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Imperial Valley press., 1926-04-21
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD R. aAR1S
Copyright. 1926, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY AND NAN
MES NECKLACE

Mamie Wagtail was a little girl
goat who had brothCr named Billie
once uuou time Billie had the
toothachc and Uncle Wiggiiv helped
it having it pulled in a very strange
way. as have told YOU. But thus
story is about Mamie. not about
Billie or his toothachc.
Now Mamie, while not more proud
than the other little anima girls
who rccitcd their lessons i'll the HoI-
low Stump school, Mamie, very
much indeed. wanted Il necklace OF
red beads.
If could only have necklace
Of red beads would be happy for
ever and ever bleatcd the little
girl >at.
But. for some reason or other.
Mamie would not have a necklace.
| think it was because her father
and mother were poor. At lcaast,
Mr.. Wagtail. tn" goat gentleman
aid not earn much money, for he
only worked in the one and two cont
store, huttinr the doors open with
his horns 50 the customers could get
in and out.
IF only worked in the eleven
and twelve cent store | would make
a lot more moucy.' Mamie : father
used to say. Then could buy my
little Girl a necklace! Bat now | ain
too poor.
So Mamie felt very sad and un-
happy because she had no necklace,
and as She went to school one day
Uncie Wiggily saw her downcaSt
Imperial Valley press., 1926-04-21
DEMOCRACY OR CASTE

Dr.. NJ. r. Chatteree native Of India and profess
sor Of social science in an American college, calls at
tenton to American peril 10 which many Americans
never give thought
Unless you take steps to prevent it," ne says,
"you viii have the same kind Ct civilization here,
eventually that have in india, and 900 years from
now your descendants viii be Iecturing before audi
cnces in Thmbucoo warning them against caste, lust
as ! am warning you
Democracy we are Drorc to forget is still an eX-
pertinent Our nation is thc oldest democracy
;stng cnd it age is short IS historical epochs
sured Sometimes. too, an observing American has
suspicion that even none too democratic.
Only real democracy feeling and practice Of basic
human equally running through society-can keep
nation from caste system.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-04-21
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS
CONSIDERING BIDS

SACRAMENTO, Cal. April IL
The State Highway Commission to
day had under consideration bids
for the rebuilding of 200 miles of
the San Joaquin trunk line road be
tween Borden and MADEIRA. Hanra-
han Company of San Francisco,
with an estimate of SlS,73j, was
low bidder. Awarding of the CON
tract viii come before a meeting of
the commission in san Francisco
Anril o2
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DruSe Women to
Be Used on Last
Line of Defense
Isy United Press Leased Wire

JERUSALEM, Apri 2l,-With
all males from the ages of II to
50 years already provided with
arms, the Rebel Drusc Tribe was to-
day organizing battalionS of women
to be used as the last line of de.
fcnsc against the prospective French
advance in Syria.
Reports from the desert say the
women are responding enthusiastic
eally.
Picked male sharp shooters have
been sent to villages in the inter
ior to train the women folk in the
use of rifles.
France governs Syria under Il
league Of nations mandate. Last
SKINNER The Drusc tribcsmcn rcbcll-
ed and were joined by other Syri-
ans. The trouble eliminated in Oc-
tobrr when the French shellcd and
partly destroyed Historic Damascus.
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NO LAW TO CURB RADIO
PIRATE SAYS HOOVER

WASHINGTON, April 2l.-Thc
public is entirely. without protection
from radio pirates who may infringe
upon radio wave arrangements as a
result of the Zenith Radio decision
in the Chicago Federal court, secre-
tarv of commerce Hoover said Tues
day III Il statement. He urged en-
actmcnt of bin already introduced
to give his department power to as
sign and revoke wave lengths to
broadcaSterS.
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Mantle

