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Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-22
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The SB class entertained us Wcdnes-
day morning at assembly with splendid
three part singing.
School Sport
Ell Centro played Imperial the tight
est game Of baseball that they have had
this season, resulting in the close score
of FL Centre 3, Imperial 4. William
Peters pitched an all round game, strik-
ing out nine and walking only two.
Thursday the high school freshmen
girls played indoor against the Wilson
SB class. The game resulted in a score
of % to % in favor of the SBs.
L. T. L. Meeting
The Loyal Temperance Legion met
in the auditorium of the Wilson school
Monday afternoon. te
1t was very interesting program
Mrs. Collier read us story about
Thomas Alva Edison, which we en-
joyed.
The minutes were read by Margaret
Carmichael. Then we gave our yells.
Beer and whiskey, both a curse
! drink water, safety first
Rose Hackett, ga
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-22
COMPLIMENTING SAN
DIEGO GUESTS

Pastor and Mrs. Arthur E. Schultz
of the Methodist church entertained
delightfully."- last night at their home
in compliment to Verne Ditmas, Ben
Worden and Wayne Powers who were
their houseguests for the Easter week.
The home was pretty in profuse floral
decorations carried out in varied colors
Of sweet peas. About forty guests
were present and most charming eve
ming was enjoyed. There were clever
games and stunts by the young folks,
music by Miss Elizabeth Greer and
other features which caused the guests
to linger until a late hour. Dainty re-
freshments were served by Mrs. Schultz
assisted by some of the young ladies.
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ENTERTAIN AT CARDS


Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Reams and Mr..
and Mrs. G.. j. Ellis entertained last
night at the Reams home on Orange
Avenue, which was profusely decorated
in sweet peas and greenery for the
charming occasion. The invited guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. S. f. Bragg, Mr..
and Mrs. c. f. Pitzer, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
l.. Travers, Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Sones,
Mr.. and Mrs. Bales Walker, Mr.. and
Mrs. George j. Phelps, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dave Matlock, Mr.. and Mrs. Wedding
ton Couch, Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Sisson,
Mr. and Mrs. Cy Young, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Richmond, Chief Cummings, Mr..
and Mrs. c. w. Barton, Mr.. Mont Reid,
Mrs. Estelle Smith, Mrs. Lockwood,
Miss Helen Kelso, Mr.. and Mrs. G. j.
Ellis, Miss Effie Cox and Miss Bartie
Reams.
Cards were played during the eve
ming, 500 being the choice of games.
Mrs. Bales G. Walker won the ladies
prize and Mr.. Mont j. Reid the gentle
men s. Mrs. J. l.. Travers won the con-
ISOLATION. Appropriate refreshments
were served.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-22
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

First church of Christ, scientist
holds all services in the new Elks' hall,
corner Sixth and State streets.
Sunday school at $3.50 a. m.
Sunday morning service s at IL
o clock.
Subject: "Probation After Death. -
Wednesday evening, Testimonial
meeting at o. o'clock.
The reading room IS located in the
Davis building, corner Fifth and Main
streets, and is open daily, except Sun
days and legal holidays, from ~ o clock
noon to 4 p. m.
All are welcome to the services and
the reading room.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-22
SPECIAL MUSIC AT THE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Special numbers will feature the
music at the Presbyterian church to-
morrow, Mrs. Theodore l.. Barnes di-
recting. The Easter spirit will still be
noted in the program. ''Rejoice, the
Lord is King by Berridge, will be
the anthem number by the chorus choir.
Mr.. Howard Enyart will sing baritone
solo, "Jerusalem," by Parker, and
Mrs. Bert Brewer will preside at the
piano.
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Barstow, New Nation; Best Short
Stories; Blanchard, A Frontier Knight; !;
Brown, Round Robin; Glimpses of Pio-
neer Life; .Kochm, A Little Journey
Through the Great Southwest; Lamp
rey, Days OF the DISCOVERIES; Lee,
When l was a Boy in China; Mexican,
Scouting Thrills; Marshall, Peggy in
Toyland; Marshall, Fairy Tales Of all
Nations; Mathews, The Aragonauts of
Faith; Seaman, Dragons s Secret; Shi-
oya, When L was a Boy in Japan;
Smith, Candy Shop Cottontails; Tanner
Red Mans Forest; Tomlinson, Young
People s History Of the American Rev
olution.
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prize, Mrs. A. NJ. Shenk, the second and

