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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-12-23
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION.


Annual statement of the Merchants
Fire Assurance Corporation of New
York. in the State, of New York, on the
Director of Trade and Commerce of the
State Of Illinois. pursuant to law.
CAPITAL.
Amount of capital paid UPS 100000
INCOME.
Premiums received $3.50. SO, 1872. 241. Oh
Interest and dividends 227,735.51
From all other sources. 43,SO2.91
Total income ...... So, sos, 77s.4s
DISBURSEMENTS.
Losses paid during the year. 81, S43, 9.S9
Agents compensation and al
All other disbursements. s56.601.56
Total disbursements .-.s3. 624, 500 IL
LEDGER ASSETS.
Mortgage loans on real estates 2s0, 900 90
stocks .....-... 1881. O69. 90
Cash in office and bank. -. s66, 227.54
Agents balances ....... 475. 490.54
Total ledger assets. s4.45s. ss7.os
NON-LEDGER ASSETS.
Other ledger assets. - 2ss,Is2.49
Gross assets AHA, 6so.52
Deduct assets not admitted. 2.665.37
Admitted assets 81. 712, 015.15
LIABILITIES.
Total unpaid losses. 603, 241. 95
Total unearned premiums -. ?, 433, .65
Other liabilities ......... 75.20991
Total amount of all liabiIi-
ties, except capital. So, Ill 400. 81
Capital paid up 500, 100000
Surplus over all LA
bilities ..... 900, 3S7.94
Surplus as regards pOlcyhold-
ers .............. 1000, 1897 "a
Total Observation-Disclosures. $4, I'll ,S7S. As
BUSINESS IN ILLINOIS.
Net risks taken during the
the year ..............s2 SIS, 15S, 240 90
ing the year. 239. sos. So
Net losses paid ... 93, 090. %
Net losses incurred during
the year .................. 1902 OF
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
,Si&de; :; TALKS ;
6W Rqntdn Cameron
THE DOCTORS ORDERS

prescribing it. She went to the city
several times for measurings and fit
tings and paid a staggering sum for
the same. With it came elaborate
printed directions for putting it OH and
lacing it so that it would do good and
not harm.
How She Adjusted It
She promptly decided that these
were altogether too much bother
"Why it would take ten minutes to put
them on that way" she said. ~ IN
not going to be bothered with any
such nonsense And as she said it
she had an air of putting the silly per-
son who wrote those directions i'll his
place.
1 am somehow reminded by such
people of the story of the two work
men, one of whom bet the other he
could carry him up ladder to the
top of a ten story building in his
mason s hod. Mike won the bet, but
when they arrived safely, said Pat
(they belonged, you see, to the stand
ing army of Mikes and Pats who make
existence possible for comic pages and
cCmic weeklies) "well you we won but
begorry, when your foot slipped up
there at the ninth story l thought |
had ye.'
The problem Of the Press publishers
is to furnish the sort Of reading that the
people want. The Press should be CONF
plete within itself and meet the needs
Of ALL the people in its field. The
woman's page and Ruth Cameron
are provided for the women readers and
the "Uncle Wiggily'' stories are for
the children. Uncle Wiggily and Ruth
Cameron are on trial. Do they meet a
need and are they the thing wanted?
The Press will take ''straw vote"
until May /. If you wish either Of
these features continued, kindly fill out
the following and either paste it on q
post card or inclose it in an envelope
and mail to the Press.
I find Ruth Cameron of interest and
wish the feature continued.
10AVco
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
SCORE ONE FOR THE CITY COUNCIL

The members of the city council have Immediately
established themselves in public confidence by rejecting all
of the bids for paving This has been done inevitable
act in the orderly funconng of high class hard headed
straight business city council such the people of this
city have elected.
The Press is prepared to go into practical dis
cusson of the paving question We doubt whether the
council would pretend to have technical information to
all Details but the thing sufces for which has evidently
suffced for the council nameythe paving work has not
been right and do not want of the sort
We don't want any dealings with the same people
Promises not legal tender when they from those
who have failed in their promises heretofore. There
should be only standard for doing public work. it must
be RIGHT Paving that not right should be torn and
made right. can't be adjusted by compromise
consideration whatever To accept public work
which admitted to be imperfect is imposition the
public for all time 1t is offense long vesge of
the work is in sight The city council never go
wrong long it establishes standard and requires
all work of whatever to conform to it. The action of
the city council last night is public triumph because it is
triumph of principle The paving proposition has fallen
because of its record When the city administration
with deal it will have the confidence
and the support of the people because of what has done
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27

