Imperial Valley press., 1922-05-20
THE BOND ISSUES

of nearly eight millions of dollars This huge
and the authorizing of it would not have been
posed without serious consideration and adequate
The Press believes that of these issues worthy
of the support of the people We will state the reasons
briefly.
The largest single item is the of s5,ooo,ooo for
the absorption of the mutual water companies Practically
all of this money will be spent people and
paid to Imperial county property 1t is proposed
as practical matter 1t has been urged as necessary
financial expedient The therefore of bust
nature and there other If made of to the
fullest extent the plan will return the investment through
the economies resulting from the coordination of effort and
elimination of duplication in expenditure and organiza
ton 1t will re-estabish confidence in valley securities and
smooth out the rritaons and MISUNDERSTANDING which
have resulted from and confused business methods
there is nothing to be said about it. Drainage
portant as irrigation 1t is the hand maiden of irrigation
wherever there irrigation, there MUST be drainage.
We have the irrigation We must provide the other We
shall have to pay this $25OOOOO anyway If don't pay
to SAVE our lands shall pay through the LOSS of
our lands We shall pay every year in the loss of pro-
ducton There nothing be considered except to
The third item is 100000 for the erection of county
necessity It is not local. 1t is not Ell Centre PROPOSE
ton Neither is it political matter. The unhappest part
of the whole question has been the tendency to make the
court house political The house proposition
for the of and determination by the people
the matter but merely confusing the ISSUE The house
must be built because we cannot afford to do otherwise
have court house than to HAVE one The loss Of the
public records would create nsuferabe situation
years. if titles tangled business can't Every
resident of Imperial county has an interest in the court
house Every resident shares in the hazards of the exist
ing situation Every has civic responsibility
that the court house bonds authorized There should be
sectional division but united support of the court house
proposition on its merits.
The smallest ISSUE trivial by comparison, is the
county fair bond issue of $5O0oo 1t is proposed for the
purpose of financing county fair in the city of Imperial
1t is the equitable to raise the for this
The people of the county, after mature have
decided to hold annual county fair In this they have
acted wisely There consistent place for county
fair than Imperial Valley There is place to which
fair thoth Of
developing so credabe show of natures products The
proposed issue to accomplish this without making the
the fair have been arrived in good faith Voting of the
bonds is merely KEEPING FAITH.
Chester Rowell points out that San Francisco has
adopted tactics in dealing with Los Angeles. Bay
Cyans telling each other how much better Los Angeles
does things than they them there thus putting the Bay
City on it's mettle Shaming 'em into it is fine way of
doing it. 1t beats the oldstyle family quarrel r4t.a
There agricultural counties the United States
that boast Of big returns all kinds of products for
this lettuce only minor crops. In
view of such things is in wonder that Imperial Val
ley is being talked about everywhere? 1t is not
Some ribald friends who talk though the
rises but Imperial Valley will please take notice
that have this spring really been complaining of too
much cool weather.
Peggy Joyce has been banished from Paris with
order stay away twenty But at the end of that
time Peggy will show up in the guse of grandma with
bobbed hair and short skirts and vamp Parsans the same
as ever.
1t is announced that New York City is to expend
in enlargng and improving it's system of sub
ways This top tremendous debt is proof that
nothing daunts the NYorkers.
A. C. Townley is longer president of the Non
partisan League Just what kind of agn-thegOvern-
organization he will get together has not been
nounced.
Undoubtedly the dykes and protective system of the
valley will be test during the coming two months
While there be little fear there always possible
certain disastrous combinations.
Mrs Abigail Merryman celebrated her hundredth birth
day Pomona day ago. This is certainly the great
country for young women.
The Purebred Livestock association of Imperial county
evidently believes firmly in the Darwnian theory OF the
survival of the fttest.