prize, Mrs. A. M. Shenk, the second and
Mrs. Carrie Wright the consolation.
Mrs. Chester Moore is entertainin
with bridge this afternoon, the Wom-
ans Improvement club will give a
bridge Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. A. L.
Rice will entertain Monday afternoon
at bridge and Mrs. Luman Ferrell will
entertain the Friday bridge club at her
country home in the Beech neighbor-
hood with many Calexieo guests pres
ent
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-22
WEsTsIDE CLUB TO MEET

Tho Westside club of Seeley will be
entertained Thursday at the home of
Mrs. Tips, the day to begin with the
usual Tot luck luncheon at noon. Mrs.
Roy Westmorland, Mrs. J. d. Moughmer,
Mrs. L. A. Hull and Mrs. j. c. Vaughn
are working on the year book and will
present something of their plans to the
club Thursday.
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FOR NEAR EAST RELIEF

box social was held at social hall
last night as a benefit for the Near
East relief fund of the Methodist
church. The room was decorated in
yellow throughout and the young ladies
serving were quaint and pretty in yel-
low caps and aprons. A tidy little sum
was realized for the relief work and all
enjoyed Z delightfully."- social evening
together.
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CHURCH NOTICES
ST. PAuL,s EPISCOPAL CHURCH
M. x. Crawford, Rector.

Holy communion, 500 a. M; church
school 9:45 a. m; Holy communion and
sermon II a. m.; Easter music repeated.
Sunday, April 80, church school 9:45
a. m.; evensong and sermon 1880 p. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-22
LUNCHEON AT PARISH HALL

The business men and general public
are cordially invited to lunch at Parish
hall, corner Fifth and Olive, next Tues
day at noon. The ladies of st. Paul s
Guild will serve a home cooked lunch
con and hope to have with them large
number of friends for the occasion. A
reasonable price will be charged to
cover expenses and raise money to be
used in work of the church.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-22
CELEBRATE GRANTS

In accordance with instructions from
Will c. Wood of the state department
Of instruction, Central Union high
school will celebrate the birthday of
U. S. Grant, Civil war hero, and former
president of the United States, on
Thursday of next week. The program
will be held at the hour of assembly
in the auditorium, with Harry b. Eli
son delivering the address.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-22

Uncontrolled fires in the forests, hay,
grain and pasture areas of California
did damage last summer estimated at
approximately one million dollars to
say nothing of the killing of thousands
of baby trees.
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-22

Grace Nelson, a 100 per cent.
American singer, Of Kansas City,
has launched campaign for better
interpretations of "made-in-Amer-
lea" songs. Miss Nelson received
all Of her operatic training in this
country where she declares both
teachers and music are as good as
any across the pond American bal
Imperial Valley press., 1922-04-22

lads, explains Miss Nelson, are
without equal both for tone and
appeal and should be sung moro
extensively. She offers "Swanes
River Moon," a waltz ballad. which
is so simple that anyone who has a
piano can play it and so rhythinical
that any one at all can dance to It.
as the perfect type OF pure American
song.
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Preparing His Lesson

The other day we were studying dlS-
count in arithmetic class. 1t was told
that one of the boys went into groc-
cry store and asked, Chow much will
three pounds of 'spuds' at l0c a pound,
six pounds Of oranges at SOC a pound,
and two packages Of Jello at l2c each,
with 10 per cent discount, come to?"
"That will be $3.46. Do you want
it delivered?"
"No, that s my arithmetic lesson for
tomorrow, and the boy walked out.
Sammy Eastman, 8B.
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Do You Best

Do your very best each day,
Then the morrow will repay
All the good that you have done
By the hearts that you have won.
Think and act and speak and do
All that's well and good and true,
For this life is not just living;
1t is trying, doing, giving.
Warren Stone, 8A
A Limerick
T have n hio airdale named Dick:
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A Limerick

