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Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
COUNTING AUTOS

There political fights, it seems, which are
strenuously fought that the number of autonlo
biles that take part in demonstration become mat
ter of utmost Importance.
In witness whereof we have the recent ink spat
ters San Diego papers, whose count of these
is as widely varied as colors in the spectrum.
1t is said that the San Diego Union had three men
out the route of the parade to count the and
check up on license plates to where the owners
lived.
AT that the actual count of cars and general i'm
preston given to the editor of the Union must have
been pretty big for that gentleman closed article
the parade with the remark: "The procession sue
ceeded admirably in blocking traffic at few of the
down town business for few miles"
All of which is rather small quibbling over no.
thing The important thing is that the Imperial VAL
ley did close its places of business, did organize into
huge parade the length of which, according to parade
marshals was over 600 cars. Even the San Diego
Union would have been hard put to it to deny that Ell
Centro Holtve, Brawley, Imperial, Capatria, West
morland and Seeley, gave entire buSl-
ness day to Congressman Phil Swing
The very fact that the San Diego Union, which has
to Ed Sample in the minds of Imperial
Valley people, is willing to say anything to gain its
end, quite significant fact in indicating how much
the interests of this Valley are the minds of those
who supporting Sample.
What the Union any other paper publishes with
regard to the number of in parade is not i'm
portant but what that indicates in this instance in the
attitude toward the Imperial Valley and its welfare is
quite another thing.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
EVOLUTION IN GEORGIA

The committee education of the Georgia House
of Representatives has voted unanimously for report
requiring that all state support be refused to any
school at which the Darwnian theory any similar
theory Of evolution is taught There will be strong
effort made to enact the bill favored in this report
1t is curious situation, to people who nave sup
posed until recently, that the doctrine of evolution
had found it's way into the general thinking OF the c
yized world. The churches themselves have many
ministers who see no real conflict between natural
science and religion. Such ministers find 1t easier to
believe that God made the world and its creatures IN
six days of 100000 >100000,000 years each than
six days of "a hours each The length of time, they
hold is comparatively unimportant anyway, and the
evolutionary theory merely seeks to explain the pro-
cess to divine creatn They observe that the order OF
creation given in the Hebrew Scriptures very closely
parallels the order given by the evolutionlsts
1t is permissible of course, for any individual or
organization to question the truth OF the eVolutnafy
teaching 1t may be permissible for board OF college
trustees or legislature voting money for college to
oppose the active endorsement of evolution, though
that is more doubtful But to forbid instruction merely
intended to explain evolution to students that they
will understand and decide for themselves Wheth-
er to accept or reject it. will be regarded by most peo
pie as indefensibe.
1t is something which well-informed person has
to know about whether he believes in it not All the
thinking of the last halfcentury, and all the itera
ture is full of it, from Tennysons "Lockesley Hall
and In Memoran down to the latest essays and free
verse of American writers.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

Il big clam she'll, and pat it down,
and it looks like chocolate candy
/ but you don t eat it! -
ooh. don't you7' asked Uncle
Wiggily, just as if he didn t know.
Oh, he was teaser, that old rab-
bit gentleman was. \ regular
teaserl
"No, of course you donrt eat
sand pies!'' and Curly roared with
laughter. "But ceme on, please,
Uncle Wiggily, and Wen help Baby
Bunty make lot of them.
Down on the beach the old rlb-
bit gentleman, the little rabbit or
phan girl and the kind piggie boys
played and had fun. Uncle Wig
gily didn t care if his whiskers
were grating gray around the edges.
His heart was still young.
He dug up wet sand for the chill
dren, he helped them pat it into
some big clam shells that the pig
gies found on the beach. Baby
Bunty put little crinkily edges
around The edges of the sand in the
shells.
"Oh, they look just like real pies;
don t they?' she cried, clipping
her paws in delight as she look ID
at the row of them. Uncle Wig
gily was just digging up more
sand, thinking the children might
like it make play house, when, all
of a sudden, up on the beach flop
ped the big, bad old Walrus
Cuff! Cuff! Cuff gurgled the
Walrus, shaking his tusks. II.
heard, you speaking of pies. | Il
eat all the pies YOU have and then
III nibble Uncle Wiggily's ears! u
and most hungrily he looked at the
bunny. Then the Walrus saw the
row of f.clam shell with erinkily
edges ''Oh, ho! So those are the
pies, are they?" he roared, lumber
ing toward them.
Don't eat those!' cried Uncle
Wig gily, holding up q paw.
- Don t!
'sPooh! Do you think II mind
you?" sneered the Walrus. IN
eat up al the pies-every one, :.
And he did! Most greedily he COB
bled all the sand pies into his
mouth at once, thinking they were
chocolate, / suppose.
But when lie found his mouth and
teeth and tongue covered with sand
that Walrus didn t feel so smart.
''Oh, Goopie! Goopie!' he how
led, and then he flopped back dowA
into the ocean to wash the sand out
Of his teeth. Silly Walrus, WASH t
he2 But, anyhow, the sand pics
saved the bunny's ears. And if
the strawberry shortcake docsn I
try to roll around like a hoop aud
lose its dignity, I'll tell you next
about Uncle Wiggily and the peb-
bic pudding.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

