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New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Passing of a Great Name

RICHARD X. FOX, the founder Of the IA
nous salmon-colored school of barber shop
literature, owner and editor Of "The Police
Gazette" is dead. For nearly fifty years
Richard X. Fox was figure in the world
of sport Not the world of sport as it is to-
day, with gentlemen contestants in amateur
games not the world where women and men
vie with each other to hammer dirty little
balls around q court or a course, not the world
of sport all trimmed with hygienic rules like
Christmas tree, with amiable old Santa
Clauses pervading the atmosphere: Richard
K. Fox promoted sport in the day Of hard liv-
ing, hard drinking, hard working champions.
and the ladies of his world disported them.
selves in plump leggy pink tights and bios
somed on the pictures in cigarette boxes
Fox came on when Paddy Ryan, Jake Kill
rain, Charley Mitchell and John r, Sulli-
van wore the diamond belt, when Maud S.
whlzzed around the track, when it was giddily
wicked for an actress to show four stripes of
her gaWdy stocking and husky leg upon the
,-Aos F~esS VI iiS OllCS GIaGSIES.F mat was
forty years ago. The legs that lured us then
mere lnnocuous ankles, it is true-would pass
unnotlced down Main Street in any rid-We
ern village to-day The automobile racing with
death around a four-nlile course has put the
old trotters and PAGERS back with the snails
And the mild sedentary crimes Of forty years
ago nave given way to mysteries worthy of a
complicated world.
The Police Gazette" that led us all straight
down to hell two generations back might well
De the organ of uplift to-day. In his declin-
ing years, how Richard K. Fox must have
missed the tang of the old days as he slipped
languldly stale decadence of synthetic SIN in
brackish world! Where now is there an
editor who can write a headline which tells of
mans depravity and woman's worse than
Weakness? Yet Richard X. Fox carried that
lively headline over his crime news for thirty
years Il for nothing less than that he is 3
grand old man.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Cartoons by Albert LeUsring

north, with certain backwaahes almost as
strong as the northbound current And the
"graphs' indicate that as he moves north.
decade by decade, he is getting little winter
than he was @tbefo' de wah." The statistics
show that he lives for shorter term of years
than the white man, that his infant mortality
is terrible, and recent statistics, quite outside
the "Year Book" from Northern states prove
that the negro's birth rate-not counting the
enormous infant mortality--is falling below
his death rate. This is partly due to the
fact that the white mans vices are sterilizing
the negro and partly due to the fact that he
is controlling mis- birth rate as the middle class
white man controls it,
OF course, the negro is not fading out as
the Indian or the buffalo is fading. but he ia
gradually bleaching, gradually moving into an
environment where he can not or will not live
as long as he used to live, and as he moves
northward he moves upward in the economic
scale and SO controls the number Of babies in
his family without decreasing infant mortal
ity.
The hand of death is reaching for the black
man. Its reach is slow, but unless he changes
MS ways the hand of death will grab him as
IL grabbed the Indian In the wrestle with
civilization the negro is facile enough in
adopting it's outward forms AS individuals
the negroes are improving vastly, more than
their grandfathers could have dreamed thev
would improve But, some way, somewhere.
deep In his nature, there is lack. Ciyiliza
tlon on this continent is getting him.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

the relation of woman as to her property, to
her child, to her Inheritance, to her American
citizenship, to her wages, to her place in So
ciety. She has legal rights where she once
had privileges, and all because she has the
ballot and can go directly to the reward or
punishment Of those who disagree with her.
In this connection it Is interesting to note
that Lady Astor, who was opposed by the men
Of her district, was triumphantly elected The
women supported Lady Astor when she talked
for prohibition. The women stood back Of the
men and cheered. So long as womanhood
picks out the type of woman that Lady Astor
is women may feel that they are justifying
their enfranchisement. Her American visit
disclosed woman Of good taste and much
tact and social grace. She handled an ex-
ceedingly difficult situation with great COM
mon sense and made her American sisters ire
mendously proud of her. With women like
her taking the lead in politics something
worth while is surely about to happen to the
world
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
The Rise Of Borah