I have a big airdale named Dick;
I haven't yet taught him trick;
But out in the yard
He rollics very hard
And sometimes he brings me a stick.
-ROherta Edpar SR
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Copyright 1929
THE TIMBER LINE

The term timber line is generally misun-
derstood. It really refers to the elevation
above the sea at which trees cease to grow,
even with favorable soil conditions. This
varies with the position on the earth with
respect to temperature and rainfall 1t is
highest at the equator, lowest at sea level in
the arctic regions.
Trees make the most exacting demands
upon soil and climate of almost any forms
OF vegetable life. Timber is the last and
highest form Of vegetation in region, and
is never present unless the requirements for
growth and seed production are met In a
mountainous and rocky region disintegration
comes first, then lichens and MOSES, later
come grasses ANIMALS and biennals, shrubs,
and, finally, trees.
But there is region above which no trees
will grow. In tropical Andes the altitude is
about 10000 feet; in Colorado it is between
10000 and 1000 feet; in northern Mon
tana about $500 feet The timber line alti-
tude gradually lowers until, near the arctic
circle, the land of the sticks marks the last
bit Of timber growth, on an approximate
level of the sea.
Too short season for growth of seeds on
the tree, too much evaporation due to warm
winds in summer, insufficient soil cover of
seeds, insufficient or too much moisture, any
all combined, will cause absence of tim
Der growth Mountain timber line is caused
by short season-Prof. M. J. Elrod, Chair
of Biology, University Of Montana
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Copyright, 1929

in the shade. They expressed expert, based-or
experience opinions as to which garment:
shown were good values and which were at
tractiYe but Shoddy.
Must Shop for Bargains
A representative of the Woman'S Bureau who
approved the values of good many of the
articles exhibited, pointed out that one factor
should be considered, and the factor was one
that wage boards have not generally thought
of. She said that she believed most of the
satisfactory exhibits to be the best buys of the
particular stores from which they came That
is, only one store showed shirt waists at $3.50.
Another store exhibited a silk dress at 1850.
But the store employe with little time for
shopping ought not to be asked to make a
complete round of the stores to hunt out these
exceptional values, the expert explained.
The minimum wage employe is expected to
buy as cheaply as she can without sacrificing
wearing values But her budget should not be
made up from exceptional cases of unusual
store values, nor from bargain prices. The
clerk can rarely attend bargain sales. She has
no surplus funds to buy winter coat cheap
in May for use next winter And such bargain
counters as she does reach are apt to be piled
with pladS and gay colorS, which employees
are not allowed to wear in most shops. These
things women bring up at the wage hearings
The encouraging feature of minimum wage
legislation to the persons working for it is that
broader viewpoint is prevailing. Small
amounts very small of course, are being allow
ed for vacation, dentist and doctors bills,
recreation, and carfare.
The carfare item, eight round trips week,
was contested in this city. The girls could
and should walk 80 work, an employer on the
board held. Public Health woman doctor
answered that while walking might be hea1thful
exercise it is impossible to force people to
take exercise by cutting down wages.
"A girl, or you, or l." she said, twill ride to
work to save her energy and skimp on her
lunch
The Public Health doctor also scored sand
wich and pie lunches and advocated a substan-
tial luncheon for the woman who must 20 back
to work all afternoon. To the suggestion that
Government workers who make higher salaries
average 10 cents for lunches in one Bureau the
doctor retorted that no girl should be kept
from buying a substantial lunch by lack of
money She may choose to save the money
tor something else, but she should have the
choice to take care of her health.
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GIVE ZEN WHAT THEY WANT
Bv DR.. Frank Crane

