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Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05

Down went Billie But he kept hold
of the paper and Il big sheet of 1t tore
off the circus board with II ripping
sound.
"Oh! OH" cried Uncle Wiggiy.
"I, IN all right" blcated Billie.
" IN not going TO Jet go ! IN going to
take this nice pasted paper home 10
Mamie, Mother and Daddy Billie did
not speak very plainly for he still had
hold of the paper in his teeth.
Then, all of sudden, the wind blew
IT wrapped that poster paper around
Billie like blanket. Then the wind
blew harder and it rolled Billie over
and over, inside The paper, right to
the edge Of a hill. Then the wind blew
Billie, paper and all down, down,
down the hill, just as Susie s cabbage
rolled!
"Oh, myl" cried Uncle Wiggily
As Billie went bounding down the hill,
at the foot of the hill the Woozie Wolf
waited to crap the little goat boy.
When he stopped rolling, Billie crawl
ed out of the paper and stood DIP
"Oh, no! ] have you!" howlcd the
Wolf. But on the paper was Il circus
picture of a Lion, and Billie held the
picture lion up in front of the Wolf
and the goat boy cried: Boo" And
this so frightened the Wolf for he
thought it was Il zeal lion) that the
Wolf ran away
"Weli! Well You eeitainly had
great tunblel laughed Uncle Wiggily.
Then he helped Billie, onrry the pasted
paper home, and The goats had 1t TO.
dinner.
And IT the COW bell doesn ring ur.
side down 50 tho little pig thinks il !,
time to 60 to school, In tell YOU neAf
about Uncle .Wiggily and Mamie s pie,
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05
TEN YEARS AGO
October 5. 1912

The president and members of the
Executive Board of the Ten Thousand
Club entertain the members and friends
at the home of Mrs r. b. Vail. Vaca-
tion experiences were told by several
members and light refreshments were
served.
Masons meet to plan for the laying
of the corner stone of the new hall to
be built at the corner of Sixth and
State.
Automobile Club to give barbecue
Sunday at c. NJ ranch at which time
there will be a discussion Of good roads
for the valley. John Mitchell, of Los
Angeles, president of the club, will at
tend the meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05
Tom Sims Says

A relief party for the relief party
for the relief party for Stefansson may
start soon.
An Anti Bonus league has been start
ed. 1t is like organizing an Amti-Sum-
mer league in December.
Wonder how congress can tell when
il is not in session!
The older man gets the more
young people there are.
The leaves are falling from the
trees and going are the bevedezc.
All wild birds don't fly south for
the winter Human ones go in autos
and Pullmans.
In Chicago, Albert Bartel found 81
diamond rings III his cellar; but that
is nothing, one man found some coal.
May we call the Dardenclles despe-
rate straits? Thanks.
JOllu heVuef, New Ork pOllccnlah,
shot robber. Yes, John is new
cop.
The wife of IL hunter who climbed
stone wall with shotgun is widow
now.
This may be an awful country, but
foreigners are paying $1,000 each to
get smuggled in.
The young lady who spent all sum
mer tanning her hide spends all fall
hiding her tan.
William Hammond caught an ant
eater in New Jersey. An anteater is
not man on Il picnic.
Your luck may be bad, but Walter
Socolow has two states arguing which
shall try to hang hm.
Dorothy Lcbas, waitress, vawned and
dislocated her jaw. Never tell wait
ress bum jokes.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05
WHY is A SPEEDWAY?

The speedway al Kansas City described on the
day of its dedication baptized in blood was true
description One driver when his steering broke shot
the embankmen dropped 80 feet pinned under his
car and burned death Four other drivers seriously
injured and several mechanics.
typical speed in which the casualties were
of more interest and Importance than the of the win
ners or the speed What matters that automo
bes go faster 100 miles hour when their
killed and MANNED?
Such spectacles better than the Old Roman gladl
atoria contests which historians consider barbarous.
They are no than the Spanish bull fights which
American moralists find revolving.
There was for motor speedways IN the
early days of the motor when this means OF
TRANSFORMATION slow and imperfect Races helped to
develop it. Such has long since ceased to exist
ANY automobile nowadays fast as there is any
excuse for going Of the the market have too
much speed.
The only contests worth anything now would be for
slowness control endurance and safety That is unless
competitive suicide legitimate sport and proper form
of public entertainment
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05