SINCE the election, in which the slaughter Of
the innocents of conservatism is both par
ties was the only elemental fact that stands
out from the confusion, Senator Borah, of
Idaho, is emerging as the leader of the liberal
majority. That majority is fairly non partisan
and Borah is developing a rather nice disre-
gard of partisanship. too. During the first two
grossly partisan years of the Republican Ad-
ministration the chilly disregard for partisan
consideration which Borah displayed has made
him lone figure and rather inconsequential.
"a bound boy at the husking." But now the
bound boy seems about to run the place.
In world that is topsy turvy Borah might
be President Normally, a man who comes
from safely Republican state with three cleo
toral votes would have no chance for party
nomination. But geography may be banished
two years from now in naming candidates, and
the sheer worth and quality of men may weigh
IN the balance Ii manhood overweighs the
map, Borah will win. He has brains courage
and heart. Issues interest him more than
patronage, fundamentals engage him more
than expediency. AS President he would re-
store the Office to its power and adjourn the
debating society of "the best minds"
He has just returned from his home state
victor. They tried to abolish the primary out
there, succeeded, in fact, in order to eliminate
Borah. He went back, made the fight and now
has Legislature pledged to restore the pri-
mary He has proved that he still has control
OF the situation in his home state 1t is
curious fact that the liberals in the Senate
despite their alleged idealism, are the most
practical politicians there. La Toilette and
johnson polled the overwhelming nlaiorities
this year. Lodge, who is supposed to be a
realist, is facing recount to hold his seat.
And nearly dozen "stand-pat' Republican
Senators who are forever nooting at the I'M
stable idealism of the liberals, q dozen Of vour
practical men who deal with life in prac-
tical way, are now out of job, floating with
the lame ducks, looking for something equally
good, And in the meanwhile topboots and
whiskers are coming nearer and nearer to the
Capitol, and the primary, which Borah re-
established in his home state, is weapon thesa
Cromwellian radicals are using to beat theh,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
The Primary

TsHE primary has rusted in the woodshed of
desuetude since the war began, eight years
ago. No great purpose stirred the people,
and they let any one win in the primary who
could muster the votes. In the popular leth-
argy any one could get through primary.
But now it is different. The shell shock of
yesterday which seemed to be parayzing the
electorate is gone. This years primaries
show definitely that the people have not for
gotten how to fight with their old weapon.
And where they were denied the free use of
the primaries--as in Minnesota and Michigan,
for instance-they broke through the barriers
in the election.
The primary is weapon Of progressive
government. 1t makes for change, and that
forward The conservative fares badly In it.
Doubtless state legislatures in certain states
where the regulars" control will try TO weak
en- the primary. Where they weaken it they
will get revolt at the election. And if the Re-
publcans desire even semblance Of party
control at the next election they must make 1t
easy for Republicans to blow off steam at the
primary.
The mind Of the people seems to be hectic.
The people are seeing red In wrath at the
perversity Of the times. They are going to
have some kind of a change. If they can get
change through the primary they will not
blow off at the election. 1t is nice question
for Republican leaders to decide whether they
want another crop Of liberals with pink au-
roras or whether the Republican leaders
would rather abdicate in favor of the Demo-
Gratis. They may reason that the people will
never tire of jumping back and forth from
one side Of the house to the other and that
when they tire of the Democrats the people
will come back to the Republicans But some
of these days the voters will stop jumping
and sit down and think it over. And then
"The Boy? Oh, where was he?"
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
A Ne,u Thing on Earth

