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Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
THE PHOENIX CONFERENCE

Announcement Of the meeting to be held Thurs
day at Phoenix, between the Arizona and California
commissions the Colorado river, is welcome news.
1t is hoped that this meeting, which is preliminary
to general conference of all the states in the Cuora
do basin will arrive at basis of agreement which
Will result in all the states concerned being in harmony
before Congress is convened in December.
If this is accomplished there is little that can
stop the passage of the Swing Johnson bill at the next
sesSlon-this statement being based the opinion of
leading members of congress, including Senator Ash
urst of Arizona
Both Arizona and California are showing proper
spirit IN their effort to get together this perpexng
problem. Meeting at the conference table will un-
doubtedly do much more good than Congressman
Crails recent suggestion to drop Arizona from the
Union
The meeting Will be closely followed by valley
residents who fully realize its Importance and the sig
nflcance will have in shaping the destiny of this
community.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02

croaked Bawly. "Will You please
come and make Long Legs go away,
Uncle Wiggily?'
on see what l can do to help
vou.' promised the rabbit. Il have
some idea of who this big bird Is,
but | II make sure.
ON the way to the duck pond
where the frog boys lived, Uncle
Wiggily. Bully and Bawly met Mrs.
Hop. the toad lady jumping along
in the grass.
'eOh, Uncle Wiggily!' she eroak
ed when she saw him, Long Legs
has come and IN afraid he II eat
all MY little hop toad children. viii
vou help drive the big bird away
ON do my best promised Mr.
Longears. And when he and the frog
boys and the hop toad lady reached
the edge of the pond they found,
huddled together in quite little
cove, shaded by willow trees, lot
of tiny gold fish.
Long Legs has comet whisper
ed the fish when they saw their
friend Uncle Wiggily. "If we swim
out in the open water he will stab
us with his big beak.'
Just then Bully croakcd.
Look -
Wading in the shallow water Of
the pond, Uncle Wiggily saw a
large bird, with BLUSH feathers,
marked here and there with black,
and wearing a crest of black feath-
ers on his head. The bird had long
legs and long, sharp bill.
"Ah. l know him.' whispered
the rabbit. well is he called Long
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
MODEL BANKING SYSTEM

Banking systems, like prophets sometimes enjoy
more honor in foreign lands than in their country.
American citizens who know little and seem to care
less about the federal bank SYSTEM should be
little stirred by the respect that prominent foreign
bankers feel for it.
Reginald McKenna, head of England's largest
bank, recently proposed that the British banking sys
TEN be reorganized and that our reserve system be
studied with view to adapting it to Britans needs
Since the war, it is reported II countries have
vised their banking systems using the American fed
era reserve as their basic pattern Most of these
minor countries Recently however, Japan has shown
signs of joining their ranks by preparing to adopt
banking system of this type.
Its high degree of fleXibility, wardng off violent
initiation and too speedy deflation is of its par
tcuarly attractive advantages in the eyes of these
foreign banking experts. 1t would be good example
of midsummer patriotism for any citizen who doesn't
know what this is all about to investigate the federal
reserve system little and give the honor it deserves
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02

Legs, but his right name is Blue
Reron.'
"He makes me feel blue, sighed
Mrs. Hop, the toad lady.
And, as they watched, the Blue
Heron darted his beak into the
water and brought up a little green
frog, which he at once swallowed.
"Thcre goes Jimpy Croaker.''
sadly said Bully. % He used to play
with us.
and now Long Legs has him! >
croaked Bawlv. "Oh, dear''
Cant you do something, Uncle
Wiggilv!' whispered a fish,
Just then the Blue Heron again
darted his long beak into the water
after wading along a little farther.
This time he brought up wiggling
fish which went down his throat.
"There goes Tillie Tail, sighed
some of her playmates.
cit will be our turn next,
oroaked Bully. "What can we do to
make Long Legs go away"
1T will not be easy said Uncle
Wiggily. The Blue Heron is fond Of
catching frogs, toads, mice and other
small animals. But perhaps L can
play trick on him! >
"Oh, hope You cam croaked
Bawly. "What kind of a trick 2"
THAT remains to be seem wills
rered the rabbit. IAN of you keep
well hidden from Long Legs until
! think of what | can do to make
him go away
The bunny gentleman began to
think very hard and what happened
| shall tell YOU in the next story,
which will be called Uncle Wiggily
and the funny frog. But, if the
cheese jumps out of the dish of
macaroni and leaves it alone for
TIE gas stove to tickle, | can I
make any story. Though perhaps
that won't happen. Let US hope SO.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell OF In
perial Valley for this Date
La Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
August 9. 1907

