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Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
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Pasadena Star News: What is newsf
This is a serious question in every re-
sponsible newspaper office in the land.
Testing PLATE asked the Christ: % What
il TRUTH" But those who are charged
with the task of making newspapers do
not ask jestingly: What is news7'
They ask it in all seriousness. They
rack their brains over it. They must
news and what is spurious or objection
able. And they must decide, too, rela'
five values in news items-is this more
important than that, and if so, whyf
The clean, conscientious newspaper
bars certain type of news without
even pondering it-that is,s salaciois,
filthy, moral sewage "news. - Then
there is wide diversity of news--s0
which, in great many i'm
stances, is not legitimate news, but
rumors or insinuations or half truths
which, if published, would injure some
one, or perhaps would injure several
persops-might even ruin somebody.
The conscientious publisher or editor
does not seek this kind of news, and
does not use it unless the good to be
dftohYlibheu ,py itS Puolicdtiph "ouiu
offset the hurt its publication might
give
Then there is the question of the
value Of news. This is busy age. News
papers are read by multitudes who have
no time TO waste-who must read hur-
riedly. They want the meat of the
news, so to speak. They do not want a
great mess Of inconsequentials. They
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
June 80, 1912

Three issues loom large before the
General Federation of Women's clubs
meeting in San Francisco. The great
est of these is suffrage which over
shadows even the election of president.
The third big interest has to do with
questions Of public health.
An unusual wedding and the most
largely attended of any marriage GER
emony ever occurring in FL Centre was
that on Tuesday night at the Palm
Roof Garden when Thomas Livingston
aud Miss Ruth Waller became husband
and wife. The wedding took place i'm
ncdiately after the regular meeting of
both of the young people are prominent
members.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Toll OF
Imperial Valley for This Day
in Past Years
juno 80, 1911

An ambitious plan to carve out OF
Riverside and the northeastern corner
of Imperial county new county to be
known as Pab Verde is surging in the
Palo Verde section. The project may
mature in time but doubtless it will be
many years hence.
NJ. ". Conkling, f. NJ. Burger and
w. 0. Hamilton will represent Ell Cen
tro on the committee of arrangements
for the campaign for the district clcc-
ton to be held July II. The executive
board met last night and appointed
representatives on the committee from
ali sections of the county.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
June 80, 1913

El Centro has the honor this year of
shipping the first season S crate of
grapes grown in the United States. The
crate was sold in Chicago for $15,
amounting to $l.2J per pound. They
were grown by Charles Baloma and
were of the Pcrsian variety. -
There is a revival of talk through
the valley of the probable issuance OF
good roads bonds for the construction
of two highways crossing the irrigated
portions of the valley east and west
and north and south.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30

SHE SAW THE SLIM, DRIPPING
FIGURE OF A GIRL RUNNING UP
THE BEACH.
might better have stayed in our own
class There s good pickings in the
cabarets! Lord knows what will hap
pen, now. Here's that Garrick and
Dick. / could tear the eyes out of the
whole smart bunch--especially Ruth
Walden. ! never trusted her-she 8
too smart!'
AS Garrick and Dick came up, Cur
It's had his cue from Rae. A clean
breast was the next thing to clean
get away. tsF,s l5a
"Talk about Kidd and Morgan and
Blackboard! 4" he exclaimed in anxious
disgust. "They were piker piratesl
They plundered their pals, j we read
Well, so did this beast-and he carried
off girl, too, ten-millon dollar
prize" F."
Concluded Tomorrow
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
CHAPTER XII

