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Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-30
MELOLAND NEWS
Nv Pres. stnm corrcsponden

MELOLAND, Jan. 30.--Roderick
Scott, father of Dan Scott, arrived
in the valley Wednesday morning to
spend few days looking after bust
ness affairs here. Al
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Walker and
three small children left for San
Diego Friday. Mr.. Walker will re-
turn Sunday but Mrs. Walker and
children will remain week, plan
ming to retu.i the following Sun
day. They will be at the 'home Of
Mrs. Walkers mother, Mrs. Mason.
Earle Summers was painfully in
iured last Tuesday morning on his
tractor. Neighbors rushed to his as
sistance and took him to the hos
pital in FL Centre where it was
found that his leg was broken close
to the ankle and the foot badly
cut and bruised. He was removed
to Los Angeles by train Tuesday
night, where he win be attended by
Il specialist. Mrs. Summers and son
Charles accompanied him on the
train. Mr.. Summers is at the Meth
odist hospital in Los Angeles.
Mrs. Fred Smith is enjoying a
visit from her sister, Mrs. Hughes,
and daughter, Miss Hughes of Mich
igan. The sisters have not seen one
another for IL years.
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Lite ice was slippery.

called to his wife. ~ am going
skating. : ~. .ts - -
.'You, Nonsense. g" exclaimed the
rabbit lady. ''Yeu can skate. You
are too old and stiff! You have the
! rheumatism,
Il am going skating, Come and
watch me, spoke Uncle Wiggily,
calm like and determined.
No | Will not 60, - answered his
wife. Il should feel sorry if | saw
you fall. Go along by yourself. :
"I'i show her! II prove that |
am not too old to skate.'' laughed
the bunny uncle as he dug his skat-
es out of the rubbish in the attic.
Thought L can't exactly show her
if she wont come to the pond. But
the others can tell her about it.
So Uncle Wiggily hoped across
the fields and through the woods
until he reached the frozen skating
place. Uncle Butter, the goat. was
there. and so was Mr.. Whitewash,
the polar bear gentleman.
Are you going to skate, Uncle
Wiggily?' they asked.
~ am going to try very hard. y
was the answer. '.And ii | do well
| hope you win tell my wife about
it. She thinks i can t skate. "
Gwen tell her." promised the
goat and bear gentleman. And they
tried not to laugh, for they knew
that Uncle Wiggily WIS not good
skater. Being all out of practice
and having the rheumatism besides.
But Uncle Wiggily was what is call
ed a "good sport He put on his
skates and started off.
But the ice was slippery and his
old skates were dull. He felt him
self reeling-falling - going over
backwards. He swung his paws
he twinkled his nose. But it was
of no use. Farther and farther over
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-30
BARKER HOLDS
4 OF KIND IN
NEW '26 HAND

If automobile poker should be-
come popular among police off
eials in El Centre and vicinity,
Chief Barker is likely to come out
Il winner, us the chiefs 1926 lie
ensc plate carries " four of kind, y
the number being 770-770.
Running close to the chief is
Sheriff Gillett, who has two chances
for a ''full house, his 1926 lie
cnsc being 4i4-1l1.
Sam Griffin has a pretty good
hand with three of Il kind, his num-
Der being 7770.
Bert Underwood is PRAYING for Il
license plate like the one he had
last year, which carried four aces
and seven as kicker which
would just about make him top the
crowd.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-30
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WORKyNG WOMEN

Organized feminsm is heard from again, at ma
tional gathering of feminine leaders in Washington
for an Industrial conference And curious situation
develops.
The conservatives and radicals divide. The form
err working in harmony with the Women's Bureau and
the Department of Labor, want safeguards thrown
around in industrial work. comparable with the
safeguards that modern civilized society seeks for its
children. The radicals ignoring these agencies, de-
mand direct action basis of absolute equality in
industry for and women
This branch of the feminist movement, represent
ed by the National Womans Party insists that women
want coddling, that they capable of looking
after their interests individually and privately
are that they want the industrial rights and
privileges of men. They want the eight hour day
along with the men, and they want to go into any
cupation they choose, by day night, and they want
to work overtime when they are inclined. They
have good "a right to put in long hours in the fac
tory, they say, as they have in the kitchen.
So these militant women propose to demand an
amendment to the federal constitution guaranteeing
them all these masculine rights.
Will they also amend the physical constitution
that Nature has given them, to qualify for their indus
trial equality?
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-30
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD r. GARIS
Copyright, 1925, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WTCGTLy GOES
SKATING