with flour and water, the same as
bread. -
'"oh, had forgotten that you goats
eat paper with paste on SAID Uncle
Wiggily. "Yes, Billie, / II hop along
with you and see what happens
Animal Land, where Uncle Wiggily
and his friends lived, was not far from
the Real Land. whore real BOYS and
girls 90 to real ciTcuses sud, pasted OF
fences and barns here and there wert
old show bills and posters, with pie
lures of lions, tigers, elephants and ail
such circus animals.
The circus had come and gone, so il
would do no harm to tear off the old
posters. And, as Billie said, on the
backs were flakes of dried paste Being
made of flour and water, paste was
good for goats to eat. So the next time
you see a goat eating paper you viii
know why. And sometimes goats eat
brown paper, because it is made of
coarse wood and bits Of straw, and
that, too, is good for goats.
"Ah! Here's II fine billboard 'for me
to pub posters from. said Billie, ar
he and Uncle Wiggily reached q place
where circus man had pasted up his
show bills.
Billie reached up, caught hold OF !;
loose, flapping bit Of Il bill and pulled
Off tore the paper.
"Oh, it has lot Of candy paste onl
bleated Billie, and he began to chew
it. . Don't you want some, Uncle Wig
gily9' he asked
fHTbuuk wan ,t.n - .t -.
things, " answered tie bunny. "If il
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05
NAMES COMMITTEE
ON COLONIZATION

Fay Edgar, permanent chairman of
the County Improvement Meeting, held
at the courthouse Monday night, has
appointed the following committee on
c0lonization:
o. j. Renfrew, chairman; A. II. kcl-
Ter, III Centric, Dan Leonard, Calcxico;
G. W. Breckman, lalcxico; Earl Pound,
Brawley; Harry Dyke, Imperial; Clar-
enee L. Stewart, IIoltvilIc; d. F. liar
bison, Secley.
This committee win encourage the
eoloI izing of all parts { the valley ana
seek to obtain new settlers, paying par
ticular attention to those who desire
small tracts, principally in 40 acre
amounts. This size raneh mas proved
immensely popular in the valley ana
affords plenty Of area for diversity
OF crops sufficient to insure com
Portable return on the IN, estment.
The following committee has been
appointed to prot.ote an increase IN
alfalfa acreage, il being the opinion
that this is one OF the most important
needs Of the valley at present.
Ray Edgar chairman }. H. Hcrmon,
Leroy Holt, i. u. Fnllcr, El Ceatro.
~. E. Walters, j. u. Watson, Brawley
f. i. Harden, j. g. Hall, flohville;
James Holt, +. 4. ShacElett, Imperial;
Chester Moore, Sidney Mcilarg, Cal
eXico; j. u. iEchn, Nil;hd This com
mittee will get IN touch with ranchcrs
and urge them to increase their alfalfa
acreage Or where noae exists, encourage
them to plant it.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05
The Water and POWer Act--
An Analysis
Blu CHARLES L. CHILDERS

not bring upon us a burden of taxa
tion. 1t will stop the alienation
from the people of their priceless
heritage in the water power re-
sources, and that is the chief rea-
son why | shall vote for it,
The water and power act is not a
thing to be afraid Of. 1t is no more
socialistie I'm principle that the post
office department or the public schools
or the city water works which we have
been operating for years. 1t will mo-
increase taxes. OF course the stafc
will not pay taxes on this property aud
il will lose the taxes that certain public
pay, but ism t the City Of Loo
Angeles better off, foregoing the taxes
that the Southern California Edison
Company Paid on its distributing lines,
by having the taxes fro mthe 5000 per
cent increase in its industries over q
period of 10 years? The people can
do no better than TO support this mca-
Surp
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05
Bedtime Stories
UNCLE WIGGILY AND BILLIE S
TUMBLE
Copyright, 1922, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate
BY HOWARD r. GARIS