c. C. Bowles, Independent candi-
date for sheriff from Brawley, is
canvassing in Imperial.
Mrs. Robert Huston has gone to
the coast for the rest of the sum-
mer.
Chief Engineer Hermann of the
California Development Company
just back from the heading, reports
that the river is falling steadily,
but the situation is not discourag
ing to the expectation of an abun-
dant water supply, though it is i'm
possible to say definitely whether
the river will silt up fast enough
to prevent shortage,
r. H. Ports was down from He
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
Traffic Victims
Fight For Liv

LOS ANGELES,- Aug 2.r-
persons are fighting for life IN
pitais here today from injuries
tanned in traffic accidents.
Mrs. Matilda Martin, mother
law of Nick Hari's, private de
tive suffered a conclusion or
brain and possible internal inJu
in an automobile crash. Harris
said to have been driving the car
which Mrs. Martin was riding.
James Sheridan, 20, suffered
fractured skull and conclusion
the brain when run down by a N
orcyclist. The aged man is sad
have been confused in the traf
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
Crossing Dispute
Wakes Merrily

A lively legal battle is being wag-
cd over an effort on the part of
the Imperial Irrigation District to
| keep open the railroad crossing in
| Calexico, known as the Paulin Ave
nue. crossing, and on the part of the
| Southern Pacific and Inter Califor-
MIA railroads to close the crossing.
Papers filed at the county clerk s
office this morning give both sides
Of the argument.
The district seeks to obtain an
order restraining the railroad COM
pany from closing the crossing. 1t
claims that the people of the county
purchased certain property in Cal
exico to which this crossing is ne
cessity. This land was purchased
from the railroads with the under
standing that the crossing could be
used at all times, it is contended.
The district holds that if the
crossing is closed it will drop the
value of the property to such a
great extent that sale can only be
made to the railroad and that as
seller of the property in question
the defendants have no right to
bring about any relationships with
the property that will decrease it
I in value.
The district holds that at the
. time of the purchase of the proper
ty the Calexico depot was situated
at a point about 1000 feet from the
crossing but when a new depot was
built it was brought to point
within a hundred feet of the cross
ing and the railroads now complain
that the crossing is an interference
due to the fact that the depot is
near at hand and disturbs the road
in carrying on the business neces-
sary about a depot.
! The railroads, however, declare
| that at no time was the district
given any intimation that the cross
| ing would be allowed to be kept
open forever. 1t sets forth the
wording of certain signs which it
has posted at the crossing. declar-
ing the property to be private and
that the crossing is held open only
as convenience and that the priv
ilege might be revoked at any time.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
Der yesterday.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
August 2, 1912

Mrs. George D. Armstead will
leave soon for month s rest by
the seaside.
A. j. Leonard of Holtville left
today for Inglewood, where his
wife went about a month ago. Mr..
Leonard will stop at Redlands a
few days and will be back to the
valley about September 10.
j. E. Conner of Los Angeles has
taken charge of the Western Union
office.
James Norton of the Holton Pow
er audit department is home from
his vacation ON the coast.
Frederic Rhodes has severed his
connection with the San Diego coun-
ty highway commission as engineer
and road builder and has entered
the employ of the chamber of com
meree as builder of a road between
Mountain Springs and Coyote Wells.
He has thus taken up task which
no one had the courage to face. 1t
takes over the worst part of the
road between San Diego and I'm
perial county.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
Mine Explosion
Mine Explosion

TOKYO, Aug. 2,-Thirty eight
men were killed when three mines
exploded on the middeek of the
mine layer Tokiwa during maneu-
vers in the Bunpo Channel, latest
reports showed today.
First adviees at the time of the
explosion yesterday said five of
ficers had been killed. Subsequent
reports listed Is petty officers and
Is men on the death roll. In addit.
ion ~ were wounded.
The mine layer was returning 10
its base at Sasebo.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
Changes Mind in
Liquor Case