In January, as you know, there
often GENES bit of warm weather.
even in the middle of the winter. II
rains, the snow mclts and often the
ponds and lakes look as though you
might go swimming in them. This is
called a January thaw, and one
came to Woodland where Uncle
Wiggilv lived in his hollow stump
bungalow.
"Hurray! Hurray!" cried John
ME Bushytail, the squirrel boy as he
saw the sun shining. Summer is
herel
'' Don I be too sure of that, said
Uncle Wiggily as he twinkied his
pink nose very fast, Summer is Il
long way off yet. 1t will be colder
in few days and winter will be
with us againl'
Surely enough, "A day or so later.
Jack Frost froze everything up
solldly. covering the ponds and lakes
with sheets of ice.
"Well, anyhow chartered John
ME. the squirrel, 1--WE can go skat-
ing,'
Which he and some of the animal
boys and girls did. Uncle Wiggily
heard their merry>Shouts and laugh
tcron the frozen pond. With his
pink hose twnklings as it had never
twihkled before that winter, Mr.
LongGirs hoped into his bungalow.
Where are my old skates 20 he
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backward he tipped.
"Oh. this is terrible, : sadly
thought the bunny. Il thought
could skate, but | cant. ] told my
wife ] could, but can t, <eshes will
laugh az mel What shall | DO 20
just then the Weozie Wolf, who
had been waiting for Il chance, to
catch Susie LittletaiL. the rabbit
girl. saw her standing near Uncle
Wiggily. Susie was watching the
funny gyrations of Mr.. Longears.
I'm slip right up behind Uncle
Wiggily. grab Susie and run, said
the Wolf. ~ won t try to catch a
big rabbit. I'll take a little one,
But. Just as the Wolf was about
to grab Susie. Uncle Wiggily S feet
and his skates on them, slid out
from beneath him. Down the bunny
gentleman fell and very hard he
sat downright on the Wolf.
"Ugh,'' grunted the bad chap
the breath knocked from him.
"What happened to me?'
"Uncle Wiggily sat on yop!-
-blcated Uncle Butter. -
"He was trying to skate, but he
sIipped,'' said Mr.. Whitewash.
'.It was Il bad slip for me, :
groaned the Wolf as he got up and
limped away. He didn t even look
at Susie.
"Hurray for Uncle Wiggily.'
cried all the animal boys and girls
and Mrs. Longears, passing the pond
heard the cheers and said:
why, my husband must be a
better skater than | thought. They
ere cheering him. | did him an in
justice. And it was long while
afterward before she found out
what had really happened.
The bunny practiced skating aft
or that until he could do much bet
ter, but every one said it was a
good thing he hadn t skated away
before he sat down on the wolf. And
now if the lump of coal doesn t
give the fire shovel black mark
when they play tag in the wash tub
IN tell you next about Uncle Wig
gily queer ride.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-30
APPROVES CHANGE
I'm SUGAR RATING

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3o.-The
Senate today approved without obs
lection an amendment to the pure
food act to remove the discrimina-
3 ton against corn and fruit sugar,
placing those sugars on the same
level with beet sugar.
was offered by Senator Cummins,
Republican, Iowa. and the one on
fruit sugar my senator Howell, OF
Nebraska.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-30
In Congress 100
Years Ago Today
by United Press Leased Wire

By. United Press Leased Wire
Senate:
Resolution introduced. providing
for annual distribution by federal
government of $4,000, 900 to states
for education and internal improve
ments. - .es..
Agreed to take out within week
proposed amendment to constitution
providing for election of president
and vice president by electors.
House:
Resolution to investigate finan-
cial accounts of late President Mon
roe tabled, 90 to At.
President requested in resolution
to furnish house with communica-
tions; received from Mexico, Cen
trala America and Colombia inviting
United States to be represented at
congress of Panama.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-30
TEXAS ATTORNEY DIES
IN LAUNCH EXPLOSION
ny Unis.d Press Leased wire

GALVESTON, Tex. Jan. 80. -
Edwin II. Wankcin, former assist.
ant L. 5. district attorney for the
southern district of Texas, is dead
as he result of an explosion on the
launch OnicO, in Lake Surprise,
across the bay~ from here. last night.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-30
THE WEATHER

