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Imperial Valley press., 1927-01-03
Looking Backward
What the Press files tell Of I'm
perial Valley for this date
in past years
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
January 8, 1912
Miss Beuhal Ely has returned

the red pepper instead of Boppy's $
nose! Ha! Hal SO the little
wooden man was happy as he rolled
back to his bungalow, the red pep
per not having harmed him at all,
except to make his sneezc. And if
the feather duster viii put op a
false face so it looks like the broom
when it goes to the movies with
the dust pan, II tell you next about
Uncle Wiggily and inns pie.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-01-03

Fresno county has bought l25,000
barrels of road oil for 90 cents u
barrel.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-01-03

Banning after holiday visit with
her aunt, Mrs. Harvey Hastain in
Water District No. s.
Mr.. and Mrs. George /, Melton,
who have been visiting Mrs. Mel
ton 8 sister in Los Angeles for the
past two weeks, returned to Ell Cen
tro this morning.
Brawley young people who have
returned to their school work at
Los Angeles after the holidays are
Misses Ellal and Martha Malan,
viii Malan and Earl Lee. They are
students at the University of South.
ern California.
TEN YEARS AGO
January 5, 1917
A marriage license was issued to
day to Wheeler Simons Baker, aged
25, n resident of FL Centre, and Miss
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-22

And still some brides from honey
moons
Return to this good old town,
And although hubby IL unable to
settle up
They prepare to settle down.
KATYDID.
F. Dipping is a Chicago baker
who specializes in doughnuts.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-22
REAL TY BOARD.
ON VA. TOUR

More than 100 members Of the
Washington Real Estate Board par
ticipated in know Northern Vir.
ginia" tour Thursday as guests Of
the Alexandria Arlington Fairfax
Real Estate Board and the Arlington
County Chamber of Commerce. The
tour was followed by a dinner at the
Washington Golf and Country Club.
The route of the tour included
representative sections of Arlington
county, the city of Alexandria and
parts of Fairfax county. Particular
emphasis in planning the route was
laid on the Virginia sections Of
Greater. Washington, which reveal
the rapidity OF extension of sub
urban development from Washington
westward and southwark. At a point
just south Of Falls Church. in Fair
fax county. the motorcade halted at
the point where the projected Lee
Boulevard is planned to extend west
ward and an airplane picture of the
was made.
K. A. Brumback, chairman of the
special committee in charge OF the
event, presided AT the dinner follow.
ing the tour. Following an invoca
ton by Percy S. Foster. of Washing
ton, an address of welcome to the
visiting realtors was made by C. r.
Ahalt. president of the Arlington
County Chamber of Commerce.
James p. Schick, secretary of the
Washington Board. responded with
the assertion that the northern Vir-
giuia area represented by the hosts
of the evening was really a part of
Washington. The speaker
stressed the desirabilitv of action to
@iean up the southern approaches to
Washing IN.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-22
brake Hotel, Chicago. November II,

Drake Hotel, Chicago. November II,
Is and 10.
The executive committee of the
realtor secretaries division. which
was to have met Monday. October 81,
win meet instead on Thursday, Mo-
'vember II, Perry o. Powell. of Mil
waukee, chairman, announces. The
meeting will be held in the Drake
Hotel. Chicago, Immediately proceed
ing the general sscretarles' confer.
ence.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-22
ngARD. egggn
NaO1Ssp-9 81 BILL PRICE e. - 81 IN
TEN YEARS AFTER

! LN LIMO HT Liz
LEST we forget" Abe statesman aald
"Across the skleA 70 years have sped
Since We declared = glorious war;"
Ten years have sped. There VIII be
moro
Ere we forget who felt the OOxe
OF Flanders mud beneath our shoes;
Who watched with screaming nerves
drawn tight
The flaming horrors through the
night;
Who knelt beside those silent men
Whom life will never see again.
How many times our hearts have
cried
We were not with them when they
died!
II IL no pleasant thing to feel
The soaring shock when bone meets
steel,
Nor see white breasts, all crimson
stained,
Upon n field where death has PaIned.
These memories are with rs yet.
The statesman said, "Do not forget
The glory Of our greatest war;"
o ChrIst. what n glory for?
kelvin OGILVIE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-22
HAS
WATER TOWER

