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Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
Farm Bureau Drive is Continued Until January 10
WHIRLWIND RACE
IS PLAN BETWEEN
CHAMBER, F. B.
Losing Side to Banquet
VictOrs at Barbecue,
Much Interest

Following q lively committee meet
ing held today, plans for a wllirl-
wind campaign for Imperial County
Farm Bureau memberships which
will be carried on in competition by
the FL Centre Chamber of Commerce.
and members of the adjacent Farm
Bureau centers, were announced.
Opening at 10 a. m. Wednesday,
January 3, and continuing unt.l mid
night Thursday, January 10, each of
the rival organizations will do their
best to win the promised barbecue
banquet promised by the losers to
the victors.
According to the rules and regula-
tions drawn up today, all member
ships, accompanied by their required
fee in cash or equivalent, must be
turned in to the Farm Bureau head
quarters in this city, or placed in
the mail within 4S hours of the time
application is made.
1--WE plan to have bulletin board
at the Farm Bureau headquarters
and one at the Chamber of Com
merce,' said Manager G. c. Jen-
krns of the former organization to-
day, "and record of just how the
opposing factions are getting ON
will be available. This will avoid
the holding out of a number of mem
berships till the last minute, and
will insure fair play for both sides. y
The purpose of this drive is to
give an added boost to the member
ship work which has been carried
on for the past month. Due to the
holiday season and bad weather it
lslas not received the attentins gsit,
would otherwise have had. The en-s
tire county issto profit by tile ten
day extension, it was announced to-
day.
Members of the committee APP
pointed for FL Eentro's campaign in
clude Tom NJ. Gill, chairman, John
Zurcher, Vaughn Francis, Harry
Barker and Roscoe Gould for the
Chamber Of Commerce and l.. G.
Lee, George M. Austin, w. A. Swerd-
ferger, Gerold II. Shaw and G.. c.
jenkins for the Farm Bureau.
Here Are Rules
Rules and regulations governing
the contest of the FL Centre Cham
Der with the farm centers of See-
ley-Lantana, McCabe, Acacia and
-Meloland follow:
The object of the contest is to Sc
cure membership and collect dues
for 1924 to the Imperial County
Farm Bureau.
Anyone interested in agriculture
who is not an alien, is eligible to
membership in the Imperial County
Farm Bureau.
I Dues shall be $3.50 for women and
$500 for men. Ten per cent of all
dues collected from men shall be
valid to the farm center of which(ie
becomes member and 10 per cent
of all women s dues shall be paid 10
the county home department All
memberships taken at this time shah
be good until December 81, 1924.
The side that shall enroll the most
members in this contest will be ban
quoted by the losing srde at bar
beeue. All members signing up for
1924, together with their families
and friends, will be invited to thus
banquet.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
Desperate Horse
Thief Proves to
Be a YOungster

Word was received ~ the sher
iff S office last night that :: horse
thief, who disappeared from Yuma
Saturday, mounted on u stolen
horse, had been seen in the neigh
bcrhood of Meloland, and Sheriff
Gillett, with Deputy Sheriff Ball,
started CT once for the latter place,
heavily armed in anticipation of
a tussle with desperate character.
They located the horse, staked out
near lettuce shed, and decided to
search several refrigerator ears stanG
ing nearby. their endeavors were
rewarded and the theft was discov-
cred asleep in one of the cars. With
every precaution, the sheriffs sneak
ed up, on their quarry and place
him under arrest. Both Officers
nearly tainted when the desperate
was found to he Il nine year old
colored boy.
Taken to the county Jail, the
youngster gave his name as Joseph
Castqo, and admitted taking the
horse in Yuma Saturday. lie had
ridden it as far as Meloland, and
was bound to see the world. he
was placed in the Juvenile quarters
at the jail, until the Yuma authori-
ties can be communicated with as
to what disposition they wish made
of him. Joe was told about the
old western tradition of hanging
horse thieves, and promised he
would steal no more when he gets
out of his present scrape.
He is bright, well-mannered
youngster and undoubtedly could be
made into q useful citizen if he
could receive the proper training.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
Nothing But Strife, and Woe
Loom for Congress Members
During Early Part Of 1924

