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Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-27
Well Known Date Grower Cites
Facts and Figures as to Why
He Favors Exp riment Sta ii o n

the same amount Of money on good
imported offshoots and given them
the time and attention we have
given these seedlings we would have
been away ahead provided, and here
is the point we wish to emphasize
provided we could have gotten the
right varieties of offshoOtS for this
valley. But we did not know then
and we do not know now what are
the very best varieties, the most
suitable kinds for growing, and
best methods Of planting, in lmpc-
rial Valley. As many of You know
the Dcglet Moor variety was tried
ont northeast Of Hcber. 1t is
variety very susceptible to damage
by moisture during the ripening per
ind and ii was found that the heavy
dew that falls here during its ripem-s
ing period spoiled such u large per
centage of the fruit, that the orch
ard was found uuprofitable and the
trees were sold and moved 10 Coach
ella Valley.
This is one Of the reasons why
We are urging the board of super
.visors to appropriate " sufficient
sum Of money to properly equip a
date experiment station here, to
try out different varieties and see
which are best adapted to, conditions
here and so save loss of time and
loss of money and also loss of pres.
,tige for our valley. The moving Of
that date orchard was a great loss
to our valley in all three ways.
Dates Are Money Maker
- Does date orchard pay! En-
phatically yes We consider it
better paving proposition than as
paragus, grapes, or grapefruit, he
sides being safer.
Asparagus and grapes have to
be picked and shipped Immediately
they are ripe. They cannot be held
over a day. With dates, if incon-
venient TO pick to-day they can be
picked tomorrow and if you are
not ready to ship tomorrow they can
be shipped next week. With regard
to grapefruit, / believe, even in our
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-27
LEGAL ADVERTISING

hour of ten O'Clock a. m. at the
front entrance to the Court House
in the City of FL Centre, County
of Imperial, State of California, all
the interest conveyed by said par
ties of the first part to the party
of the second part by said deed Of
trust, in and to the following des-
cribed premises, situate in the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, and described as follows:
Lot Thirty-two (32) of the
Cuyamaca Tract, in the City of FL
Centre, according to Map No. 1876
on file in the office or the Coun-
ty Recorder of said Imperial Coun-
ty.
TOGETHER WITH all appurten.
auces, water right sand rights Of
way including al shares of which
Trustors have any interest of the
Capital Stock of any Water Com
panv, the water represented by
which stock is used on or is In
auywise appurtcnant to the afore-
said premises,
Or such part thereof as said
Trustee shall, in its discretion
find it necessary TO sell in order to
accomplish the objects of said deed
of trust and to pay the amount re-
manning due and unpaid on said
promissory note, together with the
interest according to the terms OF
said note and deed of trust being
the sum Of Ten Thousand Seventy
Dollars 0,070.00) with interest
at seven per cent. per annum from
and after September 8, 1922, and
Two Hundred Eighteen Dollars and
Thirty-siX cents ($2l8.3G) with in
tcrest thereon at the rate of seven
per cent. per annum, from and after
September 26, 1922, advances made
us aforesaid, together with Trus-
tee S fees, cost and expenses of this
sale.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the
Pioneer Abstract and Title Guar
anty Company has authorized this
notice and affixed its corporate
name and seal by its Assistant See
retary thereunto duly authorized
this 1st day of June. 1923.
PIONEER ABSTRACT AND TITLE
GUARANTY COMPANY, Trustee
BY c. X. Cooper, Assistant Secretary
Corporate Seal)
June 6 Is 20 -
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-27

George A. swrln, ono Of Imperial
VALLEY = most successful producers of
dates, whose ranch just off the San
Diego highway short distance west
Of to0n. ie we'll Known and visited
bv hundreds every year, knows
whereof he speaks. In the follow
ing article he cities facts and figures
WHY IN his estimation Imperial Val
ley will lose a wonderful opportuni-
fv III the board of supervisors do
not take the necessary steps to
provide their part Of government
experiment date station. He SAYS in
part:
There are only two ways to
start date orchard, by planting
seedlings or by planting offshoots.
The date palm cannot be grated
or buddcd. Before making start
] paid visit to Coachella Valley
and was told by one who ought to
know. that there had been thous-
ands Of seedlings planted in Coach
ella Valley and none of the buds
had produced marketable fruit. He
was doubtless honest in making that
statement, but overenthusiastic.
As offshoots were hard to get
then as now ! bought aud planted
SEQ seedlings. OF these a few died,
we took out over loo males leaving
about a dozen males for pollen, also
90 or more females, which prduced
worthless fruit and We will take
out others.
At present We have about -
females in the orchard and of these
only few that we would really
consider Of permanent commercial
Importance 10 be Propagated with
ont limit. We have planted out
offshoois from only ten or twelve
to enlarge our acreage. Of the bal
ance Of the - females we would
say that any one wanting 10 plant
two or three for family use they
would produce very acceptable
fruit, but would not advise any
one to plant them as a commercial
venture.
We feel that if we had spent
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-27
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the
County of Imperial


