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Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-22
No Rough Stuff
Pictures in Java

HOLLYWOOD, May. 22.- The
white element on the island Of Java
a Dutch possession, treat the ma
tives to film exhibitions frequently,
but they are always nice pictures,
with no killings nor fighting scenes.
DR.. J. B. Hubrecht, secretary of
the Dutch legation at Washington,
speaking here said:
"It would be bad business to al
low Indian or cowboy pictures in
Java. Following the showing of
one such picture, the natives start
ed out to emulate the hero with the
result that several were killed be-
fore the riot was quelled. -
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-22
TOM SIMS SAYS

just as we were thinking of recog
nizing Mexico, she starts shipping
garlic into this country.
Blessed are the slick, for they
have inherited the earth.
They say Paris women are wearing
pantalettes, but we say it may be a
safety pin shortage.
Adding bread crumbs to hambur.
ger makes it more tender, and also
makes it more hamburger.
Ambassador Harvey says he is
mot fool, but you never can tell if
diplomats arc telling the truth.
1t is hard to make a fat man mad
all over. This is too much.
Two Baltimore couples married
while dancing a marathon. We told
you marathon dances were danger.
Gus.
Radium is down to. 500 900, 900 a
pound now, but hold out while
longer before buying much.
There are very few hooks sewn on
the spring dresses, but there are
many eyes glued on them.
Knowing how to do thing is
only half Of it. Lots of us know
how to fish, but can T go fishing.
The fine thing about having
wife is you can lose vour things and
ask her where she hid them.
Strawberry shortcalge is good
tonic. Take one after each meal.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-22
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE OF
SALE

In the Superior Court Of the County
Of Imperial State Of
California
JOHN s. CAMERON, Trustee.
Plaintiff
MARVIN MOORE, EMMA B.
MOORE, ct al, Defendants.
Under and by virtue of an order
of sale and decree of foreclosure
issued out of the Superior Court of
the County of Imperial, State of
California, on the 10th day of May
1928, in the above-entitled action,
in said Superior Court, wherein the
above.named plaintiff obtained a
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-22
WORKERS STRIKE ON
NEEDLES BUILDING

NEEDLES, Cal, May 22.-Struc-
tural steel workers employed on
construction of the Santa Fe's
$S50,O00 preceding plant here,
were on strike today. Fifty strike
breakers have been imported to
keep the construction moving and
deputy sheriffs have been dispatch
ed from San Bernardino to preserve
order.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-22
NO GAIN FOR PAINS

Bimbo-Did your garden win any
prizes last summer!
Timbo-Indirectly, yes. Ny neigh
boris chickens took first prize at
the poultry show.
-"Topics of the Day. Films
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-22
THE FIRE TAX

The National Fire Protection Association
that fire collects national tax Of approx
mately $1,000 minute. Every year $4,000 lives and
than S500000,000 lost through fires, 80 per
tax to pay for carelessness.
There is always a good deal Of grumbling the
part of worthy citizens against the direct they
must pay local, state and federal governments These
citizens camOr and rightly enough, Tor economy in
government expenditures. But they forget all about
the needless taxes they pay for their careessness
This so-called fire tax is only one Of several.
More interest in fireproof budings--both private
residences and office public buildings-with general
nsstence proper heating and lighting systems and
common caution in the storing use Of combus
be articles, would to reduce at least one heavy
tax burden now borne by the nation.
The distance to Los Angeles has been reduced
something like three hundred miles by the completion
OF that new strip of highway from Banning to Indio.
1t remains to exploit those Turkish conces-
sions in Asia Minor, and all that is lacking is another
Marmion to shout, Charge Chester, Charge"
We have an occasional spee of warm weather in
Imperial Valley just enough to put the mellow in the
melons, but we don't have any cyclones
Germany tactfplly refraned, the other day. from
celebrating the sinking of the Lusitana. Let by
cones be bygones' is her policy
Germany thinks that what France wants is not
German reparatOn but German separation. What
France really wants is both.
The German mark has gone down to about dol
lar for carload. 1t is what may be called mark
down price.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-22
BY CONDO
- ys-zr<vls-