Anton Item of Holtville, who yes
terday morning entered plea of
not guilty to a charge of unlawful
possession of Intoxicating liquor
and demanded a jury trial, changed
his plea to one of guilty yesterday
afternoon and was sentenced to pay
fine of S200.or spend 100 days in
the county Jail. He paid the fine,
Item was represented by Attorney
Ernest Utley when he appeared yes
terday morning and through counsel
asked that he be given jury trial
The case was set down for hearing
on August Q before Judge Smyser.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD E. CARTS
Copyright, 1897, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY AND LONG
LEGS


Bully No Tail, the green frog
boy, hoped up the front steps of
Uncle Wiggily's hollow stump
bungalow so fast, one morning that
he bumped his nose against the
door.
"Ger ump err OWL croaked Bully.
"What S the matter'' asked the
rabbit gentleman, who was just get.
ting ready to go adventuring.
"What is your hurry, Bully''
ooh, Uncle Wiggily!'' gasped the
frog boy shaking few drops of
water off his left hind leg for he
had come from the duck pond in j
rush. ooh, Uncle Wiggily, some
thing dreadful has happened. Long
Legs has come and is going te
catch all of us!'
''Long Legsl' exclaimed the
bunny gentleman.
!" Yes, Long Legs!' eroaked Baw-
ly, who was Bully's green brother,
and Bawly came hopping along in
as much of a hurry as Bully had
been. II saw him-he nearly stab
bed me with his sharp beak! Oh,
it $ terrible. = cried Bawlv.
''What is it all about 80 asked
the bunny uncle, for he could see
that the frog boys We're much ex-
cited. "Who is Long Legs"
'He is big bird, with blue
feathers, a long sharp beak and
Icing legs!" eroaked j. Bully. Long
Legs wades in our rs,nd and when
ever he sees my brother or me he
tries to grab us in his beak and eat
us. 1t was only by diving and swim
ring fast that L got away from
him.
"That S what happened TO me! -
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
TEN YEARS AGO
August 9. 1917

Ross Whsle, one of the Battery
ID boys from Ell Centre, returned on
leave of absence yesterday from
San Diego. He speaks highly of
the way the Imperial valley boys
have been treated in San Diego.
Chief Engineer c.. K. Clarke is
today acting as general manager of
the Imperial Irrigation district.
The resignation of Business Mana
ger,C. E. Paris took effect yester-
day..
Mrs. Florence Langtry, deputy in
the office of County Assessor Will
ey Weaver left last night for Los
Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
THREE sMUGGLERs DROWNED

WASHINGTON, Aug. Her
bert Early Wilson of Marshfield,
Ore, fireman third class on the L.
s. S. Asheville in Chinese waters,
was lost overheard yesterday, ac.
eording to navy department adviccs
today. ' .t'
Wilson S father, b. NJ. Wilson,
lives at l1i6 Front St, Marshfield.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
SPIRIT BROADCASTING

they had their chance recently. A radio station
New York opened to them without charge, restrc-
ton reservation. Any spirit with message for the
world welcome in and put it the air.
The doors closed and locked to keep out the iv
ing, who might NEEDLE Spirits, everyone knows,
do not need doors; they pass through the walls
The results appear to have been negligible. If any
authentic message sent to those who tuned in it
has not received general publicity.
Possibly radio patrons are not qualified to Judge
of such matters. They may have difficulty,
kindly suggests, distinguishing between spirit
messages and static Or possibly the spirits to
utilize such mechanical means OF communication.
1t is little disappointing, though, to imaginative
folk who have looked to radio opening world
of adventure and research full of romantic possbi-
ties. Some will still insist that the spirits actually
make use OF broadcastng stations and responsible
for many freaksh things coming through the ether
which are not otherwise explained.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
SMUGGLERS REPORTED DROWN


KEY WEST, Fla, Aug. 2.-Three
men were drowned in the Gulf of
Mexico when a smuggling launch
caught fire, the captain of the craft
told police from his Jail cell here
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02
THE WEATHER

oIuM pSsu"T ssSJd pslu ~ ~
LOS ANGELES AND NlClNlI
Fair tonight and Wednesday W
moderate temperature; proba
cloudy or foggv in the morning.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Fair tonight and Wednesday W
fog near coast; moderate temper
ores; moderately high fire haz
in the interior.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02

