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Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
Genuine >Sheiks
Learning How to
Make Good Roads

= SACRAMENTO, Calf, Aug. o.
While psuedo sieiks ''burn up the
roads, in gasoline propelled chari-
OTIS, two sheiks of more genuine
variety are busily engaged in learn
ing how the self same roads arc
made.
NJ. Hassaan and HAHN Abdel Ma.
lex, Egyptian government engineers
are working in offices of the Cali-
tornia highway commission with a
view of obtaining knowledge which
VIII enable them to improve the
road building methods of their own
county.
Iassaan is working in the Los
Angeles office and hIs countryman
i'll San Francisco. They will remain
at their new posts one month, scrv-
ing without pay.
Coming to the United States only
Il few months ago, they were advis-
ed that California was the best state
IN which to study road construction.
After completing their study Of
American methods the men viii re-
turn to their own country where
they will attempt to introduce their
newly acquired learning.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
THE VANISHING FALLS

For some time there has been discussion of the
need of protecting Niagara Falls, not from who
their waters to generate electric power but from
the Falls themselves. Biologists tell that many
centuries ago Niagara Falls in different posi-
ton. They have been working back slowly toward
Lake Erie Some day, probably in the very remote fu
ture it has been understood the Falls would retreat
still further and eventually vanish far scenic
grandeur goes.
Now Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who is an
engineer declares that the Niagara Falls commit
ting suicide. Within the next 80 40 years. he says,
the natural beauty of this great wonder of the world
will be gone, unless taken to check the de-
structive wearing process going
The underlying rock is being cut away faster in
the center than the sides. The breaking down
cess is gaining speed with every year After that por
ton of rock has been down the great volume of
water will simply go rushing through heightened
gorge.
II It is problem of simple engineering, the Secre-
tary holds but in order to get it solved and the safe
guarding work accomplished it is necessary for the
Canadian and American governments to set their
gineers definitely to work the project Certainly
the Falls should be saved if possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
FAIR LIVING COSTS

s An economist gives his explanation of the high
retail food costs the fact that such large numbers of
purchasers III these days must buy their food in small
quantities. The apartment house dweller has salts
factory storage space for fruits and vegetables Those
articles must be purchased by the pound in quantities
small enough to be used up in few days.
1t costs the grocer about much to deliver these
small purchases it did to handle the larger of
former days. Hence the things cost the buyer
in proportion than before There other
plexities IL modern life which add to its costliness
1t should be remembered however, that many of
these things add also to the comfort and health OF the
modern home Everything must be paid for in labor
in money If to rejoice in freedom from
past abors must expect to pay something for that
freedom.
Wherever living costs be reduced by sensible
Standardization, better methods of production and
distribution by the elimination of waste and the full
est utilization of goods the intelligent will
do his part to effect such cost reduction But where
living costs be reduce dony by giving up health,
comfort freedom intelligent will recog
nize their fairness and pay them cheerfully
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
UTILITY WATER
SYSTEM SHOWS
GAIN IN YEAR

Public utility water systems in
California increased during the fis-
cal year ending June 80, 1925, 450
to 800, despite the fact that there
were many consultations of pri-
vate systems and IL large numDcr
were taken over by municipalities,
according 10 the report OF The hy-
drauhe ulvlsion of the department
or engineering of the rallroad com
mission, just llled
During the last fiscal year the
COMMISSION rendered lo4 decisions
lnvoiving water utilities, which were
investigated and reported on by the
nydrauilc division. IN addition to
THESE, 40 decisions were rendered by
the COMMISSION relating to security
ISSUES OF water companies, whicn
were handled largeIy by the de-
partment or finance and accounts OF
the commission, with the coopera-
tion OF the hydraulic division.
Due to the efforts or the hydrau-
lie DIVISION the operation OF water
UTILITIES was conudctcd during the
SERIOUS drought OF last sunme, Win
a minimum or damage and loss to
Doth property owners ana the wa
ter companies.
Although the rainfall last winter
was not up 10 Normal III the south
ern part Oh tine state, conditions are
mucn improved TINS year, due TO
The extensive development of addi-
tional water supplies, and the reduc-
uoitv OF waste lIl the -use~ot water to
"A minimum, under regulations pre-
scrbed by the railroad COMMISSION.
Z o md tlons north Of the
Tehaehapi are much improved, and
pro rating OF the use OF water wall
not be required III TINS section OF the
state so extensively as may be re-
CURED III the tcrrItory soutn OF the
Iehachapi.'
Variations and rate proceedings
involving valuations of public utli-
ny water property To the amount of
amount OF -, l4z, ,4yi were handled
by the hvdraulic division during the
iast fiscal year. informal com
plants invoNlng water utilities to
me number OF Ioi were handled by
the commission during the fiscal
year. These involved lJ5 field in.
vestigations.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
LIFE-LIKE PORTRAITS

