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Evening star., 1925-06-01

DIR. and Mrs. Michele Strizzi enter
tained at dinner last evening in honor
of Judge and Mrs. Eugene BonnlWell
of Philadelphia. The other guests
we're the military attache of the Italian
embassy and Marchesa di Bernezzo,
the Italian consul in Philadelphia,
Cheyalier Luigi Sillitti; Chevalier Cos
tantino Costantini and Mrs. Fred
Weber of Philadelphia and Mrs. Fran
cesca de Martire of this city.
Evening star., 1925-06-01

Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, who is still
at the Homestead, at Hot Springs, will
go to Newport later in June. Her villa
at Newport is now being put in readi-
ness for her.
Evening star., 1925-06-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Denegre will
close their house here June 20 and
leave Washington for their Summer
home on the North Shore
Evening star., 1925-06-01

Maj. and Mrs. Parker W. West will
entertain at a buffet supper this eve
ming, the occasion being in celebration
of their wedding anniversary.
Evening star., 1925-06-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman B. Kendall
will leave Washington Thursday,
June II, and will be in New York
and near there until they sal! at the
end of the month for Europe to spend
the Summer. They will return to
Evening star., 1925-06-01

Miss Bess Vorirs entertained
group of friends at breakfast party
at the Grace Dodge Hotel yesterday
morning.
Evening star., 1925-06-01

Assistant Secretary Of State Mr.. Le-
land Harrison spent the holiday and
week end at White Sulphur Springs,
where he shared honors yesterday
with Mrs. Churchill Coleman of Phila-
delphia at luncheon given by Mr.. a.
Dawson Coleman OF Philadelphia. who
entertained on the Casino veranda.
Evening star., 1925-06-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Walker will
have with them for the Summer the
latter's sister. Baroness Won Schoen,
formerly Miss Catherine Birney. In
the Autumn Baroness Won Schoen
will go to China, where Baron Won
Schoen has been detailed for duty
at the legation in Peking.
Evening star., 1925-06-01

he bride: Mr.. John Norris Hume OF
schenectady. n. Y, uncle Of the bride.
and NJ" a~d "rs Lynn S. Hornor or
Clarksburg. w. Va, uncle and aunt
of the bride.
Evening star., 1925-06-01

Continued on Ninth PageD
Evening star., 1925-06-01

The Minister of China and Nine.
SEE will entertain at dinner this eve
ming in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
P. LocEhart, who will leave shortly
for China. where he has been ap-
pointed consul general at Hankow.
Evening star., 1925-06-01

The counselor Of the German EN-.
hassy, DIR. Karl Won Lewinski, is at
Georgetown University Hospital,
where he was operated on today.
Evening star., 1925-06-01

Nine. Wallenberg, wife of the
Minister of Sweden, will be hostess
at tea this afternoon. having asked a
small company to meet Count Spare
and see the portrait of the Minister
which he has just completed. She
will be assisted by Nine Weidel, wife
Of the commercial counselor of the
legation
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
ANOTHER CHUNG Jury"

Again hung jury in local murder tTal-and
another long, expensive trial will be necessary.
just why there should have been such clear-cut
division Of opinion to CahounS guilt IS dnIlcult TO
understand. 1t is declared OF the jury men stood
Tor outand-out acqutta the other stood Tor con-
vctlon. Such hopeless deadlock OF opinion fore
stalled any opportunity OF even arriving at duscus
of the degree OF guilt whether 1t should be frSt
second degree a lnanSlaughter verdict.
1t is very regrettabe, to say the least, that time
and time again, not only here but IN every community
in the state urles unable to come to verdict alter
weeks spent in arguing by both SIDES and expenses
running up into the thousands. Just how much the
Calhoun trial cost it is difficult to know exactly
authorities about town say $4,000, at the least
others say more others less AT any rate 6O witnesses
and II jurymen, at three dollars day, is no
small sum, to say nothing of the cost of bringing the
witnesses here and paying expenses incident to their
testimony, and all the other connected with
long, hard fought trial.
We not here to try the Calhoun case in the
columns of this paper-that is the province OF the
courts. But we do raise plea for the overworked
pubic-who must pay the bills, and whose backs are
already bent with too heavy taxes.
They the who must dig up the money to
pay for this second trial and for the other second
trials which have been made necessary in Imperial
county, after all the facts of both sides laid the
table for their consideration.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
APPRECIATION OF POETS