And if the rubber boot doesn t
try to turn into a satin slipper for
the rag doll when she goes to the
Jumping Jacks party, I'll tell you
next abut Uncle Wiggily and the
basket of Sawdust.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-22

The distance to Los Angeles has been reduced
something like three hundred miles by the completion
of that strip of highway from Banning to Indio.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-22

1t remains now to exploit those Turkish conces-
sions in Asia Minor and all that is lacking is another
Marmion to shout, charge, Chester Charge!"
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-22

We have occasional speel of warm weather in
Imperial Valley, just enough to put the mellow in the
melons, but we don't have any cyclones.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-22

Germany thinks that what France wants
ierman reparation but German separation
france really wants is both.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-05-22

Germany tactfully refrained, the other da
celebrating the sinking of the Lusitania 'L
cones be bygones" is her policy
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
By Albert W. Tolnan

directions. Operating room COLO
quialisms filled the air, remarka
which never get into the papers, but
which show that medical men still
are human.
Malachi fought with all the limbs
he had. He kicked one doctor. He
knocked another down. He tipped
screen over; behind it, like Turk
ing tiger, grinned his enemy the
insurance surgeon.
:. Finally they had him on the hip.
The two strong varlets gripped his
arms; a pair of nurses held his legs;
20O-pound janitor sat on his stom-
ach. He couldn't strike or kick or
even bite. The ward physician fas-
tened strongle-hoid on his throat.
and pushed back his head
The poor fellows off his nut"
painted he pityingly. "Stifle him,
Doc"
Grinning more fiendishly than ever,
the insurance surgeon damned the
ether cone down over his nose and
he was black in the face. and saw
a hundred Milky Ways; at last he
had to fill his lungs, and Old Doc
Ether got in his dirty work. jim
son took the count, and went off in
a roaring Niagara of fireworks.
He came to with stabbing ache
in his hip. and his arms held i'm
movably in straitjacket. His enc
my and the house surgeon were look
ing at him.
I'll guarantee that hip never'l1
pop out again." said the hospital
man That metal bonell hold it
in place until he sprouts wings"
Malachi's Nemesis only grinned
pleasantly.
They didn't take off the strait
jacket. until the wound had healed;
and Unison was discharged, cured.
At the first opportunity he tried to
throw his hip out, but found that he
couldn't. He faced d cold, heartless
world reduced once more to the me-
cessity Of going back to plumbing.
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The Girl He Left Behind Him

MacNeil turned slowly. He hadn't
heard a word the other man had said
but he nodded vaguely. He coulnd't
speak just then.
Hooper went out and Lennon went
with him to get his lunch. MacNeil
slumped back in his chair, his face
hagard When the boy presently
opened the door, he didn't even look
up. He didn't hear the footsteps that
came swiftly into the room. 1t was
the sight of a small hand resting on
his desk that reused him. He looked
up at her his heart beating wildly.
you shouldn't be here he said
you're married, you know"
And then her arms were around his
neck. She was crying and laughing
and speaking all at once. as women
do when they are shaken with emo
ton. Il called myself Mrs. Marshall
because in the other place the men
We're always asking me to go OUT
she said.
But that man you were with in
the square,"
It's my brother back from South
America. Don't you remember? l
told you about him"
MacNeil sat up and pushed his
hand through his hair. Mrs. Mar
shall,' he said thoughtfully; I've
new job for you and this time you
can call youself Mrs. MacNeil.
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Sometimes, indeed he made mistakes:
sometimes. fortune was against him.
Once a three thousand dollar verdict
was nullified by the defendants
going into bankruptcy, and pay
ing only ten per cent, leaving Mala-
chi in debt to his own lawyer.
He grew wise in the ways of sur
geons and hospitals. He dared not
repeat Doctor Coue's formula, Day
by day in every way l am getting
better and better" lest inadvertently
he might cure himself, and destroy
his means of livelihood.
AT last he was unlucky enough to
take out an accident policy. On his
next coup. he locked horns with the
insurance company. He won, but the
surgeon was suspicious and insult
ing.
Il believe you're a crook. I'll get
you yet
Malachi felt uneasy. and with good
reason. His next accident came only
a week later in the same city, and
against his will. A taxi stole up on
him in the dusk. and sped away
after knocking him senseless.
AS he was browsing comfortably
in the hospital one afternoon, the
ward doctor, accompanied by two
stout knaves with stretcher, halt
ed beside his bed. Soon, Malachi
found him on the table in the
operating room.
What are you going to do?" he
demanded suspiciously.
Fix your hip, SO that you'll never
have any more trouble with it," the
surgeon treasured him.
Malachi came wide awake in a
moment. These thugs We're prepar-
ing to steal away his living.
Help! Murder! Police, he shouted
1t was very pretty fracas. Malachi
gave gallant imitation of Samson,
fighting for life. liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness; but the Philistines
were too many for him. Pans. band
ages, knives and lancets flew in all
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
The Cocaine Smugglers