Boston photographer, who was formerly
brush artist. shows the Notwithstanding his own pro-
fession-something new in photography. He makes
only portrait at time, by process of his own,
and gets $3.50 for it.
The price may be considered as much Of q triumph
the method The result is held to uphold the view
that photography is a genuine art, and not trade.
Anybody who get $3.50 for camera product must
be an artist
And why not? The pictures, along with whatever
merits they may possess Of tone spirit etc. likely
to have great merit for which the in skilled
hands stand supreme They will look like the sitters.
How many oil portraits stand that test2
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
Exclusive Town
Sets Limit For
Poultry by Foot

BURLlNGAME, Calf, Aug 222.- %
This exclusive suburb once was the
home of the aristoerats, but it now
is permissible by law to keep with
in your lot an equivalent number of
chickens to your home frontage.
Twenty-Five feet--5 chlckei,s, 80
feet, 80 chickens, now is the rule.
There was debate, pro and con,
i'll the board OF trustees, but that
was the final decision after both
sides had been heard in full.
The Whole situation came about
because neighbors put i'll an objec-
tion to j. Z. Guernsey's poultry.
His friends put in such 4 food of
petitions that poultry became per-
missiblc.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
Boys Drive Auto
From Back Seat

TULARE, Calf, Aug. %, - Two
Tulare school boys trying " demon
stratc the evolution OF automobiles
arc under court order now to quit
trying to make monkeys out of Pc
destrians.
The youths were brought before
the city judge after the constable
decided that recir practise Of driv.
ing an automobile With rope tied to
the steering wheel, while they stood
up in the back scat with tho rope
as rcins, was dangerous to life, limb
and property.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
Medical Science
Gains in Fight
On White Plague

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 22.-Medi.
cal tsciencc, aided by climatic con
ditions, is making constant progress
against the white plague'' in
california, figures compiled by the
state board of health show.
Since 1906 the tuberculosis death
rate has decreased from 225.5 per
100000 population to 1889, the fig.
ures show.
y chart prepared by the board of
health shows further that while the
epath rate due to the disease is con.
stantly fluctuating the general trend
IL downward.
Better sanitation. improved medi.
cal methods for fighting the disease
and climatic conditions of the state
arc some of the reasons for the de.
cline in the death rate, according y
to members of the board.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
Bedtime Stories
"a By HOWARD E. GARIS
Copyright, 1928, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE wIGGILYs SNOW BALLS

It was. still hot III Woodland
where the animal boys and girls liv-
cd. 1t was very hot, even though
they ate Uncle Wiggily S ice cream
cones, and fanneo themselves with
the broad leaves from the >burdoek k
plant. 1t was hot, even though
those who could swim splashed about
in the waters of the frog pond.
"Uncle Wiggily, said Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy to the rabbit
gentleman when the sun was get
INC hotter and hotter, "Uncle Wig
giiv. it seems to me you could do
something to cool off these poor
children! They are suffering from
the heat. You are smart-can t you
think of some way to do it?'
II might buy more ice cream and
give them all strawberry cones as L
did yesterday Mr.. Longears re-
piled
..No. that would hardly do, = an
swcred Nurse Jane. ''Too much ice
cream might make them i'll. Try
again. and when she saw Uncle
Wiggily beginning to twinkle his
pink nose she gaily cried: - knew
it. knew you would think of some
game they could play that would
cool them off, For the rabbits,
dogs. kittens, ducks. chickens. squir-
rcls and other animal children were
trying to keep cool around Uncle
Wigcay's s hollow stump bungalow.
But it was hard work. ''But you
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
KIWANIS CLUBS
PLAN TO FOSTER
FARM EXHIBITS