Los Angeles and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy unsettled weather tonight
and Sunday but no rainfall of inn
portancs is expected. Moderate
temperature.
Southern California: Unsettled
with probably local rains tonight
and Sunday; moderate temperature.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-30

Just the same, everything we see Il
Christmas tie we envy this North
Dakota man with wliiskcrs II feet
long.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-30

Dogs killed or manned in one day
SO sheep belonging to l.. r. Howard
of Yolo county.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-30
MORALS, EAST AND VEST

i Morality is broad question. Possibly tho West
has misjudged the East '
Here is India, for instance, trying to get rid Of
a,cono me inclan legislature established under the
British semi-domnion act has voted Ga to Ok f n wy
IIessVe resurrection OF the liquor traffic. leading to u
innate prohibition The division of this vote is the
osl interesting thing about it, All of the native rep
resentatives voted for prohibition All of the negative
votes were British 1t was India against Europe for
soDrety IN country where as the moralists of both
countries ADMIT western alcohol has done much harm
opium China would have been virtually free from the
arug now II British and other European commercial in
terests had let her alone in her reform work
The city that is building skating rink 1to seat
lloOo people must have lot of poor skaters in its
citizenry. - 40
who says our Indians unciyiized? A redskin
beauty OF the Usage oil arisocracy has spent 1878 in
s,A months on rouge powder pufis hair nets, lip
Sticks, Siiampoos and cold cream.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-20
Shortage of Balloon
Tires is Predicted

1t would not be surprising if
dealers and manufacturers stocks of
balloon tires would fall short of
meeting the demand during the late
spring and early summer months
The thousands of balloon tires
which were put into service in 1924
as regular equipment and which have
continued TO srun up to the present
time will be worn out early during
the 1926 season. When the spring
buying season opens UP there will
be great demand for balloons to re-
place those original equipment tires.
This drain upon stocks will be un-
usually heavy and it is not unreason-
able to believe that the demand will
be even greater than the supply.
Balloon requirements differ from
high pressure requirements mas
much as with the high-pressure tire.
automobile owners usually bought
only one tire at a time. When a tire
failed the owner simply would re-
place it with a new one and give no
further thought to the remaining
tires of the set.
With balloons it is different and in
most cases the tread rubber wears
down to the carcass of the tire before
the casing actually gives out, and
this wearing down is practically even
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All Urged to
Conserve Tires

The Buick Motor Company, is in its
advertising urging Buick owners ali
over the country to help combat the
present high price of rubber by con-
serving tires as much as possible
The company advocates careful driv-
ing and frequent inspection and re.
pair of minor injuries as aids in
obtaining maximum mileage from q
set Of tires.
The engineering department has
compiled a set of rules to be followed
in order to get full service from
tires. They are:
Avoid sudden stops. Don't let the
tires slide along the pavement.
Avoid sharp turns. Take corners
slowly.
Don't bruise a tire by running into
a curb or other obstruction.
Don't scrape the tires by running
too close to curb.
Keep out of car tracks and deep
ruts.
Repair cuts and worn spots
promptly.
Harry H. Bassett, President of the
DUNN hOloI SOltlpdly, SdlQ recently
that there is grave danger, of the
American automobile owner losing
the benefit of the automobile tax re-
duction authorized by Congress
through the increased cost of equip
ping the cars with tires.
I'VE are threatened with high rub
Der prices as long as the present
situation lasts" said Mr.. Bassett
THE National Automobile Chamber
of Commerce will attempt to produce
lower priced rubber by organizing q
ten million dollar corporation to be
devoted to this purpose. The indi-
vidual autoist can and should do his
share by saving his tires as much as
possible. The present price of rub
Der can't last if we conserve eul
present supply and thus partially re.
Guce the demand.
Automobile owners should realize
that these rules of tire care are Of
more benefit to them individually
than they are to the situation as q
whole, since they will substantially
reduce the annual tire bill of each
man who follows them"
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FARMINGDALE
North Street School

