davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-16
PAGEANT TO BE GIVEN
AT HOLTVILLE THEATER

The pageant LA Fiesta del
Toros sponsored by Mrs. May H.
Ingram, instructor of the Meloland
school Will he given tonight in con-
junction with the Arcade theatel
nrorram at Holtville.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-16
No. Iuo1S Dept
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FoB
VOLUNTARY DISSOLUTION
OF CORPORATION

In the Superior Court of the State
Of California, in and for the
County of Imperial
In the Matter Of the Application for
Dissolution of
IMPERIAL WATER COMPANY,
No. FIVE, a corporation.
Notice is hereby given that the
imperial Water Company No. 5, a
corporation, organized under th5'
laws OF the State Of California, hi
presented to the superior court on
the County Of Imperial, petition
praying to be allowed to disincorpo-l
erate and dissolve, and that Friday
the Goth day of March, 1925, at 2
clock in the afternoon, or rs SOON
thereafter as counsel can be hea d.
has been appointed as the time, and
/ the courtroom of Department No. J
of the superior court, in and for the,
County of Imperial State of Cali
/ fornia, rs the place at which said
application is to be heard.
Given my hand and the seal of
the superior court Of the County
of Imperial, State of California, this
18th day Of February, 1925.
G. g. MOUSSEAU,
CLERK
BY c. T.. Williford, Deputy Clerk
Feb 14t26
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-16

Now is the time for all good
weather 70 come to the aid pf the
farmers.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-16

Spring floods arc with US. CausI
ed, perhaps, by the wild water
rushing to see the new bathiw
suits
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-28
Laws Are
illegal Federal SUI
preme Court Rules

Washington, Aug. 2o.-ln a public
statement President Green quotes
several decisions by the Umted states
supreme court a. an answer 10 "ap-
peals from antl-unlonists thai con-
gress should pass law that would
prevent cessation OF work BY under
paid and overworked employees
1t Is strange that 80 many people,
especially those IN public lie, know
so little about the constitution or
supreme court decisions on matters
pertaining 10 laDor,a SAID President
Green. Any law that prohibits EN-
pl0yes from quitting work slngiy or
collectively would be violation Of
the thirteenth amendment, which pro-
nibits involuntary serytude. IL
would also be IN conflict with the
fourteenth amendment, which assures
freedom of contract
Inc supreme court has declared
that the Kansas court OF lndust11at
relations "cuftals the right OF the
employer on the one hand and OF the
employe on the other TO eontract
about his affairs
Inc Kansas law empowered the
court OF industrial relations to set all
wages on the theory that production
Is clothed with a public interest The
supreme court said
1t has never been supposed, since
the adoption OF the constitution, that
the business OF the butcher, OF the
baker, OF the tailor the woodchoppef
or the miner, was clothed with such
public interest that the price OF
mis- product could be fixed by state
regulation
In setting aside the women's mini
mum wage law the supreme court
said: THAT the right to contract
about ones affairs Il a part of the
liberty of the individual protected by
this clause ttitth amendment) settled
by the decisions of this court and Is
no longer open to question"
In the Adair decision, which set
aside state law which prohibited an
employer from discharging worker
because he was a member of a trade
union, the supreme court said:
The right OF a person TO sell his
labor upon such terms as he deems
proper is in its essence the same as
the right of the purchaser OF labor 10
prescribe the conditions upon which
he will accept such labor from the
persons offering to sell. In all such
particulars the employer and the EN-
pIoye have equality OF right and any
Legislation that dsturbs that equality
is an arbitrary interference with the
liberty of contract which no govern
ment can legally justify in a free
land"
"rhsee decisions" said President
Green, very clearly emphasize that
neither congress nor any state legis-
Iation that will compel men and wom-
en- to work against their will. Ap-
parently the only answer is that it Is
being used for propaganda purposes,
because it can not be believed that the
president OF the United States OF
his advisers are not aware OF these
supreme court decisions
Labor is as much opposed to
strikes as employers, or what is gen
orally termed the public. But it does
not believe that it should be sacfi-
feed on the altar of greed"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-28
stop Watch Plan to BE
Revived; System Has
Many Excessive Costs