THE English elections the women voted
in the ratio Of three to one with the men.
In America women and men vote in about the
proportion OF each sex to the population. In
some places the mans vote exceeds the won-
an'sand vice versa. But generally the vote is
about balanced. The result as to parties and
candidates is about the same. No drastic
change has occurred in the organization of the
world. And yet new thing has come into
the world which inevitably will bring change.
The direct influence of women upon public
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
II "A Vanishing Race

seTHE NEGRO YEAR BOOK" is out for
this year, and most interesting docu-
ment it is An hours consideration of the
"Year Book" will convince any fair-minded
reader that the negro Is peculiar problem
for America. Here we have within our own
civilization another civilization, one which
some one insists is an inferior civilization and
which all of us seem fairly willing to domi-
nate. The, "Year Book shows that the negro
race is functioning as a race civilization and
that it is acquiring what the negro would
never have acquired in any other civilization,
talent-perhaps initiative, but strong-for
organization
Here in this "Year Book" is found list of
purely negro organizations-a negro associa-
ton, league or bureau for every activity of
man. The lawyers, teachers, preachers, edi-
tors, dentists, doctors, clubwomen Republ-
cans, Democrats, authors, artists, manual
workers, farmers, bankers, real estate men
every profession and calling of civilized man
lis organized in America along vocational
lines Here in tie "Year Book, also are
accounts of negro towns and townships. or
ganlzed for self-government by and for ne
groes. Here is the catalog Of books by negro
authors, poets, novelists essayists, iramatists,
philosophers-the whole range of literary ac-
tiyity is represented in the list.
And there, are tables and graphs" and
maps and all the formidable weapons that
sociologists weave The maps and tables seem
to prove that the negro is slowly moving
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Kansas Is BaMed

THE other day, when reports from all over
the country were coming in about ma
tional drive against cancer, the country was
shocked to learn that Kansas had made no
progress in fighting cancer during the last
twenty years. Not that any other state had
made progress, but Kansas was expected to
make it, The Federal statistics recently indi-
Gated that Kansas men and women live nearly
two years longer than folks live in other states
and five years longer than in most states.
Kansas has had the lowest per capita consump-
tion of booze for years and years. Kansas
sends third more young people to colleges
and universities than any other state and
twice as many in proportion to population as
most states send. Kansas first abolished the
common drinking cup and the roller towel, and
has reduced communicable diseases to a ma
tional minimums But Kansas stands beaten
before cancer. Prohibition does no good there;
the high percentage Of American born avails
nothing. College students do not reduce can
GER. A high per capita Of taxable property
and an ideal distribution of the property, with
no mlllioniares and practically no paupers, is
no check to cancer. Kansas has no magic
against this demon. And when Kansas cannot
make medicine against an evil it is incorrigi-
BILE. Nothing is SO hopeless about cancer as
the fact that Kansas is stalled.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

minorlties or ruthless majorities. Over this
group of American radicals in the Senate is
another and larger group of ulta-liberals or pro-
gressives, men Of the Borah and johnson type.
Howell, of Nebraska, ex-Bullmooser, who
comes to the Senate with a Republican nomina-
tion and Nonpartisan League support, will
likely follow Borah rather than La Toilette,
and as next Election Day draws near Senator
Mccormick, who once bolted the Republican
party with Roosevelt, may revert to type and
get behind Johnson and Borah. Senator Cum
minis is veering leftward again, and in all a
bakers dozen of liberal Republicans may be
found who will make it hard for the Repub-
lican majority to keep from flushing i becom-
ing pink.
Among the new Democrats Senator's Ferris
and Ralston, of Michigan and Indiana, will get
about as far forward as Borah and Johnson.
Senators Wheeler, of Montana; Stephens, OF
Mississippi, and Neely, Of West Virginia, will
be just Democrats, as Fess and Jones, of
Washington, are just Republicans. Edwards,
Of New Jersey. will be reactionary, and Bruce,
of Maryland will be conservative. Bayard is
unknown, but is more than likely to be monde
script.
So there is the new group in the Senate.
But this fact must not be forgotten-that
thirty Of the thirty-six in the new Senate, Re-
publican Democrat are there because
they denounced Newberryism and relinquished
all it's works. That will put hectic tint upon
the Senate that makes it the most radical
body ever elected in America. Watch it
sizzle.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

way IN. In estimating the qualities Of his
leadership, don't forget that Borah grew up In
Kansas and had his education there That
means something In his SOUL 1t may mean
something to the country and to the world.
But it may also mean among many good things
that the strain Of John Brown fanaticism, mar
row and mean and militant, which somehow is
q taintin The spiritual inheritance of Kansans,
may crop out in Borah, of Idaho, as one of the
gifts of his Kansas intellectual ancestry.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