God forbid that I should ever own
newspaper or attempt to manage one! IL
takes yaster quantities of both courage ana
tact than I possess.
But if I did own newspaper, or nave
the say over one, I would have depart
ment in it devoted to the oldest known SUD-
iect Of human interest, subject upon
which the entire population Of the earth IS
thinking about every day Of the world
I mean the soul, which implies GOD
There is no one human being who reads
these lines that within the last twenty-four
hours has not interestedly considered some
such matters as these:
Why was born?
What will become Of me when ole!
How can I attain self-mastery!
Am I doing right or wrong?
ought TO he ashamed or proud OF my
self? .
Am I doing the square thing by my fam
lily and my friends?
How can I get poise, avoid worry, be
happy, and be decent?
What can I do to make amends Tor my
mistakes or deeds Of selfishness or otner
evil?
Now, all of these questions are distinctly
sniri+ua1. that is, they have to 90 WIFI US
os snirits. or minds not as animals.
And they are thought about by the tlfty
millions of Americans who do not regularly
90 TO church as much as by the others
who do.
Everybody thinks about them Even
burglars chicken thieves, harlots, gamblers
and confidence men think about them.
The newspaper has it's financial page, us
sporting columns, it's society rubr1c, and us
nolitical section; but each of these appears
to class, while the things of the spirit
appeal to all, and are of true democracy.
There is no reason why the church should
monopolize them. They belong to the hui
man race.
would run such feature in my paper,
not to do good, nor to uplift, but for the
same reason anybody publishes paper at
all. which is to make living, to make
money; and you make money by interesting
people, by printing what they like to read.
In other words, I would do this because
the public would like it.
Of course such subjects would have to be
treated by the best writer / could hire,
man with wordcraft enough to write enter
taining1y and skill enough to keep anyone
from accusing him Of being propaganda,
whether Jew, Catholic, Protestant or Free
Thinker.
He should ignore all such distinctions,
and write straight to human spirits and give
Them the help they need.
Such man would need to be sincere,
truthful, sane, frank, clever, and have
sense of humor and deal of sound COM
mon sense.
People want faith, courage, beauty; why
not give it to them? They don't want pes
simism, cynicism, and smart aleck talk;
why give them so much of it?
copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane.l
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THE IMPATIENT,
By H. Addington Bruce

TVERYWHERE they are to be found
men chatting at the slowness Of their
49, rise in the business world.
They have gone into that world with hopes
and ambitions equally high. Taking this man
or that as an exemplar of the success they
dream Of winning, they have said to them
selves:
"Only little while and I shall be where
he isl
But somehow things have not worked out
that way. Salary increases, promotions
have not been forthcoming with the expected
rapidity. Confident Of their ability, the i'm
patient ones too often become both FESTIVE
and resentful.
Naturally they try to account for the de-
lay that gals them. And sometimes, alas!
the explanations they advance lead them into
serious errors of conduct, errors which invite
and almost always receive heavy penalties
Not a few of the impatient, scheduled
into the false belief that favoritism counts
for most in determining business progress,
become despicable toadies. To flatter and ca
jole their superiors seems to them mat
ter of much greater Importance than to
improve the quality Of their work.
Others, under the same delusion of pro-
polling power of favoritism, degenerate into
shop intriguers or office politicians. In
their impatience to rise their sense of honor
atrophies, they lose all sympathy for their
others of, livelihood matters not whit
to them.
And there are some who, led astray by
this same lamentable Impotence, pass to
outright theft. OF such the embezzlers
atrophies, they lost all sympathy for their
and those who borrow" from their employ
ers for speculative purposes.
"I'll wait no longer" their argument runs
"a mans a fool to slave as I have been doing
for pittance If I can't have what I ought
to have one way I'll have it another"
Even when impotence does not undermine
the character to such a degree it always
damages 1t breeds depression and irritable
ity, it fosters discord in the homes as in the
working place, it clouds the judgment, 1t
makes for an increasing inefficiency. Hence
always it's tendency Is to the Illustration OF
the hopes Of those who yield to it.
Surely among the virtues which every man
in business should cultivate-and especially
every young man-patience holds foremost
place.
1t may be difficult, often it is difficult in
deed to be patient. But when impatience
governs, failure becomes almost inevitable.
And often to failure is added disgrace.
Whereas with patience-and due diligence
success of a conspicuous sort may be at
tanned, not merely by the talented, but also
by those whom nature has none too generous
ly endowed. AS the old Dutch proverb has
it:
"An ounce of patience is worth a pound
of brains
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DOROTHY DIX TALK Sd
Diplomatic Mothers