WASHINGTON, Dee. 31.-Con-
gress returns this week to a New
Year that promises little but strife
and political struggle.
When the two houses take up
their work on Thursday the situa-
tion they will face, as to the princi
pal legislation of the session, is
this:
TaXataion-The house ways and
means commistee is to begin hear
ings Immediately with prospects
that the bill will be reported with
in six weeks. democrats in the sen
ate have drawn bill which may
be pressed as the official democra-
tic substitute.
ailrcads-Senate deadlock over
the craftsmanship Of the interstate
commerce committee contin IL s :.
Smith Democrat, will be elected un-
less sufficient Democrats are late
returning from their Christmas
vacations. In this case, Cummins,
the regular Republican, will win.
Work to repeal the Esch Cummins
law will be undertaken early.
No Relief fer Farmer
Farm relief-Nothing in sight III
either House.
Russian recognition-Senator Bo'
rah will be appointed chairman of
q special subcommittee of the SEN
ate foreign relations committee i'm
mediately to "find the truth y
about alleged circulation of sup
posed >"rcd' propaganda in the
United States. Hearings will be be
gun before the end of January and
state department. witnesses will be
called first to present their charges
against the Soviets, upon which
Secretary Hughes based his refusal
of recognition t" Russia.
.Bonus-Will be rushed through as
carly IS possible N both houses.
May be made a rider to the tax
reduction bill to forestall 4 veto. NJ
hearings will be held. Impartial
senator's and observers believe that
it will not pass over a presidential
veto.
Probe Booze Charges
Prohibition-lh light wines and
Continued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
PROBE SLAYING
OF |. A. BOY BY
POLICE OFFICER
by United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Dee. 31.--A
rigid examination into the fatal
shooting of Ellis Rogers, 16-year old
youth, by Policeman c. f. Florer
was ordered here today and will
be conducted by acting Captain
Cline of the detective bureau.
The youth, an innocent spectator
at Il boys craps game, was shot
down by the policeman as he fled
from the scene when the game was
raided.
Florcr S excuse was that he fired
at another boy, who stood his
ground and drew Il pistol. Firing in
self-defense, the bullet went wild
and hit Rogers, who had not even
been participant in the game, it
was said. The boy claimed by the
officer to have drawn a gun, leap
ed over fence and disappeared.
Rogers was shot sssFrough the
stomach and lived for about an
hour at the hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
WHAT'S DOING

o. e. S. New Years ball,
Masonic hall tonight.
knights of Pythias entertain
their families at watch party,
X. p. hall tonight.
INFER Post Council American
Legion meets at Barbara Worth
8 p. m. tonight.
Watch party, Christian church
members and friends, A. 4.
Worthy home tonight.
New Years eve dance by
Imperial Band, Narney build
ing, Imperial, $3.50 p, m. tonight.
1.-THE Driyin' Fool Palace
theater tonight.
Brunk's Comm ed ms in
"Law of the North tent
show, corner Fifth and olive.
Emancipation service, "A. M
E. church ,11:30 a. m. tomorrow,
also evening, at Second Bap-
tist church.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
2 BOYS NEAR
DEATH, RESULT
OF MUCH SNOW
by United Press Leased Wire

SEATTLE, Dee. 3l.-Two boys
were near death today as result of
accidents Sunday caused by the cold
weather and consequent slippery
streets.
Joseph Levy, 10, was taken to a
hospital after his sled had crashed
into an automobile He was un-
conscious AVID thought to be dying. +
Wesley Faug, IL, was also IN a
critical condition, following an acci-
den in WHICH his fathers auto skid
ded into ahother machine and over
turned.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
ITALIAN SHIP
ISN'T ASHORE
SAYS MESSAGE

LONDON, Dec. 31.-A dis
patch to IIoyds from Constan-
tirople reads:
1.-THE report that the Italian
steamer Isonzo is ashore near
Panderma Is erroneous.
Grounding and possible loss
of the Isonzo was reported III
marine circles Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
FLASHES FROM
EVERYWHERE
BY United Press Leased Wire

by United Press Leased Wire
CHICAGO, ;Doc. 3t.-Finan-
cial activities Of Leonard Wood,
Jr., SON Of the governor general
of the Philippines and brother
OF Lieutenant Osborne Wood,
who amassed fortune in less
than a year on Wall street, were
under state inquiry here today.
-Four defllnct oil concerns
with which Wood had connec-
tions were being investigated.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Dec.
81 william (Billy) Miske,
heavyweight prize fighter, was
still in coma early today with
death expected ht,Tly. Physi-
clans kept Miske strapped up in
bed, declaring that to permit
him to lie down would be fatal.
OAKLAND, Cal, Dec. ST.
Mrs. j. Sennott was severely in
jured early today when gas, ac-
cumulated in a room from a
leaky gas heater, exploded,
throwing her violently to the
floor. She was badly burned.
Mrs. Sennott was about to light
the heater when the explosion
occurred.
LOS ANGELES, Cec. ST.
"Go ahead and shoot Albert
Smith, oil station operator, told
two bandits who showed guns in
his face today and demanded
the contents Of the cash regis
ter.
The crooks drew back amaz-
cd, rushed to a machine drawn
up at the curbing jumped in
and speeded away.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
AIL HuiL to 1924
Local Bachelors
Must Watch Step