affairs Is bound to
change things. For CEN
turtles woman has had
great influence. But,
together with influence.
she has had to con-
vince man Of her wis
dom. Now she acts
straight away; no man
stands between her and
her convictions. Her
man can take it or
leave it. In a decade
this direct power OF
women in American pol
.tjop hoe .auraf,,+in pizad
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26

and Ladd, with Capper
and Norris to come up
when needed, and the
triumphant agricultural
bloc adding a militant
labor bloc to its per
sonnel and possibly a
dry bloc to its cortege,
we are approaching in
our Senate something
like European political
conditions. These par
liaments and assemblies
are made mp Of small
groups that unite to
form either pestiferous
New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
How Red rs the Senate?

WITH Senator La Toilette organizing what
might be called the red cedar bloc in the
Senate, composed Of the merry lads who don't
give a damn, Shipstead, Frazier, Brookhart
Imperial Valley press., 1922-12-26
NOTICE OF AWARD OF
CONTRACT.

Pursuant to the statute and to.
Resolution of the Board of Trustees
of the City of Ell Centre, numbered
25J, adopted December l4th, 1922,
directing this notice, notice is here
by given that said Board of Trustees
of the City of Ell Centre in open
session on the 18th day of December,
1929, opened, examined and public
lv declared all sealed proposals or
bids Offered for the following work,
to-wit:
The street work or Improvement
on a certain portion of Olive Avenue
and of Brighton Avenue, described
in Resolution of Intention numbered
243, of the Board of Trustees of said
City of FL Centre, passed and
adopted on the eth day of Septem-
Der, 1922, which Resolution of In
tention is hereby referred to for a
description of said work, the cost
and expenses of which Improvement
are to be assessed upon an assess
ment district which district is shown
by a. plat on file in the office of
the City Engineer, of said City of
Ell Centre, to which plat reference
is made for the boundary line show
ing the extent of the territory to be
included in the assessment district
Imperial Valley press., 1922-12-26

and which district is also described
in general terms in the aforesaid
| Resolution of Intention numbered
243, to which plat and Resolution OF
Intention reference is made for
more particular description and for
all details as to tAe-extent OF said
assessment district.
That the Board OF Trustees in
said Resolution of Intention deter
mined that serial bonds shall be
issued TO be secured by the assess
ments which shall hereafter be made
to pay the cost of said work or inn
provement, and notice is hereby
given that serial, bonds to represent
unpaid assessments and to bear in
tcrest at the rate of seven 7) per
cent per annum will be issued here
under in the manner provided in the
Improvement Bond Act of 1915, the
last installment of which bonds
shall mature fourteen years from
the second day'of July next sue
ceeding nine months from their
date.
That thereafter, to-wit, on the
18th day of December, 1922, the
Board of Trustees Of the City of Ell
Centre awarded the contract for
said work to the lowest regular re
sponsible bidder therefor, to-wit, to
j. A. Costello, Jr, at the prices
named for said work in his proposal
or bid on file, to-wit:
Asphaltic concrete pavement
Imperial Valley press., 1922-12-26
LOS ANGELES LIVE STOCK

Caitlo-Becf steers, good grade,
7.50@S.40; medium grade, 6.750G
80; common grade, 6.0Om6.75;
Beef cows, good grade, $3.50 CPS;
medium, grade, I.25M5.25; common
grade. 3.50M4 %; Gamers and cut
tiers, 1.50M3.25. Bologna and butch
cr bulls. 3,00Ml,50; feeder steers,
5.00m6.75
Calycs-l5o 70 eoo pounds, good
aud choice, 7.O0@7.5O; 200 10 80
pounds, good and choice, 6.00M7.25;
254 20 200 pounds, good and choice,
525M6.25; over 800 pounds, 5000
600.
Hogs-Good ana choice grain fed
CALIFORNIA;, $50 to 200 pounds, 9.25
M9.70; POO to go pounds, 9.00M9.5O;
$50 to 300 pounds, 7.75@S.s5; over
800 pounds, 7@G75; smooth sows,
$50 to 800 pounds, 7.00M7.50; rough
sows, 800 to 800 pounds, 6.00@700;
feeder pigs, s,006o.25,
Sheep and Lambs-(Full woolCd)
lambs, good aud choice grades, 1926
@14.00; medium grade, 12.00Ml3.25;
ewes, medium and good, $3.50 $50;
vearling wethcrs, medium and good,
S.50@0.50; aged wethers, 7.O0@7.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-12-26
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT
LOS ANGELES MARKET