Z Members of the Washington Sub.
urban Sanitary Commission have
selected as a site for the erection
of giant water tower, which viii
serve Capitol Heights and College
Park area, a summit in Cheverly
properties, Washington's Suburb
Beautiful" This site was selected
as it IS the highest point in the
entire area and so best suited to
the purpose. The water tank will
be of a million gallons capacity and
is designed to increase the water
pressure nthe area indicated. Con-
struetion will begin in the very
near future, as the increasing num-
her OF homes being erected in
this section makes imperative the
provision for adequate water sup
ply.
In the suburb of Cheverly alone
more than a score of homes have
just heen completed, while several
others are In various stages of con-
struction and will be. completed by
their owners as soon as possible.
Two of the most beautiful homes.
dts wen as the most mOQefn ana
convenient to be completed are
those erected by Frank l.. Fen.
ming of Washington. The houses,
Spanish in design, are located in
lie Blond Avenue, the main boule-
ward of the development, and they
command beautiful view OF Wash
ington, the National Capitol and
Washington Monument from the
windows of their upper rooms.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-22

Protection against such conditions
IN Woodley Park is absolute. Sur
rounded By public park property and
the grounds of great estates, Wood
ley Park, only Is minutes from mid
town, Is the city's outstanding er-
ample OF a residential district pro-
tected against cheapening encroach-
me'tts.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-22
IN THE HEADLINES
This Is worse than rats IN the
Treasury Department:
STATE DEPARTMENT
| ATTACKED BY CLASS

Now 4Ce know whO's been re-.
spOnsible for all the static:
Henry A. Bellows Quits
u. S. Radio Commission
Does DR.. Abermethy and the
Citizens League Agin LicEer
knOt0 about this:
Drunk With Religion
Is Charge Against 10
GENE BLOSSOM
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-22
Realty Secretaries in
National Session in Nov.

4 national conference Of secre.
taries Of its member real estate
boards in various cities Of the coun.
sry has been called by the National
association of Real Estnte Boards.
Inc conference will be neld at the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-22

A Vermont old maid. If3
years of age, says she has
lived that long because she
remained single. Men shorten
Uomen's lives, she auers.
Great gosh, hoW some sUomen
Lore to hare their lives
shortened! AUNT DEDA.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-22
A MIxTURE or MIRTH

A big man in Lqw enforce
ment is Mandatory.
Mrs. Jones took m a terrible
fit of Jealousy When her hus-
band said that he had taken
Ethyl Gasoline in his car.
Dumb Dora thinks that DC.
Radicals groW in the Botanic
Gardens.
Heard and Seen-A column
qChere person Nth the Write
idea seldom gets left.
q, Hercules.
You limburEer cheese,
You musta known your onions
when quite HnOrthOdOx
Yen grabbed Earth by its socks
And moved II out Of lts trunniOns.
sILICus.
She-Who is that felIow?
He-He's a butcher.
She-I thought so. He has
eNch kttttng rays.
CHEROKEE.
THE JOY OF LIVING
whats lIfe?" asks the sage.
"YOuth. followed by age"
"What's the emotion LOve?"
Something mysterious from above"
whats disappointment and grief?
cas- welcome ~ the midnight thief"
Poverty. Distress worry and want,
A SpecteF always haunting and gannt."
Whence We came who can tell?
Lingering between Heaven and Hell.
Trials and troubles come to all
UntIl we answer the final call,
But one thing sure everyone knows.
Some day we've got to turn up our
toes. OLD SOCKS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-22

The best that can he had In homes,
In offered to readers in '.TOday's Best
Home Buys" Investigate now, and
realize Home Ownership.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-10-22

The best people lived here and that seemed suf.
ficient. But the town stretched itself and
became city, proud properties not soundly pro-
tected by sensible restrictions to careless
ownerships. Stripped of beauty, broken in value,
the neighborhood has sunk into commonness and
obscurity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29

The stability of business made the 1867 fiscal OF
the most advantageous business periods ever known
Price levels lower but seadnes of demand and lack
of unexpected fluctuations in quotations permitted main
tenance of profit margins.
Employment high level of wages almost universal
and buying power extraordinarily high.
Actual building construction still is at rate involving over
$6OO0O0OOO0 annually
Money was easy and in the last months the public has
absorbed over So 50OOOOOOO worth of financing.
There is $6OO0O00 in money i'll the United States
the of the country outside credit and currency
total over $370OOOOOOOOO
1t was an electrical year and the electric industry OF
the main supports of business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29
abtyof Business Feature FHsta Yearof
High Lights of First Half Year i'm Business World
BY J. c. ROYLE.

