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Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
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Kansas City Star: \ promoter was
arrested in New York this week on
the charge of defraudinG people of one
lnillion dollars by the sale of worthless
stocks. The amounts lost annually
through such fraudulent transactions
reach incredible figures. In one west
ern state the officials estimate that
the hundreds of millions thrown away
in get-rich-quick schemes in the last
few years would be enough to put the
state on its feet Financially.
Blue sky laws and vigilant postal
inspectors can do something toward
saving people from such losses. So
can the publication of warnings
against the dangers of the investment
that promises abnormal returns. But
there still remains the inalienable in
stinct Of the human heart to go ahead
and make a fool of himself in specula-
tion if the person wants to.
Experience, as Poor Richard init
mated, is hard school, but most of
US will learn in no other-and some of
Us not even in that. The burnt child
shuns the fire. But the person who has
been stung in oil usually is only wait
ing for the mine promoter to come
around.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
Bedtime Stories
UNCLE WIGGILY AND TOODLE
PIES.
Copyright, 1922, by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.
By HOWARD r. GARIS

By HOWARD X. GARlS
"Well what in the world are you
going to do now, Uncle Wiggily9' ask
ed Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy one morn
ing, as she saw the bunny rabbit gen
tleman, with his oldest clothes on,
walking around in the yard OF his hoi-
low stump bungalow.
I'm going to build little store
house of stones, in which to keep my
cabbages, lettuce and turnips nice and
cool this SUMNER answered Mr.. Long
ears, as he began gathering pile OF
stone from different parts of the yard
| "It will be sort Of outside, extra
cellar, on top of the ground, Nurse
Jane. A little house of stone in which
L can put my lettuce as l bring 1T from
the garden" !,
"Then it will always be fresh and
crisp said the muskrat lady house
keeper.
"That is the idea,n answered Uncle
Wiggily. 81 suppose you thought l
was going to play ball when you saw
me with my old clothes on?" he asked
Nurse Jane.
"That or tag!" she replied with a
laugh. "Do you need to wear such old
thingse' she asked
cit is better" Uncle Wiggily said.
''I have to carry many stones and pile
them one on top of the other, as chill
dren make houses of their building
blocks. And some of the stones will be
dirty. That IS why 1 put on these old
garments.
"And very sensible L call it, re-
marked Nurse James. "Well, l. must
get at my work. Good luck to you,
Uncle Wiggily.'
"Thank you," said the rabbit gen
| tleman, and he set to work. He piled
| stones upon stones, making q little
house such as you may often have built
of your blocks. But the trouble was
| that stones were rough and uneven, and
| when more than two or three were
piled one on the other, down they top
pied again. Once they pinched Uncle
Wiggily's paws.
| "Dcar me! This is never going to
work, | IN afraid! " said the bunny gen
tleman, as the stones of his little veg
etable store house toppled down again.
81 wonder how l can make them stick
together'"
"With mud pies!" suddenly answer
ed a voice near the duck pond At first
Uncle Wiggily thought it might be the
Skillcry Scallery Alligator, but when
he looked a second time he saw that ii
was Toodle Flat Tail, the beaver boy.
"What did you tell me to do
Toodlc?' asked the bunny.
81 said stick the stones together
with mud pics" answered the beaver
boy. You know when real people build
real stone or brick houses the mason
sticks them together with mortar. We
beavers are masons, in~a way, for VIZ
plaster our houses with mud mortar
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
Side Talks :
6W Rddtln Cameron
OUT AND BACK

, member of the family, table linen, bed
ding and towels, also books, Il few orn-
| aments, and pictures, and few vall-
| able papers. Yet how many houses are
| cuttered with articles that are neither
| used nor thrown away.
"In regard to clothes, my scheme is
| to get what clothes are necessary. Wear
| them while they are in style and get
the good out of them. Then, if any
thing is left over, make it over and
| wear it out if possible. If not give 1T
! to someone who can and will use it,
instead of filling up closets and trunks
with it. The same applies to other
things. And try to keep this i'll mind
when | am buying, as well as when !
am housekeeping, for it is when you
buy unnecessary things, trashy cheap
things, that you lay the foundation for
future trouble at housekeeping time
Buy the things you really need, get
good things that will be good until
they are worn out and you won t have
so much half worn out truck around.
Easier Next Year
~ wish you would ask your readers
to consider how much of their time is
spent taking out things and putting
them back and ask them if they don t
think it is worthwhile this year to try
and get rid of more stuff than usual
and thus get ready for an easier house
cleaning next year?'
The question is before the House,
and the Housecleaner.
As you attack the top shelf of the
dining room closet, or that cupboard
in the pantry, or that chest of drawers
in the store room, please give it your
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
PUBLIC AUCTION OF
STATE SCRIP
MAY |

