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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27
Bedtime Stories
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
BY HOW ARD r. GARlS
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
MOJASSES

"Uncle Wiggily, if you have
nothing special to do right away,
/ wish you would go to the store
for me-" said Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy to the rabbit gentleman one
day.
"It will give me great pleasure
to go to the store for YOU, answer
ed Mr.. Longears, with a low and
polite bow of his pink, twinkling
nose. "'Whut do you want, Nurse
janet
~ am going to have some of the
animal ladies here to tea this after
noon,' replied the muskrat lady
housekeeper. 81 want to bake mo-
iasscs cake and let them sip lemon
adc through straws. -
:Ho YOU want me to make the
molasses cake or the lemonade?' -
asked Uncle Wiggily, laying aside
his tail silk hat that he had put on
over his long ears. III do either
one
"Thank you,' laughed Nurse
Jane, "but if you will bring me a
Jug of molasses from the grocery,
and stop at DR.. Possum S drug store
soda fountain and bring me bun
die of hollow straws, | II attend to
the rest.
ON do that said Uncle Wig
gily, and soon he was hopping on
his way to the molasscs store with
the empty jug. "Aud l mustn t
forget about the straws,' thought
the bunny rabbit gentleman. 1.-The
animal ladies arc going to sip lem
onade through straws as tho boys
and girls do when the get ice cream
soda.
1t did not take the rabbit gentle
man long to get the jug filled with
molasses, and soon afterward DR.
Postum gave him a fine bundle OF
clean, yellow straws, just the right
length for slipping lemonade
through
Uncle Wiggilv was hopping to his
hollow stump bungalow with the
molasses and straws, when, all of q
sudden, he began to feel sleepy.
l. lH1Uh II Dlust Dt luc o N III :
fever coming on, thought Mr..
Longears, as he yawned and stretch,
ed. "I'll just sit down near the
path and take a little sleep"
Placing the molasses jug and
straws beside him, Uncle Wiggily
was soon asleep. And while he slept
along came Sammie and Susie Lit,
tletail, the rabbits. They smelled
the sweet molasses in the jug and
saw the bundle of slipping straws
near by.
"Oh, look, susie!'' whispered
Sammie. "Unclc Wiggily must
want us. to sip some molasses
through the straws. See, he has ev-
erything ready for us, even if he is
! asleep. Come on, III sip some
molasses.
"All right agreed Susie, "that
must be what the straws are for
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27
ruolasses iuo at the I

molasses jug is ever so much lighter
If | take another nap I'll be as
strong as {. giant
And, a little later, he fell asleep
again, and along came Jackie and
Peetie Bow Wow, the puppy dog
boys, and they took straws and
slipped nearly all the remainder of
the molasses in the jug. Away they
scampered, before the bunny awak-
ened, and when Uncle Wiggily OPP
ened his eyes and started off again
the jug was so light that he could
toss it over his head.
"Oh, how strong l ami" he cried.
eff l slept any more I'd be as
strong as two giants. Why / hardly
feel the molasses at all. - And a
good reason! There was none in
the jug!
just then the Fuzzy Fox leaped
out from behind bush and wanted
to nibble the bunny's ears, but I'm
Gle Wiggily, seeing him, cried:
81 am as strong az u giant! l IN
not afraid of you! y and he threw
the molasses jug at the Fox. The
ug hit the Fox on the nose and
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27
oWE0OPING THINGS UP"

MANY people, some of whom ought to know beet
ter writes b. Z. FORBES, business cr4t-c talk and
write if the business boom would career along glor
Iuusly and last indefinitely if everybody would only
talk and act with exuberant enthusiasm and unmsigat-
ed cheerfuness."
re himself has stopped 'whooping it up, he says
because the time for that is past, Having BEEN per-
sistenty optimistic when lot of other people were
blue he insists that he has right now-and duty
to do some sober and sound reasoning, pointing out
the present need of restrained action.
1t is the usual method of trustworthy leaders OF
opinion whether in business affairs or public affairs
There is good deal of inertia in public sentiment
First h cear-sighted leader has to struggle
that sen iment in desirable direction, calling at
tention to improving conditions or warning against
danger Then, when it is aroused it tends to SWING
too far and the same leadership has to put on the
brakes.
A good many shrewd business leaders, both theor-
etical and practical, trying to apply the brakes
Just now lest period of unwise Initiation should
develop with too much borrowing, speculation and
business extension accompanied by exorbtant prices
and wages-to be followed by another sharp, disas-
trous period of deflation.
Level-headed business men insist that comfort
able degree of busyness and prosperity is far better
than succession of frenzied booms and slumps
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27
MARRIAGE LICENSES

