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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-02-09

From the favorable expressions concerning Mr. Gar
WINS suggestion that the islands the reorganization of thu
old horticultural for the formation
though of the timely to have been made for
time Marketing conditions have been such during the reconstruc
ton period that everyone feels the need cooperation The idea Of
preparing exhibits for the autumn fairs to exceptionally
will give members of such society opportunity to do
their lobbyists and the traffic is UNNECESSARILY profitable efforts
exempfed the last sonaury fair when the good
people of Cove combined and presented the best and most snowy
hb display The cooperation be had larger scale
aury products entered the state fair at Yakima and
Western Washington fair Puyaup Later exhibits can be
shown at the in the big The people Of
Vashoau island best show their approval or dpprova OF
plan by turning hundred strong next Tuesday
night at the Y NJ. c. A. hall at Vashon
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-02-09
Satisfied.

The following is from the pen of
Charley L. Cant, the poet of
Guemes island" and published IN
a recent issue of his Gue2nes
Be&chcomber:
G ! can't climb up the mountains
to gather gems, today, but down
here in the valley where the ocean
breezes play, the flowers will soon
be blooming along the oceans
hens, and I'd Just as soon have
posies as have the mountain gems.
| will never get to congress to
guide the ship of state, but out
here in the country my power is
just as great. control the sheep,
cattle and the chickens and the
hogs, and keep the good old
country from going to the dogs,
while statesmen sit and prley and
profteer and plan-Td rather be
a rancher than to be a congress
man.
l never wanted glory, cause
that's an empty name; but | get
a lot of glory in the country just
the same. The glory of the sun
shine, the glory of the seas, the
glory of the sylvan dells ard nam
moth forest trees the glory of the
breezes, the glory of the rain, aud
the glory felt in knowing that |
have not lived in vain. | have no
stately mansion, no glitter, gold
and gear, but / have a shack of
and I'm glad I'm living
here, where the sea is always sing.
ing and the forests always green
and the sunsets paint the heavens
in a golden rainbow sheen. |
can't climb up the mountains
where sparkling gems are found,
but I'm bring home the bacon in
The Wales of Puget Sound.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-02-09
Kind Words.
from Kansas CITY Starr

(From Kansas City Starr.
How often, when our lives seem
twisted and broken,
And we are cropping in a dark
ened room,
Some half remembered words, soft
spoken, tender,
VIII come and pierce the
heavy clouds of gloom,
For all the loving words and kind
ness shown us,
Though often half forgotten,
lie in wait
TO cheer us in some lonely hour
of sorrow
Like steadfast soldiers wait
ing at the gate.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-02-09

average person understand why with the great de-
mand law this state the legislature
be able pass such without hagglmg No
person deny and the delay ncomprehensbe
ANY legislator failing give such his instant and undl-
support suspicion The dope tratccrs maintain
obbsts traffic is UNNECESSARILY profitable efforts
spared kill bills relating to the sale of drugs at least
make them Ineffective as is possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09

Probably it is just as we'll that the enforcement of
prohibition is not 100 per cent efficient If all the
volators locked Up the rest of the population
would be unable to feed them.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09
THE AUTO SHOW AND WHAT 1T MEANS

