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Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29
PAN-AMERICANISM FOR CANADA

There is a chair in the beautiful Pan-American
building in Washington, bearing the of the Do
mnion Of Canada, which Canada has occupied.
Interest in that chair growing since the appointment
of Canadian minister to Washington. 1t is felt
that the chair will be filled.
So far, there has been question of Canadas
eligibility, and Canada has made effort to gain ad
niittance. The Dominion has been regarded
British" country with allegiance to the Old World
rather than the New. Now John Barrett, chairman
of the international Pan-Amercan committee and the
George Washington of Pan-Amercanism, holds that
the only difficulty in the way of Canadian entrance has
been removed. Separate Canadian diplomatic repre-
sentatlon at Washington, he says, proves Canada
genuinely sef-governing American democracy, prop
ery belonging with the other democracies constituting
the All-Ar1erican Union.
Canada is by excited about the matter, but
there to be good chnce of her coming in, with
perhaps some sort of mild reservation" reminding
her American associates of her continued loyalty to
the British Empire in eXtra-American matters
That would be excellent thing for Pan-American-
ism, which is not in flourishing condition as it
was few years ago. Canada would add to the pres
tige of the Union and share its burdens. Latin
Americans might be little easier to deal with. A
solid front would give this hemisphere influence
in Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29
Out Of the bushes popped
the Bob Cat.

her tippy tip toes 10 where Uncle
Wiggiiy, whom she called "Dadd;-
Gums, sat IN his easy chair. doz-
ing before the blazing fire Of logs
on the hearth.
300! - called Baby Buntv in
the rabbits ear.
= I m coming. I'll be right down
to breakfast, my dear.' answered
Mr., Longears, jumping up and rub
bing his eyes. For he had fallen
asleep and thought his wife was
calling him to breakfast.
Ha. Hal laughed Baby Bunty.
Ha. Ha! chuckled Uncle Wig
gily himself, and then Baby Bunty
knew it would be all right to ask
him the favor.
Win YOU take us adventuring g"
she begged.
Why of course ! will an
swered Mr.. Longears.
y little later there was quite a
procession of rabbits marching over
the hill, across the fields and toward
the woods. Many sharp little ewes
looked for an adventure, for that
was what Uncle Wiggily had come
IN search of-an adventure,
II see one!' suddenly cried jim
gle, who was walking with her sis
ter .Janglc.
Where'' asked Uncle Wiggilv.
cover by that old stump" an
swered Jingle. II s u tail wag-
ging adventure. Oh, hope il ism +
one OF TIE bad chaps"
But II wasn't even an adventure
for il vas only 4 brown oak leaf
blowing in the wind, and Uncle Wig,
giiy laughed when he saw it.
We shall have 70 hunt farther
for an adventure, he said. And i
little while after that. all OF
quickness, Baby Buntv gave a shout
and said:
''Oh, look what I've tound--a lot
Of stickery balls. She was be-
meath big tree and on the ground
were number Of balls, with long
stems. Each ball had a number of
spikes or sharp stickers on it, like
the burr Of 4 horse chestnut before
it opens TO let the brown nut pop
out. Only these brown stickers
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29
TEN YEARS AGO
December %. 1916

y equal to TIE loaded cigar story
whic,. told Of the accident occur
ring to John y. Bennett Of Brawlev
who WIS injured u fCw days ago
wLer = "'oaded cigar received
through the mails exploded as he
lighted il, developed today. A ci-
gar of the same type was received
by j. o. Burls of Los Angeles. who
being suspicious, turned il over to
the postal authorities. When open
I'd the cigar was found to contain
a cap and n quantity Of gunpowder,
so placed that it would explode al
most between the lips of the smok-
er. Bennett states that he does
not know Burns, and knows of no
reason why they should both be on
the malicious sender's Christmas
list.
Miss Gallo Mccormick entertain
ed at her home on Olive street in
honor OF Miss Helen McWhorter OF
Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29

