S or o
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-24

Automobile speeders continue to
overwork the coroner,
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-24

Independence and the Constr
tuition of the State Depare bra
wouldn't stand fire for ~ MIN
utc For Congress has ignored an
$4,000 buy safe that's safe such p Is
pending Meanwhile the nations priceless documents ere M
fire such as that Wnieh ecny
e would quickly eat through the
Imperial Valley press., 1921-01-24
w. E. RICHARDSON'S
Closing Out Stock Sale

ON THE PROYINE RANCH, 21a MILES WEST AND MILE
MAIN CALIPATRIA ROAD. SALE COMMENCES AT 1890 S
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ARE EXEMPT FROM TAXATION
Officers and Enlisted Men of Ma. tional Guard Units Exempt
 From Certain Taxation.

Pursuant to Section 7226, Craw- ford and Moss Digest of the statutes of Arkansas, 1921 (Section 34, Act May 3, 190D all officers and enlist ed men of the National Guard of Arkansas are exempt from payment of all poll taxes, except the poll tax prescribed by the Constitution for the support of the public schools :; exemption of payment of any road or street tax and from any road duty whatsoever under the laws of this state, and exemption from jury services or duty of every char acter and description.
 The Adjutant Generals Depart ment has directed Major E. C.. Robertson to furnish a roster of Company L and Headquarters Com pany to the proper authorities in this county and to see that the per sonnel of the organizations are pro- tected from payment of road or street tax and from service upon
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the Mosquito. Few communities and localities are fortunate enough to be free from the mosquito who an- nounces his advent by his peculiarly unpleasant song with the opening of early summer and continues his career until far into the fall, in many places.
 Mosquitoes are disease spreaders and those maladies known to be car ried by this insect are malaria, vel low fever, dengue fever and filar- iasis. Breeding places, especially for the domestic mosquito, are in any small collection of water that may be present in tin cans, bottles, flower pots, pools, gutters, sewers, etc. The malaria mosquito usually prefers the margins of ditches and lakes, swamps and low bottom lands.
 All buildings in localities infested with mosquitoes should be screened. No water should be allowed to stand in containers around the house, the grass should be kept cut short so it will not serve as hid ing place for mosquitoes. Low places should be drained by ditch Ing. Oll may De uSeu as measure to prevent breeding. It should be placed in a fine film over the sur face of the water, a light oil being best adapted for the purpose. It re- quires an ounce of oil for every 15 square feet of surface and must be renewed several times a month.
 Itching and irritation from mos quito bites can be relieved by al lotion of carbolic acid. To make this lotion add a tablespoon of boric acid powder and 20 drops of pure carbolic acid to half pint of hot water. Stir well and shake un- til the boric acid is. dissolved. Cool before using and apply by daubing on with wad of cotton or spray ing on the surface with an atomizer.
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any jury or duty of every character and description.
 Under the National Guard regula- tions an officer or enlisted man cannot claim exemption unless he has attended the required number of drills to draw pay-45 drill per iods during the tax year.
 In order that the sheriff of Lee county may know who has complied with the regulations and who are exempt from the tax the command ing officers of each National Guard unit in Lee county will furnish him with a roster at the close of each year which will show the men who have drilled the required number of drills to draw pay and who are ex-
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Just Got OUer q Cold?

Look out fer kidney trouble and backache. Colds overtax the kid neys and often leave them weak. For weak kidneys-well, read what a grateful user says:
 R. M. Wheatiey, North street, Clarendon, Ark, says: About a year ago l was troubled with my back which think was caused by a cold settling in my kidneys. There was dull pain in my back con stantly, and I had dizzy spells and black specks floated before my eyes. My kidneys acted irregularly, caus- ing me a great deal of annoyance. The kidney secretions burned in passage, too. I took two boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills and my back was made as strong as ever and my kidneys acted regularly again. haven't been troubled with my kid neys since"
 Price 60c at all dealers. Don't simply ask for 6 kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that Mir. Wheatley had. Foster Milburn Co.,, Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
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If the name of any man is erro- neously published in the list of draft evaders now being made public, the War Department will make public apology, the Secretary of War has announced. Every effort has been made to check the list but it is possible that errors might have crept in.
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empt from payment of taxes.
 This will mean a great deal to the members of the National Guard in Lee county and should be en- couraging to any man who is de- sirious of enlistinG in the local com pany in the future.
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Attention Ex-Service Men--White
 and Colored