No. 900
IN THE MATTER or THE ES-
TATE or ISABEL MORRISON,
Deceased.
Notice is Hereby Given by the
undersigned administrator of the
estate of ISABEL MORRISON,
deceased.
TO the creditors of and all per
sons having claims against. said
estate to exhibit the same With the
necessary vouchers within four
months after the first publication
of this notice to the said admins
traitor at the office of the County
Clerk of the Superior Court in and
for the County of Imperial, at the
Court House in El Centre, Caiifor-
mia which said office the said ad-
ministrator selects as his place of
business in all matters of or con
nected with the said estate of
ISABEL MORRISON, deceased,
and for the filing of creditors
claims.
Dated this 27th day of April,
1923.
WILLIAM II. MORRISON,
Administrator of the Estate of
Isabel Morrison, deceased.
Ernest r. Utley, Attorney for Ad-
ministrator.
June 13 30 81.
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favored Valley, they are sometimes
injured by frost while dates never
are. They 90 on ripening AMI we
go on picking right through the
winter.
"As to price, just now a fair
date brings Il good price. really
superior date, an excellent price. 1t
win not always be possible to mar
kct these poorer dates. rs peo-
pie $ tastes gets more discriminating
thev viii demand the best.
Here is another reason for an
experiment station--to thy out the
different varieties and decide Of
the many good varieties, which are
the best, which will appeal TO the
largest class Of consumers and bring
the highest price.
S1125 To The Acre
CAS- to productivity and return
these are the deciding factors in
going into dates. \ good date palm
should yield on an average 100
pounds a wear. Dates are planted
- females and males to the acre.
One hundred pounds tree would
give YOU 500 pounds an acre. If
vau only got % cents a pound that
would make SIPS an acre. believe
with good trees you ought to get
that for them right on the tree. Ask
any real estate man what land Civ
ing yearly income of SIPS an
nero ouoht to be worth! | pickcd
941t pounds ut one picking from
one of my trees and left as much
more on the tree. These dates sold
for from 90 to - cents a pound.
Out of the - trees | have four or
five as good as that.
1T is in the interest of these
things in the future that we are
appealing to the board of super
visors. We want this high class in
dustry established in the best and
most paving manner.
Will Draw Population
Take another phase of this ques-
ton. The great need of this valley
is population-gooq properous Am
erican citizens. With dates WI
don't need 100 acres, nor 50 acres,
nor vet 40 acres to give 4 man
decent living. Ten acres of dates of
the right variety ought to be ample
for any man with reasonably modest
tastes. SO instead of one man on
100 acres we would have l6 men.
That would mean q whole lot to
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-27

our towns from one end Of the val
ley to the other. We could easily
have 10000 acres OF dates in the
valley without ovcr-crowding the
market. There were 3S,000,0 200
pounds of dates imported into the
United States in 1920, and they are
not to be compared TO our home
grown dates in quality, to say no
thing of sanitary methods of pick
ing curing and packing.
"Therc is another point ] wish
to make. We have heard rumors
that the middle west and even the
central part of our own state Is
opposed to the Swing-Johnsou Bill
because it would open up more land
cultivation whose products would
come into competition with theirs.
Here is product which will not
compete with any of their and
ought to appeal to the eX-serviec
men that the government would give
preference to in the new land to
be opened up ON the Eastsidc Mesa.
There are other poimtS-Dates
win grow on water logged land and
alkali land, but l think l have said
enough except this one thing. We
ask for $4,000 appropriation. The
government will give us $4,000 to
$40 900 of offShoots besides main
tanning trained specialists to carry
on the experimental work. Can we
afford to turn down such an offer
when il means 50 much in increased
population and prosperity to our
Nallcy!'
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-27
No. ii79
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION
FOR THE APPOINTMENT
OF TRUSTEE
In the Superior Court of the State
Of California, in and for the
County of Imperial