"Help! Help!" quacked the Goose
gentleman. Save mel
"In save you!'' answered Uncle
Wiggily. With that the bunny caught
up the pail of soapy, sudsy water, and,
stepping to the door, he threw the
water all over the Fox. OF course,
some got on Grandpa Goosey, bst, being
what he was, he didn't mind it, for the
water ran off his oily goose feathers
easily Bdt the soap got in the eyes
of the Fox, and he gave loud howl,
dropped Grandpa Goosey and ran off
to his den, saying: "Wow! Wow!
Wow!" three times, just like that,
"Uncle Wiggily,'' said Grandpa
Goosey, after "a bit, 'I' m sorry /
laughed at you for using the scrubbing
brush. Only for that the Fox would
have me. ~
81 guess so,'' answered the bunny.
Then he finished scrubbing the kitchen,
and the next day Nurse James back
was all better.
And, if the elephant doesn t pack all
his clothes in his trunk and ride on his
roller skates so far off that he can
never find any more peanuts, III tell
you next about Uncle Wiggily and the
COW lady.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27

A friend of mine once gave his doe
tor surprise.
He had been attacked with eczema,
an annoying affliction which, as every
enc knows, it sometimes takes years to
get rid of. The doctor told him what
to do in regard to diet, use of oint-
ments, and so forth, and told him to
come again in q month to let him see
what progress he had made. When he
went back he was completely cured.
"Great goodness, man. said the doe
tor, 81 never knew case to clear up
SO quickly. What did you doe'
Exactly what you told me to, said
the patient.
"Well," said the doctor, "that ex-
plains it. You re one man in thous-
and The other 900 do about half
what / tell them to, or perhaps go per
cent at the best, and 10 per cent at
the worst. we got over expecting
anyone to do exactly what tell them. -
Yet that man is specialist and
charges large fee for his advice.
What fools we mortals be, to go out
and pay for a thing and then by the
way we use it destroy most of its
value!
Think We're Smart
And then on top of that we rather
fancy our own cleverness in having
done it. Haven t you often heard peo-
pie tell of how they outwitted the doe
| tor, with evident relish of their own
wit9
eyes, he told me not to smoke more
than three cigars week but l felt
| sure he must have made mistake and
meant three day, SO I've corrected
his mistake for him." Or, "The doc.
tor says l ought to walk at least four
miles day, but I'd like to see his
wife walk four miles day. 1 think
i. s all nonsense, this fad about doing
SO much walking. Those things can
be overdone. l told him L would try
to but the only time | did it was SC
lame! l shan't be such fool again
no matter what he says
1 know woman for whom a spe
cialist prescribed corrective corset
She paid the specialist good sum fol
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
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PROTEST. AGAINST GUN TOTING
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Riverside Press: The recent editor
ial in the Press in favor of forbidding
the sale of revolvers has met with
hearty approval in many quarters. The
timeliness of the suggestion has been
given new emphasis by the shooting
of the chief of police at Corona, and
William Corkhill, leading citizen OF
that city, makes the following plea foI
the prohibition of the deadly pistol In
a letter to the Corona independents:
The shooting of our police chief
brings to our mind the query, why
should Il man carry gun, and
what kind of man does carry one.
The peace loving man who respects
the law does not tote gun, hence
the only ones who do must have
some unlawful motive. Now the
question comes, why should any
man be able to buy gune Yet
any thug, black, white or yellow,
can buy fire arms in any town or
city; in Los Angeles firearms are
piled up in the windows, inviting
the passer.by, and no doubt many
are tempted to crime by the sight
of them.
If we could visualize the amount
of wealth stolen, the vast number
of lives snuffed out by the use of
the gun, we should be appalled,.
Not day passes but what gun men
have the front page of the papers
and we have become so used to it
that we should be lonesome of we
missed it. Many man has ear
ried u gun with no intention of
harming anyone and yet in a fit of
anger the crime is committed that
blasts his life or leads him to the
scaffold. So if it is unlawful to
sell booze, poisons, high explosives
or dope indiscriminatcly, why
should not the pocket gun be placed
in the same class? | presume if Il
man buy gun he signs his name,
but great Scott! If that man
shoots me / would be just as dead
as if he had not signed his name.
OF course the police could find out
where the gun had been bought and
that would be of great satisfaction
to the relatives no doubt.
1t is unlawful to carry a gun
without a permit and it should be
unlawful to sell a gun without
presenting the permit, and a heavy
penalty provided for so doing. We
are supposed to throw every safe
guard around the lives of our cit
izens and yet allow the thug and
gunman to dispose of life as, he
chooses. 1t makes us agree with
Shakespeare when he says, "What
Fools We Morials Are.' This ar
ticle will not reform the country
but it allows one TO blow off steam.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
DUMMY HENS INCREASE EGGS
United Press Leased Wire