Mrs. J. I. Morris, chairman of Home Service and executive secre- tary of Lee County Chapter, has been requested by John s. Exall, army field clerk, Adjutant Generals office, in charge of the distribution of the Victory Medals, to aid him in the distribution of the Victory Medals in Lee county. Mrs. Mor- ris gladly consented to aid in the distribution of the medals and has a supply of the application blanks to be used in making application for, the medals and will be glad to assist all ex-service men in filing applications for their Victory Med als. These medals will be greatly prized by the men themselves and then in the years to come when they have long since passed to the great beyond, they will still be more greatly prized by the children and the grandchildren of these former soldiers.
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This shipment will consist most ly of infant layettes and clothing for children aged to 10 years The young people of the Christian En- deavor of the Presbyterian church, under the direction of Mrs. M. C.. Hughey and the Baptist Young Peo- ple's Union, under the direction of Mrs. V. L. Baw, are assisting Mrs. Morris in the making of these gar ments. These little garments that will mean so much for the comfort of these little naked ones, and moth CTS, can you imagine the joy it will bring to the poor mothers of these little naked ones to see their precious littles ones clothed in nice, clean clothing, instead of being wrapped in. old dirty rags and old papers, all the gift of the people of the greatest and grandest country on Gods earth-America
 The executive cimmitee of the Red Cross Chapter is contemplat- ing a rest room in the near future where those who come in to town may have a comfortable place to go and rest, and especially for the mothers with children who come to town to trade who, after they are through with their shopping, have no place to go. Warm and tired out they have no place to go to re- fresh themselves, but stand around on the hot, sunny streets. It is the of the committee to estab fish this rest room just as soon as quarters can be secured for same.
 Beginning with this issue in each weekly Red Cross Report, Mrs. J. l. Morris will give series of short health articles and from time to time will deal with different sub- jects, beginning the first one with
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Production is still going on the Lee County Chapter.
 The director of activities of the Lee County Chapter will be ready within the next week or ten days to make shipment of several hun dred garments to the Red Cross Headquarters, 24 Bush Terminal Brooklyn, N. r., to be distributed among the war-torn countries of Europe
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THE RED CROSS By MRS. J. I. MORRIS.

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like 4 true sunrise when have given much.
much time to study. After such a lShl
breaks on my understanding | am willing.
am happy to do all that lies in my power
TO bring the same dawn TO my audiences.
you ask me if | neglect words and. for
getting them because of insufficient STUDY
or for any reason, I substitute vowel sounds
and thus keep the music and gain my effect
No no never Scrupulously do learn and
carefully retain the words of my roles.
am very unhappy when unaccountably ! for
get and treat my poet with sCant courtesy.
Truly he deserves full attention to his poem
give it to him with full heart and brain
Am / an actress before singer? Have
said anything that would give such an
impression? My conviction is that the two
are one, and if they are only married at
least no one should put them asunder.
lbrettist for the opera has incompletely
done his work if he has not provided living
character even for lyric artist. 1t is ask
ing a great deal of the artist to make her
go out in search of what will give it life
Fortunately for some lyrical scores where
the heroine was but "A stalking horse TO hang
tunes on these have been sung by great
women who did breathe life into them and
the traditions remain.
II have not rested content with tradition
when ] thought / saw it was possible TO
retouch IL to bring more vitality to a part
But / do this with discretion l hope, for
honor good tradition"
Nine. Jeritza deplored the fact thai she
would soc very little of this strange city for
a long time as she sees before her season
of real work Not that she dishes the
thought of work. being Injured to it, she said,
from her arduous beginnings.
"Thc gmpscs I have had OF this bright,
gay city and It's cheerful inhabitants have
filled mo with wish to sec more and to
know them better. Am I really SO good as
they say? VIII they continue 20 like me as
| go along and become more familiar? Oh,
/ hope SO
"rhis cheer and this happiness throw into
darker relief my poor Vienna. Times are
bad there. very bad, So much worse than
they are in Hungary. ! sang quite recently
i'm Budapest where things are looking up
and the people are working. There they
have crops but IL Is not so In Vienna. Only
a few persons have money there. and these
are new people. what you call proftecrs.
"tt must all bc made over. The life. the
business. An that was once must bo wiped
out and now things begun. While thC old
ones persist there will be no real progress
But tho Nicnncsc are most brave: meet
ing misfortune and poverty with 2 smile tull
of courage They will win, yes, I am sure,
the future has happiness and better pros
perity than they ever had in store for this
devoted people. I am not true Vicnnese,
as you perhaps do not know I was born In
Brunn in Czecho- -Slovakia. But in my heart
admire these brave citizens who have been
so kind to me.
ut Is strange. but I feel before an au-
dicnce here precisely as 1 did at my debut
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Her Own Story of Her Career
Proof of Most Unusual Modesty