Appropriate exercises in memory
of Lincoln were carried out in honor
of his birthday, February IL, by the
pupils of the North Street School.
The Valentine Box which was to be
opened Monday. was postponed until
Tuesday. as some of the pupils were
unable to get through the drifts
Monday. 1t was a large box prettily
covered with pink crepe paper, and
ornamented with gold hearts and
was full to overlooking. each pupil
received many, and the teachers
desk was covered with exceedingly
beautiful ones from each pupil, how
ever. from the plainest to the most
beautiful ones in the Valentine Boxes
were alike accepted by the teacher.
as they were all given in the same
spirit of good fellowship. Miss Dali
mer also received some nice valen-
tines from some Of her former pupils
of last year.
The little prizes given for various
stunts were awarded to the Misses
Iva Kincaid, Marguerite Dill, Marie
Flagg, and Phyllis Black. The post
men were Masters Donald Lowell,
Hermon Cannon and Jeddy Smith.
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WEST GARDINER

POND ROADWAY friends here
were deeply grieved to learn of the
death of Mrs. L. M. Bird. which oc-
Cured at her home in Gardiner.
Tuesday morning. Sincere SYM
pathy is extended to the bereaved
husband and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Wiles are re-
ceiving congratulations. on the ar
rival of a son. born. Tuesday evening.
Feb. Is. at the Gardiner General
Hospital.
Earle w. Norton,t who has COM
pleted his studies and received his A.
B. degree from Cornell University,
made a brief visit with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. l.. Norton. last week.
and left Saturday evening for
Whitensville, Mass. where he has a
position with the Whiting Machine
Co.
Carl Crane Of Bangor was Sat-
urday overnight guest of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. /. E. Crane.
Mrs. George Walker and Mrs. Will
liam Mclaughlin, who have been
visiting relatives here returned Tues
day, to their homes in Woodland.
Mres. Nellie Stevens is assisting
Mrs. Crane in the care of her
mother, Mrs. Urania Mclaughlin.
whose condition remains about the
same
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NEW SHARON

A meeting of the local Farm
Bureau and Extention Service was
held In the Masonic building We'd
nesday afternoon. Subject was
Home Industries. Mrs. Leona Camp
bell had charge of the meeting.
There was a good attendance of
members and one visitor.
Mrs. Loretta Chandler is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Harry Knowlton
and family in North Chesterville.
Mrs. Gertrude Merchant returned
to her home Wednesday afternoon
in West Rindge. N. H.. after a short
stay in town. being called here by
the illness of her mother, Mrs. Au-.
gusta Coghill.
The V. /. S. met at the home of
Mrs. Verne G. Day, Thursday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Young have
completed their work on the Manter
farm and have been visiting at the
home of her son, William White
and family.
New Sharon High school was
represented in the Winter Sports
Carnival held at Strong, last Friday
in the 220 yard snowshoe DASH
Greenleaf of N. s. H. S. won first
and York of MS. H. S. third; Palmer
and Withee of n. S. H. S. figured
in the Ski jump. Principal Cove
chaperoned the boys and was one
of the judges.
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ARE YOU A
GOING CONCERN?
Two men were Iunching together.