public auction sale of state Grip
will be held by Surveyor General w.
s. Kingsbury, at the state capitol, Sac
ramento, Monday, May /, 1922, at ten
a. m.
State scrip is the cheapest land scrip
on the market today.
Scrip can be purchased only by cit
liens of the United States who are res,
iIcnts Of the state of California, and
can be located on any vacant non-min-
eral unrcscrvcd United States govern
nent land in California.
Homestead and desert land cntrymcn
can rclinguish their entries through
the surveyor general IS office and ac-
Quire title to the land by the purchase
Of SCRIP, provided the land is not with
drawn by the federal government for
public purposes prior to the date the
land is scrippcd. The applicant need
not live ON or improve the land.
State scrip is not transferable.
Scrip is sold in fortyacrc lots for
cash, personal checks received, but no
purchaser can buy more than 640 acres
and the surrender of the scrip is pay
rent for an equal acreage of govern
Iaent land.
At the last auction sale Of state scrip
the price received averaged $6.33 pei
acre.
All money received from the sale OF
state scrip goes to the support OF the
public schools of the state.
For circular giving information con
eerning state scrip, address the state
surveyor general, Sacramento.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

| How much of your housekeeping
time this year will be spent taking
| things out of somewhere and putting
them back again2 A Letter Friend
wants me to ask that question. She
says:
81 have observed, at housecleaning
time, just how much more time and
energy is spent by many women in just
going over useless things that is spent
in the actual necessary cleaning.
81 mean the sort Of things that are
on their way to the attic, old papers,
outlawed calendars considered too
pretty to throw away) broken orna-
ments, discarded clothing, and heap
. more stuff of the same sort. Before
these things get to the attic they are
put in drawers and closets and gone
over and put back perhaps for years.
Hard to Decide
"When / was home with my mother
| did all the housekeeping except the
places where these valuables were
stored. Mother would say Daughter,
don t touch this closet or that chest
of drawers because you might throw
away something l want to save. Con-
sequently the housecleaning, SO far as
/ was concerned, would be finished,
and then passed ages, it seemed to me,
Of this taking out things that were
never used and putting them back
again. I vowed that when had my
own home I would never burden my
self and others with these useless ar
ticles.
What We Need-and Have
"To take things broadly, we need in
a house, besides the furniture and kit
chen utensils, wearing apparel for each
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
COMMUNICATED
To The Imperial Valley Press,
FL Centre, California.

| 10 Inc lmperlal SdueV IFcSSy
FL Centre, California.
| Gentlemen:-
Will you kindly convey the follow
ing information to the voters and prop
! erty owners of Imperial Irrigation Dis
| trict through the medium of your news
paper:
Imperial Water Company No. is
circuiarizing its stockholders and prop
erty owners within its district urging
them not to sign the petition for ST.
| 100000 bond issue now being circulated
petitioning the District to call a bond
election for. the purpose OF consolida-
| tion of the water companies and the III
stallation Of a drainage system.
One of the grounds Imperial Water
| Company No. 3 urges is that the state
bond commission has refused the I'm
perial Irrigation District permission to
| issue these bonds, if voted.
The above statement made by 1mper-
ial Water Company No. is in error
and contrary to the facts in every par
ticular. The bond commission, under
date of March Sth, 1922, approved the
proposed bond issue for the cOnsolida-
! ton of all the water companies and the
, drainage program covering the lmper-
ial Irrigation District. This approval
has not been withdrawn, but the Dis
trict has been notified by the bond
commission that if it intends to exclude
the lands Of Imperial Water Company
| No. from the District, as has been
urged by Imperial Water Company No
8, the permit granted on March 9Th
| 1922, must be disregarded and a new
| application to the bond commission
must be made for any new plan OF
modification desired.
The plans submitted by the Imper-
ial Irrigation District to the bond com.
mission, and approved by the said
| commission, have not been replaced by
new plans or modified in any particu
4 lar.
Yours very truly,
! IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DISTRICT
| BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
BY f. H. McIVER, Secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