.What : the matter, Mamie
asked the rabbit gentleman.
..Oh. / waut a necklace "f red
beads so much, Uncle Wiggily.
sighed Naunic." can think Of moth
ing else. all day long. And tins
was true. Often in the Hollow
stump school the Lady Mouse.Tcarh-
cr would ask:
-.Tow many are two and three.
! Mamie "
And the goat girls would b!eHt:
=. \ necklace of five red beads.
Dear me, This is very sad.
Uncle Wiggilv when he saw how
n,uch Mamie was thinking Of the
necklace. though. - have told YOU
She was no more proud than the
other animal girls. ''lou must think
Of something else, Mamie, went on
Nj. Longcars. Get the necklace
ont Of YOUR mind. Try and do Il
kindness TO some one and YOU Will
no longer think 50 much Of red
beads
So Mamie tried to be kind. She
gave her brother. Billie, "a piece OF
lcr cake that she had brought to
eat 1T recess, and then Mamie wait
I'd. saving:
Il want to see if the kindness has
rladc me forget about the necklace!
But il had not She wanted 1t all
The more. Aud going home from
school that afternoon she could think
Of nothing else.
But, all of a sudden, as She was
rassjnC somc bushes, the little girl
goat heard a voice CRYING:
"lIclp! Help, Please help me-,
She looked aud saw, caught in a
ratch of bramblcs, large bird with
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Sheriff Stumped
When Asked to
Find Tombstone
By United Press Leased Wire

SEATTLE. Wash, April 2l,-
Sheriff Matt Starwich has solved
all sorts OF crimes s-payrolI robbcr-
les, train hollups, burglarics and
cattle rustIin9 cpisodcs-but now is
stumpcd.
He WAS asked TO find tomb,
stone that was stolen. Mrs. l.. \,
Darragh reported tha; the monu-
mcnt-of rare montclla granite aud
worth several hundred dollars dis
appeared from 4 cemetery near Ed
monds.
The difference between some Pco'
pics singing and having u fit is they
can / help having fits.
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Carmel Girl Is
Bride of Rich
n. Y, Musician
By United Press Leased Wire

MONTERREY, Cal, April 21.-
Thomas Vincent Sator, millionaire
musician of New York and San
Francisco, and Hilda II. Hillvard
daughter of John Northern Hillyard,
author and artist Of the Carmel col
onv, were married here Tuesday af-
tcrnoon by Justice of the Peace.
Sator recently obtained an inter
locutory decree Of divorce from his
first wife, to whom he had been
married l6 wears. He left his fam
Imperial Valley press., 1926-04-21

lily S home two years before, stating
that the clamoring of four lustv
throatcd children was not conducive
to inspired composition.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-04-21

Polished floors will not be
scratched if You will make the fam
lily 20 barefoot.
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Prof Talman of the Weather Bureau writing for Science
says that every year there are sixteen million
thing strange and striking but it is natural the running
FOf brooks downhn.
Streams rivers run naturally down to ocean, The
carries the water into the clouds falls ia RAIN then
back to the big
In the way electric power in the air goes back into
earth When the stream current Of electric force goes
downward into the EARTH the brooks down into the
Eve call It lightning.
Sixteen million lightning storms year Kill many people,
destroy great deal of property One of problems will be
to control this downpour of lightning just another problem
will control the downpo Of water to the to prevent
great floods in cities and elsewhere.
THING CAN BE DONE only necessary give the light
ming EASY WAY back into the earth and will do no
harm.
This gigantic structure of solid ron its foundations
ming deep into the ground reaching the WET SOIL gives
electricity the easiest way back into the earth
Electricity like is inclined to follow the EAS4S1
WAY Some day entire communities may be protected by
great lightning dverter.
Meanwhile comforting thought about being
struck by lightning isn't YOUR fault and you know
that the lightning hits you the fierce funda
mentas admit that you have nothing to fear you have
done your little best, before going
Sixteen million thunderstorms form in year, and
great many but there why the streams Of light
ming going into the ground which of electric
should not be useful the streams that to the
Of water Some day will harness that rushing light
ming they now harness Niagara.
You hear about heat lightning which you see in the dis
tance but there such thing heat lightning What
call heat lightning is regular lightning storm but far
that cannot hear the thunder and do not the
ghtnngs sharp flash only the faint reflection against the
sky.
In that sky the distant stars great hope
Power that manages this little earth tiny planet going around
q small sum- is merciful just and kind.
In fair weather in Storm safely trust ourselves
to it.
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DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
o A s E S
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

