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Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18
FORD SERVICE
STATIONS ARE
VERY POPULAR

One of the most striking illus.
trations Of changed motoring condi,
tions since It few years back, when
the car owner feared to 90 on any
lengthy tour, is found in the Ford
organization which is TODAY provid-
ing service facilities for approx
matclv half the motor vehicles in
the United States. 1t is estimated
that there are 100000 Ford cars
and trucks traversing streets and
highways of the nation and Ford
service stations are scattered in most
every city, village and hamlet to
keep these cars running with q min
imum or delay and at low cost.
The Ford Motor company was
among the earliest automobile com
panies to recognize the populariz.
ing motor car travel depended upon
service facilities and that the motor
ist in need of service or replace
ment parts must not be compelled
to wait a day or two, but be cared
for in the shortest possible time.
Establishment Of Ford service sta
tons therefore started years back
but under the remarkable demand
for For cars, particularly during the
last few years with sales running
close to 100000 annually, it has
been necessary to extend this organ
izatiOn and to do it quickly. How
well this has been accomplished is
seen in company records which show
that since 1923, when Ford dealers
totalcd little more than 1000, the
number has been increased to $500.
But in addition to this the authoriz-
ed Ford service stations have been
increased more than 100 per cent in
the last two years until at present
there are $4,000 such stations
throughout the country. This makes
IA total of close to $4,000 places
where Ford owners may secure ne
cesoary adjustments and service
parts for their cars.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18
PERSONALS

Hobart Monhollen of Pomona, is
in town for a few days visiting
friends and relatives.
J. d. Foss returned last night
from Live Oaks for the days busi-
ness, going up again tonight.
Delbert Finley will leave tonight
for San Diego for the week end.
Mrs. Dick of Salomon company,
is leaving for a three weeks vaca-
tion to be spent in San Diego and
Balboa.
j. w. Glassford is leaving today
for Seattle, Oregon, for Il six weeks
vacation hunting and fishing.
j. b. McNeece and family will
leave Monday ON month S vaca-
tion to be present in Vancouver.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. n. Johnson will
leave today for Il two weeks vaca-
tion i'll Los Angeles and San Diego.
j. Il. Fahs has gone to San Diego
for the weekend to visit his wife
and family.
James Schofield and r. II. Cary
went to Jacumba last night for the
weekend.
Mrs. Jack Tackctt and her two
children left for San Diego this
morning to spend a few days on the
coast.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Il. Snow left
yesterday for San Diego. where they
have an apartment in which Mrs.
Sncw will spend the remainder of
the summer.
John Robertson left last night for
Los Angeles on il short business trip.
Miss W;mncfrcd Peek was down
from the mountains yesterday with
her father.
Mont. Reid is spending the week
end in the Laguna mountains with
his wife and two children.
Victor Hctzel returned to the
boy scout camp this afternoon for
HlCthcr week.
Paul Shaw. Clarence and Roy
Runsey left today for the Citizens
Military Training Camp at Del
Monte where they will be cncampcd
10" six weeks. The boys are driv-
ing through. having bought ear
and have planned a very enjoyable
time.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18
$4,000 MENUS
ON s. P. TRAINS
TELL OF MELONS

Imperial Valleys cantaloupe crop
was given widespread advertising
by the Southern Pacific company
in its latest issue of menu cards, it
was announced today by c. W.
Rungc, district freight and passen-
ger agent for the company.
The new menu cards contain 4
cover page photograph of an Inn
pcrial Valley cantaloupe field and
descriptive matter telling of the i'm
portance of this great crop. This
reads as follows:
Many crops are raised in the
fertile Imperial Valley, California,
but the cantaloupe production there
alone is enough to make the valley
famous throughout the United Stat
es. Enough cantaloupes are grown
there each year to provide more
than two melons for every man.
woman and child in the country. It
is the largest cantaloupe growing
section in the United States.
''Train after train of refrigera.
tor cars loaded with melons move
each day from the valley during the
season. To move this enormous
crop i'll Il brief period requires per
feet coordination of railroad facil-
tiles, and the success with which
this traffic has been handled has at
tracted the attention of shippers
and railroad men generally. "
About 10000 of the menu cards
have been issued by the Southern
Pacific for use on all its dining cars
from New Orleans to San Francisco
and Portland and east on the Amer
can Canyon route to Ogden.
Several months ago the railroad
prepared menu cards in similar
manner boosting the valleys lettuce
CROP
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
,July 18 1919