|
Garrick spread the net far and wide
to intercept the 'Bacchante. Within
Il fcwNminutes he had the Radio Cen
tral, the New York police wireless sta
tion, all the big private broadcasting
stations, even Defoc s apparatus in the
boathouse sending out periodical sig
nails of alarm. He had turned the radio
world veritably upside down in the
| search.
Forenoon heightened into afternoon.
Dick worked feverishly tuning up his
Defoe telautomatic hydroaerOplanc.
"This is one of the newest of sci
es-telautomaticS,' he remarked as
Garrick watched.
"Telautomatics?
eyes. You probably know it by IA,
other name. There is something weird,
fascinating about the very idea. l sit
here safely, upstairs, turning switch' s,
pressing buttons, depressing levers.
Ten miles away vehicle, an auto, a
ship, an aeroplane, submarine obey,S
me!
"It may carry enough of the latest
and most modern explosive that after
war science can invent, enough IT ex-
ploded to rival the worst of earth
quakes. Yet it obeys my will. 1t goes
where 1 direct it. IT explodes where
and when l want it. And it wipes off
the face of the earth anything that /
want annihilated. That IS telautoma
tics!''
Garrick regarded his friend with gen,
uine admiration. 81 won't go into my
radio combinator, my telecommutator,
my audion relay and all the rest, went
on Dick. "You' see, I have letters on
the keys of the radio combinator-for-
ward, back, start propeller motor, stop
propeller motor, rudder left, the angles,
light signals forward and aft, and all
the rest. IT, really delayed contact.
The machinery is always ready, but it
delays until the right, selective impulse
is given. And take advantage Of the
delay to have the message signal re-
peated back to me, SO check up on it. -
"Vira 8 back!'
It was Nita Walden in her car with
Mckay before the laboratory. "She
called me from Southold; / went over
and met her train on the main line. And
I've brought her here first. Guy, tele-
phone to Glenn; l know how anxious
the boy is.'
"But how?" What of Ruth2" guer-
led Dick.
"Ask Vira. She has come to tel
you all she knows. l made her. These
youngsters are getting toned down
| Maybe Ruth will listen to reason whei
she gets back. Oh, if ! only had her!'
| "Ill say that, tool cried Dick
".Tell us, Vira.
| "Well, you see, we found duel
boat in the hold, a boat for one. On'
of us could get off. Ruth made tn,
| -insisted-settled it. 1t had t.
| be done in second. She made me g
even when j fought her to stay
Dick grasped Nita Walden IS hand il
emotion. 1t was a splendid piece O.
heroism for Ruth.
| Don't you see?' explained Vira
| talking fast as she poured out what SIT,
knew, "The jig was up for the gang
All they wanted was to make clcaI
| getaway, take all the jewclry and tn,
money. They waited until the last min
ute to get fifty thousand for the Inne
Circle and the other stuff But it failed
| Then the only thing that remained wa
to get away-with Ruth--the ten-mil
lion dollar heiress, as they speak O
her
"You know, the 'Bacchante' ha,
been taking the stuff off rum-runners
1t was sheer bluff, posing as rcvenu
enforccrs. 1t was stored on the 'Se
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
THE COUNTRY WANTS ACTION

The members of congress continue to talk and talk on
tariff question Time was when one poes @ +hn that
the Congressional Record was actually Ieao py ti
people who were not members Graer oss @ were the days
of Blaine Horizontal Bilf MORRISON Carlisle, WI william
L. Wilson McKny Reed Dngey a ]ne ' hv their debates
and votes on the tariff measures before congress-
eg between the parties Ad valorem and specific
duties familiar to the average cltizer III ino
as are waif dferea now because we have tariff commits
sion that supposed to gather facts IN perIeciy
M th enIiehtenment and guidance This commission cuts
very little figure in the matter however as mepes m
not have understood that they take their information IN
canned or pellet they almost as arbitrary ana
as slow if they were not proVloea WIN any "
chnerv to help them think them to conclusions
The Press is of the opinion that the present delay in
passing the proposed new measure is mexcusaoie' ~
needed to steady trade and commerce Always when a
This is unavoidable and inevitable for the rate OF duty
enters of goods and must be reckoned WITH 30
until rates are fixed dealers cannot carry on with conf-
dence There enough adverse conditions
all business days Of reconstruction without inject
ing another through daory tariff action For
this reason congress should speed up The president
applying pressure but it avas little because nee IS so
it IS not likely that all schedules be made perfect
in the original bill Theoretically the principle of action
is the greatest good the greatest number Practically the
thing for most Of the members TO fight TOR free trade
in everything else but the interests ana co1nmode5 ol nus
district While this struggle is going business revival
is delayed Passage Of the bill nov would set yeler
be remeded later The public wants action There has
been enough talk Most people can recall how the passage
able panic and they want that kind of remedy applied now
meaning the present
The unprecedented cantaloupe crop going to
ke shows that when you put out crop in this
valley there is no way OF stopping it,
One motto should be 10 let no guilty boil weevi get
into this valley. utinspecors guard
Six hundred fifty cars of cantaoupes sent out of the
valley in day. Can you feature it?
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
Mrs. Joe Preeney Says