CHICAGO, Aug. %. - Hundreds
of Kiwanis clubs i'll the United
States and Canada arc again making
preliminary arrangements for hold
ing county fairs, shows, dairy and
grain exhibits and agricultural in
stitutes during the coming fall
months, according to reports being
received by kiwanis International
headquarters in Chicago. This is in
direct line with the organization s
policy of developing closer relation
between the farmer and the city
man.
Last year the festivals promoted
interest In many communities where
shows had never been held, giving
thousands of farmers a chance to
display their products and enter in
to the contests for prize awards.
Dairy and poultry shows led the list
OF kiwanis sponsored activities dur
ing the past season, but it is known
that this year many clubs will make
the displays more diversified. With
Il record crop this season many XII
wants clubs will major in gram ex-
hibits, 1t is expected.
Hundreds or boys and girls ,
clubs, financed by Kiwanians who
have purchased pure bred stock and
poultry, will be valued contestants
at many of the county and state
tairs throughout the North Amer
lean continent. Calf, pig, egg, poul-
try and corn clubs have become very
popular among the Kiwanis sponsor
ca farm boys and girls interests.
agricultural implement demonstra-
tiolis Ill connection with the farm
product displays are proposed by
many of the clubs III vicinities
where new farm machinery equip
ments are being introduced.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
Cops Mount Two
Headlights; Fool
Willy Speeders


SAN JOSE, Calf. Aug. o2.--Thc
state Of California prohibits speed
traps and requires that all OF its
highway police wear uniforms, so
that the speeding pablic may run
opcn-eyed into arrest, but one way
around the law has been found.
Speed officers patrolling roads
fear here found that motorists at
night. always slowed down when
they saw Il single motorcycle head
light.
SO now they either ride in pairs,
or mount headlights at each cx-
trcmc of the handcbars with the
result that the tricky motorist is
trickcd and more speeders are
caught.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22

LJngtail, the mouse, on his tail.
Then Johnnie Bushytail, the squir-
rcd, climbed up a tree and dropped
big snowball on Uncle WiggIly s
head.
"Ouchie! Wowchie. IN freezing
IN covered with snow!' cried the
rabbit gentleman, and he tremhled
and shook and made believe he was
| sLivering, SO that all the children
laughed
'.Oh, this is a lovely camel"
cried Baby Bunty.
"Well, L nj going to play this
game too. : suddenly growled a
voice and out of the woods came
stalking the Black Bushy Bear =
not good, kind Mr.. Stubtail, but a
bad bear. - m going to play the
nibbling ear camel" growled the
bear, looking at Uncle Wiggily.
''Don t let the bad chap nibblc
cur Uncle Wiggily! cried the ami
nal children. And they picked 80
many snowballs from the bush and
threw them at the bear so hard that
i'll little while lie was all covered
until he looked like a snowdr;ft.
|. And before he could claw his way
out to scratch any ears, Nurse
Jane tclcphoned for five Police Dogs
! wto cme and arrested the bear and
took him off 20 Jail, where he may
be yet, for all / know.
But the animal children were very
cool after this. And if the clothes
brush docsn t slide down stairs and
tickle the hat rack in the ribs, III
tell you next about Uncle Wiggily
and the icicles.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22

can think of a way = [ know YOU
cant" cried Nurse Jane. Oh, you
twinkling nose!' and she playfully
shook her paw at the bunny gen,
tlcman.
~ will take the children down to
the end of the garden and play a
SNOWFALL game with them,'' said
Uncle Wiggily suddenly.
"a SNOWFALL game!" cried Nurse
Jane. "What do you mean' There
are no snow5alls in hot weather. -
Il told YOU it was game said
Uncle Wiggily. And as IN most
games, you have TO imagine, or pre-
tend some things. Now down at
the end of my garden grows bush
with clusters Of white berries. They
arc called snowbals. They are
white. but are smaller than 2now-
balls the children make.
"Now | think if | took Scooter
and Tooter and Nipper and Skipper
and all the others down there and
they played throwing the soft, little
white snowballs at each other they
could imagine it was winter said
Uncle Wiggily, land they could
pretend they were cooled off. -
"Oh, that S fine.' cried Nurse
Jane. "Pleasc do it.'
Soon Uncle Wiggily and many of
the animal children were in shady
part of the garden, where grew the
SNOWFALL bush. From il the players
of this new game picked the white
soft berries and threw them at eaet
other.
Susie Littlctail hit Jackie Bow
Wow on the nose with Il summer
SNOWFALL and Charlie Chick let ont
white ball flv and it banged JilliC
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
MACHINE STRUCK
TWICE BY TRAIN