If there's anything wrong with American busl-
ness maybe it's the amount OF attention the hard
working business man gives to perfectng his golf
stroke.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-02

NUICK QUAKER, savory and
" delicious, takes less time to pre-
pare than plain toast. Thus provides
a hot and nourishing breakfast in a
hurry.
That is how every day should be
started.
Started with the ideal food balance
of protein, carbohydrates and vita
mines-plus the bulk to make laxa-
tives less often needcd-that leading
dietary authorities now so widely urge.
Start your days and your children'5
in that way. No need now, simply TO
save time, TO deny them the supreme
strength food OF the world.
Your grocer has Quick Quaker
also Quaker Oats as you have always
known them.
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W.C.T.U. COLUMN /
Conducted by the Publicity
Dept. of the Local Chapter
MEDICAL SOCIETY SCORES
ALCOHOL,

ssThe use of alcohol whether In
fermented, malt or distilled liquors
is the bottom cause Of degeneracy
of body and mind and morals, the
progenitor of evil, crime and dis
ease, the great enemy that medical
science must meet and conquer,
declares a resolution UNANIMOUSLY
adopted by the medical society OF
Kansas City, Mo.
People who listen to the wet
talk Of today have long since come
to the conclusion that many more
people are dying from alcoholism
today than was the case in the old
days of the legalized saloon. Pro-
fessor Irving Fisher of Yale Uni
versity is responsible for the state
ment that in the old saloon days
so people to every million of the
population died from alcoholic poi
soning, but under prohibition the
average is about two per million.
What difference between what
nthey" say on the one hand, and
the facts in the case on the other!
What the boon prohibition has
been to American babies is the
greatest and most outstanding a.
chievement of the whole reform.
The child has never had a greater
enemy than beverage alcohol. 1t
has slaughtered them by the UNI
countable thousands. Those who
today are trying to rehabilitate
the personal liberty" defense Of
the liquor traffic should remem-
Der that you can't restore this traf-
fic without walking roughshod ov-
er the sacred rights of childhood.
DR.. Isaac D. Rawlings, health
director of the state of Illinois,
says that, "since the Volstead law
went into effect five thousand few
Ter babies have died in the state Of
Illinois each year. Where once the
beer bottle reigned supreme the
milkman now makes his daily
rounds leaving the most perfect
food"
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A PLEA FOR PERSONAL
IIRE,RTY

From time to time, and so FREE
quently as to be almost continue
Gus, there are outcries from the
wet propagandists, which include
most of the larger daily papers OF
the country, against prohibition as
an unwarranted curtailment OF
personal liberty. Their idea ap-
pears to be that there are only two
classes of people whose liberties
should be sacred: those who want
to drink and those who want to
make money out of drink.
The people Of the United States
discovered through long and severe
experience that the indulgence OF
these two minority groups sadly
interfered with the personal liber-
ty of everybody else, and even with
that of every individual but the
one. among the drinkers and pur-
veyors themselves. There were
multitudes Of children denied the
liberty of respectable clothing,
wholesome food and school attend
ance. There were wives by the
thousands deprived of the liberty
Of peace, comfort and the pursuit
of happiness.
The wholesale sacrifice of liber-
ty did not stop with the immedi-
ate families of those who were a.
busing their liberty. The penalties
were SO widely distributed that no
one escaped. Everybody was COM
PEELED to help take care of the
perennial crop of criminals and
paupers which drink produced
no personal liberty for the tax
payer. just as inexorably every
body had to pay something addi-
tional on every item of service or
of goods which he purchased, to
! compensate for the certain failure
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-07-14
EVERYDAY PHILOSOPHY