close to his body, as he walks on his
hind legs. And he doesn' It use his tail
to plaster mud over his stick house,
either. Instead, he uses his paws for
this. The flat tail of the beaver is
for swimming, and also to whack ON
the ground or water to give the signal
of danger.
But, just for fun, Toodle carried some
mud on his flat tail, and then the
beaver boy showed Uncle Wiggily how
to smear the sticky mud on stone,
and put that stone on top of another
And the "mud pics,n as Toodlc had
called them, held the stones together so
they didn't topple over.
"NOw I can build my little stone
house in which to store my lettuce"
said Uncle Wiggily. "Thank you so
much, Toodle.' -
"Oh, IN glad L can help you,"
spoke the beaver boy. Then he brought
up more mud from the bond on his
tail and in his paws, and helped the
bunny gentleman plaster together the
little stone house.
When it was almost finished, all Of
a sudden, the Woozic Wolf stuck his
head out of tile bushes, gave u howl
and cried:
I'm going to nibble Uncle Wiggi.
ly's cars!"
"Oh, are you! Well, try the taste OF
this first!' shouted Toodlc. With that
the beaver boy took some mud on his
flat tail and sent it sailing through the
air, straight into the open mouth Of
the wolf
"Oh, blub! Blub! Blub!" splutter-
ed the bad chap, and then he had to
| run away to wash the mud pies off his
tongue, so he didn t bite the bunny
after all, and soon the stone house was
| finished.
After this, if the rag doll docsn I 20
to sleep in the waste paper basket, so
the junk man carries her off to have
her play tunes on his hand organ, III
| tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and
| tho whitc-tailcd deer.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

So that IS why l said stick those stones
together with mud pies
"How do you do it?'' asked Uncle
Wiggily, for he was tired of piling the
dry stones up and having them topple
down.
"Ill show you," said Toodle. Sc
on his flat tail, which was like the
trowel of a mason, he carried some
mud from the duck pond to where
Uncle Wiggily had piled the stones.
Beavers don It often carry mud on their
tails, even though some people have
this idea. Ordinarily, a beaver carries
mud in his front paws, holding them
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
BUILDING TRADES
UNION ON STRIKE

san FRANCISCO, April 11.-Thir-
teen hundred members OF the four build
ing trades unions today went on strike
i'll protest against the open shop plan
put into effect here by employers
about a year ago under the name of the
American plan.
Those out are plumbers, plastcrers,
elevator constructors and granite cut
tcrs and settlers
Other building craft organizations
may join the walkout
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
The Curiosity Shop

The dustiest air is found in cities.
In London, Edinburgh and Paris there
are from $4,000 to 10000 dust parti-
cles to the cubic ctntimeter. A cubic
centimeter is about the 18th part OF
the cubic inch. The air having the least
dust, as far as observations have been
made, is that of the western highlands
Of Scotland and the Swiss mountain
tops. In these regions there are from
l6 to 1900 PARTICLES of dust to the
cubic eentimctcr.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
Im-PRESS-ions
The Whistler

Do you ever hear him whistling
AS he passes along!
Or perhaps he just a-humming
An old-ti.ne sweet song.
1t may be all for sweetheart
At the turn of the road
Or he's just gath ring courage
To take up his big load.
But some way it seems TO cheer you,
Making brighter the day,
And your work seems somehow easy
And far brighter the way.
Now why can't we all be like him,
Whistling our way along,
Or perhaps be just a-humming
An old-time sweet song?
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
VICTORY