of the window.
'Then il s the slippery Lob
ster!'' said the muskrat lady house
keeper.
"Wrong again!" laughed Uncle
Wiggily. 'It's Curly and Floppy
Twistytail, the pigs. l guess they
came down OH Il seashore eXcur-
sion
"What do they want?" asked
Nurse .Jane. "'They shouldr t
throw sand and gravel at the win
dow that way. They might break
it. D."
ooh, | guess that won t hap
pcn," chuckled Mr.. Longears. And
as he opened the door Curly and
Floppy scrambled in with squeals
of delight for they 'lil "a Uncle
Wiggily.
"Come on down to the beach
and play with u.s." grunted Floppy
"We're going to help Baby
Bunty make sand pie, ~ added
Curly.
at is very kind Of you 20 play
with the little orphan rabbit girl,
said Uncle Wiggily, "and viii
90 with you TO see that she doesn
eat too much sand pie. -
'sHo! Hol You don't eat SAND
pie!" laughed sloppy. 4" You just
take some wet sand and put 1t III
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

Winter, when three men mounted
the running board of their car and
began firing.
Miss Barton was killed and Win
ter wounded.
The murder created flrore.
throughout the southwest. Denseel,
Chester, an underworld character,
was arrested in Great Falls, Mont,
in connection with the crime hut,
escaped, He was again arrested :at.
Broken Bow, Nebraska,, and again
escaped. t'@
: ,Rolicef saiaast wg.nfrpsssBob Hanna
and George Rowden were in cirst9-
.dy at Cardin. .s y y We y
Rats, according to Washington
experts, are increasing; but this
may be ganda to boost the silk
stocking trade. s
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
Jewish Rabbi Is
Chosen President

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug
21.-For the first time il it s his
tory, the ehaplains association of
the American Prison Association,
now in session here, has elected a
Jewish Rabbi as president of the
organization. This honor was ac,
corded Rabbi Moses L. Sedar OF
Boston. Rabbi Sewar was chosen
at the session of the association.
The Rabbi was not present at the
convention.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD E. GkRIS
Copyright, 1928, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
SAND PIE

There sounded one morning a
tappity tap tap and rattle bang
ON the window of the driftwood
cottage bungalow where Uncle
Wiggily was staying for a time 1T
the seashere.
'.There 5 the Sand Flipper
again!' cried Nurse Jane Fuzzy
Wuzzy, eoverAg her eyes with her
paws, for she didn' t want to have
TO blink any tears away.
"No, it ism the Sand Flipper,
said Uncle Wiggilr, looking out
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
TEN YEARS AGO
Auo1,sH 81. 1914