Do eoung for today marks the end
the New Year will make its promptly at II
little
according those who know.
definite for observing the advent
will welcome extended to the
combined watch night
affairs homes Rev. A.
Worthy will service his home
Years Eve affair, will be the
old 1928 out and bid welcome the
infant.
homes will of joyous parties TO
will
of hardly be solemn
give welcome that it deserves.
MANY TRAVEL
stonabv to q
order welcome 1924 because of the fact that certain accessories
necessary the obtained
in States, though they still blossom in Mexico
of Ell
he thankful the which this part
the There splendid prosperity will
which other
had disasters terrific storms,
community has proered and the people have been uniformly happy
While Imperial Valley will celebrate the
be de the middle the suffering
weather causing
suffering places
mild winter being
in Los Angeles
ito be blessed with
-Nt BACHELORS
To only class of Ell Centan coming bring
trepidation
composed of the ciy's bachelors
February being granted 30 instead According
the will question this
without losing standing bachelor
lighting the be
capped for the next 500 days and his handicap
that the
that he will be roped and hog tied the
Cal Mousseau clerk promised marriage license
e fs' ri 'ntro gri who succeeds in getting
ladies! " - ~
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
[. A. MAN DEAD
IN BORDER JAIL;
DRUNKEN BRAWL

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dee. 31.-A
grand jury probe cf law enforce
ment at the Mexican border looms
today as the result of the alleged
slaving of Edward Il. Hart, Los An
geleS railroad man, by fellow pris-
oner in the jail at Tijuana.
j. f. Donaldson, 43, Los Angeles,
was reported responsible, for Hart s
death aud is being held on q charge
of murder.
Examination of Hart S effects
indieat ed he was man of substan'
tial position.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
ENTIRE COUNTRY IS
SLATED FOR COLD

WASHINGTON, Dee. 31.-With
temperatures in tho west as low as
"a degrees below zero, the predicted
Continued on page six
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31


KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 81
An old time blizzard swept across
Kansas plains and other sections of
the southwest today, delaying trains
and demoralizing wire communica
ton. Snow fell durgin the night,
swept by a gale which reached so
miles an hour. The mercury drop
ped close to zero. a
Stock raisers were forced to find
shelter for their animals ard feed
was in demand. Farmers were well
prepared, however, as the season un-
Ill the present storm has been mild
and they were able to conserve
feed.
Snow, which fell early in the
evening, afforded some shelter for
the wheat from freezing temper
aturcs. However, as the snow drift
ed considerably, many fields were
swept bare.
OMAHA, Neb., Dee. 31<-Partial
relief from the blizzard which has
ragged in Nebraska Wyoming and the
\ \Dakotas since Saturday night was
kgrorpised by the weathern bureau
To-day. Temperature 1t Omaha reach
ed two beolw at a. III. but the bulb
gwas slowly rising at Z and the bu-
reau predicted II would not go be-
low that point. The storm was
accompanied by considerable snow
and a wind which ranged from 20
TO 40 miles an hour.
Tempera lures throughout the
state ranged from zero to 10 be.'Nw.
!. Hasting Gported eight below ais
mornings II 'weStiep below at ys'
lcntine at p. m. lastf4iignt,a wieh
the mercury falling. Cheyenne,
Wyo., reported 16 below at Z p. IN.
=. Railroad and wire traffic was con
siderably hampered by the storm.
Street ear service and taxicab SER
vice in Omaha were almost com
pletely tied up.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
COLD WAVE GRIPS ENTIRE COUNTRY
40 BeLOW Zero
In Wyoming,
Cattle Mennced

BY United Press Leased Wire
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Dec.
31.--Cattle and sheep men in
Western Wyoming anticipate
great suffering, with possibly
considerable fatality among live
stock resulting from a cold
wave which has run the mercury
down to 40 below zero in the
mountains. Rock Springs was
shivcring in 25 below zero
weather this Inornig. A heavy
snow fall over the district yes
terday will make it difficult to
care for sheep and cattle prop
erly and many not rushed to
shelte. when the storm warning
came may perish.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
By United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Dee. Sl,- Ed.
ward L. Hart, said to be Los An
geles railroad man, killed Sunday in
a Tijuana Jail, could not be traced
by local police today through ad-
dresses found among the man S ef
fects.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-12-31
COTTON MARKET