CRESCENT CITY, Calf, Aug.
q. - Not content with striking an
automobile once, a logging train
near here brought about the dcstruc.
tion of Mrs. Ruby Palliday's ma.
chine by hitting it twice.
The automobile. carving three
persons, was struck by the train
at crossing near here. The i'm.
pact tossed the machine against an
embankment, whence it rebounded
Again striking the train, the ma
chine was demolished. Its occu.
pants had been thrown out by the
first collision, however, and none
was hurt.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
PRESIDENT APPROVES
BELGIAN SETTLEMENT
ny United Press Leased Wire

NORTHAMPTON. Mass, Aug. ~.
Terms of the Belgian debt settle
mcnt have met thc fun approval of
President Coolidge. The papers
wtre signed and returned 10 Swamp.
scott where they will be sent to
Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
FIFTEEN YEARE AGO
August % 1910

George MeCleary has resigned his
position with the California Devel-
cpment company and will take a
position in the government service.
j. Hanline is again in Ell Centre,
after a vacation spent at Los An
gcles and beach points and will re-
sumo his loan and insurance busi-
ness here.
Stephen and Frank Lyons and Ray
Pcnton have returned to the valley,
overland by automobile, for trip
to various coast points
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
TEN YEARS AGO
August %, 1915

Mr.. and Mrs. Il. W. Gray. of
Scelcy. were visitors i'll FL Centre
yesterday.
r. i. Dale, of the No. II district,
was n business visitor in the city
yesterday.
Il. d. Erwin returned Sunday night
from a week s visit in San Diego,
Mrs. Erwin will remain there until
about November.
Ell FPS
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
Looking Backward
What the frcss Files Tell OF
Imperial Valley for This Oats
in Past Years
NINETEEN YEARS AGO
L. AupuSt % IONS

There viii be a penny social at
Water company hall Friday evening.
George A. Parkyns, general man
ager of the Imperial Valley Improve
mcnt company, is expected to reach
Imperial this evening to remain and
take personal charge of the affairs
OF the company.
Boaz Duncan, prominent prop
erty owner in Los Angeles and a
stakeholder in the California Devcl-
opment company, has been i'll the
valley for several days and leaves
this afternoon for the headinC.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22

Oregon farmers who borrowed
state money to rcsccd their wheat
fields and who now need and in
harvesting will be guaranteed a
loan of $3.50 an acre.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22

4 rancher at Yuma, Arizona, re-
Gently sold the seed from so acres
of Bermuda grass for $4,000 and
another crop viii be ripe 90 days
after the last harvest.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
ITALIAN ,AVIATOR
POSTPONES FLIGHT
By United Press Leased wire

MANILA, p. T.. Aug. 22.--ITnset-
tied weather conditions have temper
arily halted the flight Of Lieut..
Francesca dc Pinedo, Italian aviator,
according to the message lie sent
the Italian consul here today.
De Pinedo had hoped from Zam-
bcagna, Mindanao, to Cebu, where
he came down instead of continuing
on to Manila as planned.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22

The cherry crop of the Grandc
Londc Valley, Oregon, was but %
per cent Of normal.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22

Spokane County, Washington, will
have a lighter apple crop than last
year by $50 carloads.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22

Federation wheat is finding high
favor in the Big Bend district. Of
Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-22
A UNIQUE HERO

There many different types of heroic acts and
many different ways of showing unsefishness A
night telegraph operator recently gave proof of his
courage and faithfulness to duty in unique way.
In the night while at his work, he suddenly
stricken with fatal illness. Realizing his situation,
scarcely minute before he died he threw the red
signals of his section and thus stopped all trains and
prevented disaster.
There was an example of peculiarly fine devotion
and heroism If there had been accidents would
have blamed the dead for failure to do that clear
sighted deed The suddenness of his attack and his
possible suffering would have exonerated him. But
with magnificent fathfuness and unsefishness his
last thoughts and act for the safety of others.
Evening star., 1925-08-11
Chinese Bandits Like Others