Washington, Aug. 25.-Stop- watch
advocates will again endeavor to re
move legal barriers from this sweat
ing method, when congress convenes
next December.
The efforts of anti-union employers
to legalize these systems have resulted
IN a better understanding of the sub
lect by representatives and senator's.
Recently u New York financial paper
declared that workers at the Water
town arsenal performed two and one
half times as much work under the
Taylor system as under the old sys-
TEN.
N. L. Atlas, president of District
A, International Association of Ma
chlnists, which includes navy ward
and arsenal machinists, replies that
the WATERFOWL results do not include
the numerous specialists and CLOCK
ers. necessary for the Taylor system.
Results in Watertown, if true, were
accomplished by the employment of
speed bosses, gang bosses, routing
clerks time study experts, planners,
estlmators, clerks and other supernu-
merarles, whose wages would have
to be taken out of the alleged saving
due to the increased production before
it could be determined whether an
actual saving has been made" said
Mr.. Alias.
For instance, if two men are en-
gagged IN productive labor, and one of
them Is made speed boss whose duty
1t Is to see that the other man works
harder, the one remaining producer
could turn out twice the production
without any actual saving in the cost
of production"
In favor of senate bill that would
outlaw the speed-up system in govern
ment employ, several years ago
Senator Borah reported for the sen
ate committee ON education ana
labor:
The clerical force necessary for the
maintenance of these elaborate syS-
tens, makes the overhead charges ex-
ceedingly great, and il is a question
whether the increased productivity OF
the workmen in the shop, upon which
the heavy burden falls, is sufficient to
pay for all this reproductive labor
which has to be added
1T will be observed" continued Sen.
ator Borah, that the very shop IN
which ordnance materials are manu-
featured at less than half the cost OF
purchasing from private contractors
is the place where it is proposed to i'm
stall the Taylor system. We submit
that the necessity does not exist for
the installation of such a system of
intensive production, with its accom-
panying disregard for the welfare of
the employe, in a plant where eff
cheney has already reached an adj
vanced stage"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-28
Teachers Federation to
Study Platoon Plans
Merits and Defects
By International Labor News Service.

By International Labor News Service;
Chicago, Aug. 25.-An Impartial
investigation of platoon plan and re
lated schools TO determine their eda-
catiOnal value and to combat efforts
Of any community or faction to use
this educational experiment to"atd
ends which are not definitely 81 an
educational character" will be con
Quoted by the American Federation
of Teachers.
In making public the plans Of the
Federation, +. G. Stecker, secretary,
declared that the heated controversy
in educational, civic and political
circles over the platoon plan has made
it sort of q football" and has pre-
vented unbiased educators from de-
termining whether it should be re-
tanned or discarded.
Issues in connection with the plan
are being fought out not on the basis
of educational merits or dement's Of
the devices or principles under discus
sion; instead, the devices are proposed
and opposed on grounds Of economy
and some other ends not related den
nitely to education" said Mr.. Steeker.
I'm the battle over the defects and
advantages, it is claimed for these
schools that they make for better in
struction in special branches; that
hey fill in the important gaps which
characterize the traditional curriculum
in the matter of manual training,
drawing, music and so on; that they
make possible a larger enrolment IN
the same building.
But in considering the platoon plan
or similar nlan communities have
been misled into making political Is
sues out of them, and administrations
have been known to favor them on a
score of economy, when as matter
of fact, educators are not yet IN a
position to say whether the plan Is
necessarily more economical than the
traditional plan, if it is applied in the
form approaching more nearly the
form in which its ardent advocates
among educators present it,
"The Federation's investigation of
the system will be conducted in cities
possessing it by local committees and
the results will be assembled and
merged by the Federation headquar-
ter in Chicago"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-28

Patronize Your Friends.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-28
Pan-American Labor
Urged to Organize

