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Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28
THE EVERLASTING FHoN0GRAPH

Everybody using phonograph has grown weary of
removing and inserting records and winding up the
machine and having long musical pieces broken up in
to two parts to permit the changing of discs
That difficulty met lately by the invention of
marvellous device which plays group of records in
succession without any handling by the operator,
moving used disc and replacing another until sew
eral have been played. The power is furnished by
electric motor. All the operator has do to place
the set of records in holder the concert and
press button.
That great relief to the tired business man or
housewife but now still greater musical labor
saver. device is made which not only plays a.
set of records automatically but plays the
over and over again until somebody stops it.
That inspires dreadful thought. Will anybody
ever stop it? Imagination conjures up visions of
tomato monographs in every restaurant and barber
shop and tobacco store and pool in the land and
in most of the hotel obbes and soft drink parlors
and in about half the flats and one-fourth of the
homes, playing the old records-or what is worse
the same new records-over and over, and and on,
without respite or pity until the machines utter
ly worn out or the electric power system blows up.
Art is one thing, and mechanical efficiency is an
other. Wouldn't it be better for the soul of man and
for society whole if everybody still had to wind up
and change his music box?
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28
Cupid's Business
Getting Better

One notice of intention 10 wed was
filed and four marriage licenses
were issued at the county clerk S
office Yesterday afternoon and this
morning.
The intention to wed was as fol
lows:
Reynolds Howard. Claude Rcy
nolds, 80, native of Texas and resi-.
dent of Imperial. Annie Howard, 81,
native of Texas and resident of
Imperial.
The licenses were as follows
Gray Gray. r. l.. Gray, SO. native
of Texas and resident of Prescott.
Edith Gray, 46, native of Utah and
resident of La Mesa.
Frujillo-Leon. Jesus Fruiillo, 20
native of Mexico and resident of
San Diego. Refugio Leon, 80, native
oil Mexico and resident of San Diego
Thomas Maxim. James w. Thomas,
81, native of Oklahoma and resident
of Ell Centre. Margaret A. Maxim,
l6, native of Idaho and resident of
FL Centre.
Banales-J -Juarez. Jesus Banales, %
native of Mexico and resident of
cstmorland. Rosa JuareZ, 2l, nat
i've of Mexico and resident of West
morland.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28
Grapefruit Men
Employ Manager

Employment of general mana
ger to care for the increasing in
terests of the Imperial Valley
Grapefruit Growers Inc, was autho-
rized at Il meeting of tbs
board of directors of that organi-
zation. Announcement that Thomas
G. Barnes, experienced citrus man,
had accepted the position was made
today by DR.. w. w. Apple, presi-
dent of the Grapefruit Growers.
OF equal Importance with the
employment of manager was the
discussion of reported premature
shipments of grapefruit from this
territory, and the strong stand TAX.
en- by the board against this prac-
tice.
"The Imperial Valley Grapefruit
Growers organization represents
over 70 per cent of the growers Of
the valley DIR. Apple stated to-
day, land we are going to do
everything in our power to prevent
the shipment of any fruit from this
county until it is matured."
The Importance of discouraging
independent shippers from sending
then. fruit to market before it is of
the high quality which has built up
the reputation of Imperial Valley
fruit, was thoroughly discussed by
the directors.
The organization feels that the
employment of a general manager
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28