A prma donna modest? It seems a mis-
use of terms. 1t need not be insisted upon.
for if these qualities are hers they will not
fail to appear in what she says later about
herself and her career enclosing decade
and two years.
Nine. Jeritza is still fresh and unspoiled,
unusually so for a world famous diva still
in her twenties.
One would believe in her as an actress if
one had never heard her sing and felt un-
convinced that she was a singer The
histrionc talent when born in a person and
not acquired cannot be hidden. One would
believe in her success, too, in any race for
popularity, for that singular quality Of mag
netism, better perhaps than talent or even
genius, with which she is widely endowed
shows itself in a personal interview as it
does on the stage.
What follows is real attempt to repeat
in print what amounted to kind of family
talk about the past, the present and the
future of this singer. Her husband ampli-
fled the diva's halting English by his own.
which, as he learned ii in England. where
his mother Blanche Marchesi, daughter of
the celebrated Partisan teacher of the voice,
Nine Marchesi lived for quarter of a
century, is very good He is Baron Pepper,
son of the first husband of Blanche Mar
chest. She is living in Paris. and at 60 still
sings, as Baron Pepper said, beautifully"
Marie JeritZa married the Baron four
years ago. He is a tall, broad shouldered,
clean shaven man of 35. retiring of manner
and rather inclined to put forward the fact
that he is more than the husband of
great artist, that he is in his own right a
banker, with headquarters in Switzerland
and a branch in Vienna. Also that he is an
importer of American products which he dis
tributes through the present small States as
they now exist in central Europe Baron
Pepper is going to Chicago by invitation OF
the Swifts as soon as he feels that his wife
is contented and happy here and can be left
al
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never tried 10 sing BrHnHhildc. as the music
is not in my voice.
al created i'm Vienna the part of Minnie in
The Girl of the Golden West studying 1t
with Puccini which was a delightful and
valuable experience. and may account for
the great popularity this opera enjoyed
there. / am astonished that its life here
was short ard particularly as in this country
the story ought to be at home.
I'm Vienna 7 was the first to sing Richard
Strauss's SdIome and l created the leading
role in the same composers 'Ariadne,' but
this time in Stuttgart A great deal of favor
was given 20 Die Tote Stadt,' Korngolds
opera which first introduced me 70 New
York Already 1 had sung in his earlier
work, 'Violanta.
people tell me here they do not like the
dream idea of The Dead city and that it
would be more effective IL this were 70 be
cut away and all that transpircs be allowed
to 20 forward like reality. do not know.
although I think / see their point of view.
But we singers do not write lbrctti, you
know and we do not often suggest that
changes shall be made in them.
"For myself I accept or reject a li5rctto as
! feel il. II tho story is big enough and
human enough to make me wish TO play in
it | am enthusiastic; If not. ! am cold My
experience so long protracted in doing my
part to mako characters live i'm the works
of young musicians where no life was has
made me cautious"
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Speak Fearfully of His Trip,
Brief Though 1t Will Be

The pair are so much in love that they
cannot help speaking little fearfully Of this
coming short separation. And yet Baron
Pepper explaned-stil with tho idea of fix
ing his own status--that this visit to Amer
lea Is only the second trip he had made
with his wife when she went to fill her en-
gagements. The first was to Stockholm,
Journey occupying forty-eight hours.
'I would not go there alone. intefjected
Nine Jeritza, but had cancelled my engage
ment unless my husband accompanied me-
I felt the same, and more, about this greater
voyage to America
Oh. well, they are happy family for the
mother in-law is as keenly interested in
Mime. Jeritzas career though sho were her
own pupil TN n sense ! am, said the
diva at another point, "for whenever l can
l go over my roles with Nine. Belle-Mere"
"You will not ask me for Impressions
about your country or even your city. Since
our arrival here I'm late October have been
working working. What time have / TO
see anything but my rooms here in this
hotel and the stage Of the opera house In
rehearsal and performance? To-day ! was
four hours in rehearsal, and go again at
6 for still another hour. It is for Die
wakuere.'
Now and then we have time free. and
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Wasn't clever? My own name is Mora
vian and quite impossible for foreigners 10
pronounce although when 1t is spoken 1t
bears a kind of resemblance to JeritZa.' I'm
proud Of the sound, for have been assured
that it is a musical word in any language.
In every language. although perhaps not so
in Chinese"
And here she laughed again quite like
child.
For her acting she tried she said. to make
a character live, and in order 10 do this
she sought to live the character. What she
was trying to express is a stock phrase with
our own actors who are ambitious (thcy say)
20 get under the skin of q character they
happen TO be representing on the stage.
1t is more difficult i'm her opinion, to sue
coed in doing this when one is singing words
than when one is speaking them. But she
insists iu spite of many famous instances
10 the contrary, than the singer can and
should bc an actress too In t7ord. which
is a distinctly acting part, lack Of acting
ability would bc pltiful, but there arc many
too many roles i'm the operas (ths IS
ueraphrasc Of her words) which suggest
nothing and whore the singing actress must
herself invest them with character. Thus
J,Is1 who might be and often is merely
vague musical sweetness, can be transformed
into real woman if the singer studies her
and works 10 that end
81 must be the person, said Nine. Jcritza
eat least while | am singing "A role or ] do
not believe 7 could sing it, Too many times
7 have failed to do more than to sing the
music and give dicton TO the speech set
down: this was in my earlier days. Always
at such times ! felt sad premonition, and
I was MS yet too callow to know why IT
broodcd over mo. That very Elsa must have
bocn nt the start one such failure
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Her Singing and Speaking Voices
Express Her Full Sincerity