money. Our plan worked like
charm. When l received a requisi-
ton for drugs from Marshall, if it
had his initials, | would fill it with
cocaine and outfits and forward it
as SO much medicine; then when Mar
shall. at the hospital, received it,
he in turn would enter it on his books
as medical supplies, then expend it
by entering in his ledger: Used up
in treatment This would destroy
any evidence of his crooked work;
and when the inspector examined his
books, he would find everything cor
rect.
In courtmartial cases a confession
obtained from the accused is not con-
sidered as good evidence If not sub
stantiated, so We arranged for Blake
to return to his post with the under
standing that if he would help us
catch Marshall, we would recommend
tG the general that he be given con-
sideration for his work. We then
awaited the next requisition from
Marshall; and when it was filled. we
marked every bottle with a secret
mark. Hines. at the hospital. was
warned as to what was going on, and
he watched the cache. When the
shipment came in, Marshall entered
it up as SO much medicine and placed
the dope in his cache. Then he
started to sell it.. This was suffi-
cient evidence. so we arrested him
as well as the men who had just pur-
chased the dope. Searching the
prisoners we found they all had our
secretly marked bottles Of the drug.
With Marshall under arrest we had
the French bring to Bordeaux the
men whom we had arrested on the
frontier and who lad since then been
in jail at Henday. Through their
confessions were ultimately found
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
INTESTINAL COLO
Nv DIR. CHARLOTTE c. WEST

By collie is meant spasm OF mu-
cous canal. In children the faVorlte
seat is the intestinal canal because
of the digestive disorders so ire
auently visited upon them. During
infancy collie is quite common, espe-
cially in bottle-fed baby. Artificial
feelings, however competently pre-
pared, never reach the standard OF
human milk, so your baby may be
given too much of this or too much
of that in his feelings. so that I'M
die .sted curds accumulate in his lit
tie bowels and cause him extreme
suffering.
nursing mother may give her
child collie through errors in her
diet, in her hygiene and in many 9TH
er ways.
The treatment of collie is very sim
Pile For quick relief give an enema
of soap and water or of warm camo-
mile tea. Take an ounce Of German
camomile flowers and steep them in
quart Of boiling water for 10 or
Is minutes, then strain. With the aid
of a rectal tube allow one or two
pints of camomile tea at a tempera
ture of 100 degrees to ITO degrees
Fahrenheit, no hotter, to flow slowly
into the rectum and colon. When the
canal is thoroughly flushed with this
warm tea, and emptied of its con-
tents, the trouble will usually disap-
pear In addition to washing the
colon, it is a good plan to apply a
small bag of camomile flowers or
ground flaXseed meal Cheated in the
even to a comfortable warmth) over
the child's abdomen. Make a bag OF
cheesecloth that will hold about two
x.,;t I
sew up carefully and it is ready for
use. Several of these bags can be
made and kept on hand for such an
emergency, and one can be heating
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10