Bow Wow,' said Uncle Wiggilv
ITO make holes in these acorns,
guess I can't finish this necklace
for Miss Mouse"
"1'l help you. cried voice
overhead and Uncle Wiggily saw a
woodpecker bird, with long, sharp
hill, just made for drilling holes.
"You re just the friend | need! .
cried Mr.. LongeaYs. So the wood.
rcckcr held one acorn after another
down on log in his claws and
with his beak drilled holes through
them.
Soon enough acorns were drilled
tc make the necklace, and when the
shiny brown nuts were threaded on
the strand of honeysuckle there was
a necklace fit for queen.
Did you make it all yourself,
Uncle Wiggily!' squeaked the
Lady Mouse Teacher as she put it
around her neck.
"All but the holes-the wood
pecker bird made them," said the
rabbit. And it was very happy
birthday party Miss Mouse had i'll
the Hollow Stump school that day.
So, if the milkpitcher doesn t give
the loaf OF bread lump of sugar TO
make it stuck up and proud like
the chocolate cake, III tell you
next about Uncle Wiggily's fried
carrots.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28

that. So if you re going to give the
Lady Mouse present, Uukic Wig,
lou better hurry and make it.
Il will!' said the rabbit. q nj
glad YOU told me. I would no more
,et the birthday of Miss Mouse
pass without giving her present
than T would forget to twinkle my
pink nose. y
So while Bunty hurried on to
school with her pen wiper present,
Uncle Wiggilv hoped through the
woods wondering what he could
make for Miss Mouse. for it would
not be fair for him TO buy any
present in the six and seven cent
store, whereas everyone else made
theirs.
AS the rabbit gentleman was hop
Iing beneath an oak tree, all of a
sudden an acorn fell down and hit
him on his pink nose.
"Ouch!' cried Mr.. Longears
And when he saw the pretty browl
acorn on the ground at once it gave
him thought, or idea. 81 II maxi
Mss Mouse necklace of acOrns. =
he exclaimed. There were plenty of
acorns on the ground and, gathering
his two paws full, Uncle Wiggily sat
Gown on log to make the necklace :.
First he tried sticking the acoras
together with gum from the pine
tree, but they soon fell apart.
"The acorns should have holes in
them and be strung on a cord like
beads decided Mr.. Longears. He
found long, slender piece of Will
loneysucklc vine that would do for
a cord. But when he tried TO bite
holes in the acorns he found he
could not.
y rabbits teeth are broad and
sharp, like a carpenters chiscl,
made for gnawing, and not, for
iercing holes.
= need thin, sharp, pointed
tecth, like Tommic Kat or Jack ;e
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28
NEW CAPITALS

The chairman of the cty-plannng commission of Of
tawa Canada, finding rather difficult the problem of
making the Canadian capital model city soberly pro-
poses to go and build capital up in the adjacent
Laurentian hills.
Canadians flabbergasted by the proposal. Many
ridcue it. The chairman, however, reminds them that
Brazil is building capital away from Rio
de Janero, in healthful, beautiful and advant
Site and that Australia has built absolutely
capital, Canberra.
He might have referred to the fact that the United
States set example of this sort when it picked out
the District of Columbia and established cap
ital called Washington on the Potomac, River,
than century ago.
Ctybuilding is easier than it used to be. 1t calls
for much money and engineering SKILL but those are
plentiful. And city planning which aims to make over
old cities along modern lines, is accusomng people
regard such ideas more open-mndedly than they used
to.
city or town formerly something inevitable, its
site and character fixed if by laws of nature, and
subject only to slow and hardly perceptble changes
from generation to generation. city town is
something that its residents make whenever
they like citizen remodels his house for greater
beauty, health and usefulness.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD E. GARIS
Copyright, 1927, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY S ACORN
NECKLACE

Iii, Uncle Wiggily. Please
wait a minute.' called voice
back of the rabbit gentleman as he
was hopping along the Woodland
rath near the Orange Ice Mountains
che morning.
"All right; I'll wait, answered
Nr. Longears sitting down on a
rile of leaves. He knew there would
be no danger from any of the bad
cAaps Just then, for none of them
took the trouble TO be polite enough
to say "pleasc.
"This must be friend of mine
thought Uncle Wiggily. And, sure
" enough. it was-Baby Bunty.
ono fair tickling now, Bunty!
exclaimed Mr.. Longears as he saw
the little orphan rabbit girl hop
ping toward him with her paws
held out. q don t want to be
tickled. -
81 am not going TO tickle you.'
laughed Buntv. = just want to
show you what made for her birth
day
Whose birthday. inquired the
bunny uncle.
"The Lady Mouse Teacher :, y
Buntv answered. "It's her birth
day this afternoon and every boy
and girl in school is taking her "a
resent. This is mine, made i
myself, and Bunty held out a
piece of bark on which was fastened
with sticky pine tree gum, some
soft, fluffy cotton stuff from the
lnilkweed plant
"Ah, very pretty, Bunty.' sad
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell of I'M
perial Valley for this Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Seotem her % 1907