GILL-TYNSIEY - Sam Gill, q
years old, native of Honolulu, res
ident of Imperial; Leroy Tynsley,
- years old, native of California,
resident of FL Centre.
WELDON GANDORA - George
H. Weldon, p years old, native of
Texas, resident of Brawley; Anna
Katherine Gandora, 10 years old,
native of Wisconsin, resident of
Brawley.
GROEBEL-SETZ - Walter Groc-
Bile, 81 fears old, native of Switzer-
land, resident of FL Centre; Fred
ericka Setz, 10 years old, native of
Austria, resident of Holtvillc.
Germans discovered the X-ray,
but can't see through the French.
a Los Angeles man has been
awarded alimony. Read it to your
wife.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27
By STANLEY

Learning TO fight is easy. All
you have to do is say what you
please where you please.
John Malgrcnc, Of Parsons, Kan,
was all stirred up. Doctors found
y spoons III John s stomach.
Farm loan board plans loans for
nine months, leaving farmers broke
only three months each year.
Six ST. Louis bandits worked only
two minutes and made $4,000.
When bad cold meets good Iig.
position the bad cold wins.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
March ct, 1908

Paul Nyc, field man for the
tional Produce Distributing &c
pany says that the outcome Of
cantaloupc crop at maturity
ponds a great real upon the pro-
thinning of plants at this time.
recommends the use of Il pair
scissors instead of pulling them
by the roots.
Imperial, Brawley, Ell Centre 6
Calexico were represented today
at important meeting of the Co
ty Chambers of Commerce at I'm
rial.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27

broke and away the bad creatli'
ran bowling.
"My goodness! Where's the 1, !
lasses9' cried Uncle Wiggily as /
saw none run out of the brokH
jug. And he was quite surprisS
until the animal children came ruf
ming out of the woods and told hi
they had slipped it by mistake.
Then Uncle Wiggily got a nd
jug, bought more molasses and c!
erything came out all right, excel
that the Fox had & big lump on II
end of his nose.
And if the lace curtain dOesnI
go hide itself in the attic to rid
on the spinning wheel, instead
playing tag with the postman, !
tell you next about Uncle Wigg1'
and the chocolate pie.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27
: Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell
Imperial Valley for This Da'
in Past Years
TWENTY-oNE YEARS AGO
March q. 1928

It is but a few days since the
perial Land Company caused c
tonwood stakes to be planted ale
Imperial avenue, and yet many
them are already budding and
ing evidence of developing
trees.
Edgar Brothers today received
carload of farming machinery
implements of every description
the use of the ranchers whNl
farm on an extensive scale thiH'
son.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27
TOM SIMS SAYS

1t will be warm enough soon 10
use your vest patching your trous
ers.
The paper which carries the best
news and has the widest circulation
is the dollar bill.
EtE
Some men haycbecn shaking hands
20 or so years without learning how
il should be done
Man 10 Italy claims he IS King
Tut heir. Bet they look alike.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27
RADIO HASH

The ether of space, which is supposed to carry
j ado vibrations is in bad way. year ago, when
Secretary Hoover called the first radio conference to
adjust conflicts and divide the wave-lengths among
legitimate users there 90 broadcastng stations
in the United States. Now there are 600, with about
1000, 900 receiving sets listening in.
The result is said to be muddle of concerts, bed
time stories, crop reports, speeches, sermons, Jazz
bands etc. that fills the ether with radio hash There
do not to be enough separable wave-engths Tor
everybody Different broadcastng stations in the same
the same wave-length. AS instruments grow
powerful, senders at distance break In with
their programs. Scientists and physicians add to the
mx-up with their electric apparatus of various sorts
Congress expected in the last session to enact
legislation officially classifying different types of
radio and giving each its own waves, but congress
got around to it. Now, in lieu of legislation,
Secretary Hoover seeks voluntary cooperation, to
make effective fair an apportionment of radio ia
clities as possible.
it begins TO look if the supposedly all-suffcient
ether is incapable Of carrying the load thrust upon it.
There going to be limits, therefore, to radio COM
munication.
Considerable relief can be afforded no doubt, by
using the device whereby local programs can be
broadcast electric light wires and received by
merely plugging into ordinary light socket This
system does not interfere with wireless waves. The
overburdened ether will doubtless appreciate any
other help afforded
Motto Of the Germans in the Ruhr: Strike till the
last armed foe expires" Which would be all right, if
the strikers were not likely to expire first
|
Life nowadays would be much easier if it
not for all the aborsayng devices that have to be kept
going
Somebody says "the world needs a spiritual
Hague" To cure its spiritual ague?
--
One species Of wild animal that should be cxter-
minated is that kind that lives in opium dem
Not all the sap buckets are filled in the sugar
camps. Some are filled by the spring poets.
Motto for her Rouge and Herrn--"If at first you
don't succeed, try, try again"
The scare profit in sugar IS le kind that is with
out Homer a lis own country.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27
TEN YEARS AGO
March ct, 1918