, were not so large as those from the
horse chestnut tree.
They look just like Christmas
tree ornaments, only they aren I
gold or silver or red, green and 9th
er pretty colors,' said Tooter, who
was Scooter 5 brother.
You might call them that, - said
Uncle Wiggily when the children
asked him about the stickery balls.
Z" But these are really the seed pods
from the sweet gum tree. Every
year they fall off the tree like this
If you like You NAV take some of
the stickery balls home and pext
Christmas we can color them. But
be careful not to hurt Yourselves
for the spikes of the brown seed
balls are very sharp
This the little hunnies soon found
out for themselves. But they pick
ed up many of the stickerv balls,
taking as. much care as they could.
And when they were ready to @
home, all of a sudden, out of the
bushes popped the Bob Cat with his
silly little tail.
L suppose YOU know what ]
have come for." growlcd the Bob
Cat to Uncle Wiggily.
81 suppose you mean my cars!'
sighed the rabbit gentleman.
Yes, y snarled the bad chap. Bu.
just then Baby Bunty, very politely
said to the Bob Cat.
"Won't you sit down. on that
flat stump right behind You and rest |
before you nibble Daddi- !
'um 8 ears. And the Bob Cat sat !
down, but all of sudden he sat up ;
very quickly bowling and yowling !
and shouting:
"I'm stuck. Oh, | m stuck, /
must have sat down on a pint
"Oh, no. said Baby Bunty |,
'weetly as the Bob Cat ran away.
: You just sat down on some of the
,tickery balls / put on the stump"
And that s what happened. They
Ill said Baby Bunty was very elev-
IT and l think so myself. And #
he flour sack will give the rubber
'oot 4 bunch OF pansies fer its
III tell you next about
-ncle Wiggily : red cakes.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29

Mrs. I. NJ. Soone ans. sarR. rrarx
@. Boone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pearlie Albertson
motored to Long Beach Thursday,
whore they spent the Christmas
holidays visiting with Mrs. Albert
sons mother and father, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. A. Woodruff, also sister,
Mrs. Alta Niles. Mrs. Charles Don.
ahue accompanied them and spent
Christmas with her daughter at
Santa Barbara and relativea ut
Ventura.
Have Dinner Guests
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Labrucherio
had as their guests Sunday at din.
ner Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Malsburv,
Julian Casmayou, Mr.. and Mrs. ID.
Claverie, and family of Calexico.
Mrs. |. NJ. Boone entertained at
dinner Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
u. Boone and family and Mr.. and
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29
500 MILLIONS IN ONE DAY

On December Is eight nations paid the United
States total of 96 million dollars on war debts, and
u S. citizens paid the government S400 100000
in final nstalments their income taxes That ought
to keep the wolf from the national door for few
more minutes
The foreign payments came from Great Britain,
Czecho-Slovakia, Belgium, Esthonia, Finland Hun
gary Lthuania and Poland. The largest payment
Britains S92, $4,000; the smallest was Hungary's
S39672.9S.
Well it's fine lot of money for inc days receipts.
We hope Uncle Sam will use it wisely
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29
ELM NOTES


ELM, Dec. 29.---..osalea Brown is
here visiting her father. Harry NJ.
Brown, also her brothers, Teddy and
Everett Brown.
Vivian Haskell visited Wednes-
day with Shirley Boone.
Velma Kirk visited Saturday with
Hazel Frost.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Green and
son Jimmie, left Saturday morning
to visit with relatives on the coast
Alice Boone is visiting with her
cousin, Anita Boone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elbert Waddill and
son Leroy motored down from Vie
torville Saturday evening and a'.c
visiting Mrs. Waddill' : sisters
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29
Ault Will Pay
Official Visit
To Elks Lodge

y. L. Ault Of Calcxico. district
deputy grand exalted ruler for
California. south, will pay an offic-
ial visit TO FL Ccntro lodge of Elks
tomorrow night and in his honor
local Elks arc planning to turn ont
in largo numbers. according to ~.
W. Washburn. exalted ruler.
The evenings program will start
with dinner which will be served in
the club dining room at 6:t5. Dinner
will be followed by the regular lodge
meeting at which class of eight
candidates will be initiated
\ delegation of Calexico Elks
will escort the deputy grand cXalt-
cd ruler to this city.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29
Wednesday, December ~, 1s1l