The speaking voice of tho singer docs not
Indicate what her singing voice would he
II is very light and delicate, with "A silver!
note running through it. while the Jerftza
voice i'm the opera house is a rich, opulert
and magnificent organ. In its flow is a com
pletc revelation of emotion and along this
line the fun quality Of the singing voice
and the lighter texture Of the speaking join.
Both express her sincerity.
She talks as if she meant every word she
says and it is quite possible to believe that
She means every word she sings. Il this be
true it not only accounts for her gift of
magnetism. but it explains, too, why she
stands among tho great dramatic singers OF
her generation.
II have asked many great women singers
a certain question remarked her intor-
viewer ITS sort OF formula and may +
put the same question 20 YOU which Mines
Melba Galli-Curc and Mary Garden have
answered."
Nine Jeritza looked a little frightened, bu'
nodded her assent.
what have YOU Co say to the counties
young American girls who are studying
voice in the hope TO sing in opera?
"Oh." She said. relieved. II can only say
to them what 7 have often said TO similar
aspirants in Europe II is that there are
two requirements the voice, and, sec
ond tao purpose. singers arc not mace oNeI
night hUt by years Of persistent ondeavor
And they must be willing TO sacrifice, sacri-
flee They must leave Off everything that
does not tend TO the great object.
IT worked so hard-no parties no dances
nothing / am working still Tho young
singers must decide for themselves If It Is
worth while and, affirming that it Is. theS
must sacrifice Otherwise all is useless
with tho prottiest but the most sweepina
Of gestures the singer waved out OF her ken
tho singing girls who would eat their cake
and have g. too, and incidentally with the
same gesture she got rid Of her qucsuonsr.
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EARIE JERITZA pronounce it with
MI a "y" my lord), the Viennese
lyrico- dramatic singer who won
with her first appearance at the Metropoli-
tan Opera House a popular success, gives
bodily life to a type of Teutonic loveliness
that the Cornelius school Of painters, and
particularly Kaulbach and Overlook tried
to impress upon the world with Indifferent
success A kind of wilfulness felt if not dis
cerned in their attempt to graft a modern
type on Fra Angelica stencil, defeated
their object. People might admire their tall,
noble herones with wealth of blonde hair,
but they did not believe in them.
The singer herself offers in her person as
many contradictions. She is certainly tall
taller than Rosalind-and her wonderful
name of spun gold and her eyes blue as un-
clouded sky give freshness to the little, tired
words that have so long been used to describe
these things. Flawless, too. is her figure
with pretty and delicate feet and an arm
and hand oftener in sculpture than in
real life, but her face is that of very sweet
and modern woman with full, pouting lips
and features that while they charm easily
do not conform to any standard of beauty.
She is glowing blonde, the pink of whose
soft skin shines out beneath any number of
layers of makeup. In a word she is per-
sonaly as charming by the items in which
she falls below the mark of real beauty
In those where she transcends it.
And while she typifes Vienna in sense
the gay Vienna that laughs and dances on
the brink of a volcano-just as her face is
like that often seen on the Ring Strdsse-
there is more to her manner than that. Be
meath the gayety which perhaps she as
sumes a measure of self-protection one
sees, by looking a little deeper, shy proud
modest nature.
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in Vienna The feeling is not one caused
by nerves, as ] said before. because ! have
my nerves well under control. 1t is deeper
L am unhappy before and after / sing be-
cause ! never please myself. Every artist
may feel the same way. and | am saying
trite thing twice over. Perhaps. But II ex-
plains me a little as you asked, doesn't it?'
Mime Jertza cleared up perpleXing point
about her engagements during the war. II
had been said that she sang in the Imperial
Opera House throughout those awful years.
She sang. she said, whenever she was asked
10 do so TO help" sustain the morale, but
never for money giving her services freely
to the State. In the meantime she accepted
paying engagements in other countries OF
Europe and early in the war she had an
pcared at Odessa This was her single ap
pcarance in a city Of Russia. This year.
too. she heard Chalapin for the first time
and admired him immensely