F. B. Fuller, president of the
Centre National Bank has NOV
into his fine new home on OH
avenue.
Two or three outfits are bll
building sidewalks in FL Cent
and the Barber Asphalt Compa|
is at work on the paving of stre{
in the business district.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27

Motto of the Germans in the Ruhr Strike till the
last armed foe eXpres Which would be all right, if
the strikers were not key TO expire first.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27

Tho matrimonial bark is wreck
by tho matrimonial barking.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27

Hope boiled ham and cabbaI
never get a divorce.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27

Life nowadays would be much easier if it were
not for all the aborsayng devices that have to be kept
going.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27

One species Of wild animal that should be cxte
mated is that kind that lives in an opium dem.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27

You ought to see the autos d9k
town at the rush hour. Especi@,
before you cross the street.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27

Put on too much speed ahead ;
you may meet with rererscs.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27

Not all the sap buckets are filled in the suga
nps. Some are filled by the spring poets.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27

Somebody says "the world needs
Hague" To cure its spiritual ague?
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27

Motto for her Rouge and Herrin--"If at first you
lont succeed, try, try again"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1923-03-27

The scare profit IN sugar IS Inc kind that is with
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-10-12
A REMARKABLE EXAMPLE

situation has arisen in the midst
of the excitement of an athletic con.
test that appeals to the student OF
human nature quite aside from the
question of his interest in baseball.
This comment. therefore. has moth
ing at all to do with the World Ser
les of ball games being played be-
tween the New York teams 1t has
to do, rather with the remarkable OK
ample of the effect of change of
heart" of human being
One player, Ruth, made great
record in 1922, during the baseball
season for doing a certain thing
making home runs. Doing that thing
became an obscssion with him. iniur-
ing his usefulness in other directions
OF the work in which he was engaged.
lie was less valuable man to his
team than he would have been If he
had not thought so much about home
runs. He was failure in the series
that ended baseball for last year.
a winter of thought. or perhaps The
advice of some wise counsellor. con-
WINGED him that he was trying TO. gIor-
ify himself in his one speciality. He
had been egotistical. The mental dis
ease Of psrsnoia comes in this wav.
Ruth changed He tried to forget
Nmself in his work for the benefit Of
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-10-12

The shele team lie iheughl o.
others his employers, his team
mates. Al iAe end Of this ssasoH
he gas adlaaged the most Faiashls
plssfE 20 his team Of amy msa Ia
the big leagues.
Then came the great test, Would
he So hack 90. his old NAYS, Or would
he profit by Rhat he had learned
IN the first same Of the series he did
nothing spectacular. But he made a
catch Ia the field that he might not
haze made II he had been thinking
entirely about that home run he
erased, lie ran well on the hases-
lie hil hard bat unsueeessfully, In
other words in that first game he
played for the team IN departments
he had previously slighted,
In the second game. yesterdas.f he
came through" with great home
run and another home run that was
mol as great--a home run neHerthe-
less Even preiudieed fan. n he is
fair, delighted TO see that the altered
mental attitude OF this great player
Justified itself.
This h matter eniisely ASIDE from
baseball, II is worth thought by
every person who has any doubt Of
the wisdom OF his present course OF
living and working.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-10-12
HIGH SCHOOLS POPULAR

In the central states, covering a
study of figures for ten years, it is
found that the average increase in the
number OF students attending High
school is 1854 per cent. In other words
nearly twice as many boys and girls
are going to High school today as
there were ten years ago in the states
Of Oklahoma. South Dakota, Ohio,
Michigan, Kansas Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Texas and Wisconsin.
Various obvious reasons are given
for this encouraging action of the
countrys young people. Increasing
population in some, at least, of these
states explains increasing school at
tendance for a longer period An ex-
pert says that bringing the high school
to the pupil BY means of establishing
rural high schools in connection with
consolidated schools and merging the
eighth grades with the high school
by creation of junior high schools,
brings great high school gains In Iowa,
for instance. These are some of the
reasons advanced TO explain the fig
ures which show that boys and girls,
in these states at least, are not quit
ting school, in order TO go TO work,
as frequently as they did ten years
ago,
OF course the greater the number
of boys and girls in certain state, the
greater will be the school attendance,
not only in high school but in the
grammar schools. And similarly if it
is easier to get to school now than it
was ten years ago, more boys and
girls will go to school.
But there is another reason for this
tremendous increase in the number of
young people who are not giving up
school to go to work, and that reason
is the greater general appreciation
of the practical advantage Of educa-
ton. Added to this is the fact that
young people of today have ambitions
TO become capable Of filling higher
positions which require greater edu-
cation. There are not as many young
people nowadays willing to settle
down on the farm of their fathers as
there used to be. Youth in other
lines is not satisfied TO follow in /
the parents footsteps. The reflection
Of this general feeling may be seen
in the many Advertisements offering
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-10-12