"To have great poets," says Louis Untermeyer,
1--WE must have appreciative background. This is
sadly lacking in most countries.
He finds in England 1.-The Anglo-SaXon ndlffer-
ence.'' Just few there concerned with ltera-
ture, he says, and indifference is fatal to any art
In America it is worse, if possible, because I'VE
have the antagonistc attitude
The poets heaven, led to believe is Austria.
"The most apprecative place have visited is Vienna.
There the street conductors and servant girls
discuss literature intelligently"
That must be very pleasant for the literary lights,
whoever they may be- But if all this is true, how
does happen that England has produced the greatest
poetry of modern times and that New York has pro-
duced greater poets than Vienna?
1t may be that the thing really fatal to any
art is widespread popularity 1t surely looks that
way when you consider the two three American
poets that enjoy most of the public appreciation.
Walt Mason, for instance would hardly claim to
be poet; yet he is widely esteemed such, along
with two three other easy verslfiers. Consider,
too the acclaim recently given the author OF The
Face the Barroom Floor" the occasion of his
DEATH and the evident assumption that that celebrated
composition is poetry.
Yet this is the land of Whitman and Poe, of Frost
and Miliay, to mention only two great ones of the
past and of the present. who have trumphed over
hostility and indifference It's good for art to make
the artist fight his way.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
Chevrolet Third
Largest Truck
Concern in World

During 1924 the Chevrolet Motor
company was the third largest truck
manufacturing concern in the world,
being surpassed in the number Of
trucks sold by only two other auto.
mobile companies. Plans are now
being formulated which, it is ex-
pected. will greatly increase truck
sales during the present year and
may place Chevrolet in second posi-.
ton for 1925.
There were nearly $4,000 Chevro.
let trucks sold last year These in;
cluded both the commercial chassis
and utility express types, the great
er portion sold, however, being of
the latter style.
An analysis of 1924 sales, r. h,
Grant, vice president and general
sales manager asserts, shows that
farmers, dairymen, stock raisers,
oil dealers and urban business re
quiring medium weight delivery cars
were among the larger buyers of
the utility express. A considerable
number also were used for school
busses.
The utility express has the regu-
lar Chevrolet.valve-in-he head motor
but is constructed heavier at var
ious points to conform to the re-
quirements of speedy, easily ope-
rated truck of one ton capacity. It
has exceptionally heavy semi-elliptfc
springs in the rear.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
62 Per Cent of
Purebred Stock
Is Sold For Meat

About 60 per cent of purebred
live stock is marketed directly for
meat purposes.
Purebred meat animals cost slight
lv less than scrubs to raise to ma
turity; purebred dairy cattle cost
slightly more.
Only about one-half of the pure
bred animals in the country eligible
to registration are actually regis
tered.
About 90 per cent of persons who
give the use of purebred sires Il
Iair trial stick to the general prin
cipal of using them for all classes
of stock.
Improving the quality Of purebred
live stock by rigid culling and by
selling only worthy animals for
breeding purposes is urged and also
is being praeticed by progressive
farmers.
These statements are based on
the results Of a QUESTIONABLE in
quiry, covering 10 states, conduct
ed by the bureau of animal indus
try, United States department OF
agriculture.
The extent of which purebreds
are sold as meat animals is seen
in the following figures: swine, ISL
per cent; cattle, 4l.S per cent. The
foregoing figures represent the rec
ords or estimates of purebred live
stock owners wh sell considerable
portion of their purebred animals
for slaughter. The weighted aver
age for all classes of these animals
is 81 per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
|. A. REGISTERS
BIG GAIN in
TAX RECEIPTS

Reflecting business conditions
that obtain in no other section of
the United States, survey of in
come tax collections in the South
ern California District, for the ca
lendar year 1924, which was reloas-
cd yesterday by Collector Rex B.
Goodcell, shows that the increase in
receipts compared with those of
1920, the year in which Internal
Revenue collections reached the
highest point in rthe history OF the
Un2sed States Treasury, was 35 per
cent, compared with decrease of
81 per cent in the United States as
q whole.
The Los angeles district was the
only Internal Revenue district in
the United States that registered a
gain in income receipts i'm 1924 com
pared with 1920, barring Florida,
where the increase in receipts was
sS42,OOO, as against the Los Ange-
les District s gain of $12 2,425 ,455.
High spots in Collector Goodcell s
wonder figures were:
No. THAT the calendar year
1924, the actual income tax receipts
were $47,532 2,062, compared with
$35,l06,612 in 1920, a gain of $12,-
1854 or 35 per cent.
No. 2.-That in 1920 the full in
come tax rates were in operation
but reductions provided by new
revenue acts affected Southern Cal
ifornia to the extent of $14.l20,04l
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
Ole0margarine
Bill Is Now
Before Senate