One day WHOM Uncle Wiggily was
hopping around not far from his hollow
stump bungalow, the bunny rabbit gen
tleman met Billie Wagtail, the goat
boy.
Hello, Uncle Wiggily!' bleated Bill
lie politely. q DO you want to eoiS with
me?'
Where are you goings asked the
rabbit gentleman, cautious like and
careful.
~ am going to look for Il circus
bill board where ! can pull off some OF
the old posters," answered the boz
goat.
Are you going to give another cir
Gus show, and do YOU want the posters
10 stick up on trees and fences, to tell
your animal friends 10 come and sec
you stand on your head?' asked Uncle
Wiggily with IA twinkle of his pinG nose
"Oh, no. replied Billie with u shake
of his horns 90 i am going to fear of
the old circus posters because they nave
dried paste on the backs, and dried
paste is very good to eat, being made
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05

was carrot, now, or a bit of cabbage
but II get those when 90 back to
my hollow stump bungalow and Nurse
Jane gives me my dinner Go ahead,
Billie, pull some more; | like to watch
you
Billie pulled off more pastc-covered
paper and chewcd that. Then the goat
boy said:
"Oh, | forgot! | must bring some to
my sister Mamie, and some to my
father and mother They like paste
MS much as | do.
Good boy, Billic!' cried Unelc Wig
gily. ~ knew you weren t going to be
SELFISH
81 pull off II big piece of tie past
ed paper. That will be enough for
Mamie and Mother and Daddy Dlcat-
ed Billie.
over his head Tapped loose end oy
u circus bill. Billie tried to reach 1t,
but, even by standing on his hind legs,
the end of the flapping paper vas be
yond him.
"I can get hold of it if stand up on
that big rock, said the boy goat,
pOliitiHp ms Hori.S ~ u ihS Stphc "'f''
the billboard.
"Bc careful you don t fall! cried
Uncle Wiggily, as Billie mounted the
rock But the bunny spoke too late!
Billie could not quite reach the flap
ping paper, even when he was on the
rock But he thought if he gave a lit
tie jump he might get hold of the end
of the poster in his teeth:
"Then | can pull it off = thought the
goat boy.
lie made the jImp. He caugl,! hold
of the end of the paper in his mouth
aud then off the rock he tumbled!
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05
SELFISHNESS AND INDUSTRY

There is lot of bowling about the tariff bill from
purely selfish motives.
AS matter of fact political local sefshness is too
often the foe of industry.
Take the sugar industry of Caifornia-that sup
plies good percentage of the American and stimu-
ates of successful farms to greater production
and employs thousands of people.
There are thousands of brokers and eastern sugar
refinery stockholders who take the view that Cuban
raw sugar should be admitted duty free and they
how many millions of dollars the consumer is taxed to
enable the beet sugar industry to live
They forget that during the fouryear world war it
the western beet sugar industry that helped the day
sugar supplies
We had the cheapest sugar in the world all during that
war when other countries without sugar paid
high as a dollar pound
What public-spirited broad-rnnded American is not
proud of the onehundred beet reneres IN the
United States would be willing to see them wiped out
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
OctOher 3. 1907

Light showers fall during last 24
hours and weather continues cooler.
Imperial County Board of Supervis-
ors urged to pass an ordinance of the
most drastic type against the men who
are permitting cuckle burrs and John
son grass TO grow on their farms.
Harold Bowman, son of County
Treasurer Bowman, and student in the
Imperial high school, dies as "A result of
accidental shooting while out hunting
with his father.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell of
Imperial Valley for This Day
in Past Years
TWENTY-o ONE YEARS AGO
October 5, 1901 4.

DR.. W. A. Hefferman begins the
building of a business house in CaleX-
leo. 1t will be built of adobe.
By raising cattle on the farm the
farmer has good home market for all
the feed he can produce, saves labor
and expense of transportation and
avoids much waste. Imperial county is
fast becoming a stock raising section.
F. L. Hall, d. Il. Russell, Pete Gaines,
and K. H. McPherrin of the c. ID. En-
gineering Company are in town on their
way to Cameron Lake Camp.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05
Continued from yesterday


Clifford Pinchot has said:
California S water and power act
is n model of bill drafting. | have
had good deal to do with drafting
bills for the last % years, ana
think have knowledge enough to
saw that California IS water ana
power act is beauty; it is admir-
ably done, and the men who drafted
it ought to be proud of it-that Is
certain. The principles that 1T re,
presents are absolutely sound and
fair. If you pass this law it will
be "a declaration of industrial in
dependence. 1t will be, in my Judg-
ment, "a triumphant success in prac-
ticc, and it will be "A shining ex-
ample TO be followed by all the
rest of the states.
William Mulholland says:
am unreservedly' for Califor'
MIA s water and power act. 1t rs
practicable and workable. II VIII
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05
SKIRTS AND AUTOMOBILES