AUS, USU ~ IVIt
Mr.. and Mrs. w. III. Hillman of
Tropico, returned to their home this
morning after a two days visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Sweeney.
Rev. w. G. Conley, who has spent
the week with his family az san
Diego, returned this morning to FL
Centro.
A. j. Elliot and family, of El
Centro, have returned from the
coast, where they have been spend
ing the last few weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
AI.ga9t II,

pr. II. j. Filler has been spend
ing a portion of this week in san
Diego.
G. d. Humphries has returned
from visit of two months in Ken
ltucky and Indiana.
j. V. Watchtel, Jr,, cashier of
the FRS. National Bank, left on
Sunday night for Los Angeles, for
a vacation of three weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell of
Valley for This Date
IN Past Years
NINETEEN YEARS AGO
Angust ri, l9O4

tkIE8uAg sI, IaUA
Mr.. J.. II. MeClanahan, an at,
torn Y from Kentucky, has opened
an office in the room formerly oc-
cupitd by the Model ice creaR par
lorf on Imperial avenue, and is pre-,
pare dto look after the interests OF
clients.
Miss Lucille Holman returned
Tuesday from a few days visit at
Uoltville.
bradley who has been cut TO
san Diego for some time returned
to Siis1ee last week.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
Arrest Two AS
Murd erers Of
X. C. Debutante
By United Presa Leased Wire

KANSAS CITY, NO, Aug. 21.-s
Two men accused Of Staying Flor
ence Barton, Kansas City debut2nte
on & lonely htghway y7nehr ffere fona'
years ago are under arrest at Car
din, Okla. peliee We're advised to-
day.
Miss Barton daughter of Kan
sas City shoe manufactures and
leader of the young social set. was
riding with her fiancee, Howard
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

s'Iou get know more OF the character OF man
m 4 round Of golf" says Lloyd George than you can
ret to know in six months with only political expert
encev If you want know whom to vote for, then,
play golf with him. But it would do better still TO go
fishing with him.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

SAN FRANCISCO BAY RE
GION: Cloudy or foggy tonight and
Friday morning, becoming fair dur.
ing the day; no change in tempera-
ture; moderate westerly winds.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

There is one pleasant feature about murder trials,
anyway It's being an alienist the witness stand
at $3.50 day.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

Wouldn't it be awful if one of
these round -the-world flyers got
home and found the milk man had
left him milk all summer?
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;
Fair tonight and Friday except
cloudy or foggy along the coast.
Not much change in temperature.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

Does history repeat itself? Well, the French are
crticisng the Germans for planning war OF revenge
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

ST Louis editor likens our criminal laws TO a
seiNe They certainly do strain public patience
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY: Fair
tonight and Friday no change in
temperature: Light northwesterly
winds.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
The w Weatlaer
BY United Press Leased Wire

FOR LOS ANGELES AND VICI-
NIFTY: Fair weather and moderate
temperature tonight and Friday
with fog or clouds in the morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

Ii looks like dry campaign, in more senses than
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-25
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

p ace OF torment instead Of a para
disc on earth is the never-ceasing
nagging that goes on in so many
households. And this nagging is just
le result of a man or woman try
ihg TO make his wire or her husband
conform to the habits he or she was
brought up in.
"a m"n who has had a saving
mother who wore plain, cheap clothes
and never went out in society can
never get over the idea that his wife
is running him because size doesnh
pare the potatoes thin enough, and
buys pretty clothes and goes to par
ties The woman VINO has been
brought up narrow minded AND
stingy believes her husband is going
to perdition every time he takes a
drink, and she frets herself and him
every time he tips a waiter.
''In my own case it took me thirty
years to find out that it was less
work, and saved wear and tear on
my temper and nerves, to pick up
after my husband than it was to
try to make him hang up his clothes,
and put a book on the shelf after
he had been done with it. We have
fought over that a thousand times,
and all because his mother was a
slap-daShy housekeeper and my
mother one of the women who believ-
ed that order is heavens first law,
and that to scatter newspaper on
the floor ought to be a han ging Of
Tense.
In my family much talking was
discouraged. We kept our own coun-
sci and never discussed our plans
with any one. My husbands people
are loquacious. They talk over every
thing they are going to do, and think
they are going to do, and everybody
knows every detail &c everybody
else's life. To me this still seems
horrible. | feel it is as immodest to
expose my soul as it would be to ex-
pose my body, and because I cannot
tell others everything | think and
feel, my in-laws regard me as aloof
and secretive and have never really
felt me one of the family.
and it is a barrier between my
husband and myself that ] think he
talks too much, and he thinks I am
clam. And there you are!
SO think that when you consider
all of these temperamental differ
ences between people who have been
brought up with different ideals and
habits, it is wonderful that they
adapt themselves to each other as
well as they do"
DOROTHY DIX.
(C'OpVrioht 1904
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-25
Cause of Protests
On Battleship Guns
Demanded by Butler