BURBANK, Calf, April 27.--By
initiating the decoy duck rather than
investing in glass eggs, john G.. Hayes
has increased the egg output of, his
poultry yard by 40 per cent, he claims.
Acting on the psychology that one
hen seeing another in the act Of laying
AN egg would, go and do likewise,
Hayes stuffed a couple of dead hens
that had been run over by automobiles,
and placed them ON nests in his hen
house.
Hayes says he Immediately noticed
pick up in the egg production from
day to day after he added the dummies
to his flock.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
Bedtime Stories
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE SCRUB
BING BRUSH
(Copyright, 1922, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
By HOWARD r. GARIS

Once upon time, as Uncle Wlgglly
was coming downstairs III his hollow
stump bungalow, the bunny gentleman
heard Nurse Jane talking out in the
kitchen. And the muskrat lady house
keeper was saying, in a most sad and
doleful voice:
"Oh, dear,gI can't do it! L never can
do it, m sure!"
ed''' thought Uncle Wiggily, as he
twinkled his pink nose. "lt sounds
like the beginning of an adventure so
early in the morning before breakfast -
81 say, Nurse Janet" he called TO
Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy. "What is it you
can't do? Can't you drive out the bad
Bob Cat or the Fuzzy Fox?"
"Oh, thank goodness, neither of
those creatures is in the bungalow
answered the muskrat lady house
keeper.
"Well, what is it you can't dos"
went on Uncle Wiggily.
81 can It scrub the kitchen floor oil
cloth,' was the reply. "Here | have
the pail of warm water, the cake of
soap, the scrubbing brush and the
cloths to dry the floor after l scrub it,
But | can't do it,
Uncle Wiggily asked why not, and
Nurse Jane said:
back. / think l must have caught
cold'
"My goodness!' exclaimed Uncle
Wiggily, "that s too bad!"
"No it is only ONE bad, said Nurse
Jane, making little joke. eff you had
u backaehe and | had backachc that
would be TWO bad. But, as it is, it IS
only ONE, and that S bad enough
can t scrub my kitchen floor, and
some of the animal ladies are coming
to tea this afternoon.
"Hum!" said Uncle Wiggily, thought
ful-like and meditating. He twinkled
his pink nose Il little upside down, and
then he exclaimed: 81 have it!'
"Don't tell me You have the back
ache also!" cried Nurse Jane.
"No, but | have an idea about the
| kitchen. | will take the scrubbimg
brush and clean it for you myself, -
| said Uncle Wiggily bravely.
"That is very kind of you, but
dom believe you can,' said Nurse
Jane.
81 IN sure ean!' said Uncle Wiggi.
| y. SO after Nurse Jane told him how
| to sozzle the soap in the water and
make suds, the bunny gentleman took
the scrubbing brush, dipped it into
the pail and began cleaning the kitchen
oilcloth.
Now you go lie down and rest your
back said Mr.. Longears, and the
muskrat lady, thinking what "a kind.
good rabbit he was, did so.
Well, Uncle Wiggily was serubbing
away and scrubbing away and scrub
bing away when, all of sudden, he
heard a sort of cackling laugh at the
open Kitchen door, and voice said:
swell, well! Since when have you
turned housemaid, Uncle Wiggily? The
idea Of rich rabbit gentleman like
you scrubbing the floor Ha! Ha!
Quack! Quack!"
Uncle Wiggily looked up, and there
stood Grandfather Gooscy Gandcr max
ing fun of the bunny.
Look herel' exclaimed Uncle Wig.
gily, serious like, edo you think 1
oughtn t to do .this2'
~ eertainlyA think you ought not
| To, answered the Goose gentleman.
"kitchen scrub work is for the women /;
let them do i'll!
But look. here, - went on Uncle
| Wiggily. eff nay automobile happen
ed to be all splashed with mud you
wouldn ! think anything Of it if / took
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
THE Y. ". G.. A. DRIVE