The railroads huge volume of freight and passenger
traffic was of record proportions
Retail trade did better than in the previous fiscal year.
Textiles the automobile business and apparel spotty
Coal oil and the nonferrous metals suffered from overpro
duction.
The British coal strike the American soft coal strike the
political disturbances in China and Europe and the Mssls-
sipp floods were unfavorabe factors.
The outlook is for agricultural situation which will yield
farmers as much cash last year. for heavy industrial
activity large employment at high wages, undimnished
buying power easy money, slight drops in building and
steel and automobile manufacture and an Improvement IN
textiles during the remainder of 1927.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29
SHIPPING MUCH PIPE.

NEW YORK. June'29 R,.-Youngs'
town Sheet & Tube Co. is shipping
20.inch pipe for gas line from
Amarillo, Tex. to Wichita, Kans. The
contract for about 800 miles Of line
was shared by National Tube Co. and
Republic Iron & Steel. Sheet plant
operations will be lower next week
and mills generally will be shut down
on Independence day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-29
PRICES ON PARIS BOURsE.

PARIS, June 20 ND.-Prices were
heavy on the Bourse today. Three per
cent rentes, 81 francs 65 confines; ex.
change on London, 124 francs 2 CEN
times; per cent loan, rs francs 10
centimes. The dollar was quoted at
rs francs o2A centimeS
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-25

Whether you will or not you are be-
coming Interested"
Concerning tax burdens, Mr.. Tray
Tor was mot optimistic enough 70
hope for any marked change in the
immediate future" but he said he
was not greatly alarmed about the
matter, "since our largest tax pay
ers are likewise our largest bond
buyers"
Reformers
Turning to reformers, he thought
the ''the leaven of the loaf, the
salt Of the earth who save our body
polite from deterioration" even
though their experiments sometimes
were merely stupid, many times
just ludicrous and nearly always
selfish. And yet, he said, 1--WE seem
to be doing fairly well and it seems
70 me that we may reasonably ex-
pect a continuance of things as they
are for sometime to come"
Pointing 70 the future, he said
that his hope is that we may be rich
without forgetting to be righteous:
that We may have leisure without
license; that we may be powerful
without being extensively proud:
that we may be nationally minded
without being narrow-minded and
finally, that we may live in a world
Of fact without surrendering our
faith"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-25
FLOOD WORKS
TO OVETAIl
Plans For Joining Two
Systems Being Dis
cussed Now

Complete plans for . joining the
Cameron and Hidalgo county flood
control systems are expected to be
worked out and reported by a COM
mittee Of five engineers al a joint
meeting of the Cameron and Hidalgo
county commissioners courts which
viii be held in two or three weeks.
The committee Of engineers ap-
pointed to work out the plans and
make the report to the commissioner
courts consists Of B. r. Williams,
head of the state reclamation serv-
ice, Pat S. Devine. Of Pharr. Hidalgo
county engineer, W. o. Washington
Of Brownsville, Cameron county en-
gineer, and W. +. Shaw of Mer-
cedes and w. K. Anderson Of San
Benito, who have been retained as
consulting engineers by Hidalgo and
cameron counties, respectively, in
the flood control work.
IL Is understood that four tenta-
\ routes for the north floodway
are being considered, including the
original route along the Hidalgo-
cameron county line from Mile IL
on the Mercedes system north to the
northern end of the Cantu tract.
another suggested route would carry
the floodway almost due north from
Mercedes to Mile IS, and another
would carry the channel diagonally
from a point a few miles north Of
Mercedes TO the Hidalgo-Cameron
county line near Mile Is.
All phases Of the various routes
are being considered by the en-
gineers, and it is believed the re-
port viii definitely fix the route for
connecting the two systems.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-25
NAVY day TO
Be OBSERVED
Speakers From Harl-
ingen, Brownsville
Are Listed

Both Brownsville and Harrington
will participate in Navy Day observ-
ance, October 81, according to B. L.
Jarvis, officer in charge of the L. S.
Naval Radio station at Fort Brown.
The American Legion posts in both
cities have asked business concerns
to display the flag from 8 a. N. until
sunset on that day.
A program will be broadcast from
Station KING Of the Harlingen
Music company, Harlingen, starting
at z p. m, and with music furnished
by the Twelfth Cavalry band Of Fort
Brown, and the Harlingen Firemen's
band.
Included on the program are talks
by Rev. j. Stewart Pierce, Harlin-
gen, on The Navy in National
Emergency" A. l.. Lewis, Harlin-
gen; S. c. Tucker, Brownsville, on
shipping, Both Foreign and Coast
wise and Particularly as it Affects
the State of Texas; III. b. Galbraith,
Brownsville. Traditions and Back
ground of the Navy.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-25
Sour Stomach
Phillips Milk Of Magnesia"
Better than Soda