The municipal election yesterday resulted in a com
plee victory for the candidates of the Citizens ticket The
opposition at such extraordinary pains to direct the
fight at the Press and without justice what
ever to involve member of the Press staff in cam
pagn Of bitter personalities that find difficulty in
avoiding of personal triumph in the results of the
elections but this bit of human frailty which people will
quickly appraise and easily forgive. The real triumph
consists in the triumph of the things for which stood and
that victory does not belong the Press but to all of the
people
AS to the part of the newspaper in the campaign,
reminded again of that which has been said several
times in these columns. newspaper is exactly like you
and in this respect namely that has powerful in
fuence when is right and influence at all when is
wrong. In other words it is the RIGHT which has the
influence and not the the institution NotWlth-
standing its clientele it trouble for the
people to defeat newspaper whenever the newspaper sup
anything which does stand the test of and
All the cynical notions to the influence of irrational and
unworthy considerations swaying the public mind
unsupported People make their decisions themselves and
before any program can gain their support 1t must appeal
to their reason and their of right Year by year,
people submit less and less personal leadership and the
only instances where personal leadership survives those
in which it supported by right and reason and enght
ened initiative.
The Press believes very earnestly that the triumph of
the Citizens ticket is happy occasion for Ell Centre and
for the entire Imperial Valley Three clean minded clean
living successful business dragged from their
private affairs and given the banners of progressive citizen
ship they borne them victory is the triumph
optimism pessinsm faith doubt hope
Messrs Lavayea Fawcett and Anderson take their
nIaces on the citv council committed to nothing except to
the best interests of Ell Centre and to apply their
highest of right to each problem it presents itself
The people have confidence that they will do that and nave
given evidence thereof by their votes The Press bespeaks
for the city government successful and harmonious
administration.
The total number votes at the city election yes
terday was 1313-a number OF fatal portent for some
people!
Now that have this little municipal fracas off Of
our chests apply ourselves the next thing that OF
drainage bonds and the consolidation of the mutual
water companies into one big union,
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
The Bachelor Maid Says

II must be so nice to be a man. Any
woman will let him bore her for an
hour at a stretch, if, at minute in
tervals he pauses to remark, Il IN tell
ing YOU all this because you re the sort
that will understand. -
B. b. Herbert spots another high Ii;
cense number-736,425. That should
hold the high license number fans for
a while.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
Foolish Dictionary

Opportune-Arrival of money from
home.
A people can survive any folly OF
disaster except loafing.
1t is mt superiority that men hate,
but a pose of superiority.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
Old Timer Cogitates

] kin remember when the grocer used
to put good-sizcd spud on the spout
of the kerosene can.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
The Preacher Declares

Don { pray for character unless you
are willing that God should send IT
&. o. u.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

Assigning credit where credit is due, something should
be said of in which the election managed
Nearly everyone which include practical politicians
Ctbzens side we'll that of the Tax Payers
dsapproved of the plan upon which the election was staged
This dsapprova applied both to the hours of the election
consolidation of precincts The city council gave
an impressive demonstration and proved that by the ap.
pontment of competent election board and the use OF
brains in systematzng the thing the huge registration
could handled through precinct and one deprived
his There not half dozen people IN line at
the closing The percentage of the registration voted
being above the proved that everyone had
an opportunity exercise his right of suffrage All IN
all was of the most capaby handled elections that
even old timers and factor be noted by
the Tax Payers the plan saved the city hundreds OF
dollars.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

And they shall beat their swords into
plowsharcs and their idealism into title
to real estate.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
Did You Know

That years ago Great Britain bought
Newfoundland for $50!
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
Ahont Some Woman or Other

French war widows now wear "a spe'
cial band ring to signify that they are
eligible for another voyage on the sea
OF matrimony.
"TObasco Governor Oustcd - Mcxl-
can headline. Made it hot for him.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

The bobkworn generally has more in
side information, than it is possible to
worm out Of him.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

ANOTHER thing needed III these times
is more girls trying for the canning
competitions and fewer entering for the
beauty contests.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

The dairymen Of this section will observe with plea
sure that the Southern Pacific has reduced the freight rate
to gulf ports butter in hermeticay sealed containers
The cut fifty cents hundred. Every little helps.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11
Life's Little Lamcnts

IIIC LI1tV1C 1Id1IICIlUo
The services fine,
The menu right,
But gone-'tis sad
Ny appetite.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

II may be that W. G.. McAdoo really has ambitions 20
run for president years hence and that he came TO Los
Angeles further this desire Meantime ne Is setthg
right down TO business if he obivou OF any pro1es
sion of the law may well believe he Will soon be one
of the prominent barrters of the Pacific coast he Is
keeping quiet mooted question in every known Ian
page and adds the suspicion that there Is deep
down plot spring him for the highest of all honor Wheh
the time comes California turned the trick for McAdoos
ustrous faherin-aw in 1916 and be they figure
that California in the family In the language OF
Hawkshaw we shall see what we shall see
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