SACRAMENTO, Mar. 31.--After
a terrific legislative battle, in which
every conceivable method was used
by the wealthy oleomargarine inter
csts to defeat or delay action on
the johnson Oleomargarine bill
CAB 87S), the measure was passed
this week out of the assembly and
now is before the senate, where a
final vote is expected within a few
days.
Sam H. Greene, chairman of the
'dairymen s general legislative com
mSttee, i'll a statement today, urged
the extreme Importance of the
Johnson bill as a protection to the
public and to the dairy industry
against dreit in the advertising
and sale of an imJ,ation product.
The bin would prevent the use
of dairy terms in advertising and
sale Of oleomargarine 1t also pro-
yideS a license fee of two cents a
pound.
Th,re was much maneuvering by
the oleomargarine interests to hold
or kill the bill in che assembly.
When it passed by vote of 50 aye,
Is No, Eksward Of San Mateo coun-
ty, who had voted No, changed his
vote to Aye and moved for re-
consideration.
Wouldn t it be nice if bad wealth
l.. l.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
AUTOMOBILES IN THE SOUTH

Some interesting statistics have recently come out
of the south Louisiana led all the other states IN the
Union in the percentage of increase in automobile IL
censes issued during 1924 The increase for
the whole country was 1913 per cent Lousiana's gain
was 30.S per cent New Mexico came next with 30.1
per cent, Mississippi had POI per cent, and Florida
had 284 per cent.
All of the southern states, a group, led ether
sections of the country Twelve states showed gain OF
20 per cent Ten of these southern states
if New Mexico and West Virginia are counted in that
group.
These figures tell volumes about southern pros
perity and development. They indicate an advance
in the construction of good roads They hint at build
ing investment and trade progress They suggest at
tractive prospects to possible settlers investors and
motor tourists. They figures to be proud of.
Don't scorn Nevada because of its small popula-
tion The per capita wealth there is the highest in the
countrY-S1OO0 to national average of $29l8.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31

i'm 1924 income tax COLLECTIONS. Their
fore, for comparative purposes the
1924 figures should be SOL ,652, 103
an increase for 1924 over 1920 of
SO per cent.
No. 3.-That in the face of a
flat reduction of 25 per cent or
$7,6O0,000 in income taxes payable
in 1924, the collections for the cal.
endar year 1924 were $47,532,067
compared with $39,O05,975 in 1923
gain of $S,526.092, or 2l.S pei
cent.
No. 4.-That total collections for
the calendar year 1924 were $59,-
S30,556, compared with 54,099,1 ,1S5
IN 1920. For comparative purposes
the 1924 collections were $S4 4,230 $50
as tax reductions operative in 1924
which did not affect 1920, amounted
to $25, 100000. Therefore, the real
increase in 1924 over 1920 was $780,.
1851 or 50 por cent.
No. 5.-That total collections for
the calendar year 1924 increased
S7,93l,5 ,575, or 15.5 per cent over
1928, in the face of a loss in reve-
nue. Of $9,90o,0o0, due to the repeal
in 1924 of taxes that were in full
force in 1923.
No. 6.-That while the Los An.
geles district S collection of income
taxes in 1924 compared with 1920
gained 80 per cent, the income col
lections for the United States as a
whole decreased $2,155, ,s25, ,0l7, OF
54 per cent.
"Where is the real white spot of
the Unitqd States'' Collector
Goodcell asked. "Just study these
figures and you will get the answer
People must earn income before
they pay income taxas.'
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
March 81. 1910

Shipments from Silsbee have com.
menced in earnest. Within the
past day or two the following ship
ments have been prepared: C. Z.
Bethel, five carloads; II. w. Lake,
one car load and C. E. Gage, three
carloads.
DR.. and Mrs. c. Jackson have
left Heber for long visit to their
old home in Kentucky. They intend
to spend the remainder of this
week in Los Angeles.
!. L. Massey of San Antonio,
Texaa has purchased the Arcade
rooming house on Broadway and
will repaint the building and thor
oughly renovate the inside.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
One Drink May
Cost $4,000 Ii
Wager Broken

PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Mar. 81.
Since May IS, 1924, 1T would have
cost Samuel ". Vauclain, head of
the Baldwin Locomotive Works
$4,000 had he taken Il drink.
On his 68th birthday, May IS,
1924, Vauclain wagered that anount
he could climb the water wagon and
obtain the Nolstead traffic signals
and parking signs without tumble
for a year.
The water wagon was ne. requ:;-
ed to drive beyond the trritorial
limits of the United States. The
wager, long legal document. was
drawn up on Vauclain S private ear
during trip to Texas.
The agreemer. still has six weeks
to run. Vauclain sailed for Bermu-
da Saturday. He will not take ad-
vantage of a geographical techni
cality while on his trip, it is said.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
TEN YEARS AGO
March 81, 1915

r. p. Moore, A. w. Swanson and
William Egerer were appointed by
the board of supervisors to inves-
tigate the matter of protests against
the increased occupational license
rate from almost every hotel and
rooming house in this city.
The victim of his own mistake,
w. II. Smith died at st. Thomas
hospital last night as a result of
bichloride of mercury poisoning.
Replying to recent telegram
sent VI William hetrncr at Wash
ington by the Imperial Valley
Chamber of Commerce regarding
the proposed land office in this city,
l.. J. Thomas of Imperial, presi-
dent Of the county organization,
yesterday received word from the
congressman that, everything pos
sje.e was being d0Ge in the @atter.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31

laughed Uncle Wiggilv. You see
YOU blow your breath-tha. S the
wind-in through the macaroni
pipe. And the cover waggleS off
and out pops the sugar! Isn't it
clever?
"'Yes, but what 5 the idea of
it?' asked Nurse Jane, still pick
ing grains of sugar off hor face
with her tongue. 1T 5 jolly and
delightful and surprising and all
that sort of thing, don t you know,
but why?"
"sush!' whispered the bunny,
putting his paw up to his pink,
twinkling nose cautious like. TO
morrow is to be April fools day.
All the animal children WI try to
play jokes on me- But with my
wind waggle m going to get
ahead of tn'm and play tricks to-
day
Filling his pocket with sugar, the
bunny gentleman soon hoped out
of his hollow stump bungalow, car
rying his wind waggle.
What 5 shat? asked Sammie
l .tletail, the rabbit boy, when he
met the bunny gentleman.
Its my wind waggle. Would
YOU like to try it?' asked Mr..
Longears. And when Sammie blew
through :Lc macaroni tube off
waggled the cover of the box, up
in tine air blew the sugar and down
it came on Sammie 5 stuckout ton
que, which the little rabbit boy
liked very much.
a wind waggle is fun" he
cried.
Uncle Wiggily put more sugar in
the box and hoped along d little
farther until he met Johnnie iushy-
tail, the squirrel.
"Try my wind waggle!" said the
bunny. And when the sugar fell
on Johnnie 8 tongue Uncle Wiggily
cried: "April Fool!'' And Johnni3
laughed.
So Uncle Wiggily had a lot of
fun with his April Fool wind waggle
until, all at oncr, he met the Woo
zie Wolf.
" nat y lllA " AJil hRSBtp
hear you havc?' growled the Wolf
''Try it!" invited the bunny
~ VIII, but after that I'll nibble
your carsl" growled the bad chap.
He blew through the macaroni
tubs, expecting sugar to come out
of the box, but, instead, Uncle Wig
gily has slyly slipped in some sand,
and the sand got in the eyes and
nose and mouth of the Wolf who
howled "Goopie! Goopie" and ran
away with his tail between his legs.
So this teaches US that, after all.
jokes, if they do no harm, are of
ten useful if you meet a Wolf. And
if the teaspoon doesn T try to
stretch it's If to grow big like a
coffee cup, and break its handle
doing so, II tell you next about
Uncle Wiggily's April Fool.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD E. GARIs
Copyright, 1923, oy Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE wIGGILY'S WIND
WAGGLE