There was big crowd at the Gen
Pool hall to listen 20 the reading OF
the bulletins of the Cans Burns prize
tlght in Los Angeles. The fact that
the fight, which was decided in faF-
or of Cans, lasted through 20 rounds
made it quite late before all the re
turns were received.
Tishimingo Tribe, Improved Order
OF Red Men, gave the first of is
monthly balls for the new season at
Water Company hall. About 80 cou-
ples were present, dancing to music
furnished by Stovcr's 5 three piece or
chestra, including cornct, violin and
piano. Refreshments were served at
1850, after which the dancing coz,
tlnued until > Il. NJ.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28
Wednesday, September 2s, 1927

for the first time is big step for
ward. Barnes, who has accepted this
position, comes from Oakland, and
has had number of years Of wide
experience in handling citrus fruits
on the coast. He is also highly re-
commended by the California Citrus
Growers Exchange.
Officers of the valley growers are,
in addition to DR.. Apple, the presi-
dent: John +. Waterman, vice pre-
sident and J. S. Cameron, secretary
treasurer.
A second board Of directors meat
ing to work out further details of
the 1927 grapefruit deal has been
called for Wednesday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28
Two Convicted in
Federal Court

Two prisoners, apprehended here
recently, were convicted on charges
when brought into United State.
district court at San Diego yester
day. They are Ralph II. Brady
33, of Holtville and Enrique Gotta,
Sc, of Mexicali.
Bradley was brought before the
court on charge of violating the
Dyer Act, transporting stoler
automobile from one STATE TO an
other. He was arrested in Calipat
ria. Gotta was charged with VIC
lation of the National Prohibition
act.
Judge Mccormick sentenced
Bradley to six months in the county
Jail here and Gotta to 90 days in the
custody of Sheriff Gillett. .,
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28
TEN YEARS AGO
Santemhar %. 1917

Charles L. Scott was appointed
sergeant of the Home Guards by
Capt. 4. X. Simon. Scott has had
considerable military training.
Il. T. l.. Moore, general superin.
tcndent of the Holton Power Com
pany, returned from a trip to the
coast.
Mrs. O. w. Bcrneker returned
from summer 5 vacation spent in
Wisconsin. She was accompanied
from Los Angeles by Mr.. Berneker
who went up to meet her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vaughn X. Francis
returned from from a trip to coast
points.
John c. Jenkins has resigned as
city marshal, and is leaving for 10.
wa to make has home.
The farther along we 90 the more
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28

ont and she tried to stop lis. But
We like her so much we said we
must give her presents. SO she said,
III that case, we must not buy any
tning, but must make the presents
ourselves. So | made mine and Jack
ie Bow Wow made her paper
weight out Of an old bone and
Jacko Kinkytail, the monkey. made
ler Il drinking cup out Of half a
cecoanut shell, and all things like
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Septemher % 1912

j. +. Davis is back from trip 20
Los Angeles.
Albert Durham aud c. w. Collins.
who were among those going to Los
Angeles to hear Bryan, returned
home.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28

ncle Wiggily. "Is it something
so, the Lady Mouse Teacher can
powder her nose?H
"Our nice teacher doesn 1t pow
der her nose,' declared Buntv.
''This fluffy thing is pen wipe.
I made it myself. Everybody that
gives the Lady Mouse birthday
present has to make it himself. -
Who said so?' asked the rab-
bit gentleman.
Miss Mousc,' answered Buntv.
=" In some way she heard that each
Of us was going to give her pres
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28
BAFFIN LAND