WASHINGTON. Dec. 9S.-Tbe
state department would be called on
under resolution introduced TODAY
by Representative Rrirten. Of mi.
nots. to inform the house What ON.
lection any foreign government NAV.
have 10 the proposed Increase in tbe
elevation of turret suns on Amen.
can hattleShips.
The guns ON thirteen such vessels
would be moderated under a hin in.
troduced yesterday bv Mr.. Rrittep
out Great Britain has laid her views
on the subject before the state de.
pSr'heht; and the question whether
Suh eteNauon would violate the
spirit OF the Washington arms
treaty has been much debated
among offi~}a'~ ,~a .':--' ,-,,.,.s no.,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-25
Deaths From Cancer
And tuberculosis in
Georgia Increase

A total of 4,074 persons died in
Georgia during 1928 as the direct
result of tuberculosis and cancer, &C.
cording to statistics received from
the United States department of com
mert>. In 1922 the total number Of
deaths re. y in Georgia from
these two causes was $500, showing
an increase in 1923 of 274 deaths.
or the 2,737 deaths in Georgia from
tt ;culosis in 1923, lob were white
persons and 1,724 negroes In 1922
965 white persons succumbed to the
disease and 1850 negroes.
statistics show that of the total
OIL 1'55I deaths resulting from cancer
ana other malignant tumors in 1929.
9zo OF thc1e were white persons and
Ala were negroes. In 1922, 791 white
persons died as a result of the dis
ease. and SOL negroes
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-25
Estate Of Gompers
Valued at $4,000;
Widow Nav Fight

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-Samuel
Gompers left an estate valued at
about $4,000. Samuel j. Gompers,
his son and executor under his will .
declared in a petition for probate Of
the document filed toGay in District
of Columbia supreme court.
All of the heirs and next Of kin
joined in the request for probate
except the widow, Gertrude A. Com
pers. who, under it's provisions
would receive only the minimum al
lowed by the law Attorneys for the
executor asked that Mrs. Gompers
show cause why the will should not
be admitted to probate. Should she
desire to attack its validity she may
Go so when she answers.
Mr.. Gompers owned his home here
and four lots in Sherman Park, y.
Y, the latter valued in the will at
$500. He also possessed building as
ISOLATION stock, Liberty bonds and
cash of about $4,000. as we'll as
many articles presented to him dur
ing his long career as head Of the
American Federation Of Labor. His
debts, it was set forth, would not
exceed 81 900
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-25
THE HUNDREDTH WOMAN
BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOds
Copyright 1924 by Public Ledger Company

Lyra Graham is to be married
to Peter GriSWold in three
weeks. Thomas Hunter, better
known as Tex, a friend of Mr..
Graham's, is invited to come on
for the festivities preceding the
wedding. He feels out of place,
and thinks Lyra and her friends
extremely artificial. Lyra treats
him with barely concealed in
science, and one night when she
tries him too far he seizes her
in Mis- arms and kisses her. Lyra
is furious, but to his amazement
Tex discovers that he loves her.
Cynthia Weston, Lyra's prospec-
tive maid Of honor, learns of the
situation and determines to use
the knowledge for her own pur-
poses
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-25