Those Chinese bandits are very like
other bandits all over the world, they
are in the business for all they can get
out OF 1t, and they are not at all lack
ing in what is sometimes called
nerve" and really meaning insolence.
On July 20 a party of these Chinese
thugs murdered one American, /,
Morgan Palmer, and made a prisoner
of another, DR.. Harvey J. Howard.
According to consular advices, the
bandits demand ransom In a large
sum of money for DR. Howard, and
also demand that cartridges be sup
piled them. That is to say, they ask
not only that the murder and other
crime they committed be condoned,
but they actually. be rewarded with
money for their deeds. and that they
be supplied with ammunition to con-
tinue their operations.
: Which Is strikingly illustrative of
the regard In which the so.called gov
ernnent of China Is held by the
Chinese themselves. 1t is unfortu-
nately the case that the government
has over and over again compromised
and dealt with bandits until the lat.
ter have come to regard themselves as
on a footing of equality with the au.
thorities. They make their demands
as though they had a perfect right
to make them, and, what is more to
the point, il is unfortunately true
that experience of the past shows
they mostly colleet.-Saganaw News
Courier.
Evening star., 1925-08-11

door a shot was heard On entering g
they found Schwartz dying Of self.
inflicted wound He died without max
ing any statement. In a note which
he had left to his wife he said that
L stranger had come to the laboratory
demanding money and assaulting him,
and that he had slain him in self
defense, and then had caused the ex-
plosion to conceal the homicide. The
fact, however, that care was taken to
make Identification of the body diff.
cult, if not impossible, leaves the vir.
tual assurance that Schwartz had
planned his own disappearance for the
widow to collect insurance, and had
lured a victim to the laboratory for
the purpose of Staying him. He had
engaged the apartment at Oakland
several hours before the explosion oc-
Cured.
This case recalls one of several
months ago, aiso in California. in
which a body was found in a burned
hayrick and was first supposed to be
tnat or the farmer, Tor whom a large
insurance had been issued. Dental
evidences, however, led to the conclu-
sion that the body was that OF an
other, and 1t was afterward identified
as laborer who had gone to the farm
to do some work. The farmer was
finally found, after long search, was
tried and executed for the murder of
the workman. Schwartz has escaped
this fate. The fact of particular in
terest in this case is that Schwartz
was known as a student of criminol-
ogy, and had engaged in speculations
on the methods of murderers. Thus
has mystery which has been called
the ''too-perfect crime" been solved.
Evening star., 1925-08-11

Hood water and the tides would have
shoaling, but Washingtons experience
has been that with some Spring floods
the present width of the river is need
ed for the passage of the water.
Taking care of mud brought down
from the watershed of the upper Poto-
mac, a part of which will settle in the
relatively calm water below the fall
line. is a big question. Potomac Park
may be extended to the District line off
Alexandria. and the shoals along the
Virginia side of the river may be
dredged and parked, but mud, sand
and gravel will continue throughout
the years to come down from western
Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia,
and part of matter carried by the
river will settle near Washington.
Washington wants to preserve its
river. and to have as great width as
possible This will call for periodical
dredging, and disposition OF the
dredged material will become more diff
ficult. Perhaps in coming centuries
mud pumped from the river will render
arabic great stretches of swampland
in Maryland and Virginia, and perhaps
large farming districts win be punt
up from the bottom of the river. But
these things. if they are 10 come at all.
are far in the future, and Washingto-
mans of a later age will meet their
problems as they arise.
Evening star., 1925-08-11
A Futile Crime.

A few days ago an explosion oc-
CURED in a chemical laboratory in a
suburb of Berkeley. Calf. In the
debris human body was found, mutt
lated almost beyond Identification.
The face had been scared by acid and
the tips of the fingers were missing.
At first it was supposed that the body
was that of Charles H. Schwartz, a
chemist, who had lately been in some
trouble in court and on whose life an
insurance policy Of $4,000 had been
written. Further investigation, how
ever, led to the conclusion that the
body was not that of Schwartz. 1t was
afterward identified as that OF an
itinerant evangelist named Barb.
Search for Schwartz was started, and
detectives representing the insurance
company involved discovered that an
apa rtment in Oakland had been en-
gagged by a man answering his de-
scription. When policemen went to
the place to arrest him they found it
locked, and while they were at the