CUNSET magazine poses the question: "Are you law
~ breaker? OF you ae How could hope to obey
all the laws passed by city, state and your national
congress? IF you should employ the most able lawyer in the
land to guide you he could not read fast enough keep
formed as to the new legislation and multiplicity of court
decisions Since can't hope what all the
Jaws it follows that must violate many of Them says
the magazine.
Charles Alexander editor of the Albany, Oregon Dem
ocrat poe novelist critic literary editor says the truth IS
quite as has stated it, have reached state OF
mind where we must by the terms of necessity our own
discretion be judges of what proper and what
is wrong The that thing is law no longer mpresses
"The man who drink and get it, says the
azne "eels no moral restraint Tell him that he is law
breaker he will laugh and cite instances to that
you too are lawbreaker This is Indictment hard to
Cape says philosopher Alexander 1t is true indictment
one which enters alone the idle pomposty OF Amer
lean in trivial matters but also the official lack OF rec
ogntion fundamental tendencies in the individual which
makes his decent treatment of his fellow citizen
Hear him further: Take the traffic law forty miles
an hour needed make the hill right ahead high gear
and the way and safe percent OF drivers
will speed forty miles 1t is matter of their own
Judgment regard fundamentals is the greatest atr
butte of any fundamentally people, the enforcement Of
laws that are passed the effective they will become
Truth is the middle ground the nomans land where 50
few men Law good Too little law is bad Too
much law bad sensible amount of law is just right In
America we altogether too much law and Illustrations
cited merely examples of what obtains in dozen other
departments of daily endeavor
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-07-14

ing territory. State experts and
farmers have tried >burning over
land held by the mustard but there
always. is left enough seed in the
ground to start a new crop. The
weed pest, which differs from the
Puget Sound mustard plant, came
into the state in the early COS and
bitter ranchers insist that it mi
grated from the Dakotas with the
railroad building and spitefully
dubbed it "Jim Hill' mustard. The
pest seems destined to remain a
permanent monument, of a sort,
to the Empire Builder
The only living thing that seems
really to approve of Jim Hill mus
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LET'S VISIT MORE

rs 1T possible that losing the old neghbory spirit
for which every family in this section noted? Is
there visiting and many reunions and neighbor
hood getogthers there used to be? Pleasant days
have made us if the old spirit of visiting each
other family dinners to which the neghbors invited
and Sunday reunions under trees about
to 90 into the discard We certainly hope not for the
ing of customs really the dying out of COM
munity spirit and healthy community spirit is the best
sse town the size of Kennewck have In the city 1t
is not to be speaking terms with next
door neighbor But it's different here We must cultivate
the community spirit the neighborhood is going to De the
Good Mace to live in that all want to be. Don't lose
the oldme neighbory spirit Plan little reunion or Sun
day dinner group pcnic-do more visiting among your
neiqhbors and encourage them to do the thing IL
best way to make community worth Dragging aDous.
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OLD JIM HILL
STICKS AROUND
Farmers Can't Rid the Country
Of Noxious Weed which came
with the Railroad

With all the better class of state
1and in the dry belt either in crop
or summer fallowed for seeding
this fall, Land Commissioner C. ".
Savidge has reduced his holdings
of Jim Hill mustard to a mini
mum. The ranchers have plowed
up vast areas Of the noxious weed
but here and there the state or
private owner has some rocky,
barren land too ornery to grow
anything else than jim Hill mus
tard and there fields of the farm
ers' enemy are growing and biding
the time when an evil wind will
scatter the seed over the surround
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of the drinker to meet many of his
bills. There was no liberty for the
purchaser, for the merchant could
not individually stand the entire
loss without promptly going into
bankruptcy and leaving his bust
ness to a wiser man.
And then, when the use of the
automobile became general, every
body claimed the personal liberty
of driving without the certainty of
being wrecked by someone who had
lost his liberty lf-control- to
drink. Prohibition is essentially a
constitutional measure for, not a.
gainst liberty.
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tard is the grass hopper. A few
years ago a grasshopper invasion
threatened the northern part Of
the state. The hoppers waved fat
and strong on Jim Hill mustard
and then attacked growing grain
fields. When the wheat was gone
they turned to Russian thistles but
their stomachs never were attuned
to that diet and the army retreated
in dismay.
However, Russian thistles have
one constructive accomplishment
to their credit. In the Delrio dis
trict, when wheat burned up in
successive droughts, the farmers
turned to dairying and shipped
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-07-14

Some people ascribed it sort of fever that has
hit town; others say because of the unusually nice
weather having this spring; few cynlcs have
said that the have been having this year
has caused them combine for efficiencyknd OF CON-
solidating the it The
printed the story of less than dozen weddings
the first of June Well guess Tennyson did know ms
onions when he rhymed dove with .love and worked in
something about spring and young fancy lightly
turning bgosh if this thing continues well soon be
thinking that July is going to put one on June