When two men find that they can
get along well together except when
they discuss one certain subject they
manage to bring up that subject almost
every time they meet.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
Today's Fairy Tale

Once upon time there was man
who didn't wriggle with JOY when
some grass widow told him he had a
fine forehead.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30

Thank goodness this is ardemocracy.
One would feel awkward swatting Il
prince on the hat when a home hitter
clears the bases.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30

Some people are so busy mourning
for departed business that they can
work up an interest in new business
that it waiting to be eourted.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
Old Timer Cogitates

I kin remember when o winter
nights mother had us kids twist lamp
lighters out NV old newspapers.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
About Some Woman or Other

Mrs. Ethel Stonerr has been elected
mayor of Cokeville, Wyo., and two
other women have been elected to the
council, defeating men in two other
parties. The women promised law en-
forcement with pledges not to enact
blue laws.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
The Curiosity Shop

One quarter of the entire population
of the world dies before reaching the
age of seventeen.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30

Scatter.wits don't need course IN
memory training to keep track of the
dates when the team will play at
home.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
'I1n-PRESS-ions
Foolish Dictionary

Sanitation-The art of making two
microbes flee where only one fled be-
fore.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
Did You Know

That the Belgians are looked upon
as the greatest potato eaters In the
world, and the Irish come secondi
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30

do not want columns of scandal or
other columns about the engagement OF
an American beiress to Swiss riding.
master and what her family thinks OF
it; or yet other columns about o giahd'
ular operation on a captain of industry
II must be admitted--and the makers
of newspapers take cognizanee of the
fact-that'there is type of news known
in newspaper offices as human ihter'
est which is used, to some extent, ~
the best of newspapers. How much or
this to use is a perennial question III
every newspaper office. But the bes,
type Of papers use it sparingy and take
pains TO use only that which is whole
some and bjectionable.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30

The remarkable thing about the pow
or of the press is not the way it is
generated but the way it has degen-
Grated.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30
Today's Best Kid Story

$50 you attend Sunday school regu-
Iarly!" the minister said to little
Eve.
"Oh, yes, sir
,"And you know your Bible e!
"Oh, yes, sir.
'FCould you, perhaps, tell me some
thing that is III it9''
II could tell you everything that s
in it. =,
Indeed And the minister smiled
DO tell me, then" -,
"Sister 5 beau's photo is in 1t, salo
little Eve, promptly, "and ma 8 re
cipe for vanishin cream is IN 1T, ana
lock of my hair cut off when l was
baby is in it, and the ticket for pa
watch is in it. -
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30

One motto should be 10 let no guilty boil weeN
nto this valley. Put inspectors guard.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30

Six hundred fifty cars of cantaloupes sent out
valley in day. Can you feature it!
Imperial Valley press., 1922-06-30

The Unprecedented cantaloupe crop now going
et shows once more that when you put out GRO
alley there is no way of stopping it,
Evening star., 1922-04-23
Helirlm Gas to Increase Safety
OF Big Airship Navy Is Building g

Admiral Moffett on this subject they
drew from him the statement that
he would not send up such q big air
ship without its being filled with
helium. II think IL we sent a large
one up inflated with hydrogen gas
and. we had an accident It would be
bad for U.S." This statement was made
with direct reference to the Roma
calamity, the Army ship, which. was
not inflated with nelium. The Roma
held about 100000 cubic feet and
there was enough helium stored in
TASKS at Fort Worth to initiate her,
Admiral MofHet said. The reason
helium was not used was because
there was a leakage of about 80
per cent a month. They were not sat
isf1ed with the Roma gas bag and did
not want to.-waste the heiiun1. -.
While, the ZR-1 Is being completed
work has been stopped on the giant
boat for lack Of funds. This Is a
giant airplane, Of heavier than air
Construction, designed to carry more
than 100 persons, where the NCs car
ried fifty. The giant boat was started
about two years ago. The power
plant is completed and cost with the
original experimental engineering In
vestigations and data about $1b0,00O.
Only about $50, 900 worth Of work has
been done on the hull The original
estimated cost of the giant boat COM
plete was $3.50, 900. The work on her
was stopped last fall, and 1t is not
contemplated to resume 1t during the
next fiscal year.
Evening star., 1922-04-23
Diplomats Find Refuge Under the Protecting Wing
OF the Executive, Safe From Congress and Courts