Mrs. Elbert Waddil and son
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Malsbt
here from Santa Barbara 81
the ChristmRs holidays wit
tiyes.
A group Of young folks \
New river on q picnic y
Those enjoying the trip We
Boone, Leroy Waddill, Velm
Rosalea Brown, Hazel an
Frost, Shirley, Melvin and
Boone, Teddy Albertson and /
Cobleigh.
Henry Frost motorcd hon
the mountains to spend Chg
Mr.. and Mrs. O. A. KirN
as their Christmas guests Mr.
mother and father.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29
Looking Backward
What the Press files tell of In
perial Valley for this date
in past years
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
December 29, 1911

f. y. Smith was a visitor from
Riverside.
Mrs. J. F. Steintorf was in town
from Calexieo.
Peter P. Hovley, one of Brawley s
live realty dealers, was a visitor
here today.
The band stand, which has been
located in the rear Of the opera
house, is being moved TO the lot fac
ing the library. It is now being
put in repair and will be used for
i concer. Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29
NEWS IN THE ADS

story is going around Of San Antonio Tex,
newsboy who tried something different in selling
papers. It was on day when the had few frils
and his business was consequently dull. The newse
looked through his papers and found something he
could use-on the advertising pages
"Bargain-b -bargain-bargan he shouted. "All
about the big sale-department store sashes prices
fall dresses at cut rates-buy em cheap"
He got immediate results. Women who didn't have
pennies bought papers with dimes and nckels and
didn't about their change.
The newsie good salesman. And he wasn't
cheating his public. The advertising pages do carry
news of genuine interest large proportion of read
ers. Sometimes the ads tell more significant news
than the columns.
Also it ought to be lot peasanter to hear news
boys shouting about bargains and sales than about
murders and suicides We hope that newsie started
something that others will take up and carry
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29

Money TO Loan on Auto
Sterling Securities Co. Inc,
Cross, Mgr. 600 Main St.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29

The Chinese can't understand why anybody should
walk anywhere if there is any way TO ride Americans
are coming to feel the same way about it.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29

Anyway the more women smoke the better they IN
derstano what to buy their menfolk for presents:
Imperial Valley press., 1926-12-29
SEEK STRANCLER
FOR SAYINGS IN
MISSOURI CITY
Bv United Press Leased Vic

IA NSAS u /, 40, Dec. ~
Belief that stranger may be
responsible for three murders here
in two days was expressed by po-
! lice today following the shaving of
Mrs. Germoinc Harpin, ~, and her
eight months old son, Robert. Bod
les Of the two were found in an un.
used room in their home here last
night.
The body Of Mrs. Bonnie Pace,
%, was fonnd in her homo early
Monday. She had been ehokcd TO
death.
Mrs. IIarrin and her baby had
been stranglcd with rags knotted
tightly around the nccks. Indica-
tions were that the woman had
been beaten into inscnsibility in
the Kitchen Of her home and dragg-
cd to the upstairs room, whore she
and the infant wcir strangled.
On both the Pace and Harpin
houses "rooms for rent signs were
displayed and police believe the
slayer may have gained entrance in
| the same manner rs the stranglcr
/ who murdered several women on
: the Pacific coast fcw weeks ago.
Harpin, a French veteran Of the
/ Worid war, and decorated for bray
cry, could give no clues to the slay-
| crs Of lis wife aud sG1.
suzanne Icnglcn, brilliant Frcneh
/ net star, defeated Mary +. Browne
in straight sets, 90, 81, in the feat
uro attraction of the professional in
door tennis exhibition at the Olym-
! pie auditorium here last night Eight
thousand spectators witnessed the
/ matches.
/ suzanne had littlc trouble di.pos
( ing of Miss Browne bat later paired
with Paul Ferct, counirymau. lost
to Miss Browne and Harvey SnoG-
I grass.
! Vincent richards, formerly one
Of the greatest amateur singles
! players, defeated Snodgrass, 6-4, s.
, in the Qthe! main attrsetion.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
Immense Flood Control
Project Under Way