Los Angeles man is being prosecuted on the
Df grand larceny for stealing Ford. Machine mu
.een fully equipped if it wasn't petty larceny.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

BOIL weevil is threatening the crop in the cotton
fons Of the south So long the pest be excluded
Imperial Valley it will have big advantage IN produ
this staple. Another instance OF lmperlals superiority
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

Imperial Valley wool growers have just felt tn
Client effects Of a sharp advance in price. 1t is
roof Of the adage that all things to those who
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-11

The two sections of ireland having signed peace pact
If they will now only observe it there will be no trouble
about the four-power pact working like charm
Evening star., 1922-09-14
H0RNLOSESs650
.. IN A bUNK0 GAME
Washington Tailor victimlzed
. by SWindIers Whom He
p Met in London.

TAPPED for $3.50 by a suave English
man and a slippery Irishman was the
sad experience of Nathan Horn. local
tailor, while on a recent visit to ola
London town.
1t was not some new-fangled bunco
came, emanating from the great war;
for which the well known Washing
tonian forked over his perfectly good
American dollars. but the somewhat
frayed-a t-the-bottom string of beads
with cross at the end layout tnat
caused him to return to his hostelry
poorer but wiser.
Explaining the fleeing to repre-
sentative of the London Evening
Standard. Mr.. Horn. who has been
making an extended tour of Europe
with his family. said that he really
never believed he would be the victim
of such dead open and shut fraud
Briefly told. the local merchant was
jostled in front of the Russell Hotel
by a handsome Englishman, who said
that he, too, was an American tour
ist.
A conversation followed and the
stranger invited Mr.. Horn and his
family to accompany him on a visit to
the mint. Horn accepted.
The tickets for admission to the
mint were unprocurable. and instead
sightseeing trip around London was
agreed upon.
The Horns. with mfr Thomas"
had seen much of London when an
other stranger, walking directly in
front of them, dropped a string of
beads with cross attached.
"Mr. Thomas" picked up the beads,
ran and caught the stranger, who said
his name was O'Farrell. returned the
beads and invited him to join the
party.
o'Farrell accepted, and among 9TH
or things showed his newly made
friends a newspaper clipping purport-
Ing to prove that he had been left rich
oil wells in America.
when he knew l was from Wash
fngton," said Mr.. Horn. he said he
intended giving Walter Reed Hospi-
tai 100000 He said. though. that he
could not get to America, and wanted
to know if Mr.. Thomas and 1 would
stake him.
II hesitated at first, but Thomas
handed him some money. Then he
turned to me and said that my friend
trusted him, and why wouldn't I?
Something told me not to do it. but l
did. / poured out all 1 had The two
took short stroll. saying they would
be back presently. but that is the last
l saw of them. Well, we live to learn"
Evening star., 1922-09-14
LAWNS AND GARDENS
TO BE ADJUDICATED
Competition in Rhode Island Ave
nue. Section to End Friday-Prizes
Will Be Awarded.

Prize lawns and gardens will be
chosen in the beautiful Rhode Island
avenue section on Friday next, when
the lawn and garden competition,
which has been under way all summer
under auspices of the Rhode Island
Avenue Citizens Association, will be
brought to a close with the inspection
by judges accompanied by the COM
mittee in charge.
The judges will include Col. Charles
Keller. Engineer Commissioner of the
District of Columbia Col Clarence o.
Sheriff.. officer in charge of public
buildings and grounds, and Furman
l.. Mulford. horticulturist of the De-
partment of Agriculture. The judges
will be escorted over the territory
covered in the competition by the
committee on lawns, gardens and
parks of the association. consisting
OF Oscar F. Ellis. chairman; Robert
". Bailey. Robert A. Bolen, Columbus
Brashears. Conrad M. Clancy, R. H.
Ellsworth, John L. Knop. Ira B. Nut
ter, Morris E. Sabin and William S.
Torbert.
When the judges have made their
report of awards. a date will be set
for a special meeting of the associa-
ton early in October. when the prizes
donated by merchants of the locality,
nurserymen and seedmen and others
Will be presented.