Though quite willing to tell all that he
knows of the doings Of Semenof in Si-
IBERIA, which, by the way, is said to be
very little. Ambassador Bakhmeteff be-
lieves that he can respond to such call
only through the State Department II
he is to be bound by the rules OF di-
plomacy.
Want Contract With Congress.
There are other members of the
diplomatic body here. however, who
might be willing to consider the re-
linquishment Of some Of the immuni-
ties thrown around them by law in
return. fo- the privilege Of addressing
themselves to the great committees
of Congress on matters Of Importance
and interest to their own govern
ments. These are mon of the more
modern school Of diplomacy, believ-
ing in direct methods and open ap-
proach to the officials who are franz
ing legislation that affects the in
terests. Of their countries. Some OF
them are eager to get before the why's
and means committee and the Senate
finance committee on the tariff bill
and endeavor to prevent what they
regard as serious injury to trade in
terests through lack of understand
ing on the part Of the committee
men.
There was the case Of the British
ambassador, Sir Auckland Geddes,
who on January 4. 1921, smarting un-
der what he regarded as a miSrepre-
Evening star., 1922-04-23
Navy to Have a Great Plant
For Research on the Potomac

The long-felt need of the Navy De-
partment for a place where new
inventions that Cooked good" might
be tried out Is being met with an
experimental research laboratory,
down the Potomac river. seven miles
from the Washington navy yard. on
the grounds Of the Bellevue Magazine.
which is expected to be in operation
this summer.
This new plant. which is primarily
for research purposes and particu-
larry as development laboratory.
will probably devote a great deal OF
attention to radio work.
The plant Is being established at
cost Of $1.5o0,000. The buildings are
completed, and it Is expected that
they Will be equipped by July !. They
consist OF machine shop, 800 by 80
feet: q foundry. aoout 100 by SO feet;
n pattern shop. OF the Same size: a
pover house and the laboratory build
inK, 900 by. 80 feet, and three stories
Tho Bellevue Magazine occupies
only one-half of the government prop
crty and so the research laboratory
was located there. with TIL, trolley
Evening star., 1922-04-23

Within year the first big Navy
airship filled with helium. the nom
infiammable gas Of which the United
States government owns practically a
world monopoly, built at cost Of
100000 in addition to the cost Of
the tremendous quantity of helium
required to innate 1t, will be making
fights across the continent, according
to Rear Admiral William A. Monett.
chief Of the bureau Of aeronautics Of
The ZR-1 is now under construc-
tion at Lakehurst, and an Item OF
S400 900 is carried in the current ap-
propriation bill for completion of this
craft during the one next hScai Ssa ysar Ia
baSexpended by July l, when the new
annropriation will be available.
Heiium was used to initiate the CT.
which made many spectacular flights
over the capital. but that was COM
parativeiy small craft. and the ZR-1
81. I: st least zen ''n'' the size Of the
Congress has been assured that the
new ZR-1. when completed. will be
Allied with helium and nothing else.
It win take 2,115.000, cubic feet to I'LL
the bag Ths ne@ aeu cubic HsSx ese en
1880 basis. The lighter-than-air
situation IL this: The development or
nyocurement Of rigid airships was al
lated to the Navy by an agreement
hatween the Secretary OF War and
the Secretary Of the Navy as recon-
manded by the joint board. The Navy
has been trying to carry that out. It
irrluded the procurement of the ZR-2
and the development Of the ZR-1.
which was built in this country. It
was agreed between the Secretary Of
war and the Secretary OF the Navy
that the helium should be developed
Jointly.
nriations committee were ouestioning
Evening star., 1922-04-23