II. c. Kinnison and family of Dal
las, Texas, were visitors III Ell Cen
tro the past week, stopping off on
their return home from Il visit to
the coast. Mr. Kinnison is deeply
interested in valley affairs and
plans to return here in the fall.
County Expert Statistician }.
Stanley Brown and City Clerk w.
ii. Sprague returned to I'll Centre
on Monday after week spent with
their wives i'll Los Angeles.
Mrs. r. l.. Rumsey leaves today
for il summer vacation in San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell OF
Imperial Valley for This Date
In Past Years
NINETEEN YEARS AGO
July 18, 1906

Mrs. H, Is. Allatt came to the val
ley ON last evenings train for u
visit with Mr., Allatt, taking advant-
age of her daughters presence i'll
Riverside to get away from her
houshold duties.
Mrs. Van Arman of Silsbec was
among the arrivals last evening, com
ing i'll from her summer vacation.
a. j. Howells is home from short
VACATION.
Ed Menshik is home from his
vacation on the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18
"GOD OR GORILLA"

Pamphlets displayed in store windows at
Dayton, Tenn, bearing the remarkable titles:
God Gorilla
Hell and High School,
'Shall We Be Taxed to Damn Our Children?"
For jority of we'll informed people, the titles
probably enough it is easy to fill out in ones
mind what lies between the And reading
these remarkable titles, many American will
der whether this is really America of the twentieth
tury, medieval Europe, last-century Asia, and
whether such slogans destined to be raised yet in
every city in the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18
Chase After Rum
Runners Leads to
Yard of Coolidge
by United Press Leased Wire

SWAMPSUOTT, Mass, duly D.
\ chase after rum runners by
Swampscott police led up to the
yard of President Coolidge 5 sum
mcr white house here early today.
\ report by night watchman
that liquor from rum row was being
larded ON Little S Point, the small
peninsula ON which the president 5
summer home is located. caused a
quick run by police which, however
failed to reveal any smuggling.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18
OVER HALF MILLION OF
ADVERTISING FUND RAISED

LOS ANGELES, July 1S.-Morc
thar 80 per cent of the million dol
Ia: fund being raised by the South.
EN- California forward movement to
conduct an extensive advertising
campaign for the southland has been
raised, according to announcement
by leaders of the movement, which
has been underway only Ii days.
Take care of the present and you
can trade it III ON IL better future.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18
TEN YEARS AGO
july 1S. 1918

George \. Gaylord, II. A. Staub
and David T.. Doak were among the
Brawley visitors in the city yes
tcrday.
Phil w. Brooks and Dale Cooper
of Holtvillc were visitors at the
court house yesterday.
II. H. Griswold of Calexico was
in the city yesterday attending the
grand jury.
c. II. Eckcrt was an Ell Centre Wis.
itor yesterday from Holtville.
The Northern Star Mills, Chico,
Butte county, report they have dust.
ed 1879 sacks of grain with copper
carbonate for farmers this spring,
as smut preventive.
The use of sulphur ON alfalfa in
Tehana county this year doubled
the first cutting crop as compared
to the no-sulphur plots.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18

Supervisors of Mendocino county
have appropriated $4,000 for coyote
control; the federal government Civ
ing $1,000. Under the bounty sys-
tenn the county spent $4,000 yearly
and the coyotes increased.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18

Paris green bran mash, advised
by Prof. f. o. Essig, proved very
etfectual in destroying beet army
worms in cotton fields Of Kern
county. E,ttt t.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18

Six acres of alfalfa at Eastin,
MADEIRA county, given gypsum at
200 pounds an acre, gave 25 per
cent gam owe: uGtreated plots.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18

If they get news in the jungle, some anthropoid
fundamentaist will want to prosecute that California
scientist who saws the ape is descended from man.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18

1t looks sometimes as if the leading American
diversion is murder trials
Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-18

The San Benito county farm bu-
reau has ten fire fighting ccnters
equipped with fighting apparatus
and trailers with 6j-galIon fire eX-
tinguishers mounted thereon.
Evening star., 1925-12-10
Turkish Wisdom