The old home town basking drow-
silly in the warm sunshine, looked
good to John MacNeil after his three
years in New York, but it wasn't be-
cause of the familiar stores that
stood along the main street in such
higgledy piggledy fashion, tall and
short square and squat wood and
brick and stone, all mixed up. There
was something home like after the
towering loneliness of lower Man
haitian, but if he noticed that at all
it was merely a fleeing impression.
He stood at the corner of the block
when he came out of the depot This
was where he had proposed tC her,
he remembered his eyes twinklinG,
1t was in the middle of winter and
there had been heavy snowstorm;
and just as he stopped for her answer
an avalanche of snow slumped off
the roof and stretched them flat on
the sidewalk.
And 1 held her there until she said
yes" he muttered Gave man stuff.
she called it, but she liked it. Gosh!
They all do"
And away he swung again, down
Market street, up Main street, across
Lincoln Square, and down the little
street where her firm was located.
1t was after II o'clock and so he was
sure she would be there. She had
changed her job and had sent him the
new address a year ago.
The girl at the information desk
was of the flapper type, all legs and
wings like a spring chicken he
thought amusedly, as he asked for
Edna Burke. She smiled a. his ques-
ton, a little mockingly, or so he
thought.
Miss Burkew he said again. and
there was a snap in his voice this
time
You mean Mrs. Marshall" she said
at last
II mean Miss Burke"
She's Mrs. Marshall now. It's the
same one. She used to be Enda
Burke. / worked with her at her
other place"
MacNeil passed his hand slowly
across his cheek He felt as if his
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Hip!

German of Al, was thrown violent
ly to the ground by a grocery wagon;
he had the good fortune to roll just
clear of the wheels. At the hospital
his right hip was found to be dis
located 1t cost the concern $500 to
adjust the damages.
A month later. a Pole, Ladislas
Ladislaski, was knocked over in
Cleveland by a heavy furniture van.
The Granger Liability company, after
an examination by their own physi-
clan, paid $500 cash and all expenses,
including a fortnight at first-class
hotel.
Five weeks afterward in Minneap-
oils. a Dane, Jens Jensen, fell under
the wheels of Mrs. Goldvelt's limou-
sine in Waterloo park. The lady
stoutly insisted that the man had
thrown himself before her machine.
like devotee of Juggernaut. on the
contrary. the Dane testified with evil
dent unwillingness that he had tried
his best to escape. but that she had
run him down. His lawyer made
much of his clients reluctance to
throw the blame on a woman; and the
jury, after being out 10 minutes,
awarded him $1,000 against the tear
full and excited protests of Mrs. Gold
Welt, whose own husband believed
she was at fault, but who fought the
case on principle.
The strange thing was that all
these different victims inhabited
the earthly tenement of Malachi
Jimson.
AS the experienced prospectCr dis
covers wealth in the common soil,
over which thousands have thought
lessly trodden. so Malachi garnered
nuggets, overlooked by the careless
crowd. While he was spelling the
Egyptians, he lived on the fat of the
land. AS he rested comfortably in the
hospital in one city, he drafted his
next campaign with Napoleonic skill.
Whenever he needed money. an ac-
cident occurred. Either the party
compromised, or fought furiously; the
award by a sympathetic jury was
generally larger than the damages
would have been in a settlement out
of court. Malachi, however, vastly
preferred the latter method. for he
did not then have to divide the spoil
with his lawyer.
The business was nc more difficult
or dangerous than football, and in
comparably more profitable. Malachi
had everything calculated to nicely.
He eschewed witnesses. He banned
contributory negligence. Electric
cars he stunned like a pestilence. He
had seen a man gathered up from
under fender, and he felt no desire
to have his own profitable career
terminated SO abruptly.
He became keen observer of the
habits of prosperous people. 1t took
Judgment to select the right car and
the right driver. There was no money
n being knocked down by Ford.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10
BY FRANK WALL