NEW ORLEANS, Dee. 3l--Cotton
CloSpu stnadv
Evening star., 1923-09-05

This aftirnoonI was taking wawk
with my black and wife dog Yardo.
YaTdo running erround me and look
ing up at me as II he thawt l was
one of the greatest things he ever
ssw and me looking down at him
and wondering II he was some kind
of a champion pettigree prize winner
in disguise. and 2 men started to go
past. one saying, Look at that mutt.
I wonder wat it's Supposed TO be.
Its not Supposed to be. that's the
point. the other one sed.
Not being sutch wonderful looking
people themselfs, and l kepp on 60
ing. saying to YardoS They don't know
enything, don't you mind them. fardo.
Wich Yardo dident enyways. and he
kepp on jumping erround happy like
somebody that couldent take insult
and was glad of 1t. and some tuff
looking kid stopped going past, say
ing, Is that dog or wat is it?
Aw. who do you think you are
yourself? L sed.
Hay, watts eating you, do you want
bang in the snoot? the tuff kid sed.
Me jest keeping on wawking proud
without giving him the saddisfaction
of saying weather ] did or not. and |
verse. and some little gerl went past
with her mother. saying, o mamma.
did you see the sweet bewtifill little
doggie.
Ne thinking, G, I'm glad some pee
pie in the werld have a little sents
insted of everybody being so ig-
norunt.
And / started to wissle and kepp
on wawking feeling better insted of
Evening star., 1923-09-05
Fur Collars on New House Coats |
BY ANNE RITTENHOUsE.

The slowly moving cogs of FASH
ion have Brought the whole genus
neglige int9 la more commendabie
nosition than it occupied fifteen or
twenty years ago. In those far-away
days of severely laced corsets. boned
dress lininas and stiffened collars
perfect comfo'' was really not COM
patible with cGrnful dressing. In fact
we associated something of dewdiness
with a feeling of bodily ease-or most
of us did. And the feeling was nat
ural that to spend too many hours OF
the day In negige attire was DIT OF
self Indulgence gained at the expense
of good dressing. With 1t there
,urked feeling that If we didn't
wear corsets most of our waking
hours and stiffened collars during the
daytime hours we'd lose the precious
faculty Of doing SO. The woman who
habitually went to breakfast in a
neglige of any sort. from the poor
woman's Mother Hubbard to the
sumptuouS matinee that cost as mucn
as a dinner gown. was reprehensible
You pitied her husband.
NegligeeS have changed since then.
but they have not changed nearly so
much as the rest Of our wardrobes.
From the old standards our entire
wardrobes are composed of just one
neylige after another.
SO there is nothing especially rep
rehensible. is there, in eating break
fest in a neglige? To be sure,
should draw rather fine lines between
negliges for different occasions and
recognize that the languorous con-
traption with floating sleeves and
trailing panels. that would be suit
able for indolent hours of the even
ing. would never do at all for break
fast. No one recognizes this fact
better than the makers and designers
Of negliges, Who draw real distinc-
tions between Iounging robes. break
fast coats. tea gowns, dressing
gowns and so on.
The so-called house coat is not a
novelty. but it has come into especial
Importance. 1t is straight and trim
and short and easy to put on. Usually
il does up from collar to hem. so
that one slips into it as easily as into
a bathrobe
For cooler weather velvet and
other pile fabrics will doubtless be
the first choice for these house coats
though a daintier effect may be pro-
duced by using crepe with a light
padded lining. For the present un-
lined crepe is warm enough with a
possible bit of fur trimming to show
that we realize that autumn is not
far off.
Evening star., 1923-09-05
Play Is Over.