wYE should be glad that in lifes desert frequent
w We do not have to travel all the time. There
are snos where the cames can and their burdens
and where you may drink refreshing draugh at the bub
bling springs.
In the first place. there sleep This usually to
all of us once in twenty-four hours If fortunate
enough to be good seepers lay down burdens
no matter how serious they and enjoy several hours of
vacation though the burdens stand ready by the side
of our bed to leap upon us the next morning.
Places of entertainment and shows Their prn
cpa value to us is that while enjoying them
forget ourselves.
The value of entertainment depends upon its absorbing
power its ability to take us away from ourselves.
To be sure the old of the that us stands
ready the door leap upon backs come OUT
but for a while we have had surcease
friend oasis Goethe says SThis world is waste
empty when figure but towns and hills and rivers
in it. but to know that is living on with us in
silence this makes earthly ball a peopled garden
How friend rests you! To know that someone is for
you matter what happens to know that someone loves
you and believes in youhat is decidedly easement to
burdens
Faith To believe in yourself in your star
destiny somehow the load have to carry To be-
ieve in other people is rest and above all to believe IN
the supreme goodness that there all Father who will
carry all burdens for If know how to cast
burden upon Him. This makes life bearable.
is arranged that must carry load contnu
ally Nothing is continual Life is rhythmic. There
nights and Sundays and other vacation times when lay
harness by and rest the chafed places.
Thank heaven for the GASES of life!
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ATTIRE FOR
WEDDING
Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman

nEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ Will you please advise me
as to the correct attire for a
wedding which Is to take place
at 4 o'clock in the afternoon?
Both my fiance and myself will
appreciate your advice as to
what we should wear. We are
also invited to the reception i'm.
mediately following the wedding.
2. 1t is proper, is it not, to
ding? A READER.
Both men and women should
wear their most formal day
clothes for an afternoon wedding,
for a wedding is one of the most
formal social events and guests
always make an effort to show
their appreciation Of the i'm
portance of the occasion by wear-
ing their best" clothes. A woman
wears a formal day-costume
either street dress and coat or,
best Of all, an ensemble suit. A
man wears his cutaway coat and
dark striped trousers, or, If he
hasn't this formal attire, dark
lounge suit.
W les, the gl1C SnOuId De sent
before the wedding. 1t is, If pos
sible, sent, say, two weeks be.
fore, so that the bride will have
an opportunity of writing her
thank-you notes before the last
crowded week.
Don't Abbreviate
NEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
~ When spending the night at
a friends home. Is 1t proper TO
provide your own nightgown?
2. When being introduced, which
IS the proper form. How do you
do" or How do?" S.
Yes.
2. How do you do?" is always
the correct form for acknowledging
an Introduction. How do?" seems
uselessly abbreviated.
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SYNTHETIC GAS
By Garrett P. Serviss

ruined by the great war, the
auto assumes, holds and rapidly
widens its place among the alb
solute necessitiese of business
and social life. 1t has gotten
out Of the garden of luxuries
into the every day fields. After
time the aeroplane. or avion,
will perhaps be crowding on it's
heels.
Hence, when Professor Fran5
Fischer, of Berlin, is able to in
spire concerning his new process
of "synthesizing" liquid fuels a
statement like that which follows.
literally millions must prick up
their ears:
1.-The new method produces q
plea t.smelling gasoline" -
C'pleasant-smelling." just think of
that)-"as clear as water, and one
which will not harden or become
gummy on exposure. The gaso-
line Is highly volatile and is large
ly made up of unsaturated COM
pounds like defines, which i'm
part to the gasoline valuable anti
knock properties. This enables 1t
to be used In efficient high COM
preston motors without objection
able knocking and" with great
economy"
1 borrow the above from Sci
ence Service, which has doubtless
carefully investigated the facts.
Used Wrong Method
It seems that Prof. Fischer
has heretofore devised a method
Of synthesizing liquid fuels from
coal products. but he did not at
the first hit the proper way. When
high temperature steam is led
over coke and coal they are almost
completely gasified, the product
being water gas" which is a
mixture of carbon mOnoxide and
hydrogen. At first Prof. Fischer
conducted his process under a
pressure of at least 800 pounds
to the square inch. The results,
though commercially valuable,
were not satisfactory. But now
the eXperimenter has found that
he can obtain the desired product
at ordinary atmospheric pressures.
1t is unnecessary here to go
into technical details. Few peO-
pie know how their auto engines
are constructed; fewer still would
care to learn chemistry in order
to follow the description of the
new way In which 1t is now hoped
that the powerful chemical de-
mon called gasoline can be put
together and made to work bet
ter than before.
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SAYINGS OF
| MRS.
BY Helen Rowland