The carrying out of creditable auto show in El
Centro this week means more than is signfed by that
effort alone means to stimulate the business of
selling automobiles.
Perhaps the principal significance of it lies in the
TACT that 1t Is ndisputabe evidence that old-time
business conditions are being resumed.
No group of men are more quick to discover
changes IN trade and none quick to act than
are the auto dealers. They sensitive barometer
the indications of which may be relied upon.
That the field is to be vigorously worked by Ell
Centre dealers is evident by the snap they have
shown IN their exhibit here Removed as we are so far
from the at present distributed in Southern
California the auto is of exaggerated Importance here.
1t is of the very largest necessity in travel and in
our transportation So it is not surprising that there
is such general interest in what dealers have to
show and IN the terms upon which they are offering
their products.
The automobile industry is of such vast proper
tons that every phase of it is of the greatest import
It's variations profoundly affect our whole econ
omlc life. That the Ford factories last month alone
sold 10000 machines is astounding fact. AS used
as we have become to colossal figures in this indus
try it is almost unbelievable that single concern
could turn out such number in a single month This
figure stands the record to date
Another thing that appears almost as inconlprC-
hensibe is the statement that the number of automo-
bes IN the county of Los Angeles equals the whole
number In all of Europe. Detroit and Michigan may
be the center of automobile building bat Los Angeles
and Southern California are the center OF the greatest
proportlonate number in use.
1t was not many years ago that the bankers of the
country viewed with real alarm the dangerous econ
omic condition. they understood it. presented in the
purchase by their customers of many of these new
instruments of travel and transportation. AS tre-
mendously as autos have grown in numbers the bank
ers are not sitting at any walingp laces deporng
the reckessness of the people, any great extent
though there may be occasional instances growing
OF exceptional cases. The auto is necessity today 1t
is serving such purpose that cannot be dispensed
with. And the extent to which it is employed indi-
Gates the activity of trade
The automobile dealers may be assured that they
have been and will continue to be objects of universal
interest for our fortunes rise and fall with them
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09

Virginia man says he has motor with one
parL plug that will drive automobile 60 miles on
gallon of gas One-plug vehicles in the old days were
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09
PROSPERITY AND THE FARMER

The country is prosperous again, but its prosper
ity is strangely onesded The farmer does not share
H. In spite of everything done to help him, he still
finds that he gets less income from given invest
ment and given effort than do in other fields of
enterprise.
The economic system is unbalanced some
how. Business and professional men are
mostly making good profits, or earning
good salaries, and the wages of industrial
workers high. All of these classes can live COM
fortably because with the money they they get they
can buy more than they used to with normal incomes
and normal prices But the farmer doesn't get
enough for what he produces to buy as much as he
used to of the things he requires.
Everybody else, generally speaking. is profiting
at the farmers expense, eating comparatively cheap
food and selling the farmer dear goods and services
In previous periods of prosperity, there has sell
dom been such condition 1t is considered very doubt
ful whether present prosperity can last unless the
farmer be made to share in it. If he remains poor
IN money, he will not cannot continue producing
food and raw materials in the quantity needed by the
rest of the population Also he cannot buy what the
rest of the population produces. And this is serious
factor because the rural market is the biggest market
there is for manufactured goods
For real and lasting good times, then the farmer
must have squarer deal How give it to him is per-
haps the biggest problem confronting this coun-
try. So far, nobody, not even the farmer himself,
seems to know exactly how it is to be DONE Economic
law Will take of the matter, no doubt in the long
rum but nobody not even the farmer himself seems
to know exactly how it is to be done. Economic law
will take of the matter, no doubt in the long
run; but nobody wants to wait for slow natural re-
adjustments.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09

swimming if she mad wished, but
she would not leave tho bunny
gentleman.
perhaps it isn't so deep but
what 1 can wade, said Uncle Wig
gily. He tried it, but as soon as he
stepped one leg off the front stoop
he almost fell in over his head.
"It is too deep for wading," he
said.
"And you must 60 out today"
spoke Nurse Jane. "We shall need
some things from the store. Oh!
but how can you go out in the high
water, Uncle Wiggilys'
The bunny gentleman thought for
moment. Then he twinkled his
pink nose and he said:
"Ah! l have just thought of q
way. Something 1 saw Curly and
Floppy Twistytail, the piggie boys
doing the other day gives me an
idea. -
"Then you had better do some
thing quickly!' cried Nurse Jane,
" for here comes the Fuzzy Fox af-
ter you on a raft!' And, surely
enough, the bad Fox was coming to
the bungalow, floating along on a
raft boat he had made. Glow can
you get away when you can It
swim?' squeaked Nurse Jane. 81 II
never desert you, Wiggy, but /
can t swim for both of u.s.
"There is no need,' said Uncle
Wiggily, as he looked from the win
dow and saw the Fox coming near.
er "I'll make myself a pair of
stills, as / saw the piggie boys do
the other day. On tall wooden stills
[ can wade through the high
water
Outside on the back stoop were
some clothes line poles. Uncle Wig
gily took two of these, fastened on
pieces for his paws and soon cut of
the bungalow he walked on the
stills, away up above the high
water. Nurse Jane swan along be-
side him.
Here! / want you'll hOwled the
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOWARD R. GARIS
UNCLE WIGGHY AND
THE HIGH WATER