Two men were lunching together.
! ut has been some years since /
have seen you, Bill" one said to the
other. you look mighty prosperous.
! am glad to see it."
"Tom," he answered, II have been
doing well. | made ten thousand dol
lars last year, and I'll make even more
this year. ! hope you are just as Sue
cessful."
Tom was thoughtful for moment.
eyes," he said, Il suppose, in my
way, have been just as successful.
What would you be worth if you died
tomorrow"
For a moment Bill was taken aback.
"Why the crepe, old boy?" he finally
asked. Il never have felt better in
my life. must be good for twenty
years more. guess I'd leave few
thousand dollars. Perhaps not thou
sand after my bills were paid. Just
enough to bury me, | guess. Depress-
ing thought"
mot necessarily depressing" an
swered Tom, and there was (more
credit to him) nothing patronizing mi
. his tone. Men who do not prepare
for the future are usually merely
thoughtless. They often earn more
than the ones who look ahead. Now.
have never in my life earned more
than $1,000 year, and yet, were toi
die tomorrow, | should leave my fan-i
lily So, 400, consisting of house, free
and clear, worth $4,000; $4,000 I'M
life insurance, and securities worth
$1,000. You have enjoyed fine i'm
come, Bill, but are you really going
concern? Will you do as we'll by your
dependents as II"
Bill looked at his friend and an ex-
preston not unlike amusement crossed
his features.
Il shall not do as we'll by my de-.
pendents," he said, but, then, you see,
have no dependents"
Frankly, we hate to quote that last
line, because it spoils our moral if
there were going to be one.
However, there is one striking thing
in what Tom said; one thing we'll
worth thinking about. "Are. you a
going concern?" he said. Well, what
is going concern? 1t is one, as we
understand it, that on its working cap
ital earns comfortable reserve for
emergencies and at least six per cent.
in interest If we regard ourselves as
business concerns, our annual earnings
make up our working capital. How
many of US have six per cent of those
earnings and reserve left over at the
end of the year?-Westerw Electric
NeWs.
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ment and Equally quick. to bestow
upon that achievement its true re.
ward in the way of eager demand.
Despite the pressure brought to
bear by dealers and prospective pur-
chasers it was decided that produc-
.tion would be vigorously limited at
the outset In order to establish and
maintain exceptionally rigid manu-
featuring standards. So that follow
ing the first Ajax Six which came
off the production line late last May
the few early cars were confined to
purchasers resident in the immediate
factory territory.
This policy was pursued so that
Mr.. Nash and his associated Ajax
executives could have the perform
ance of these cars Immediately under
their personal scrutiny. AT the end
OF sixty days it was clear that the
Ajax Six was production PROPOSE
ton, in other words 1t was per-
forming in actual operative condi-
tons in exactly the manner it was
designed to perform and Mr.. Nash
stated that 1t was the first car he
had ever known that did not develop
necessity for some major mechanical
change in the early stages of produc-
ton.
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What Lies Back of
TrOuble-Free Work
OF High Grade Car

the average owner or good auto
mobile whose car, entirely free from
trouble glides smoothly over the
highways, month in and month out,
marvels at it's unfailing depend
ability. unaware, perhaps, of the
elaborate and painstaking system
employed by the manufacturer to in
sure that character of performance.
In no other industry is inspection
more rigid or are safeguards more
firmly adhered to.
No other factor in the entire
schedule of Ajax manufacture is a
more vital part of the production
program than the system of inspec-
tons and tests. 1t is Only by con-
slant insistent and repeated testing
that a manufacturer is in position
to know definitely before motor car
is shipped, that its performance in
the hands of the ultimate owner will
be entirely satisfactory.
Visitors at the Ajax factory fire.
quently express amaZement at the
lengths to which the company has
gone to assure perfect workmanship
and materials. This work begins
with the raw materials which are not
unloaded from the freight cars until
definite tests have shown that they
measure. up to specifications and re-
quireffents in every particular.
Then as each of the numerous opera
tons is performed in the various de-
partments. inspectors must pass on
them. Thus the possibility of trouble
is eliminated at the very outset;
finished units not only are closely in
spected but are thoroughly tested be-
irntA oh r.;
Motors are run on their own power
for hours before they finally are
placed on hoists and swung into
position in the frame; crankshafts,
when finished instead of passing on
Immediately to the motor assembly
department, are checked on a baldnc-
ing device. to assure absolutely bal
ance. Connecting rods and all rec
iprocating parts are tested for per-
feet balance Definite reports are
made and kept on each inspection of
the multitude of operations entailed
in the manufacture, of the car but
even when the Ajax, completely as
Sembled, is run on its own power
there is still one of the most i'm
portant tests of all toSbe made. This
final test the actual performance of
the car under all driving speeds. is
conducted on a track built and main
tanned for that purpose alone. This
track lies Just outside of thesfinal as
sembly and the cars as they come off
the line are filled with gasoline and
turned over to drivers long trained
in motor car construction and thor
oughly familiar with performance.
When the car. in actual perform
ances measures up to standard il
-. g
the loading dock and tagged for ship
rnnnf
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Ajax Sales Set
New Record

Quick public acceptance of the
Nash built Ajax Six. which has beer
so pronounced as to make necessar'
installation of machinery for thu
doubling of factory production, ha'
been one of the interesting high
lights of the motor car industry dur
ing the past season. Although the
Ajax Six was announced only last
May. 1000 cars were in the hands of
owners by Dec. Is and throughout the
summer and fall months the demand
left the Ajax factory in oversold con-
dition.
In designing the Ajax C. w. Nash
placed behind it his utmost effort and
brought to bear all the advantages
that naturally are a part Of an insti-
tuition as vast as The Nash Motors
Company. The public was quick to
perceive the greatness of his achieve