CONSIDER the way OF a man
" with a woman and a motor
car.
10, until she ariseth from the
cushions of the rear seat and
taketh her place at the wheel, a
man giveth his wife NO PEACE.
Yet, once she setteth her foot
upon the starter and her hand
upon the gear-shift. he knoweth
no peace, himself!
Before she learneth to drive the
family car, man is q martyr"
to his wife's indolence-and after
she learneth, he is victim" Of
her feeble mindedness,
Before a woman seeketh to run
the automobile, a man complainant
bitterly of his WEAKNESS. She is
q bump upon a log and a piece
Of excess luggage.
But after she hath learned to
start and stop the engine, she is
q thorn in his side, a file upon his
nerves, and q babe that playeth
with a bomb.
While his wife reclineth at ease,
and permitteth him to guide the
machine through traffic. q man
grumbleth necessarily. that he is
forced to do all the driving"
Yet, when she exchangeth seats
with him, and undertaken his
task, he crieth unto heaven at
the crudness of her technique, the
rashness Of her ways and the
dumbness of her understanding.
Go to. Before a woman learneth
to drive, her husband lamcnteth
that he IS but her chauffeur who
must tote her around" to bridge
parties and upon shopping tours.
And, after she hath learned to
drive, he WaiIeth and gnasheth
his teeth. because she hath the
car OUT at all hours, and 1t Is
never his to command.
Yea, before she getteth her
drivers license. he groaneth that
HE is being worn out" - and
after she hath become an expert,
he mOaneth that the CAR is being
worn out!
Verify. verify, to watch his
WIFE drive tormenteth a mans
nerves, even as the sight Of
babe that playeth with his watch
or small boy that fooleth with
his gun.
For a woman hath been known
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By ELSIE ROBINSON
Is Motkering a PGrt-Time
job?

meet it, she speaks Of it az
though it were a mere matter OF
food and clothes and intelligent,
but detached, supervision. But
it's more than that, lady-much
much. more.
A child needs love and SYM
pathy and subtle, humorous
understanding even more than
he needs Vitamines A and B.
You can schedule cooking and
cleaning and sewing on a part
time basis. You can have these
feats performed by servants or
institutions. But you can't sched-
ule mothering so that IL will fit
in with part-time office hours.
You can't regulate little Bill so
misdeeds and ask his reluctant
questions and make his tremen-
dous condolences and do his
spontaneous cuddling between
the hour OF 5:45 when you re-
turn from the office and 7:45
when you depart for your COM
mittee meeting.
YOU'VE GOT TO STICK
AROUND THE HOUSE SISTER,
If YOU EXPECT TO GET NEXT
TO YOUR OFFSPRING IN ALL
HIS SIVE MOODS,
WHETHER HE BE A BABY OR
AN ADOLESCENT. And IL
you're fit to bear the name of
mother you'll know that Get
ting Next to Billy is the main
part Of the job until he's Of
age.
And how are you going to
better your own life or enrich
society II you prove a Stacker to
the biggest, most vital trust in
human life?
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The Man That Murdered Hall
Why Was He Not Named Soonerf

interesting development in connection with the murder
of Reverend Dr. Hall and Mrs Mills, his choir singer
with the indictment of various accused and
rather late date
indicted now say that part of their defense they
will show who it that actually did murder Hall.
IF THEY KNEW, WHY DID THEY WAIT FOUR
YEARS TO TELL?
Those accused close relations of the murdered
they know NOW who murdered Dr. Hall and Mrs Mills they
must have known who murdered FOUR YEARS AGO. What
their object in protecting the murderer murderer by
keeping silence?
The to that and many other questions will
In what is destined to be most remarkable trial
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house when she'd rather get out
with the gang. Mrs. Parsons
does not state it in this crude
manner. She handles her sub
ject with great astuteness and a
wealth of psychological and
sociological detail. But back Of
all her scintillating rhetoric is the
profound conviction that house
keeping and baby-tending is an in
ferior job and that it Is unfair
and economically wasteful to eX-
pect women to give their whole
time to it.
Are a lot of Downtrodden Vic
Tins going to agree with that?
I'll say they are!
Mrs. Parsons believes that
women are not the weaker SEX"
either physically or mentally and
she argues. with great skill. that
the average wife is as able to
enter the industrial world as her
husband.
Well grant it. But what Of it?
The average man Is a dull sort
of a chap and his job Is as
mediocre as his capacity. His
wife is no more of world beaten
than he is, and the job she would
hold down would be equally
mediocre and poorly paid. 1t
would have no more color or
drama than her present job as
housewife, and it would give her
no greater chance to develop her
character. What would it profit
to flood an already oVercrowded
market with more unskilled
labor. thereby reducing the wages
to an even lower level? And
who's going to take care of the
deserted home while Jenny walks
the streets with her John look.
ing for q SO per day Job?
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ONCE-OVERS