Here is another slant the skirt question Says an
observing automobile dealer, anent Paul Porets dctum
that skirts are destined again to trail the ground:
'Skirts for autumn and winter considerably
below the kneeexposng length that enlivened the summer
months; but American will never tolerate them SO
as to interfere with the footWork necessary to their
fayorite pursuit of operating their own cars.
Women this country driving cars in everncreas-
ing numbers Every knows how overcoat or lap
robe reaching to his feet interferes with his footwork
Every woman driver will learn the thing And
as between skirts and driving the American is
likely choose the driving So score another triumph for
the automobiles.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05

1t is a pity that congress adjourned just as the
colleges opened Soph rulings to Freshman canes
coats and so would afford unrivaed opportunity for
flights Of eloquence ''nydious class legislation
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05

The Imperial Valley delivered city subscribers
Is week 55 per month"; 5000 per year by
carrier BY mail to address in Imperial and adjoining
counties at $500 per year; six month $3.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-05

The naturalization of spirits always delicate
business Probably that why Congress had such diff
Guilty in making the ghost walk for the service men.
Coal prices are said to be tumbing This teaches us
that watchful kicking pays.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
Authors Works
And Their Ways

First editions Of Booth Tarking-
toms works are rising steadily in
price and appearing in the rare
book sales of the season. In the
sale held at the American Art Gal
ieries on January 26 and 27-one Of
the most important of the winter
some Of Mr.. Tarkington's first edi-
tions were offered with the library
of David G. Joyce.
d. Appleton & Co. announce for
publication next week a book enti.
tied "The Federal Service" by
Lewis Mayors. This volume deals
with a fundamental factor in the
efficiency of the Federal Admins
tration; that is, the system of Sc.
curing, compensating. directing
and controlling of the Government
personnel.
Margaret Belle Houston, the au-
thor OF "rhe Witch Man." a tale OF
the Virginia mountains, which
Small, Maynard & Co. are publish.
ing in February, is granddaughter
of Ger Sam Houston, commander
os sha Texas aImies, hero OF San
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

the first American visit we're pro-
ductive OF the usual amount OF irri-
tation. To the case of Dickens and
the American dollar there is an
other and more enduring aspect.
About ten years ago there. was
highly hysterical and typically
American movement in This coun-
try toward making what was
called PREPARATION" for tie made
quacy of the copyright laws in
Dickens's lifetime. A great Dick
ems memorial fund was planned
for the purpose of raising money
to present to Dickens's heirs. II the
generously disposed persons who
urged the fund and contributed to
it had looked little more deeply
into the matter they would have
perceived that the real injustice
had been wrought to the American
writer's Of the day, who had been
forced to compete on very unequal
terms with Dickens's great genius
and popularity.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