The Turkish peeler bears a plank,
from which sharp nails protrude. and
when he sees Il speeding crank, a
driver wild or stewed. he drops his
board upon the pike; the driver cries
thereat: Nov, by the beard of Pasha
Mike. my tires have all gone tiat"'
=, dozen punctureS all at once have
made His temper warm: the speeder's s
certainly a. Ounce who doesn't then
reform. We look with scorn upon
the Turks and say their culture S
faxed; abjuring them and all their
works. we say they are half-baked.
But when they see a custom rise that
threatens life and limb, in heading
off the erring guys they show sur
prising vim. The speeders in this
land OF ours burn up the asphalt pave,
and we are always bearing flowers
to some poor victims grave. Yea,
there are penalties and pains pro-
vided for the crime, and still the
SpeederS push their wainS, and have
bully time. 4 little fine will not
thirteen days in Jail will not affect Il
cure. The speeders have the right
of way. "a reckless, Needless crew: we
view the crisis with dismay, and Won
der what to do. But such q crisis
can't afford the Turks an hour OF
doubt; they give each cop a hand
some board from which steel edges
Sprout. And when the Speeders find
their tires and tubes all rent and
torn, they play sad dirges on their
Tyres, and wiring their teeth and
mourn. They cry aloud, while justice
gloats: Our punishment is dour
hereafter we shall drive our boats
some seven miles an hour"
CopSright.) WALT MASON.
Evening star., 1925-12-10
COOLIDGE VOICES GRIEF,
Telegram Among Score Sent Wild
ow of Former Representative.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
MARTINSBURG w. Va. Decem-
Der 10.-A telegram from President
Coolidge headed Il score of MESA ces
of coincidence received by the widow
of George Meade Bowers. former
Representative and fish commissioner.
who died Monday night at his home
here.
Funeral services will be held tomor-
row, with burial at GerardstoWn in
charge of the Masons. The directorate
of the local bank, of which he was
president, will serve as honorary pail
bearers.
Evening star., 1925-12-10
Girl Dies of Gunshot Wounds.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
CHARLES TOWN. w. Va. Decem.
Der lu.-Georgiannt EuzZard . year
old. died of wounds inflicted by Mar
tin Dillo, II. who shot her in the heaC
with shotgun that had been left il
the yard by her older brother. A cor
oner's jury held the boy responsible
but found no criminal intent.
Evening star., 1925-12-10
Figures Greatly Reduced.

But instead of the great $50 600 900
to 800 100000 affair which the eX-
position started out TO be. the figures
have been reduced to "A modest S2O,-
100000. and there still is some queS-
tlon as to whether it will attain that
figure.
10 date a total of something less
than Sl5.000,0 600 is rea sonably certain.
OF this total SS,25000 is in hand.
pledged, and the Sesquicentennial
commission hopes to induce Congress
10 add a half million or more. Sec
retArieS Hoover and Kellogg have
agreed to support a governmental ap-
preparation. The commission hopes to
collect about $4,000 900 from the sale
OF space in the various exhibition
palaces to industrial exhibitors. 1t
also hopes that foreign governments
will invest $4,000. 900 in buildings and
exhibits.
The exposition site at Lea que Island
Park is a scene of wild activity The
stadium is about half finished and
work is being rushed on the two main
exhibit palaces and other structures
Proposed in 1916
The history of the Sesquicentennial
dates back to 1916 when it was first
proposed by the late John Wana.
maker. 1t was killed" by former
-ioS vi d. hampton Moore. but was re-
Vlved under Mayor Kendrick
Scandal after scandal logged the
path Of the exposition Graft charges
We're aired time and again. particular
IE In connection with the commission :
department and some OF these were
proved. 1t was alleged that the whole
aHar was simply a real estate scheme
to boom South Philadelphia. which
IS Senator Wares political strong.
mold Big industrial firms fought
the plan on the ground that it would
upset the normal life of the CITY.
ne Crisis came a. month ago when
Col. d. c. Collier. veteran exposition
may. resigned as director general. and
the Government at Washington bega
10 inquire whether il was going TO
nave to apologize and withdraw the
invitations it had extended to foreign
countries.
Mayor kendriCk then took the ey-
position in his own hands and went
TO Washington, where he convinced
secretaries Kellogg and Hoover that
the exposition could be saved from
oelng flop and that Government
support should not he withdrawn.
capt. Asher 6. Baker. l. s. A.. re-
tired, now is serving in Col. Golfers
place IS director general. but Mayor
hendrick, feeling that his own honor.
as well as that of the city. is at stake,
is really running the SHOW.
Evening star., 1925-12-10