Grain, rain, go away! Come
again some other day!'
That is what the animal boys and
girls in Woodland, near Uncle Wig
gily's hollow stump bungalow, sang
over and over again.
Grain, rain! Please go way!
Don't come back any other day!'
Sometimes they changed the song
little bit and sang it that way.
For it had raihed very hard in
Woodland--it had rained very hard
and long, and the animal boys and
girls were tired of it. Down, down
pelted the big drops. Oh, how weary
the little animal folks were of the
rain
"Do YOU think it will ever
stop?' asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy, as she sat in the hollow
stump bungalow and pressed her
nose quite flat against the window.
"Wcll,' slowly answered Uncle
Wiggily, cit always has stopped. y
"That doesn t say it S going to
stop now! went on Nurse Jane.
Il never saw so much rain in all
my life Wen have high water
if it keeps ON! | think | hear it
running i'll the cellar now
"I1l take a look offered I'm
Gle Wiggily. He went down the
cellar stairs, clumpity-clump-clump.
"Ycs,' he asid, when he came up
again, "thcre's water in the cellar.
But it will do little harm, for we
have eaten most of our winter car
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09
20 Miles of Lee
Highway Set to
FlOWering Trees

j. i. Travcrs Of this city, has re-
cciyed a letter from DIR. S. NJ. John
son, general director of the Lee
Highway Association, who recently
visited here, thanking him for Il
letter advising of efforts being
made to improve the condition of
the highway at its western tcrmi-
nus.
Dr. johnson states that arrange.
ments have been completed through
Colonel Ed. Fletcher Of San Diego,
for planting 20 miles of Towering
eucalyptus trees along the Lee
Highway, in the vicinity of San
Diego, and that palms will be plant.
ed on either side of the highway for
a distance of six miles from Yuma
westward. The trees at San Diego
will be cared 1or by the State For.
cstry Association.
According ~ Dr. johnson, the
Lee Highway is receiving favor
able publicity in all the trade iour-
Nals of the country ard in the hotels
aud garages along the route follow
ed. lie expressed appreciation for
the work done in Southern Califor.
MIA III behalf of the association,
and is using this fact as an inceu.
tive to other communities along the
highway to- encourage them to sim.
liar work.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
April 9, 1908

The new Methodist church, two
miles east Of Silsbee is nearing com
plction and will be one of the finest
church buildings in the entire val
ley.
At a meeting of the Imperial Val
ley Chambers of Commerce held in
Calcxico this morning, the recon-
mendation of Secretary Frank Wig
gins that every product of the val
ley sent out, bear the legend,
" Grown in Imperial Valley, Cali
fornia, " was unanimously endorsed.
Every town i'll the valley was rep
resented at the meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley for This Date
in Past Years
TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO
April 9. 1902

The new town on the eastern
border of Blue Lake has been christ
encd Silsbec in honor of Thomas
Silsbce of San Diego who has been
Il pioneer worker in the develop
ment of the New River country for
years past. Blue Lake is a tiny
body of fresh water alive with fish
and Silsbec will be a noted resort
in the years to come.
Within a few miles of Imperial,
to the northwest, west and south
west are several drilling rigs at
work prospecting for oil. There is
hope that some day a great oil field
will be developed in this section.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09
TEN YEARS AGO
April 8. 1913