Washington, Aug. 1S.-Spanish Sec
rotary lglesias of the Pan American
Federation of Labor is circulating
Latin-American workers in the inter
est of a better understanding of the
objects of the organization and great
er solidarity. Mr. IgleSias succeeded
Canute Vargas, who is labor attache
OF the Mexican embassy in Washing
ton.
The Pan-American Federation of
Labor, with William Green chairman,
is composed of affiliated national labor
movements in the western hemisphere.
Its purpose is to advance the interests
OF wage earners in these countries
and the promotion of international
understanding and good will between
peoples and governments. Each afrili-
ated labor movement retains its au-
tOnOmy.
Until recently there was no com
municatlon between wage workers of
the American countries, according to
the Pan-American statement.
The only relations were those es-
tablished by financial commercial and
industrial interests, and these, as ev-
! eryone knows, are not always actuated
by a desire to promote the welfare of
NC people, nor do they represent the
: mgher and nobler ideals of the Amer
lcan countries.
these interests are actuated by
t1fze motives, namely, profits, profits
nQre profits. In their mad rush
7tfrial ACKNOWLEDGMENT they lose
! s. efthe interests of humanity.
y NE financial, commercial and
Interests Of Pan-America
l&ey allied, and are every
hg their exploitation ac-
X wider field, the wage
Rn-America must unite
ior gotection. In our day
the Oh of wage earners on
adequate Co. protection and pro
motion of their interests and for
realization of their aspirations ana
hopes"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-28
George GRAY l. Dead

Wilmington, Del, Aug. 1S.-George
Gray, former United States senator
and federal circuit judge, died at his
home here after an extended illness.
He was So years old.
lie was chairman of the commission
appointed by President Roosevelt in
I9O2 to settle the anthracite coal
strike of that year. The commission
was appointed after the miners stood
solid for several months.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-28

Work resumed in Cape Breton
mines of Nova Scotia as striking
miners and British Empire Steel Com
sign agreement.
international Labor Office invesd-
gates wages and working conditions
of journalists in more than 20 coun-
tries.
Unemployment causes much suffer
ing in Ulster and Irish Free State,
Irish Labor Congress is told.
President Green of A. f. of l..
warns Negro trade unionists against
Communist-inspired American Ne
gro Labor Congress at Chicago.
international Typographical Union
holds convention at Kalamazoo. Mich;
Public Printer Carter is assailed.
Police eject Communist members
who block debate in German Reich
stag.
Number of farms in United States
decreased by 10000 last year. Depart
ment of Agriculture reports.
Representative Johnson plans new
laws to deport aliens and further re-
StrlctlonS on immigration.
Charles w. Mills noted for arbitra-
ton of Colorado and West Virginia
mine strikes, dies at Ocean City, N. j.
Conservatives defeat Liberals in
New Brunswick elections.
Bottle manufacturers refuse to give
workers wage increase.
Twelve million acres of land given
to small farmers since 1915, Mexican
secretary of agriculture announces.
U. 5. marines leave Nicaragua after
l3 years stay.
Work in Saar mines. Germany. re
Sumed following settlement with strik-
ing miners.
Committee plans to make LaFol-
lette farm at Maple Bluff, Wis, me-
mortal to Senator LaFollette.
Senator William NJ Buffers mill at
New Bedford, Mass. curtails weaving
operations so per cent.
Present year to SurpasS all records
for automobile production, figures in
dicate.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-28

realization of their aspirations and
hopes"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-28
Air Must Circulate.

Washington, Au~. lS.-Warning
against entering any place where air
does not circulate unless one is first
assured that it contains enough oNy-
gen to support life, is given by DR..
Read of the United States bureau of
mines.
Wells, abandoned mines and other
confined spaces where the air does
not circulate may be filled with black
damp and the uncautiouS person who
ventures into them may be asphyXiat-
ed. Black damp is a miners term for
air that has become depleted Of its
oxygen and consists mainly of nitro
gen and carbon dioXide. 1t is not poi
sonous, but, being heavier than ordi-
nary air, it lies in a confined space
like so much water, and a person who
goes into it is etfectually cut off from
the life-supporting oxygen as if he
had gone under water. Unless i'm
mediately rescued he will die as
quickly as he would by drowning.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-08-28