School begins in few days. Bet
ter prepare yourself. There won't be
any playing about this terms work,
young lady, young man! Just re-
member that"
Now what's the sense of that?
Do you want to make the children
dread the school? OF course you
don't You're only trying to make
them feel sense of responsibility to-
ward their duty. Then it would be
better to set about it in different
way.
You see. playing is the child's
work. That is the only real work he
knows. 1t is the only form of work
that he senses properly. If he has
been obliged to do what he was bid
Without any regard to his pleasure
in the doing, he has not sensed, the
notion of work as you hoped, but he
has gathered a deep sense of disgust
for imposed tasks, which is very
different thing.
A child will work ceaselessly. work
until he drops from fatigue, at what
he senses as his play. To you it
would be toll to dig a shallow ditch
and all day long carry stones to pile
up in it and make house or fort
or a garage.
But the child who is doing. it feels
no fatigue because his body ist riding
on the wings of play. To make him
piod the stony highway of duty does
more harm than it will ever do good.
Should he not do useful things?
Truly! But he has to do them in the
play spirit. For instance. it is hard
for a child to put on his stockings. He
must learn to do this for himself of
course.
Now you can say Here. put on
your stockings Hurry up now and
don't take all morning" Or you can
say: MY. ! see Ave pink and white
mice on each foot! See il you can get
them into your trap. Have to hurry
or they'll scamper away. Quick.
quick"
Must he always be- jollied into
doing what he ought TO do as mat
ter of course?" o, my dear duty-doer.
you are deceiving yourself! You
think you have reached the place
where you don't have to be jollied into
doing whatsyou ought to dc as mat
ter of course, don't you? You haven't!
4. When you have done bit of work
that you think Is rather good. isn't
there, somewhere. voice that you
pointed that way waiting for the word
of praise that inspires you to go on
and tackle the next thing?
90 course th-re is. Whether you
are four or forty, the situation is the
same. The degree has altered bit,
that's all. If there, is 20 one close
enough at the time to cheer you on
is the dream of the time when there
will be.
And that is the spirit of play. work
ing on within us all from youth to
old age. The harder we play, the
more we can lose ourselves in the JOY
of doing, the better the job will be.
When the spirit of play dies. when
Evening star., 1923-09-05

Betty's real schooldays began the
second day. She was given a desk,
to be all her own, which had a little
shelf underneath where she could
put her new book and the paper the
teacher gave her. She tied her Boy
Blue pencil holder to the side of the
desk.
The teacher let them write on the
blackboard. Betty had so much fun
she forgot to be careful and she got
some chalk on her navy blue Peter
Thompson dress.
Dismissed for recess" announced
the teacher. They all marched out
into the school yard. Betty was so
happy she wanted to tell her mother
all about 1t, so she raced home.
What did you come home for?"
Billy ran in the house in a few
minutes after Betty. THAT was only
recess and you're not supposed to
come home"
Betty had red tie and red stripes in her
half hose. When she got on her blue cap,
she looked just like q sailor girl.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1923-09-05
Distorp Of pour Same.
BY PHILIP FRANCIS NoWLAN.
BISHOP

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Leveque, lie.
vesque.
RACIAL oRioIN-EnsiIsh and French.
soURcE-A title.
Family names such as those in this
group are a little puzzling in their
origins to some people.
In the present case the difficulty Is
in accounting for the development of
the names. like those Of Abbott. Pope.
Priest Parsons and others of similar
nature. as the clergy did not marry.
OF course. In a great many in
stances some of these names un-
doubtedly developed during or follow
of the period of family name devel-
opment. Clergymen breaking away
FROM the authority of Rome for the
most part married. That solves one
source of the names.
Another resource undoubtedly was
the taking of characters in the mys-
terry plays which were so popular in
must study social history to realize
how important these functions were
in the minds of the medieval popu-
lace, and those who took part in
them were naturally famous, If only
locally.
Again, but In an almost negligible
number of cases, dispensations were
allowed to members~p Of the clergy to
marry; reasons for such exceptions
were to prevent the dying out of a
ruling family in cases where such an
eventuality threatened to create
bloody strife and widespread suffer-
ing on the part of the people.
Evening star., 1923-09-05
BY n. A. EMMONS.

The arborvitae is a narrow. conical
evergreen, very formal in outline with
a surface as regular as if it were trim
med with shears. 1t is essentially a
northern tree and is found in wet soils
from New Brunswick and Manitoba
south to Minnesota and North Carolina,
in the southern part of it's range being
found only in the mountains. 1t reaches
a height of twenty to sixty feet, with
trunk diameter of two to four feet
and in the north in cold swamps it forms
dense. almost impenetrable forests.
Though slow grower the arbor-
vitae is much used tree for orna-
mental planting, for hedgerows and
windbreaks. and about fifty different
varieties have been developed by hor-
ticulturists. These vary chiefly in
habit of growth and color Of foliage.
The bark is light reddish brown
and on old trees 1t shreds off in long
ragged strips. The tree is easily
recognized on account Of the foliage,