In the Matter of the Trustccship
of Edward Schmidt, missing per
son.
In pursuance to an order made by
the Court in the above entitled mat.
ter, notice IS hereby given tha. the
petition of Allen y. Nuffcr, for
his appointment, rs Trustee of the
estate Of the said Edward schmidt,
alleged to be missing per-
son as provided by Sec
tion 1922 Code of Civil Procedure,
state of California, will be heard
on the 29th day of June, 1923, at
two o clock =. NJ, of said day in
Department | of said Court at
which time AL persons interested in
the estate Of said Edward Schmidt
may appear and show cause if any
they have why the said Alien j.
Nuffer should not be appointed
Trustee of the estate of said Ed
ward Schmidt and that the said
Edward Schmidt shall be declared
to be missing person.
c. G. MOUSSEAU,
Clerk.
June 18th, 1923. 18TH
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-27
NOTICE INVITING BIDS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Board of Supervisors of
Imperial County, California will re-
ceive sealed bids for all County
advertising for the fiscal year be-
ginning July lst, 1923. The adj
vertising is to be bid upon the
basis of n squart o. advertising of
234 ems non pareil in accordance
with Section 404s, of the Political
Code.
The said bills will be received
until and opened Monday, July End,
1923, mt the office of said Board
of Supervisors, at 1000 Il. M. of
said day; and the said Board re-
serves the right to reject any or
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-27

NOTICE o.. TIME IND PLACE
FIXED FOR PROVING WILL
AND HEARING APPLICATION
FOR LETTERS TESTAMENT
TAEY.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-27

all bids and to fix the price at
which such advertising shall be
furnished and the advertising done
c. G. MOUSSEAU,
County Clerk and Clerk of tho
Board of Supervisors.
o0tlQ
Imperial Valley press., 1923-06-27