CONTINUED fror: First Pace.) : '-
Latest reports from New Zealand
show a slight Improvement in wool.
and II this continues on the upgrade
It will have a stabilizing effect.
Iation in New Zealand. and its very
fertile soil has not vet been brought
to its fullest productivity, good dairy
land has been bringing S400 and $500
per acre. To make profits on this has
sis requires steadily high market. sc
vocationaI Training n Success 1ss-
The expenditure on vocational trains
ing has been productive Of great good.
Men have been taught. trades and as-
sisted In the purchase Of tools and
equipment, and disabled soldiers have
become skilled in some craft, provide
ing them with an interesting and
often remuneratiye occupation. .-r.,f
One thing. however, is quite evident.
and that is the 'futility OF giving the
soldiers money in small sums or un-.
employment doles. 1t merely evapo-
rates, and often the last state of that
man is worse than the first. The idea
is to help them to help themselves. BY
financing the initial step of re-estab-
Hshment in civil life. giving them a
chance to recover what they have lost
by the sacrifice made on active serv-
ice. Responsibility for ultimate re-
payment of the money makes for dn- 4
dustry and self-reliance. essential fac-l
tors In the reorganization Of thisl
after-war chaos, and ii is along thin
road alone that success lies. sa
Evening star., 1922-04-23

ing power to compel testimony and
cause the imprisonment Of recalcitrant
witnesses, as has been shown in many
instances.
1t has happened that resident diplo-
matte agents have been quite willing
personally to respond to inquiries and
supply their testimony to American
courts, but 1t is also the fact that by
the terms Of international law they are
strictly forbidden to do SO except by
special direction of their own govern
ments, and this is rarely given. even
though miscarriage of justice occurs and
criminals escape just punishment.
In the present instance it is well un-
6erstood that Mr.. Bakhmeteff has no
disposition to protect the Cossack gen.
eral from prosecution. The Russian
embassy had little to do with Semenon
when he passed through Washington re-
Gently on his way to New York, where
he had expected to take ship for Paris
to meet the colony Of adherents Of the
Kerensky regime and plan for the fu-
ture The embassy did give publicity to
a statement made by Semenof regard
ing his course in Siberia. But that was
done with the deliberate purpose Of put
ting on the record a positive disclaimer
by SemenoR that he had entered into
any compact with the Japanese to grant
valuable concessions to them in return
for their assistance in overturning the
soviet forces in eastern Siberia. Beyond
that publication the embassy gave no
sign Of the existence Of Semenoff, nor
did 1t attempt to prevent his arrest in
the civil process in New York. involving
his confinement in Ludlow street Jail.
Evening star., 1922-04-23
HOW EIROPE'S PROBLEMS
AFFECT AMERICANPEOPL
Subject to, Be Discussed by Eminent
Speakers Before American Academy
of Political and Social Science.

Oneida Community, Oneida, n. y;
Samuel NJ. vauclain. president Of the
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Phila:
delphia: w. s. Culbertson. United
States tarif commission, and DR.:
George B. Roorbach. Department OF
Commerce.
American and European Debts.
America and the Debts of Europe"
will be taken mp at the night session
at witherspoon Hall. Walnut and
Juniper streets. in talks by Senator
Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma. Senator
Wesley L. Jones Of Washington. Ed
mund r. Platt. vice governor Of the
Federal Reserve Board, and John F.
Sinclair of Minneapolis. :..4.
The fourth. or Saturday morning.
session will again be held in the BALL
room of the Bellevue Stratford. and
will be presided over by Gov. Albert
c. Rttchic of Maryland. Addresses
on America and the Poiit,eal situa-
resentative W. Bourke Cochran of
New York, Elmer Davis of the New
York Times and Edward A. Filene
Of Boston.
Need Of Ce-Operation.
The question lis Americas Coop
Grafton Indispensable to European
RehabiIitation?' will be. taken up
Saturday afternoon in the hotel by
the following speakers: Representa-
tive John Jacob Rogers Of Massachu-
setts. Huston Thompson. chairman Of
the Federal Trade Commission; Fred
T. Kent. vice president, Bankers Trust
Company: James Speyer Of New York
and Silas H. Strawn Of Chicago.
The closing session Of the meeting
will be held in Witherspoon Hall Sat
urday night and will be presided over
by Gov. William C. Sproul.e. The topic
to be spoken upon will be America S
Relation to the European Situation"
Those to speak will be: Representa-
tive Nicholas Longworth of Ohio.
Baron Serge Korfr. former vice gov
ernor of Finland: Frank I. Cobb. edi-
tor of the New York World; Walter
Lippn1ann of the same newspaper and
Bruce Bliven. editor of the New York
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