Remark in Johnnies presence that
Johnnie has beautiful table manners, that
Johnnie always takes off his hat in an
elevator in which there are women, and
Johnnie becomes Lord Chesterfield be-
cause he feels that he has a reputation
to sustain, but deplore Johnnie's lack of
manners publicly and continually, and you
simply confirm Johnnie in his boorish-
ness.
Most Of us are clay in the hands of
the jollier, and children are no exception
to the rule. Any mother will find that she
can do more with her children with praise
than fault-fnding, and that if she will
compliment their neatness they will take
care of their clothes, if she will call at
tention to their proficiency in their studies
they will strive to make good her
encomiums, and that they will generally
live up to the standards she has set for
them. I,
A diplomatic mother will also find that
a little judicious ridicule is more effective
than many sermons. No other creature on
earth is sensitive as a child, and no
mother with heart in her bosom, or a
grain of sense in her head ever laughs
at her child. But she turns the battery
of her humor with deadly effect on the
things from which she wishes to save her
child.
You may tell a girl, for instance, that
man is drunkard, rogue, and that
he is tri1ing and no account, and she
will love him and marry him still, but
laugh at him for being provincial, make
fun Of his Adams apple, or the way his
hair is cut, or call attention to his
trousers being too baggy, or too tight
and you disenchant her at once.
The things that infuriates the young
more than anything else is to be treated
as if they were young. The diplomatic
mother knows this, and she suggests in
stead of orders; she consults instead Of
arbitrarily deciding things, and nine times
out of ten the young when they have
had their dignity appeased are glad to
follow the more mature judgment.
And the tactful mother never nags. She
says a thing once, and lets it go at that
because she knows that the impression
that thing makes on us is in direct
ratio to it's rarity. The woman who for
ever dins her advice into our ears be-
comes like the humning of a mosquito,
pestilentia1 but sound to which we shut
our ears as much as possible. If mothers
would study diplomacy in dealing with
their children we should hear no more
complaint Of unmanageable youngsters.
For every one Of us can be worked by
those who know how.
Copyright, 1929
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~ VERY mother should be a diplomat.
n Instead Of which she is generally a
40 cow in a china shop.

VERY mother should be diplomat.
n Instead Of which she is generally a
- cow in china shop.
She yearns to have her children con-
fidential with her. Their most casual
acquaintance knows more Of their inner
lives than she does. She feels that she
has a right to guide their lives. They
accept any strangers advice sooner than
they do hers. She gives her very life
in devotion to them, and they repay her
love with Impotence.
No complaint is oftener on a mothers
lips than that she can't manager her
children. The reason is that she doesn't go
about it in the right way. The old strong
arm method Of coercfng a child along the
straight and narrow way has passed away,
and the majority Of mothers have not had
wisdom enough to know that you must
deal with the modern child in the modern
way.
That means that the mother who wishes
to control her children must do it by di-
plomacy instead of by force. She must
lead instead of drive. She must beguile
them into the ways of Righteousness in
stead of scourging them into it. She must
stimulate instead Of terrorize.
OF course, the idea Of using any d.
plomacy in dealing with their children
in a startling one to most women, and one
that will not appeal to them. They feel
that they have perfect right to say what
they please to the members Of their fam
lily, when and where they please, and that
it is asking too much of them to expect
them to spare the sensibilities Of a mere
infant.
Therefore, mother has no hesitation in
correcting Johnny before people, or betray-
ing Mary's secret, or holding Sallie up to
ridicule, and then she wonders why it is
that her children are not confidential with
her, and that they keep out of her pres
ence as much as possible.
1t is a strange thing that a woman can
bear child, and watch it's daily develop
ment without ever taking the trouble to
find out what the key is to it's character.
She leaves others to find out the combina-
ton by which her own child can be worked,
and then she weeps because a strangers in
fluence is more potent than hers.
Mothers know so little of the psy-
cho1ogy Of their own children that they
apparently never find out that children are
even vainer than grown people, and may be
flattered into doing things that wild horses
could not drive them into doing. You
can correct a child for a breach Of good
manners a million times and he or she
will go on committing the same error,
but you can praise it for good manners
and turn it into a polished little lady or
gentleman.