Press Want Ads 90 rhe work.
Try them.
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with clusters of pink beads, while the
lblack satin overlook is banded with
pink lawn.
Figured chiffon. usually in simple
two-tone designs. is too firmly estab-
lished to be side-tracked by newer,
crisper materials. The Powered chif-
fon is, however. usually worked out
in draped styles. Figured organizes
are newer and possess more of the
crispness so devoutly to be wished in
summer. These organdies seem to
steer clear OF the weird figures that
haunt the dreams of present design
ers. There is usually nothing sug
gestive of the Congo or Egypt OF
Aztec Indians or the south seas, of
Indo-China or Bulgaria. for the pre-
vailing design is of the floral sort,
printed in soft yet clear colors. One
trock of lowered organdie shows the
plain full skirt and the close-drawn
basque bodice with a charming OFF,
the-shoulGer fchu. The enormous
side bow is fashioned of bright red
ribbon, which brings out tho deeper
shading of the pink roses that figure
in the quaint pattern.
Wisely enough the dressmakers are
not plating many Of the cotton fab
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RIGS. The plated frock is Of silk
crepe or chiffon. often of one of the
figured chiffons. These plaltings are
usually of the side or knife variety,
though there is a strong tendency
now to make use of accordion plait-'
ing by way of variety, and some of
the dressmakers have been using very
small box plaits for many weeks.
The placing OF the waist line is not
so much discussed as it was twelve
or six months ago. One takes it as
IL comes. The chief objective of
every woman's efforts seems 10 be
to keep waist and hips and bust so
fiat and 1.-THE that il doesn't in the
least matter whether the girdle girds
the waist or a degree of latitude just
a few inches above the knees, or pos
slbly somewhat above the so-called
normal waist life This raised waist
line appears now and then on a
youthful frock for summer-notably
one made entirely of yellow lace with
ruffles on a scant skirt rather sug-
gestive of 1870 or 1880 and a fichu
standing away from the shoulders
and covering the top of the arms on
the otherwise sleeveless bodice.
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ina Sinable business goes on, families
living in narrow quarters and work.
ing at trades for their living. / re-
member one house in which 1 found
400 families, comprising almost 1000
people. The building covered half an
acre and it was only five stories high.
Everywhere one goes in Berlin he
finds evidence OF the revolution
brought about by the war. In the
times Of the kaiser the sky line of
almost every street was even through
out. The city regulated the height of
the buildings, and one could not build
plan and specifications to the munich
pal architects. Today they are add
ing stories in all parts of the town
and some of the streets begin to look
like the ragged teeth of ten-year-
old boy. The Deutsche Bank, which
covers something like ten acres of
ground, has until now been only five
stories high. but It is covered with
scaffolding and they are raising the
roof for additional room. Similar
building goes on everywhere. The
town is trying to lift itself as it were
by the bootstraps, and is gradually
rising into the air.
Another conspicuous change Is In
the look of the streets. Under the
kaiser everything was kept spick and
span. A man might be arrested for
throwing paper on the street, and the
posting of bills on the walls was
OF 10 "
paper and scraps are to be seen even
on Inter den Linden, and there are
garbage piles here and there, each
with its crowd Of hungry scavengers
looking for bits OF fuel or food. The
city fathers sell advertising priv
ileges for the lamp and electric light
posts and for the windows of the
branch post Offices and even the mail
boxes on the streets. The mail wag-
ons are decorated with advertise
ments, and announcements of pink
pills for pale people hit one in the
face as he makes his change at the
stamp window. Indeed, the day may
come when the postmaster will STRAIT
about as a sandwich man. So far TO
billboards have been allowed. The
circular towers made of iron, on
which advertisements are pasted. still
decorate the street corners and the
advertisements there are often
changed every day.
X X
r VENTURE the kaiser would hop
i up and down in his rage If he
could see what is being done TO his
palace. mean especially that at the
foot of Inter den Linden, in which
he spent the greater part of the time
That great building has been given
over to the people. 1t is now used
chiefly as a museum and as Offices
for city officials and others. For one
fourth of a cent one may go in and
wander about as he pleases. This is
the charge for the Germans. For
eigners pay ten times as much.
When visited this palace two dec
AIDES ago had to put on felt slippers
and was warned to speak under my
breath. Now one may go through
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of typography and pictorial art in
these days after the war. Some mag
azines are printed in colors and some
contain pictures by Boris Gregory, the
Russian artist, whose portraits are
attracting worldwide notice, and
especially in Berlin and Paris. The
prices Of the magazines and books
seem ridiculously low to the foreign
err. There are a dozen or more Rue
sian publishing houses, and the books
they are getting out surpass any now
printed in Germany.
Both nations are now on their up
pers and are ready TO work TOT
wages one tenth or one twentieth
those of the United States. They
can manufacture goods go cheaply
that no tariff we can enact will be
high enough to keep out their
products, and neither nation is scrup-
uIous as to the means by which 1T
accomplishes it's ends. We talk
much of the yellow peril" including
therein the Japanese and Chinese,
but should we not have a greater
fear of this peril. consisting of a
quarter of a billion Russians and
Germans with an understanding of
modern methods and the use of mod
ern machinery?
I spent yesterday on Kurfursten-
damn, going from one establishment
to another and making notes of the
business There are from fifteen to
twenty Russian banks. four Russian
theaters and seven film companies.
There are a large number CT Russian
movies and dance halls and q. high
school of music. There is a vodka
! factory and a score or more Of eX
port undertakings which are doing
business with soviet Russia. There
are Russian unions for doctors, law
yers and engineers and sport clubs
| Of various kinds. There are hun
dreds Of small stores, where gold,
diamonds and other jewelry are
bought from private persons to be
sold again, and there are picture
galleries, antique stores, clothing
stores and shops for the sale and re-
pair of automobiles.
! Berlin has now twenty-five Rus
sian restaurants of considerable size
and SO many small eating places de-
voted to the Russians that it is diff
ficult to count them. 1t has numer-
Gus cafes where these people crowd
together about tables, drinking tea
and eating cakes while they discuss
politics, present and future. I lunch
ed at one of the best Of the res
taurants the other day. 1t was in the
fashionable quarter, was as well fur
nished as any first-class restaurant
in New York, and the bill of fare
would cover half a page of this
newspaper. ! had my interpreter
and secretary with me and We were
about the only people in the room
besides the Russians. We took the
regular lunch and had, for 10 cents
) meal that could not be bought al
; any good restaurant in New York
for less than 50. The lunch began
with a Russian salad, which was fol.
lowed by a delicious, clear soup, with
croquettes Of fish a la Russo. After
J this came some chopped veal fried
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The Upper Arm.