No woman experiences a greater
pleasure than plain woman who has
q particularly handsome husband who
declares that she is beautiful.
Evening star., 1925-12-10

More than 10000 marriages take
place every year in the County of
London, England
Evening star., 1925-12-10
GREAT EXPOSITION
PLANS CUT DOWN
Philadelphia Still Plans to
Stage Notable Sesqui-
centennial Event.
BY Consolidated Press.

BY Consolidated Press
PHILADELPHIA, December 10
Philadelphia has given up its grandi-
ose plans for the greatest exposition
In history" to celebrate the one hun
dred and tiftieth anniversary of the
signing of the Declaration OF Inde-
pendence, but still hopes to evolve out
or the chaos, 10y next June, an eX-
position that will tittingly commemo-
rate that eventful date.
Had the city not felt that its honor
was at stake. as a result of having
induced President Coolidge TO send an
Official government invitation asking
foreign governments to take part in
the exposition. the whole plan might
have blown higher than d kite on any
one of a half dozen occasions in the
last six months. But with honor in
the balance, Philadelphia has stuck
doggedly to her guns, and today Ses-
quicentennial officials declared moth
ing could block their plans and that
only the most terrible of Winters COULD
even postpone the opening, scheduled
,Jlne |
New Britain herald., 1925-12-04
MANY ROAD SIGNS
 ARE CALLED WRONG
Stoeckel Explains Warnings to
 Motor Drivers

Hartford, Dec. Pl-Discussin the signs in many towns which in- form the motorist that the speed limit is IS miles an hour-per order of selectmen" Commissioner Of Mo tor Vehicles stoeckel in a recent ad- drc-s, said that there are grounds for criticizing tIch signs.
 In states having what Is called reasonable rate of speed law" he explained, they are usually not ex pre5sive of the exact case because, on account of brevity, they do not indicate the whole situation" Add ing: "The sign ought to be worded' in effect, a reasonable rate Of speed for this place is considered to be lb miles an hour-Board of selectmen.
 The Connecticut law provides for a. reasonable rate of speed The commissioner explaining the mean ing of tee term "prima facie' as used in the Connecticut law saying the "prima facie rule Is rule or svId.nce. It means that where prima facie rate is prescribed Tn the statute tr,e reasonable rate whlen lt tnterprets still obtains as the real b,si. for decisions but that II the prirna facis rate is exceeded the burden of proof is on the person who has exceeded"
 Commissioner stoeckel takes the view that there Is no question that the reasonable rate Of speed law IS far more elastic, far better qualinea tor use In court decisions and better ,n every way, than a fixed rate or speed law,
New Britain herald., 1925-12-04
ALL STARS FROM EAST
 TO PLAY WESTERNERS
Tucky" Pond, Former Yale Rack VIII Re Included in Benefit
 Game Lineup

Chicago, Dec. 1 tR-Al parts of the country will be represented in ,hs all-star amateur football team that Coach Navy Biu' Ingram oi Indiana will lead 10 the University Of California stadium in Ferkeley December ot. against western n1'- star eleven. Proceeds will go 10 me childrens hospital o' San Francisco.
 Jack Spalding, formerly of Syra- cusc, is in charge of western eleven Incram's squad starts practice in Bloomington. December II. and leaves Chicago for the ooast Deem bcr 2o.
 1ngram's squad will be: Ends Tully Of Dartmouth, Ri'"cs of Mar ouette and Fl Weir of Nebraska; tackles, Edwards, Michigan, anl Parker, Dartmouth; guards, Far wick. Army. Slaughter, Michigan and Diehl. Dartmouth; center, Gar hish. Army, and Hutchison, Nrhras- ka; quarterback. Mcrhai Dart mouth: backs, Fond. Yale, Wyckoif, Georgia Tech. Tryon. Colgate, Hn- bert, Alabama, and probably Mar tinAau. Minnesota.
 None of the players CT coaches will b. paid, the Islam Temple oi the Mystic shrines, promoters, pay ing the sxpenseS
New Britain herald., 1925-12-04
JOSEPH CONRAD'S OWN
 DIARY TO BE PRINTED
Yale Review Will Publish Authors Account of His Trip Up
 the Congo