Today is the appointed time for launching two day
drive for funds to finance the Imperial county T. W. C.
Those having the Ell Centro part of the campaign IN
charge approached the Press with evidence OF TIM
idy lest might be thought that the drive business is
being overworked To this and to all similar situations
there be but the answer, namely that righteous
Y W. c. which every community alert to the we'll being
of its people must have and must take care OF II 1t TO
sustain its reputation and should be regarded as prvl
have in their support and not as bore and
who upon themselves the responsibility of doing
things and give of their time which is precious
them fairly entitled to cheerful ana
prompt response. -
The support of public spirited enterprises like the
establishment and construction OF public works. comes 70
us with greater frequency and heavier initial burden be-
living in country Where everything mas
built from the bottom Our grand children will fnd
particular things resting less heavily upon them be-
of what doing but the needs of the hour can
not be left for our grand children These things have
to be done NOW and we'll be cheerful about IT,
the Y W. c. A. drive in particular perhaps there
place where the work done by such an
needed than in Imperial Valley where there is little
or nothing else take its place If it could be worked
out legally the Press would support plan to have the
city of underwre bond issue for the purpose
of erecting and equpping Y. w. C. A. building ana
Y M. C. A. building, with the understanding that the
quidated out of the income of the buildings. With such
need exists for fully equipped institutions OF this nd
and with young men and women as tnere are IN
this section-a proportion far exceeding that prevailing
esewherehere could be doubt that the projects would
sustain themselves and pay the of providing them
They would actually pay financially, and spiritually and
morally the dividends would be thousandfold.
The purposes of the Y. w. c. A. are we'll known 1t
is institution not experiment 1t has proved lts
usefulness thousand times It's opportunities here
unusual and good may also be expected to be
extraordinary AS the solicitors to in their
rounds help them and do pleasantly you liked it.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27

scrubbing brush and some cloths and
cleaned it, would you9
"Of course, not" answered Grand
pa Goosey. "You ought to do that!"
"Well, I'm pretending this kitchen
floor is my automobile, said the bunny
with laugh.
"Hum!" quacked Grandpa Goosey.
"I never thought of that! 1t IS a good
way to do. And, when you look at it,
kitchen floor is like an automobile in
some ways. 1t has gas in it!' and he
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
TWENTY TWO MISSING IN WRECK
United Press Leased Wire

LIE HAVRE, April 27-Twenty two
persons are missing from the wreck of
the steamer Depute Albert Tailland-
mier which foundered in a storm, 80
miles off the Brittany coast.
Ships are searching the English
channel in the hope Of finding sur
vivors.
Ten of the steamer s crew of 80 were
picked up in the icy waters near the
wreck, several of them dying from
cold and exposure.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
One Minute Essay


The sun is a hotter place than the
old orthodox hereafter. Its temperature
is about 5000 degrees centigradc. In
breadth Old Sol is $4,000 miles across.
Compared with him, our earth is like a
kernal Of popcorn in the center Of din
ner plate. But although Old Sol regu'
Iates our life, growth and health from
d distance of 92,030,00O miles, to be cx'
act, science as yet knows little about
him. People realize in their subcon
scious minds that the sun is closely re-
lated to the mystery Of life, which is
one reason they are forever talking
about sthe weather that is regulated by
the sun'as completely as furnace rcgn
iates the c'temperature Of house n
winter. But the big day star is almost
as much Of a mystery to US as he was te
the aneients.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
About Some Woman. or Other

Lady Astor and Mrs. Charles Dana
Gibson, two of the well-known Lang
horne sisters of Richmond, Va, have
started movement for the educating
of southern girls living in regions de-
void of modern advantages. Mrs. Glib
son has sent out an appeal to Southern
women now living in the north asking
for their support for this project.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
THE HOPE OF THE NATION

The hope OF our state aud nation is
tbat greater proportion OF those who
are born on farms will spend their lives
there in comfort and happipess.-Wis-
eonsin Agricultural
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
Irn-PRESS-ions
Keep Sweet

When things at home get in a stew
With stacks Of work you can't wade
throngh,
When mind and body frazzle out,
And with disgust you loll about
The ups and downs you have to face
Don't try to take break-neck pace.
Just meet each duty one by one
And school yourself to leave undone
Things you can t reach. Don t try to do
More than good sense requires of you.
Don t think that you can do it all;
Let some small tasks to others fall,
And only obligations meet
That you can fill and still keep sweet.
The corset makers are asking men
to wear corsets on the theory that some
body ought to.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27