mission forbade the erection of levees on
international streams such as the Rio
Grande, other means were resortcd to.
A typographical survey revealed the
fact that n natural basin of about $500
acres existed at 4 point four miles south
west of Mission and that lesser natural
channels travcrsed Hidalgo and Cameron
counties and found outlet m arroyos and
bays that, in turn, led 10 the Gulf Of
Mexico. The basin above referred TO
was the first place TO be affected by
floods and the control project has its
inception at this point.
With the money refunded in al va
loren taxes by the state, the county is
purchasing two rfght-Of-ways for control
Of the flood waters. The first or upper
channel leads from the basin below Mis-
son across Hidalgo county to a point
two and onc-half miles southwest of
Mercedes. where a division takes place and
part of the water is diverted north and
east TO the south Of Lyford in Cameron
county and thence into the Gulf. The
other portion flows through Cameron
county and empties into the Arroyo Colo
RADIO. The lower channel finds its incep-
ttion in the Hackney Lake district, about
seven miles due south of McAllen. This
channel will traverse the lower district
aud converge with the upper channel at a
point three and One-half miles south OF
Pharr. When completed there will BIZ
co linear miles of lcvccd channel in Hi
dalgo county involving the moving of ap-
proximately G.OOO.OOO cubic yards ~
dirt.
In pcrfecting the control PROJECT, the
original bed of the natural channel will
not be disturbed. No dredging will bc
Necessary. The entire undertaking is one
Of level erection. The upper channel
ranges from 1900 to 1000 feet in width
and the lower about 1900 feet. Lcvecs
from to II feet high are being erected
at either side of the upper channel and
from TO II # on the lower. The size
Of the channels aud the height of the
lcvces guarantee four-foot lccway of
safety over the highest flood waters ever
recorded on the Rio Grande river. The
lcvees are to measure eight feet across
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-18
4 FLOOD control project that will
~ protect the entire Lower Rio
Grande Valley from the infre.


quent, though devastating, rampages of
the Rio Grando is practically % per
rent completed in Hidalgo county. The
total cost Of the measure will be $1,G20,-
600 and it probably will be another full
II months before the entire operation is
finished. The county authorities have
prevailed on the state government to fl
nance the project through remittance of
the ad valorem state tax for period
Of % years which makes il unnecessary
for the occupants Of the benefited dis
trict to finance any portion of the enter
prise that will insure them from rcpeti-
tion of the enormous losses of 1919 and
1922
The Rio Grande is a tremendous asset
10 the Lower Valley and, due to the ac-
tivitics of irrigation engineers, has gen
orally conducted itself in<A well-discip-
lined manner. But there are times when,
evidently in rpriSal for the continual
drain of its waters for irrigation pur-
poses, it goes on a tear and leaves in
its wake. damage TO the extent of several
million dollars. The loss in irrigation
properties and crops from the flood OF
1922 is estimated at 100000 and the
flood of 1919 only a trifle less than that
figure.
During flood periods, the Rio Grandc.
whose ordinary flow is approximately
$4,000 second feet and whose flood stage
is 10000 second feet, has been known
20 run as high as 10000 second feet
which means approximately 7O.2O0,OO0
gallons of water passing given point
every minute. In other words, there
were 100000 second feet of water more
than the river could carry and the re-
suit was flood of this surplus water
into the lands that border the river. The
banks on the Mexican side are higher
than those on the American which
threw all OF the water onto the highly
fertile irrigated farms in the VALLEY" In
1922 the lands were inundated six and
one-half miles inland from the rivers
normal bank.
Some control measure was necessary
and, as the international boundary com
Evening star., 1926-06-10