Los ANGELES, Dee. 22.-Trad-
ing today continued active in nearly
all lines. While supplies are liberal
there were no large holdings in weak
hands and the market ranged from
steady to firm.
Beans-Local, 1908.
Vegetahles-Per Gozen punches,
beets and turnips, 25M30; carrots
and spinach, %; parsnips, 35@4o;
onions and radishes, l0@l5 parsley,
10.
Colcry-Bcst local, 3.00M3.25.
Grapcfruit-Imperial Valley, 5.25
@6.0O.
Lcmons-7.50mS.5O.
Lettuce Local best, 1.25W1 40.
Onions-Stockto Brown, 2.25W
go; whites, 4.25ML50; local yell
lows, IS.
Oranges-New erop northern ma
wells, 3.25M3.50.
Peppers bells, GM7.
Potatoes-Northcrn Rivers, 1.50M
1.75. Idaho russcts. 1.50M1.75.
sweets, local Nancy Hall, 2M3H.
Squash-Locai summer, 1000 so.
Tomatocs-Local lug, 1.25@1.40.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-12-26

months from their date.
That thereafter, toswit, on the
14th day of December, 1922, the
Board of Trustees of the City of
FL Centre awarded the contract for
said work to the lowest regular re-
sponsible bidder therefor, to-wit, to
j. A. Costello, .Ir., at the prices
named for said work in his proposal
or bid on file, to-wit:
Asphaltic concrete pavement
both the wearing surface and the
base thereof to be of asphaltic con
crete-per square foot; % cents.
Ten (10'D inch cast-iron water
mains (Class 800, $3.50 per hneai
foot. ..t~
Water service lines of standard,
Glass a." strong lead pipe with
Standard Mueller Brass water pipe
fittings, with interior diameter of
one az inch, each: $23.70.
Water service lines of standard,
Class &C. cast-iron water pipe and
fittings, with IN interior diameter
of four a. inches, each: $4,000.
keystone Fire Hydrants together
with Fire Ly.lrant water service
lines of stand%ed, Glass "C' cast
iron water pipe and fittings, having
an interior diameter of six 6 y
inches, each; $4,000.
Reference is hereby made to the
II. Mueller Manufacturing COM
.pany S license agreement in refer
ence to the patented brass water
pipe fitting, known as the Mueller
fittings, dated July 3, 1922; and also
to the license agreement of the Key
stone Iron & Steel Works in refer
encc to the patented fire hydrants
known as the Standard Keystone
fire hydrants, dated July 81, 1929
both on file in the office of the
City Clerk of said City Of FL Centre
Witness my hand and the corpO-
rate seal of the City of El Centre,
affixed hereto this 18th day of De
ccmbcr, 1929.
j. s. LOUFBOUROW, &.
CITY Clerk of the City of El Centre.
California. (Seal) Dec 26, y
Imperial Valley press., 1922-12-26
NOTICE OF AWARD OF
CONTRACT.

Pursuant to statute and to. Res
olution of the Board of Trustees of
the City of FL Centre, numbered 256,
adopted December l4th, 1922, direct
ing this notice, notice is hereby Civ
en- that said Board of Trustees of
the City of Ell Centre in open SEES
sion on the 18th day of December,
1929, opened, examined and public
ly declared all sealed proposals or
bids offered for the following work,
to-wit:
Pie street work or Improvement
on a certain portion of Holt Ave
nue. and, of He'll Avenue, Hamilton
Avenue, Vine Street, Wepsley Ave
nue. and Seventh Street; described
in Resolution of Intention number
ed PA, of the Board of Trustees "f
said City of Ell Centre, passed ana