Brawlcy Strawberries are the only
ones quoted on the Los Angeles
market today and new and unex-
pectcd industry has been added to
the valleys numerous and varied re-
sources.
c. W. Barton of Holtvillc has
purchased an interest in the Edgar
Brothers Realty business and will
have charge of the exchanges, city
property and insurance will be
handled by Thomas B. Bccman and
Ray Edgar will handle farm sales.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09

number Of pleas to President Hard
ing for the release Of all political
prisoners, - workingmcn, incarccr-
aied for war opinions, remain in the
federal pcniteDtiarics. Last July
the president publicly promised that
he would review the cases Of all pol
iticals within G0i days, and that 10
would release all found 10 be scrv-
ing solely for opinions That prom.
isc has not been kept,
"Ihc So war,opimon prisoners
have been locked up more than five
years. They have paid the price TO
keep the lines for free speech open
in the United states. They have en-
dQred Incredible suffering; some Of
item are III IN prison; two are dy.
ing il LeayeuwortA."
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09

Fox, polling his raft UP to the b
galow. II thought sure I'd cg
you in the high waterlV
Well, I fooled you'll laugI
Uncle Wiggily, and on his stiitsI
waded safely to high ground, VIII
the Fox couldn't get him. 4
when the water went down the b
ny and Nurse Jane came back
the bungalow.
And If the rasin cake doesn't
to turn into a chocolate pie
fall down stairs backward while
ing it. l II tell you next about Ur
Wiggily and Tippy Tumble.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09
Rotnrn 70 Santa Ana

Nj. and Mrs. W. 4. WoOdWOrfh
and daughter Helen Woodworth
have returned to Santa Ana after a
few pleasant days spent with MIR.
and Mrs. w. l.. Dresser. Several
interesting things were given in
honor while here. Miss Woodworth
is q trained nurse in the Santa Ana
hospital and had to return earlier
than they had planned.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09
GLORIA SWANSON'S
NEWEST PICTURl
FEATU RE HE n

Gloria Swanson IS newest pictl
which opened yesterday at the d
ropolitan theater in Los Angelesj
capacity audiences, is to be sho'
here tomorrow night at the Pal
theater.
James Cook, owner of the Pals
who is in Los Angeles, has I'd
graphed Manager Caldares Of
local show house that "Prodil
Daughters is an exceptional /
ture and absolutely excels all Il
vious Swanson pictures.
This is "going some,' as Clio
Swanson is always a drawing ca
The picture is said to abound
swift moving thrills eliminating
the heroine rescue by airpl3
from a runaway locomotive. Th'
dore Roberts, a great film favor
is in the cast, which includes
well Charles Clary, Robert Agn9
Ralph Graves, Vera Reynolds, II
Use Dresser, Maude Wayne and
liza Faye. The picture will sh'
two days, Tuesday and Wednesdi
Use the Press Classified /
Results.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09
AMNESTY DAY.
ON APRIL 18th
BY United Press

CHICAGO, April Q. - Sunday
April 20, is TO be observed by work.
ers throughout the United States as
general amnesty day, according TO
the call of the general defense com
mittee Of Chicago. According TO
letters sent to groups in 500 cities,
demonstrations of protests will be
made against the continued impris.
onmcnt of 50 men who opposed the
war.
The defense committee says:
"St~DgelN despite the great
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09
ere! 1wart YOU 'howled
the fox.


rots and cabbage, and now that it
is spring we can eat things that
grow out of doors. Let the high
water come, l say. Soon it will be
summer! Ira, la, La" and Uncle
Wiggily twinklcd his pink nose and
sang song.
cit is all very well to be jolly
and gay" said Nurse Jane, "but if
the rain makes q flood, and the
water gets so high that your hol-
low stump bungalow is like an is
land, how are you going to get
out9'
"Oh, there will be time enough
to worry about that when it
comes" chuckled Uncle Wiggily.
But, surely enough, the high
water came sooner than was ex-'
pected. All the remainder of the
day and all night it rained, and in
the morning, when Nurse Jane
looked from the window, she saw
water all around the bungalow.
"Oh, Uncle Wiggily!' cried the
muskrat lady, "we're a regular is
land surrounded by water! What
are we going to do? How are you
going to go to the store, Or go off
adventuringe I am all right, for
we muskrats can swim, but you
cant! What are you going to dog"
"Well,' said Uncle Wiggily
slowly, 81 don't need to go out to
the store, for we have enough to
eat. And as for adventures, why,
they will keep until tomorrow when
the high water may go down and
get low
But it did not. The flood remain
ed high and Uncle Wiggily could
not get out of the bungalow because
water was still all around it. Nurse
Jane could have gotten out by
Imperial Valley press., 1923-04-09
FRANCE AND GERMANY