Of convalescent blood to make the
serum. suitable reward was offered
to adults suffering from measles In
the contagious wards of all the hos
pitals in New York. Eventually
enough was collected to treat in all
about $500 children.
The most reliable data collected
from these cases show that over so
per cent were completely immune,
around 40 per cent had only mild cases
and in relatively few did mea sles de-
velop in the usual unmitigated form.
None of the children who had been in
jected with the serum suffered any Of
the after complications of pneumonia
or ear trouble that make measles
really dangerous, particularly in very
young children.
Use Limited at Present.
In the light of the difficulty OF OBJ
tanning material and the fact that the
passive immunity conferred by the
serum lasts only from three to six
weeks, its use is limited quite largely
to infants and children who are too
delicate to stand any illness. 1t has
a great field of potential use in check.
ing measles epidemics in institutions.
but for the present the supply of
serum Is inadequate to meet the
demand.
I'VE have in convalescent measles
serum a therapeutic agent which has
great usefulness in limited sphere,
DR.. Freeman said. 1T is not the solu-
tion of the measules problem. but it is
a real step toward cutting down the
mortality from this disease"
Evening star., 1926-06-10
FOLKLORE SOCIETIES
HONOR FOSTER JULY q
"Old Kentucky Home" Will Be
Sung at Exercises Before Au-
thors Statue at Bardstown.

~ the Associated Press.
BARDSTOWN. KY, June 10
American folk lore societies are to
memorialize the man who wrote My
Old Kentucky Home.
On July T. 1926. while a band ont
side the home of Stephen Foster was
playing for the national holiday, the
famous composer was horn. His song
will be PLAYED and sung here around
his statue and shrine, where he wrote
1t. this July T.
Under a storm of protest. a resolu-
tion to adopt song other than MY
Old Kentucky Home" as the official
song Of the commonwealth was de-
feated in the house during the 1925
legisla tive session. The senate had
rassed resolution substituting a
song "kentucky.' composed recently
by Mrs. Leslie Collins of Frankfort.
Foster was visiting Judge John
Rowman here when he composed the
song. to which genius were added
compositions of "Oh. Susanna.
known and loved all over the South:
Hard Times Come Again No More
Laura Lee" Louisiana Belle. :
"Massa's In de Col Col Groun /"
"Nelly Was a Lady. Nellie Bly, Old
Black Joe. Jenny June" and others.
Fosters biogra piers tell sad end
how ''he walked the streets Of New
York in an old glazed cap and shabby
clothing. He would write and com
nose a song In the morning, sell it
in the afternoon and spend the pro-
ceeds in dissipation before night" He
died when 81.
Evening star., 1926-06-10
STAR MEASURING DEVICE
APPLIED TO MICROSCOPE
Interferometer Used to Determine
Size of Particles Too Small to Be
Seen With Ordinary Instrument.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO. Ill. June 10.-The Inter
ferometer. invented by DR.. A. A..
Nicholson. of the University of Chi
cago. and used al the Mount Wilson
Observatory to measure the diameters
Of distant stars, has recently been ap-
piled in Germany to the microscope
for measuring particles too small to
he seen with the ordinary microscope.
The method depends on the fact that
when the light from A very minute
source. either because of its actual
small size. or. AS in the case of the
stars. because of its great distance,
is split into two beams. and recon-
bned. series of light and dark lin
reference" bands results. BY the
measurement of these bands the diam.
eter of the source of light may be
computed.
Prof. Nicholson suggested that the
method could also be applied to the
microscope but. SO far as is known
he work of the German scientist
Z. Gerhardt is the first time that the
suggestion has been carried out. 1t is
stated that by means of the micro
scope interferometer objects half as
small a size as can he seen ordinarily
can be mea sured The smallest par
ticle actually measured was about
1-l25 900 of an inch in diameter, while
theoretically one-half this size could
be mea sured.
Evening star., 1926-06-10