"Havo we any Of .lose things
with holes 5l?' asked Uncle Wig
gily of Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy
at breakfast one morning.
Things with holes in?' repeat
ed the muskrat lady housekeePer.
do you mean buttons to sew on
your shirt9"
"No. l mean those long Things,
like white shoe strings, only they
have a hole through them like !.
lemonade straw, went on tn" oun-
ny.
"Oh, you mean maearoni!" laugh
ed Nurse Jane.
"Ycs-that 5 it-macaroni!' ex-
claimed Mr.. Longears. Have you
any macaroEi III the bungalow =
= suppose so, said Nurse Jane.
but don t tell me you want ma
caroui for breakfast. DO you.
Thu bunny gentleman SHOOK his
head and, at the same time, his
pink, twinkIing nose, for his nose
WAS fastened to his mead.
l want he said. "a piece OF
macaroni with Il hole through ii
like a lemonade straw, with which
to make wind waggle. y
"What in the world is 4 wind
waggle ?" asked Nurse Jane.
- Il show you. if you get me a
stem of macaroni, promised the
bunny. And when Nurse Jane
brought him the long thing, Uncle
Wigguv stuck one end of j, through
a. hole he had made III a small,
round pasteboard box with cover
! on.
1T looks more like a pipe than
wind waggle, sad Nurse Jane,
lis it a pipe, Wiggy''
Its wind waggle, gravely
he informed Miss FUZZY uzzy.
Here, blow through the macaroni
stem and see what happens. So
Nurse Jane blew.
Off flew the cover of the box
and from it there shot into the air
cloud of sugar which the bunny
gentleman had put in. The sugar
fell in a shower on Nurse Jane 5
face. around her mouth, and she
suck out her tongue to get t off
THAT S my wJld waggle.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
Looking Backw ard
What the Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley fer This Date
In Past Years
NINETEEN YEARS AGO
March 81. 1906

Philip Brooks came back to the
valley last evening.
Mrs. T. 2. Banta has returned
from 4 brief visit to Los Angeles.
\. w. Roberts who has had charge
of the business W tiny Desert Gram
Company at HeDer for two years
has succeeded +. L. Toben in the
management at Imperial.
George L. Campbell, the Silsbee
merchant is in Imperial today and
reports that there has been a great
Improvement in affairs in general
in the southwestern part of the val
ley during the last few weeks.
II. l.. Peck says there are so
many farm wagons drawing up to
the mill with scrapers that he is re-
minded of the early days. These
scrapers mean that the farmers are
leveling new land for first crops.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31
LOTS OF SMELT AND
NOBODY EVEN CARES

PORTLAND. Ore, Mar. 31.-The
smelt run "A the Sandy river is con.
tinuing soday unabated after more
than two full weeks.
The multitude of fish, however
are attracting little attention on
the third week of the run and few
There has been so many smelt
fishermen paused to catch them.
this year that every one got all he
wanted within the first week or
ten days.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31

Wouldn t it be nice if bad wealth
er didn t work on Sunday'
Imperial Valley press., 1925-03-31

Many farmers about Byron,
Contra Costa County, will plant ex-
pegimsatal plots Of cotton.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-06-06
TO SAFEGUARD
FERRY TRIPS
Auto Club Manager Wants
Autos Vacated

Further regulation compelling all
persons in automobiles 10 get out OF
them Immediately after the cars take
their position on board any automo.
bile ferry ls needed. Douglas shcIor.
manager OF the Automobile club Of
Washington. said today
Such a regulation is desirable. not
only TO avoid fatal termination 10
such accidents ns occurred on the
Sound last Sunday. but to make pos
slbIe a speedy escape In case OF fire
on board. n boiler oxplosion or any
other accident. Under present con-
ditions. fire. II II spread rapidly.
would find many passengers prncti.
cally trapped in their cars.
we believe. further. that in these
days, when the ferries are so closely
crowded, the safety OF tho passcn-
gers requires strict enforcement OF
tho regulation prohibiting smoking
on the main deck OF any automobile
ferry.
These suggestions are not meant
to imply that travel on our ferries
is dangerous. for accidents of any
kind on the ferries have oson very
rare indeed. We are. however. in
terested In seeing every reasonable
safeguard adopted TO make travel in
tho Puget Sound country as safe as
possible"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-06-06
WATER DEPARTMENT
Is PROFITABLE

Its financial statement for tho
year would gladden. the hearts OF a
greedy board Of directors but It Is
being operated for service at tho
lowest rates possible. and no one
complains Of their water bills IN
Seattle.
Capital assets Of tho department
arc placed at slT.037.O 70.3i Total
assets are S2o.ois.oOs.55. outstand.
ing bond issues and capital lRbli-
ties total S6.oi2.9si There Is sur
plus in equipment and other assets
OF ,l2.7ss.OOO
The year Just ended was n profit
able one. Total revenues from all
sources were Sitse,2699i. Total OK
penscs were sss0.59s.e1. showing a
net profit OF ,sos.s7o. after all in
terest and bond retirement pay
ments were made.
Tho department has a personnel
OF 252 regular employees. which "a
increased at times 10 as many as
$50 to 400. The whole system is
noticeable for the well-kept condi-
ton Of It's buildings and equipment
and a general atmosphere OF eff
cheney.
And so to home, having travelled
1875 miles In the Overland without
falter over rough roads and steep
hills along almost the whole route.