0nicago, Aug. 18.-Organized bar
GER nave Won their controversy with
duced. "''' Ue
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-13
CLAIMS
s. ]. JEFFERS,
CAPITALIST

s. J. LETTERS. extensive property
owner and San Antonio capitalist,
died in the base hospital at Fort Sam
Houston at 4 :45 Tuesday morning.
Mr.. LETTERS came TO San Antonio
from Little Rock, Ark. several years
ago and became actively engaged in
real estate and building transactions.
At the present time he was sponsor
ing the construction of two twelve
story buildings, the st. Francis. q
modern 500-room hotel, and twelve
story apartment, just across the street
from it.
Mr.. LETTERS was a retired army lieu
tenant having served as an officer in
the Philippines and the Spanish.Amer-
lean war and later with the Twelfth
cavalry. He was recently awarded a
distinguished medal for services in the
Philippines.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs.
Frances H. letters and three child
Mrs. LETTERS is the daughter of CharAs
Schreiner of Kerrville and the sister OF
Mrs. w. c. Rigsby and Mrs. Hiram
Partee, prominent San .Antonians.
The three children are all of scholas-.
tic age. Charles, IS, is student at
the University of Texas: William. is
at high school, and Frances, IA, is a
student at St. Mary's Hall. d,
Mr.. LETTERS was So years OF age.
Funeral arrangements were not an:
nounced.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-13
'SAVANT. CAUGHT
/ BY GAS IN OWN
LABORATORY
British Scientist Near Death
as Big Experiment
Goes Wrong.
by Universal Service.

LONDON, Oct. 13.-Forty- eight
hours after he was found PROSTATE
in his laboratory, suffering from the
effects of secret gas, Professor Max
well LEROY is making a dramatic
fight for life.
Because the eminent physicians at
tending him at the hospital are I'M
aware of the composition of the gas,
they are unable to counter the effects
directly, and are only able to give
their gasping patient oxygen.
Professor LEROY was experiment.
ing at the Imperial College of Science
with lewisite. a deadly, slow-poison-
ing odorless gas which overcame him
once before, last spring, when he was
trying to convert it into an insecticide
without effect on human lungs.
Friends say that he was on the
eve of discovery of world impor-
lance, Saturday when, contrary to
his habit, he went into his secret
laboratory through a door which was
labelled, dangerous, don't enter" An
attendant later found him on the verge
of suffocation, and his condition still
is critical.
The college authorities are leaving
the laboratory contents exactly as they
were when the professor collapsed, in
the hope of his recovery which would
enable him to pick up his experiments
where they ended by the accident. 1t
is feared, however, he will not sur
vive.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-13
TEXAS SURGEONS OPEN
CONVENTION IN S. A

The Texas Surgical Society opened
two-day convention at the Bexar
Medical society library. 123 Lexington
avenue, Monday with DR.. III. NJ. Doc
little, of Dallas, president. in the
chair. More than 80 members in ad-
dition to those living in San Antonio,
were present.
The first session was devoted to
the reading and discussion of technical
papers.
The visiting members were the
guests of the Bexar Medical society
at a luncheon at the Menger hotel al
noon and after the afternoon session
were taken for a trip around the city.
The morning session Tuesday will
be devoted To the further reading and
discussion Of articles on various mat
tiers and the afternoon session TO an
executive meeting at which officers
will he elected and the next convention
city chosen.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-13
MOTORISTS ADVISED
TO PUT ON CHAINS

Put on your chains, was the advice
given by William II. Furlong, mana
ger Of the highway department of the
chamber Of commerce after he had
received telegraph messages that the
heavy rains Sunday night and Mon
day morning had put two of the main
highways from San Antonio in bad
condition.
Dirt roads between Eden and San
Angelo on the Glacier-to-Gulf High.
way were reported to be heavy and
badly rutted but cars are able to 60
through with chains. Good rains were
reported at Merton, Brady and Water
Valley.
The Old Spanish Trail was reported
to be in good shape as far as Hous-
ton. but the mud flats near there were
said to be heavy. requiring chains.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-13
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD
STREETS OF AUSTIN
Continued From Page One)

the local weather bureau, but more
is in prospect.
Austin's dovnpour began falling at
II O'Clock Monday night. 1t was still
raining at noon.
The downpour was accompanied by
heavy electrical storm, lightning
striking the Pease public school and
Gregg hall, Episcopal dormitory for
girls at the University Of Texas. Both
buildings were badly damaged but no
one was injured.
The ground floor Of the Stephen
F. Austin hotel was flooded for a few
minutes Monday night.
Firemen and policemen were called
cut several times TO rescue negro fam
lilies in the lower sections Of the city.
Little material damage was caused b.
the rain, however, and farmers s2id
that it would greatly aid fail fcci
crops.
Heavy rains were reported all over
Central Texas within a radius Of -
mile Of Austin. Creeks throughout
Williamson county were reported at
flood stage. Little damage was done
except 10 dirt roads.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-13
DR.. THOMPSON BUYS
TRAVIS PROPERTY
Continued From Page One.)