the,, 81 often fight like cats and doss.
Tbo amazing thing is that uXorclue
lent the commonest crime OH ~
calendar. and that every mar as
DOESN'T end in the divorce court
"rhe noetic theory that there Is
como magic in the marriage ceie,
,,ony that turns a husband and W'le
into two souls with bat slnSAe
thought is all buncombe. Every ma !
lack and woman Jane, is dlstlhcl
Individuality before marriage anu ~,
mains that way after marriage anu
having a preacher humble lie"
words over YOU doesn't alter your
noint of view in the least.
eff Won liked steak smothered with
onions before marriage ana were -"
fresh-air fiend, you are sun iresti,
air fiend and like steak smotheleu
with onions after marriage, ana he
clash comes in when you ina tha'
YOU are united, until death 60 W
part. with one who can not aploe
onions, and who likes to i've IN hel
metically sealed rooms.
and, curiously enough, it IS the
onions and the fresh air, and our
ont them. that make or mar mar
riage. When all is said, there are
NOT MANY villains, or big tragedies,
or broken hearts in real life. There
are not many rhilanderng husbands,
nor flirtatious wives. The married
man who elopes with chorus girl,
and the married woman who goes off
with her soulmate. are rare enough
to be news and get their names IN
the papers,
"Most husbands and wives are
pretty decent. and try to do their
duty in that station in life to which
they have called themselves, but
they are what their families have
made them. They are heredlty, plus
environment, and it is when their
ancestral traits and tribal customs
smash headlong into the ancestral
traits and tribal customs of the in
dividual to whom they are married
that trouble begins.
Irwin Cobb says that the Civil
war wasn't fought over slavery, that
it was fought over hot bread versus
cold bread, and / believe it, for |
have seen more than one home dis
rupted by the pie question.
Il call to mind one marriage that
seemed truly match made in heav-
en-. Both bride and groom were
splendid, handsome, intelligent,
young creatures, who appeared cre-
ated for each other. But, alas, the
girl belonged to an intelligent family
who believed in the plain-livirg and
high-thinking theory of existence,
and the man came of a race Of cpl
c,res who believed that art found
one of its highest modes of express
sion in the kitchen.
THE wife considered it a waste
Of time and money to supply her
table with anything but the bare
n 9cessities Of existence, and she con-
sidered 1t her sacred duty to Wean
rer husband away from the fleshpots
He simply couldn't and wouldn't eat
the food she set before him, and so
after a few years of semi starvation
he drifted away from home and wife
to places where there was pep in the
dinner and diners.
1.-THE thing that does more than
anything else to make home a
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-25

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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-25

y w tllIlIh vi / w -
youn 6 pc o p J e
who have NOT
liv e d ! O n z
enough to have
been discipline
by life, or 70
have had LIE
teach them pm
losophy or sell
control; w n .
have different
ideals, underta x :
ing to live TO-
gether in t n !:
close contact OF
a home, it is not
sllrprisin g that
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-25
MISS MYRTLE NIXON.
Georgian, Ala, Route ], Box 50.

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins Have been
intending 10 write for some time and see u
you would allow Kentucky farm girl to
Join your happy band Of cousins. Yes,
suppose one would call me farm girl,
/ live on a small farm about mile out
from Midd,esboro. have Laep reading
your nice letters to one another in The Fri
Weekly Journal. and ! do enjoy them.
| will try 10 tell you little about my ap
pearance. | am about feet s inches tall,
nave red mar gray eyes and fair complex
ion My birthday j. August . am be
tween sixteen and twenty years old Ha re
l twin: IL 50. | wish they would write
me. | will answer all letters | receive up
to 1000 | enjoy reading and writing let
ters more than anything else. | am nor
going 10 take = subject TO write on. but
would like 10 toll YOU a little about M
highest ambition. My highest ambition il
70 finish high school, 90 10 college for two
years. then TAKE Il nurse trimming rourse.
after which I intend 10 enter the Baptist
Missionary Training school at Louisville
Ky. where I viii take the required training
to become a missionary. after which I am
planning TO sail for China. Japan or Africa.
Ny choice has always been China. for more
appeals made for medical as well as
spiritual help in that country. II any IF
enter any kind Of work like this l wish
have some Of their ideas. Well, as [ want
to come again, had better 20. / thank
Won for ettn. me come this time. hope
I may come again. have 50 ENJOYED ny
visit. ] will lose With best regards to
all. I am your Kentucky IA rm cousin.
MISS LYDIA REESE.
Midd1cslr"r". ~ aa3 49,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-25
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND RIRLS
"HeIp for the Helpless-Kindness to
All Dumb Things"
Rules

No unsigned letter printed
No letter written on both sides of
paper printed.
All letters not to exceed $50 to
200 words.
Dear Children: Merry, merry
Christmas,
Here is our last honor roll of this
year.
If any letters containing money
came too late to be listed you may
expect those names on the first
honor roll of the new year.
We are sending Inez $2S2S.
Isn't that a lovely way to ceie-
brate the birth of our Blessed Sa-
Vior?
Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
p ST am going to have a two
weeks leave of absence. Please have
lots of letters waiting for me. Ill
miss you so.