a famous sculptor once said that
the most beautiful part OF a womans
body was the shoulder and upper arm,
and that in all his life he had met
only three women whose arms were
really perfect.
II your arms arc not perfect, or at
least as perfect as you would like,
the only way you can make them so
is by exercise. am assuming, OF
course, that you weigh neither too
! much nor too little. for If the arm
consists Of rolls OF flesh you. must
diet before you exercise, and If the
arm is merely skin and bone you must
| somehow increase your weight. The
| arm, by the way. is always an :ndica-
ton Of your weight and gains or loses
in proportion to the rest OF the body.
But the arms can be just fat enough
and still q bad shape, and that is the
| condition that exercise alone will
| remedy The exercises are simple
| minutes a day
Stand erect with the chest high and
| the abdomen contracted, hold the
! arms in front OF you. hands clenched
and muscles tense. Draw the hands.
| back TO the shoulders as though you:
were pulling on a heavy weight very
slowly and resisting yourself as much
as possible.
Hold the arms out, on each side, on
a level with the shoulders, and bend
| the elbow until the fists touch the
| top of the shoulders. DO this tersinS
| the muscles as though YOU were pull
| ing on a weight. Both these exer-
cisees should be repeated a dozen
times. And remember that all the
time you are doing this you should
be breathing slowly and deeply.
Rowing is one OF the. best things
in the world for giving the arms
beautiful contours. These exercises
are very much like rowing. A pair
OF weights with ropes running over
! pulley and handles attached to
grasp would supply you with ten
minutes arm exercise every day.
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vested in Moscow and Petrograd. T
spent some time in!Russia before the
world war, and found then that my
German carried me farther than any
other language. met German mer-
chants, in nearly every city, and in
many cases, they had intermarried
with the, Russians and Established
permanent homes. The Germans have
always given longer credits to the
Russians, than have the merchants of
any other nationality. and ASA result
they have made for themselves a
large place in the economic and mer-
camille life of the people. All this
was destroyed by the .bolshevists, but
the tangled threads still exist, and If
stable Russia should come they may
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needs. and Russia the enormous re-
sources. agricultural and mineral, and
the great labor forces which can be
SO we'll exploited by Germany. AS I
write this I hear that the Krupps
have leased $4,000 acres in the Don
region for thirty-six years. which
they intend to develop with machinery
be colonized by Germans and the
Krupps agree to bring in one-half of
the workers. The land cannot be let
except to employees Of Krupp. The
rent is to be paid in kind, giving the
Russians from 10 to 10 per cent of
the harvest.
X X X X
THE rapid growth Of the popula-
i tion is crowding Berlin to burst
ing. The city has been underbuilt for
years and at no time has it been more
crowded than now. Founded almost
America, it had only 5000 at the end
of the thirty-year war and only 20,-
600 when Frederick the Great came
to the throne. At the time of our
civil war it had half a million, and
when the Germans conquered the
French in 1870 it was larger than
the Boston of today. The big indem-
nifty received from France gave It a
boom. and since then It has steadily
grown until now It is by far the
largest city on the continent Of Eu-
rope.
Today. Notwithstanding the poverty,
the bad currency and the socialistic
rent laws, buildings are going up in
different parts of the city, and many
of the large structures are being
heightened to accommodate the bust
ness and living conditions.
More than eighty years ago it was
said that 500 families were without
shelter and when the Franco-Prus.
sian war closed something like coo
families were living in public build
ings. About the time Kaiser Wilhelm
came to the throne made q survey
of the poorer quarters of Berlin. The
town then had about 100000, and
there were tens Of thousands living
in cellars. I was told that less than
| 1000 heads of families had at tina,
| time a whole house to themselves. and
from then on the crowded conditions
have steadily increased.
| Berlin is q city Of apartment houses
The buildings are usually of five or six
stories, skyscrapers being forbidden by
the municipal regulations. In the
Easements one often finds cobblers
| butchers and grocerymen, while In
J the courts on the ground floor every