But you don't look we'll" he
quavered; Il guess New York didn't
agree with you"
"Im all right" said MacNeil
vaguely and he began to ask ques-
lions about the paper.
Lennon showed him what was
necessary and said he was staying on
for a few weeks tC get him started
He insisted on MacNeil taking the
editorial chair by the window and
went to a desk at the other side of
the room.
Boys were rushing in all the time
with proofs. The foreman of the COM
posing room wanted instructions
about recasting the front page for
the afternoon edition. Hooper, the
editorial writer, came to suggest a
change in one of the editorials in
the noon edition. Lennon referred
them all to MacNeil and he answered
them in his quick incisive fashion,
but his face was like mask over
the despair that was gnawing at his
heart.
Then you think this editorial
should be changed?" said Hooper.
MacNeil was staring out of the
window. He saw Edna coming
slowly across the square, her arm
linked with that of good-looking
young fellow, at whom she was
glancing continually.
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(COnt1nue0 r rom rage f1Fet
didn't require much effort on the part
of Clark to discover all the requisi-
lions from Bassens, the main supply
base, were handled by one man. Cor
poral Blake. Clark secured copies of
the requisitiCns, checked them up,
and found the majority had, in addi-
ton to the name of the medical Of
ficer of the hospital, the initials of
Marshall in the lower left hand cor
ner.
With this information in our pos
session, we decided to try and force
a confession cut of Blake. Under the
cover of darkness Blake was arrested
and smuggled out of the camp. nor
did we tell him the reason for his
arrest. By daylight he was in our
office at Bordeaux.
An Illusion About The A. f. F.
There have been many stories cir
culated about the cruelty practiced
on the American soldiers in France.
80 per cent of which is all bunk"
Never did we attempt to secure a
present and then never by the use
of physical force. We found there is
nothing so effective with a certain
type of soldier in causing him to lose
his bravado as in silence. How by
silence?" you ask. Put a suspect in
room with an officer and--com-
pletely ignore him. If he is guilty,
in nine cases out Ct ten, he will
eventually confess-the strain is too
great to hold out against.
Blake was placed in a chair behind
me, but so arranged that he could see
my face and my desk in a mirror.
Then began the battle of wits. With
out speaking a word | first took up
Blake's descriptive card, which con-
tanned his complete record; next, l
took pencil and marked down on
the top of the page, so that he could
see it, the name of his father and
mother; then l commenced to read
the acquisitions, sorting out those
which had initials on them. For over
an hour this combat of silence went
on. Blake was now beginning to
twist and turn in his chair. First
he would watch my face in the mir
ror; thdn the magnet of those requi-
sitions would pull his eyes downward
and he would stare at those papers
as if trying to blot out the telltale
marks. Unable to watch them any
longer, his eyes would turn toward
the notations l was so industriCu sly
making in the book. The suspense
was becoming too great for him.
Breaking the silence he asked what
the penalty was for what he had done.
| told him it all depended upon him
self. since we knew about it; and
building a case out of what we had
succeeded in finding out linked with
what we surmised, l asked him if it
was true.
Yes. major, it's all true just as
you have stated it, Let me eXplain!'
and then he told us the whole story.
Sergeant Marshall and l were
chums in the states; and when we
found that we were in a position to
profit by stealing and selling cocaine,
we could not resist the opportunity
to make some easy money. Marshall
did the selling while | attended to
supplies, and we spit even on the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-10

The world has made human door,
mats out of thousands of fine men.
Has the world got you on your
knees? Has it sapped your muscle,
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face was frozen. Dye mean she's
married?' he asked gently.
Il guess so. Next, please
Thank you" he said mechanically
and he walked out.
Some men would have insisted on
seeing her, but what was the use?
only one concession he made to the
passion that was shaking him. He
called up her firm and asked for Mrs.
Marshall; and when he heard her
voice he put the receiver back on
the hook and went to take up his new
job without even speaking to her.
He had planned to surprise her
with his return. Well. she had sur
prised him, that was all. Her letters
had been strange for some time. He
might have known. Shed probably
found some one with more money.
When he was recently offered the
editorship of the paper where he had
started his newspaper career as a
cub reporter, he thought it was the
most wonderful thing that had ever
happened in his life. His three years
in New York had not weakened his
longing for the old home town of his
birth. In all his letters to Edna
Burke he had dwelt on his ambition
to make good in metropolitan news
paper work; but all the time
though he was too proud to own 1t
after the way he had reproached her
for not wanting him to go-he had
just lcnged to get back to these old
struggling streets: whose every twist
and turn spelled home to him.
No. it wasn't that at all, he told
himself savagely. 1t was Edna he
wanted to get back to. Man like, he
was twisting the knife in his wound,
merely hurting himself to prove he
didn't care. He went up the old stone
steps of the Eagle with heart like
lead and walked through the big edi-
toriai room, where he had planned to
make such a triumphal entry, with
his face all white and set.
He entered the editorial sanctum
unannc unced and nodded grimly to
old Lennon. whom he was to replace,
The old man greeted him affection
ately.