Ina-ead Of soda hereafter take n
little -Phillips Milk Of Magnesia"
in water any time for indigestion or
sour, acid, gassy stomach, and relief
will come instantly.
For fifty years genuine Phillips
Milk Of Magnesia" has been pre-
seribed By physicians because il
overcomes three times as much acid
in the stomach as a saturated solu-
ton Of biearbonate Of soda. leaving
the stomach sweet and free from all
gases. II neutralires acid fermenta-
tions in the bowels and gently z
the souring vast from the system
without purging. Besides, il il more
pleasant 10 take than soda. Insist
upon Phillips" twenty-five cent
and fifty-cent BEETLES. any drugstore.
Mix Of Magresia" has been the
U. 5. Registered Trade Mark of The
Charles II. Phillips Chemical Co, and
its predecessor Charles III. Phillips
since 1875. -AdvertisenenL l32.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-25
Plea for Tolerance
Made by President
AT Bank Convention

HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 25.-tPE
Confident that American bankers
have the enduring machinery 70 be-
come the intelligent custodians Of
the worlds credit supply, but warn
ing against inexpert tinkering with
il, President Melvin A. Traylor, of
Chicago, switching TO idealism, told
more than 5000 OF the nations bank
ers at the fifty-third annual cor
~vention of the American Bankers
Association mere today that perhaps
what the country most needed sin
dividually and as a people, is a gem
uine revival of tolerance, a fresh
baptism Of faith-tolerance for the
views and acts of other-a belief in
something beyond ourselves ana
faith in the destiny Of life.
If we have these" he said, ait
will not matter what our lives are
for we can live them finely"
Dawes Plan
Among a wide range of subjects,
the president Of the association dis
cussed the Dawes plan. which he
said most bankers in the beginning
thought would fail but who sub
s%equently had witnessed vast sums
uNAuk HO4AGn lnA0 htAllaUl lUl-
eign investments, which had become
the concern Of every man, bankers
and investor alike, whether il pleased
them or not: relief for the farmer,
the way 70 which had not yet ap-
peared; the federal reserve act,
which had been criticized, but which
should not be fundamentally changed
and which probably needed smoother
administration and may be strength
ening; reformers, at whom he aimed
a good natuFed shaft, and taxes,
about which he was not alarmed.
Concerning measures for farm re-
lief, Mr.. Traylor asserted that Jus
tice demands more for those who
produce without increased burdens
on those who consume" but the only
bit Of his own views on a solution
came in the statement that "our
next peacetime national hero may
well come from the ranks Of those
who are now ~devoting their time to.
a study of our complex and rapidly
changing systems of transportation
and distribution. especially IS APP
piled to our food SUPPLY
Discusses Capital
Mr.. Traylor held the close atten-
ton OF the bankers in discussing
Americas approximate twelve bill
lion dollar private capital investment
in foreign counties. Many bankers,
he said. dismiss the subject with the
thought that they neither originate
not participate in foreign loans ana
that il is Wall streets problem.
Let me remind you, however, he
said, shat il is daily brought to the
doorstep of every banker and every
investor in the country" through the
domestic sale Of these securities ito
your depositors who are paying for
them with deposits from your bank.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-25

20 county, was in Brownsville Mon
day visiting the city and vicinity.
Robert Snow, Raymondville, John
Coffee OF Point Isabel and Mr.. Jones
are the three men patrolling Willacy,
Hidalgo, and Cameron counties in
the capacity Of game commissioners.
Jones remarks upon the hundreds
Of ducks and geese seen on the flats
between Brownsville and Boca Chica.
He also reminds the hunters plan
ming 70 so to Willacy county for
that they must have a hunting Ii
cense. These are on sale at all hard
ware and ammunition stores. he says
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-25
BANKER SAYS
BUSINESS TO
AIDFARMER
Cooperative Moves
Discussed at Gener-
all Gathering in La
Feria Monday Night
Especial 70 The Herald