New Haven, Dec. { Pl-The jour ney the late Joseph Conrad made up the Congo river in 1890 was recorded in the only diary found among Con- rsd's papers since his death. The diary. an exact record written In & rsnnv note book, will be published in the December issue of the Yale Review, with an introduction by the novelist's executor. Richard Curle.
 Conrad and his companions trav- el4d overland from the mouth or the Congo as far as Stanley Pool and from there on by steamer. That the tourney was not entirely enjoy able 10 Conrad is shown by his en- trv Of Saturday, July 5, 1890! TO day fell into muddy puddle heastlv-+hs fault of the man that carried me. After camp went 10 a small stream, tathed and VaShed clothes. Getting iolly well SICK oi this fun
 The diary, in giving a glimpse oi the authors experience offers re- markahle close parallels 10 the fam ous story "Heart of Darkness tho changing scene of the story, which appeared nine years latHr follows Conrads actual movements step by step,
New Britain herald., 1925-12-04
DRY WORKERS IN SPLIT
 IN DRIVE ON COOLIDGE
Ranks Are Broken Following Send ing Criticizing Message
 To President

shington, Dec. { R>-Disap- nroval by some members Of the Irnited Committee for Prohlol'lon Enforcement of its attack on the ao- n,,nistration's enforcement policy has caused a split in the committee ranks After heated discussion oi ike matter with Clinton N. Howard of Rochester, N. Y, chairman Of the committee, whose address was sent ,o President Coolidge yesterday as representine the views of the com nittee, Clarence True Wilson. exc cutive secretary of the Metnoalsl Rosrd of Temperance. Prohioitloh and Public Morals. last night resign cd from the committee.
 Mfr. Wilson also declared that the use of the name of his board in con- nAction with the committee was un- authorized. His action was tollo"- sd bv the withdrawal from the com mittee meeting of Oliver W. Stewart of Indianapolis, president of the Flying Squadron Foundation ano yice-cbairman of the united com mittee. Edwin C. Dinwiddie, of the International Order of Good Tenn vlars, also left the meeting. declar' ing he did not wish 10 stand behind such an attack on the administra' ton.
New Britain herald., 1925-12-04

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-22
Mexican Labor Traitors Work Fast

1t attempting to turn over the railways of Mexico
to Wall Street, President Gales let the workers
know who the real masters of their country are.
Lest there be no mistake about it, the railwaymen
are required to take an oath of allegiance to
the government so that no strikes may interfere
with the profitable operation of the roads by their
capitalist owners.
The railwaymen's union is to be disbanded and
they become simply employees of the Wall Street
owned Gales government The forces are to be
reduced by the discharge of 10000 workers-for
whom the Wall Street masters make no provision
and the greatest economy is to be practiced so that
the American imperialists will have no cause for
complaint
Says Gales to the railway workers
Rumors of proposed railway strike do not In
timidate the government. We will place the railways
under orders and nothing will stop Rawaymen
must accept the order. i. They will not remain
members of the union, but will be considered as
federal employees. The government proposes to
readIust the railways, running them a short time
economically, giving them economic stability then
returning them to the company.
The same appeals are being made to the German
railway workers who groan under the Dawes plan
the European expression Of American imperial
ism endorsed by the socialdemocrats. The Gales
government is the idol of the socialist hangers-on
in this country with the labor imperialists Of the
American Federation of Labor they join in prasing
it to the Skies
When the American Federation Of Labor officials
crossed the Rio Grande after the last convention
the result was only less disastrous to the Mexican
workers than an invading army. We knew and said
at hetime that all the talk of international friend
ship was TO rthe purpose of weakening the Mexican
labor understanding them easy prey for the Wall
Street bankers At that time we did not think that
the results of the BETRAYAL would materiaIize So
quickly.
But here they are
President Gales himself, the '1abor president"
of Mexico, is breaking up the most powerful union
that of the railway workers.
The labor traitors lose no time in getting results
for their masters.
The class-conscious workers of Mexico and the
United States must unite under Communist leader
ship against Imperialism and its agents in the
labor movement.
Slavery for one means slavery for the other.