Constipation!
How to Keep
Bowels Regular

TO DR.. W. B. Caldwell Of Monti-
cello. H.. practioing physician for
AZ years. it seemed cruel that SO
many constipated men, women, chill
dren. and particularly old folks, had
to be kept constantly stirred up.
While he knew that constipa tion
was the cause of nearly all head
aches. biliousness, indigestion and
stomach misery, he did not believe
that sickening purge" or "physic"
was necessary.
In D. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin he
discovered laxative which helps 10
esta blish natural bowel Regularity
even for those chronically consti-
pated. Or. Caldwe1l's Syrup Pepsin
not oniv causes a gentle. easy bowel
Evening star., 1926-06-10
BARRIERS Would Add to Their Dignity
By Adopting New Name for Profession

wielder is to be a "chirotonsor" Or
he might be called a "dermatician" or
''latheropodist
I'VE are striving to raise the stand.
ards of the profession and we feel
that a more appropriate name would
help said l.. r. Mcflvain of Chicago.
general organizer of the Associated
Master BARRIERS Of America, who Is at
tending the convention. I'VE consider
our profession just as essential and
Just as much entitled to a background
of dignity as medicine or dentistry
The latest wrinkle In barbering. Mr..
F:wert said, In ambidexterity. whereby
the barber does with both hands what
he formerly could do with onl, one.
Barriers here foresee no loss in pop
ularity OF nobbed hair. Einety.five
per cent OF those who once hob their
hair do not 20 hack to long hair and
the per cent who do change to long
hair come back to bobs. 1t was de-
Clared
Evening star., 1926-06-10
MEASLES SERUM
GIVES IMMUNITY
High Percentage of Absolute
Prevention Is Attained by
New Check to MaIady.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The star
NEW YORK. June 1O.--Another
weapon that may help to ward off the
measles epidemics that sweep over the
country in irresistible waves nearly
every year Is described by DR.. Row
land G. Freeman in a report to the
American Public Health Association
and the American Child Health AssO-
citation.
Since the incidence of measles Is
greater than that of any other infec-
tious disease and 96. to 9S per cent of
those who have not had the disease
contract 1t after exposure. any agent
that promises to hold it in check
comes Immediately into the limelight.
Serum Is Utilized.
The mode Of attack set forth by Dr..
Freeman consists Of injection with a
serum made from the blood Of adult
measles convalescents. This serum
acts as a preventive. This method
was first used in Germany in 1915,
where the percentage of immunity
conferred was found to be as high as
IS per cent. When the New York
Board Of Health began work on the
problem in 1923 1t found that the first
difficulty was to find a sufficient source
Evening star., 1926-06-10
Special Dispatch 10 The Star


CHICAGO. June 10.-Whats In
name? Well, there's barber shop.
1t savors of loafing gent customers In
shirt sleeves and collarless, OF pink
sporting weeklies. chortling dice
box. a barbarous mouth organ recital
by the shoe sinner and conversation
interlarded with strong if not choice
expressions.
That partly explains why the Ill.
nois United Master BARRIERS Assocf-
alton, at it's fifth annual convention
in Aurora, sought a new name which
will fit the barber shop of today.
where half the customers are refined.
bobbed and skirted and where the old
time hanger-on with his chin hristlinE
like an old-fa shioned music box is out
of place, to say the least
"Chirotonsorial parlor" Is one of the
titles which have been scraped up by
ambitious delegates who are on the
ritz racket. The white-coated razor