AE EIAAU
La FERIA, Oct. 25-The bps;ness
interests of the Lower Rio Grande
valley are vitality interested in the
cooperative movement among the
eai4ey farmers, was the assurance
gwen by Bailey Dunlap, v-ice-presi-
gent OF the First National Bank or
Ia reria, at the farmers community
meeting here Monday night. Mr..
punlsp stated that the bank is solid
~ behind the movement and that he
Is iuliy cognizant of the importance
u cooperation in successful and
profitable agriculture.
Inc meeting which was sponsored
ny n La Feria Booster club and
me La keria unit Of the Rio Granae
salley Vegetable Growers associa-
ton, was attended by farmers and
business men from La Feria, Santa
Rosa, Stuart Place, Mercedes, Rio
aondo, H~arlingen. Santa Maria and
brownsville. approximately 500 per-
sons were present, the large audi
forum of the high school being
well filled.
Band Plays
A band, led by Joseph Liday of
nariingen, and composed Of mu-
sleians from Harrington, Santa Rosa
n La Feria, played several num-
pers 70 open the program. Jamie
heron, manager Of the Valley Fair,
spoke on the fair and cooperation,
asserting that the fair is one Of the
greatest cooperative movements ever
lnaugurated in the Valley. He laud-
ed the efforts of the leaders in the
cooperative movement which led to
IIG ~RTnfvEfan IF III vawa4uITa
growers association, and urged the
farmers 10 give it staunch support.
Miller Harwood of Harrington dis
eussed the cooperative movement
and asserted that cooperation is
the only solution of the marketing
problems Of the Valley He
stated that the competitive practices,
which have been the vogue in for
mer years, have proved ineffective
IN providing a profit for production
n that 1T Il essential that the
growers elm innate competition
among themselves.
Il. l. Hail, Valley representative
OF the California Vegetable union,
marketing agency for the Lower Rio
Grande Valley Vegetable exchange,
stated that his organization is pre-
pared to give the Valley growers
the best service possible. He out
lined market conditions prevailing in
the North and East, and stated that
the early fall vegetables had come
in competition with the homegrown
products of those sections.
Discusses Freight
lie discussed the freight rate CUES
ton briefly, and gave the assurance
that the California Vegetable union
will aid the Valley growers in the
effort to secure lower rates on veg
etables and fruit. and that the mat
ter OF rate reduction will be taken
before the Interstate Commerce
Commission at the earliest possible
date.
Other speakers included F. o.
Fleureit. secretary of the exchange,
and Bailey Dunlap. La Feria banker.
This was n of the largest gath
erings of farmers in the Valley in
recent months. and all present
showed great interest in the coop
erative subjects discussed. A num-
Der of the farmers joined the La
Feria unit and will ship their pro-
ducts through the Valley ~organiza-
ton.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-25
Delegates Tentatively
Named for Canal Meet
lspecial to ne aerald.l

. SAN BENITO, Oct. 25.-A tsnta-
tive list Of the local delegates to the
I~ntraeoastal canal convention in Har-
lingen and Brownsville Nov. 7 and
:. has been sent 70 Roy Miller. Cor
pus Christi. executive vice president
Of the association
None Of the delegates has been Of
fieially named as yet, >. +. Bell, sec
rotary Of the Chamber Of Commerce,
stated. The tentative list Is COM
posed of r. s. Robertson, ". r. An
derson. John T. Lomax. George HI.
Winsor. j. Scott Brown. Frank c.
Ludden and James (. Bowie
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-25
Ringgold Troop
Leaves Fl. Brown

Fort Ringgold's visiting polo play
ers and the troop of soldiers ac-
companying them have moved out Of
Brownsville on the return march 10
their home post. The visitors came
here about two weeks ago, bringing
down the ponies for the polo tour
nament between Fort Brown and
Ringgold.
Flfty-two men Of Troop G., in
charge of Capt. J. p. Scott, made the
trip In addition to the players en-
the team. All left Monday on the
return trip.
The polo players came down by
train, but are making the march
back with the remainder of the
troop.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-25
Victim of Attack
Causes Excitement

The body of a man in the middle
Of the highway near the Tourist
Auto Supply station about 8 o'clock
Tuesday morning brought visions of
q bad accident and a hit and run
driver to the minds Of passersby,
until it developed that the man was
suffering from an epileptic attack.
"A large number Of t~own-bound
automobiles stopped to render first
aid, each d~ischarging their quota of
persons until a good-sized crowd rad
~congregated.