by Nevelow Bros. and by business
concerns on North Alamo.
The transfer papers are being
drawn and will be put of record
Wednesday. The deal wa confirmed
by J. II. Savage, manager Of Bedcll
Moore estate. The oil man was absent
from the city at one Of his oil prop
critics and will not return until Wed
nesday 50 that additional details arc
lacking.
However. II is said DR.. Thomson.
who has recently been an investor in
San Antonio business realty, bought
this site on strictly an investment
basis but that eventually may i'm
prove it with large business sruc.
ture.
This deal is one Of the most i'm.
portsnt in Travis street real estate
in many months and Is understood
70 have been occasioned by the rapid
advancement in real estate values due
70 the building Of the new Medical
Arts building and the proposed con-
struction Of the LETTERS hotel and
apartment buildings at Avenue f and
Third streets.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-13
Bonds Provide
Pay Raise For
PoHce-Eremen

Approval Of the $1,000,000
bond issue for municipal i'm.
provements by San Antonio will
mean a raise in salary Of $40
for every fireman and policeman
whose present wage is less than
$3.50 per month, Mayor John w.
Tobin announced Tuesday.
This boost in pay will become
effective Immediately after the
sale of the new bonds. il the
people sanction the issue, the
mayor explained.
Scores Of business men petit
toned the city commission a Gw
months ago for pay increases in
the fire and police departments.
Mayor Tobin promised that
the request would be granted
January 1, 1926, il the general
fund would allow it.
"If taxpayers approve the
issue November II money in the
general fund, which would have
to be spent for public improve.
ments in the event the plan fails,
will be used to raise the pay Of
firemen and policemen" the
mayor promised Monday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-13
45 A|RPLANES SOAR
OVER WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 10
P)-Probably the greatest concentra-
ton Of air force the capital has ever
seen was ordered by the War De
psrtment for a flight demonstration
today over the Lincoln Memorial.
The force is composed Of the II
planes which have been conducting
maneuver sat Mitchell Field. in con
nection with the air races there. After
their demonstration here the planes
were under orders 10 fly TO Langley
Field. Virginia, for a coast defense
drill, including bombing and machine
gun attacks against enemy landing
forces.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-13
CHOLERA OUTBREAK

MANILA. Oct. 13-Five deaths and
IL new cases of cholera have been re-
ported here in As hours. The health
department today warned the public
10 use utmost care in the employment
OF servants as practically all cholera
patients taken TO hospitals were
walters or servants. No foreigners
have been stricken.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-13
MRS. JULIA GOODMAN
TO ADDRESS WOMEN

Mrs. Julia Cody Goodman, sister
of the late Buffalo Bill Cody. and at
present the guest Of Mrs. F. p. Carrie
in West Russell place, will make a
short address at the meeting OF the
civic department of the Woman's club
Wednesday afternoon in the club
house. Mrs. Goodman will leave dur
ing the week for her home in Los
Angeles.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-13
WILL INSPECT LAND

AUSTIN. Oct. 13.-P)-Inspection
of Texas University oil and grazing
lands in Reagan and other counties of
West Texas will be made this week
by the land committee of the board
of regents, President Walter Splawn
said today. Following the inspection,
the board will hear the report of the
committee and decide what action 10
take toward placing oil royalties in
the proper fund.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-13
AWARD CONTRACT
TO REPAIR SCHOOLS

J. c. Dielmsnn Company was award.
cd the contract for repairing the roofs
OF Travis, Herff and Harris schools
at cost Of $500, at meeting Of the
building and grounds committee Of the
school board Tuesday.
The roofs have been leaking badly
during recent rains. Work will be
started Immediately, a representative
Of the Dielmann Company stated.