educational courses IL ~ hraacsss q
endesvon same ef.whieh are lssisi'
mate aids 10 the ambitious The ad'
yefliseFs know that such an appeal
meets with a sympathetic response
They take advantage Of this desire on
the part Of young people. aad older
ones. too. To set on IN the world,
All this. Of course, shows the ads
vantage Of a better education without
in amy sense implying that the life Of
tillins the soil, under present eondi'
tions is not a productive, a full life,
nor that skilled men Of the trades are
not 10 he praised fer-.he hne eens,rue'
tive work they DO, To them, as well
as 10 those who intended never to do
any manual labor. education - OF
great advantage. In fact In many
quarters there is evidence that men OF
educated minds only are seeing the
advantages TO be gained from course
of practical manual labor.
The increase In the number OF boys
and girls who are keeping on with
their studies after finishing the grades
is noted merely as another hopeful
sign for the country, and az a further
incentive to young people TO keep at
school as long as they can reasonably
do so.
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MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING
AT SOUND BEACH Home
Continued from First Page)

her on guard. She says the shots
which she heard were without warn
ing as Mas came out of the house
onto the porch.
Catherine Johnson, maid to Mrs.
Leslie, was taken to the office Of
James +. Walsh, prosecutor in the
town court and questioned.
At the Stamford hospital. to which
Mas was removed, an operation was
resorted to and bullet in the abdo-
men removed. He is said to be COM
Portable.
Mrs. Leslie has Mved in Sound
Beach for Is years and 1t is UNDER
stood that Mr. Mas has been fire.
auent caller at her home for the past
three years.
The police did not give out much
information as to what Miss johnson,
the maid, had said to the prosecuting
authorities but from what was learned
they said the motive for the shooting
of Mas appeared to be one actuated
by jealousy. The maid is under
stood to have said that Mrs. Leslie
was accustomed to give frequent
weekend parties TO a selected num-
Der of guests. many of them in the
theatrical profession. Invitations
were much sought after 1t was under
stood and the hostess was admired
greatly by many of the men privileged
to be present.
1t is understood that on the night
before last three. men called at the
house when Mrs. Leslie and Mr.. Mas
were alone and insisted on being en-
tertained The maid who had re-
tired, was awakened to prepare lunch
for the unexpected guests. The maid
gave the prosecutor description of
the men which was later handed to
the police. The latter without any
definite clue to the assailants of Mas
said they were working on the theory
that someone who had been a guest
at the house was jealous of the atten- |
lions paid by Mas to the hostess
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-10-12
As TT AFFECTS YOU.

A general review, or simple state
ment OF the hardware conditions each
week Is OF importance 10 n third OF
the population OF New Britain. The
people vitality interested IN hardware
conditions Of the country make up
that third OF our population. Possibly
the percentage Is greater. Naturally
knowledge OF the conditions of the
plant In which a man works is more
important than the general knowledge
on the subject. but such general
knowledge often enables the workers
to see why certain things are being
done at his own plant. This general
knowledge may enable him TO reason
as the officials Of the plant reason.
and, of course, the man who thinks
about his work gets on faster than
the one who merely does the job set
for him to do without studying the
question as to why changes are made,
why certain work is being pushed at
certain time, and why there is a
general slowing up or an increase in
a plants activity
The Herald publishes regularly the
weekly summary of the Hardware
Age, and from it deductions may be
made that, while general, can not
fail to benefit the worker, and to cor
roborate' the more detailed informa-
ton the officers of our manufactur-
ing plants possess.
This week, for instance. the weekly
report says that retail buyers are be-
ginning to show interest in holiday
merchandise at many of the principal
Wholesale hardware markets through
out the country. Jobbers anticipate
larger volume of orders this year than
last Rural communities are coming
to the front in buying. There is no
material change expected in standard
line prices
The hardware man is better able to |
apply this information to his own sit |
nation than is the layman.. The in
creased interest in holiday merchan-
iise was to be expected, of course.
But the important point would seem
o be that there has appeared no pros
'ect of any violent change in the
hardware situation.