That milk allowed to 60 sour and so
wasted in New York is valued at three
quarters of a million dollars annnallyE
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
An Amazing Fix

Some hac meat and gamma cat,
Is told us in tradition.
But how, the howling, whoopng heck
Did.tliey yet in that condition?
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
The Preacher Declares
Did You Know

Getting rich is hard ON a man s re-
ligion.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
The Bachelor Maid Says

Sometimes a woman kisses another
woman as if she would like to bite her
instead. .4
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
The Curiosity Shop

West African children, on reaching
a certain age, have their teeth deliber-
ately broken.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27

A late frost is going to nip the SC
ciety buds.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27

Albanian women who say they wan
TO dress like Americans must bc ex
pecting hot summer.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27

British lord offers to marry any CIR
with million. If he gets her, she viii
be one out of a million.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
HAYS TAKES ACTION

1t is announced that Will Hays has called halt on
the release of the Fatty Arbucke films, it the
public is going have opportunity to its
sentiment concerning the fitness unftness of paradng
the man in the movie shows. Mr. Hays called to his
present high place for the main of cleaning up
the film industry He has not said the Arbucke films will
be permanently withheld is yet known what the
final action will be- We must believe that Fattys retire
ment the public forever will be for the best in
teress the largest number But if his films be only
temporarily suppressed that will be good Assuming
that there nothing in the films that is bad per hold
ing them back for time will at least be warning to the
world that the conduct of its members must be more
carefully regulated hereafter They need emphatic
mnder that lax morals call for condemnation and that
real peril in violating the code for their work will
Judged in part by what they really are as we'll as by
what they to be in their acting.
Mr.. Hays and the important interests he represents
must know that the financial value of the Arbucke films
all there is at stake They arseeing enough to
understand that the public is be the final judge and that
ultimately the public judgment is about right The public
will eventually insist the consistency that ones
character with ones work art. IT this were not
then our whole social organization would be hopeessy
rotten Mr.. Hays is himself trial before the great
American jury and how he acquts himself will be of the
utmost interest.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27
Old Timer CogitateS

/ kin remember when / needed a
haircut that my dad gave me 10 cents
and that did the trick.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27

If Captain Amundsen reaches the North Pole by air.
plane he will get birds eye of that interesting spot
And most will be willing TO take his word for it.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27

laughed and pointed to the gas stove.
"Ha! Ha!' laughed Uncle Wiggily,
his pink nose twinkling faster than
ever. And just then, all of a sudden,
the Fuzzy Fox rushed up and grabbed
Grandpa Goosey and started to carry
him off
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27

II said that milk is about 38 percent water at best,
which may account for the enthusiasm of milk
They probably think that if little is good more is better
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-27

A big league ball player makes more
money than a burglar and nearly as
much as bootlegger.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-06-20
LINEN OFTEN ADULTERATED
Few Simple Tests VIII Disclose Purity
of Material. Cotton Often
Substituted

Linen formerly was used for all
household purposes but It's cost at
present makes it more of a textile Of
luxury. Because of its value there
are many limitations and adultera-
lions.
Linen is hard to distinguish from
cotton, especially when heavily starch
ed and given a good finish, say home
management specialists Of the Montana
Extension service. Because Of the
cost of linen, many tests should be-
made 81 the buyer will have no doubt
Of the g~enuineness of the fiber.
Oil Test: Remove sizing by wash
ing. Place a drop of oil on the cloth
and press between bIotting papers.
Place sample on dark surface to show
effect. Linen becomes transparent,
cotton remains apaque.
Sizing Test: Sized linen feels harsh
and stiff. Unsized linen feels leathery,
soft and flexible. Test for sizing by
rubbing vigorously or boiling.
Ink Test: Place a drop Of ink upon
cotton and upon linen which is free
from sizing. Linen absorbs the ink
while the ink stands upon the
surface Of the cotton a few seconds
before 1t Is absorbed.
Burning Test: Linen burns more
than cotton and the ends stand
very erect and compact, while those Of
spread out In every direction.
Breaking Test: Ravel out threads
and break. Linen is more difficult to
thar cotton. The end Of a linen !
thread remains straight while the end
II q cotton thread curls up.