You shortsighted not having enough expert help
Nothing is gained by putting greenhorn work which
requires experience and judgment
There is such thing cheap labor.
Cheap labor is cheap in results-and results count
Even ditch digger should understand his job
You figure doing much work yourself in order
money.
Instead of saving, you tire yourself doing work
which you unaccustomed And in this way your
executive ability.
1t is poor business that boast of person
it.
Many workers sincere and conscientious but when
person hands flying the mind doing the plan
ming it should.
Any firm needs thinker for a manager
Many who is thought to be ihdoent is in reality
thinker and executive In his apparently idle hours he
is getting plans in readiness time and money
Have enough help; pay them fair wage and then
your head to make the help worth while.
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OTHER sciences, mostly, let
" nature go her way and con-
tent themselves with classifying
her phenomena and trying to dis.
Germ how she produces them.
But chemistry is more pushing
and self-confident. 1t thinks that
1t can learn natures tricks and
do them better than their origi-
nator. It is urged by the spirit
of me too" which says: Let
me in; / can do these things,
too, and perhaps beat you at
them"
So chemistry is the favorite
horse of practical enterprise, the
driver of the modern world. And
practical enterprise continually
applies the spur, but wisely re-
members the oats, in the form
Of great financial rewards for
chemical research.
There Is a German chemist
who, if he keeps his eye on the
oats bags Of practical enterprise,
seems not unlikely to fare ex-
ceedingly we'll in the near flu
ture, for he is said to have per-
fected an economical process by
which "synethetic gasoline" can
be produced.
Pleasant Smelling Gas
There is no name greater in
this day than that of gasoline.
1t has only electricity to fear as
d rival, and 80 far electricity. in
spite Of all it's magic, has not
been able to get into the run
ming. Meanwhile, the auto in
its many forms, multiplying by
its very presence it's own indja-
pensable uses, is spreading over
the world like a wind borne epi.
demic. Even in those European
countries which were all hut
to FORGET that her husband is
running the car, in moments Of
rare distraction.
But NO mon taketh his mind
or his eye off his wife for a
single moment while she Is In
the drivers seat!
Nay, that Is the ONE time In
all her life, when a woman re-
ceiveth her husbands entire and
UNDIVIDED attention!
Thus. my Daughter. are many
an husband and wife held to-
gether all the days OF their lives,
by their love of an innocent little
motor car!
SELAH.
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e should be glad that in lifes desert are frequent
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LISTEN, WORLD!

Mrs. Parsons
thinks the home
will get along
very nicely. We
W on d er no W
much practical
hou sekeep ing
t h 9 lady b a .
ever performed
with her o W n
two fists az one
reads her bright
a n d bree zy
scheme for dis
posing OF the
domestic chores
and the young
sters. Not that
she says very
m u C h a b o u {
youngsters. For
some re a s o n
Mrs. p ar s on 8
rather ev a d e 8
the child prob
lem. When she
10 fnrnad IN
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Where Are Ours?

Great Britain is reported building giant planes
They will be able to bomb cities in broad daylight
will be practically invisible flying many thousand feet in the
air.
American citizens reading of aircraft development by other
nations feel uneasy the backwardness country
They well may When will that definitely re-
Elected in Congress- and furnish adequate appropriations for
aviation?
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A LICE BEAL
IA PA r so Ms
t h in ks tina t
homework and
m OF erin &
should be part
time jobs.
She says so
in a book called
"W o m q n IS
Dilemma" It is
an extremely in
teresting, clever
book and you
should read 1t.
B ut q 8 for
agreeing with it
that's another
matter.
Mrs. Parsons
starts with the
assumption that
a woman has a
dilemma. T h @
dilemma b 9 in 6
that she has to
stick around the
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WISE SAYINGS

There is no greater grief than
to remember days Of joy when
misery is at hand.-Dante.
The man that has a tongue, l
say, is no man. If with his tongue
he cannot win a woman.-Shake.
speare.
Mans inhumanity TO man
makes countless thousands mourn.
Burns.