This situation must change" says Maxi
milan Harden, the famous German journalist speak
ingof the Ruhr 1T is too dangerous for France and
Germany"
He believes that Germany will come forward with
such a clear and acceptable reparation program
that the question be settled The present situa
ton cannot last than four or five weeks. Every
week it grows worse
France and Germany" he says "can arrive at
reconstruction only by collaboration
That is easy enough to see at this distance 1t
seems harder for the contestants to see with their
hands each others throats and hate and prejudice
in their hearts Yet in Berlin and Paris it seems
to be getting clearer that if the two rivals do not
start working together, reasonable reparation
program they will destroy each other.
1t is Germany's move now. And a reasonable
offer may find France in a mood to accept. If Ger
many starts paying, and working to pay and France
goes back home. European recovery will start in earn
est and the whole world will breathe more freely
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-10
Susan Eberhardt Was Not the First
Woman Who Was Hanged in Georgia
Jas. B. Nevin in Atlanta Georgian.

bound as nowadays to impose life
sentence upon such a recommended,
tion And so, he disregarded it and
sentenced the woman to immediate
execution = and she was executed
forthwith. 1t seems to have been an
atrocious and malicious homicide.
Not only, therefore, did Wilkes
county hang the first white woman
ever hanged in Georgia, but in l84O-
we'll in advance of the Eberhardt
hanging negro woman OF the, name
OF Mary Malindy was hanged Tor
murder in Wilkes.
Whatever distinction attaches to
Mrs. Eberhardt-so far as history is
concerned-seems more likely to at
tach along the line of having been the
last woman hanged in Georgia.
No woman has been legally, execcut-
ed since Susan Eberhardt's hanging,
and it is doubtful whether another
woman ever will be legally executed
in Georgia.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-10
WOULD REVERT TO
THE TWO-YEAR TERM
BOATWRIGHT WILL INTRO
DUCE BILL TO SHORTEN
TERMS COUNTY OFFICERS.

SWAINSBORO.-A bill changing
the term of county officers back to
two years instead of the present four
year terms is to be fostered in the
next session of the legislature by w.
E. Boatright, representative from this
county, according to statement by
Mr. Boatwright.
The only way to settle the capital
removal proposition is to submit it to
the people, Mr.. Boatwright declares.
Il believe the question will come
up again this year." Mr.. Boatwright
says, "and l shall support measure
giving the people the right to vote
on the question. think that is the
only way to settle it definitely and
we certainly want to get rid of the
problem"
A measure having as its purpose
the holding of biennial sessions of
the legislature will find in Mr.. Boat
wright a hearty supporter, he says.
He would oppose bond issue for
public highways or municipal owner
ship OF public, utilities, however, he
states
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-04-10
Children Reign Supreme
On Lawn of White House
For Easter Egg Hunt
Youngsters Under Ten Held Sway,
And Adults Had to Be Vouched
For, Often at Profit.

Children under ten years of age
were the ruling aristocracy Easter
Monday in Washington. Intrenched
in their Notifications on the white
house grounds and protected against
adult invasion by the vigilant white
house police, the youngsters for one
day in the year had the upper hand.
President Harding directed that the
children be given the freedom of the
grounds around the executive man
sion. No adult was admitted. unless
accompanied by an eligible child, I'M
til late in the afternoon.
Every year there are hundreds OF
adults who, moved either by the at
traction of the lusty-lunged throng
rolling Easter eggs on the white
house lawn, or by an indolent desire
to loll on the forbidden grounds,
stand at the gate and wait for some
one to take them inside.
This demand is not without its sup
ply, for there are hundreds OF enter
prising youngsters who tactfully Of
fer to accompany their elders within
the sacred precints IF you gimme a
nickel"