~ASNAN-y AVA IAOiC 10 Uut
one type of transeendent detective,
and Holmes himself shas a proto-
type in Dupin and Vidocq. But j
honestly tried to make the name of
my detective in no way reminiscent
Of Conan Doyle's hero-and j had
an awful shock when. after the first
Fleming Stone story was in print,
friend said: Your detectives
name is too close an imitation of
Sherlock Holmes!'"
Frances new literary prize OF
10000 francs, which Sir Basil Zaha-
rolf, who endowed the Marshal Foch
French professorship at Oxford, has
just founded, is to be given each
April for the best novel published
in France during the year. The
jury which is to make the award
includes some Of the most eminent
French writer's Of to-day, headed by
M. Paul Bourget. There is now
quite long list OF prizes of this
kind in France, including those
given by the Academic Francaise,
and the famous Goncourt Prize, the
winning Of which has started so
many young and previously obscure
writer's on brilliantly successful ca
reers.
The reports OF best selling"
books in New York and the New
England States from the February
issue Of the BookmGp printed in
last weeks literary section should
have read:
Novels
IF Winter Comes" Hutchinson;
"Her Fathers Daughter" Stratton.
Porter; Main Street." Lewis;
Helen of the Old House." Wright;
"The Brimming Cup" Canfeld;
"The Pride Of Palomar," Kyne.
INOu HCtlOU-
Queen Victoria" Strachey; Mir
rors of Washington" Anonymous;
Outline of History" Wells; Mir
rors of Downing Street." Anony-
nous; "Americanization OF Edward
Box" Box: "Glass of Fashion"
Anonymous.
Word comes from China that
Mrs. Ayscough, the collaboration
with Miss Lowell in the recently
published book of Chinese transIa-
tions, Fir Flower Tablets" has
been lecturing at the Yen Ching
and Government universities in
Pekin, and that Prof. Chase, who is
now teaching English in both these
universities. is to lecture soon on
Miss Lowell's own work.
Norman Hall and Charles Ber-
nard Nordhoff, the two aviators
who eollaborated in writing "The
Lafayette Flying Corps" (Houghton
Miffiin Company, have been living
much Of their life since the war in
Tahiti. They enjoy the pleasant
South Sea life so much they may
not return to the States except for
short visits. At present Mr.. NOrd-
hOff is visiting his family in Cali
fornia. Probably he will go to Bos-
ton before returning to his South
Pacific island. Mr.. Hall in the
meantime is busy on his novel of
Tahiti.
Thomas Gays "The Beggar's
Opera" written in 1928 and revived
with much success in London in
1920. is now being played in Paris
at the Theatre Caumartin. Incl
/ dentally to delivers in musical his
tory the opera is additionally inter
esting because it fixes the date of
the first use in public of the piano.
At a performance in 1867 it was
announced that a Miss Buckler
would sing a song from Judith"
accompanied on a new instrument
called the pianoforte, a novelty that
was rapardod &c a et,o,- l..
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

est by her Little Lord Fauntleroy,"
which, for those Of us who remem-
ber back for thirty-odd years, was
an early chapter in the code OF life.
Little Lord Fauntleroy" first ap-
peared serially in the pages of st.
Nicholas some time in the early
SOS. 1t was very successfully pre-
sented on the stage, with Tommy
Russell and Elsie Leslie appearing
at alternate performances in the
title role. Along about the middle
'90s Mrs. Burnett wrote for the
Ladies' Home journal a series Of
three articles entitled How
Fauntleroy Grew and Very Real
Little Boy Became an Ideal One"
At that time the 'very real little
boy" happened to be an undergrad
uate at Cambridge, leading Har-
ward cheering sections at football
games and resigning himself good
naturedly to the nickname Of Dear
est" which Of course had from the
day of his matriculation been ap-
piled to him by his classmates.
TT was when Dearest" was a
very small boy that his mother
decided that she would write
a story about him. She would put
him i'll world quite new to him
and see what he would do. Then
the problem arose, How to bring
little American boy into close rela-
tionship with an English nobleman
-irascible, conservative, disagree
able? HE must live with him, talk
to him, show him his small, uncon-
scious republican mind. He will
be more effective il l make him a
child who has lived in the simplest
possible way. Eureka! Son of a
younger son, separated from i'll
tempered father because he has
married a poor young American
beauty. Young father dead. Elder
brothers dead. Boy comes into
title! How it would amuse him
and bewilder him! Then came the
question Of the title. Little Lord
Something or Other! A day later
it was Little Lord Fauntleroy.'"
NTHAT book at the present
wv moment is having the
most conspicuous influ-
ence upon American life? Not Mr.
Wells's IAN Outline of History" or
THE Mirrors OF Washington, or
Mrs. Asquith's Autobiography" or
"The Americanization of Edward
Box" or MIR. Lewis's Main Street."
OF Mr.. Tarkington's alice Adams"
but book written in the year 1S45
or thereabouts, THE Three Mus
keteers" of Alexandra Dumas. Go
forth and beheld the countless
specimens Of young womanhood
known as "flappers" trudging
along, feet incased in arctics with
unlaced tops that open and flutter
in the breeze like the head wings
OF Viking. 1t is a style that may
be traced to the days when the
young D'Artagnan rode up from
Gascony on his yellow horse and
Cardinals Guards and Kings Mus
keteers brawled in the streets OF
old Paris. Elsewhere in this issue
will be found a notice of a new and
handsome edition of "The Three
Musketeers" from the press OF d.
Appleton & Co. and embelli3hed
by ESQ of the drawings on which
Maurice Leloir worked fer two
years.
A1tbo1.C' Worl/C