Baffin Land discovered long time ago. How
long since the first wandering Norseman found it no.
body knows but the map-makers began to stick it on
the globe after William Baffn had and named it
in 1916 Then the early nineteenth century found it
viewed by various expeditions a dozen of which
set out to attempt the of the illfated Frank
lin group. Greenland crossed by Nansen in 1888
Nova Zembla, Grinne Land, Franz Joseph Land
Spitzbergen and some of the other numerous land
masses within the Arctic have had good deal
of attention from time to time, but it is only that
Baffn Land is being given definite study. The Put
expedition exploring the Arctic has been
changing its map.
1t is smaller it appears, than the ancient gueSses
And the present scientists chartng its shore line
accurately and quite differently from the early
photographers.
Mapping the Arctic lands seems to diminish by
little the fields of and advenure it pushes
the Hyperboreans farther into the realms of myth
and fancy But getting the coast lines shaped up is
far from learning all there is to be known of the in
terror of this island and the Circle still holds
many secrets. While the air traffic will help to re
veal many Of them, the air itself furnishes enchanted
rtam enough to keep mankind busy for many hun
dred years.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28

Our modest notion of zero in aviation is flying
across country with lion for passenger Lions are
not Lindberghs, and might get hungry on the way.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28

banker has been appointed minister to Mexico.
And now if an oil man can be appointed consulgen-
eral. maybe everything be Strengthened out.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28

No wonder those Chicago people step lively. They
have TO. The thermometer there dropped from 81 to
45 degrees the other day in a few hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28

Charles A. Levine says he's going to start trans
Atlantic air line of giant planes, and prospective pas
sengers hope he won't insist on running it himself
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28

Sometimes, in cynical moments, we begin 70
fear that the manly art of selfdefense will yet be com
mercalized.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28

We arrest private citizens for carrying guns but
haven't got that far yet with nations.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-09-28

The farther along we go the more
we begin to understand just how
Lucky' LindbcrCh was.
Evening star., 1927-09-11
CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION
Policies Of Woman Voters Outlined Fall Program naugu-
rated-Association of Woman Lawyers Take Stand
Against Protective Legislation.

| an item for study. There has now
| been substituted active support of the
settlement of international difficulties
| by arbitration or other peaceful means
and support OF treaties having the
same end i'm view
"a proposal to add the eighteenth
amendment and the Volstead act to
| the study program was not adopted
| because of the lack of information.
adequate and available as a basis of
study and because the league itself
| lacks the means and personnel to con-
duct Investigations in so large field.
On the other hand. the league will en-
courage study of the results of the
eighteenth amendment by qualified
research foundation.
Thus the league has worked out
for itself a procedure which spells
vitality and health. 1t is, in brief. to
seek first the facts. then a plan of
action to meet the facts. The method
is slow and often criticized by eager
spirits who would press forward even
though the rank and file trail help
lessly and perhaps resentfully behind.
Yet the league has found that the
caution and care with which it makes
commitments are in direct ratio to
the conStancy and Valor with which
they can thereafter be supported.
occasionally criticism jumps into
the other camp. Why should the
league take action on controversial
matters? Why not stick to conven-
tional educational work? Women of
exceptional experience and training
who may command expert knowledge
Of some aspects of public affairs are
sometimes the last to realize that they
are now a part of that ultimately re-
hn n1a tn
If citizen organization like the
league. fact-facing and fact-flnding as
it is, with only disinterested motives
in dealing with public questions, can
not take a position on controversial
issues after study, discussion and con-
vention debate, then what kind of a
body is to do so?
THE answer is, of course-organiza-
tions motivated by bias or self-interest
1t is legitimate as it is inevitable that
such organizations should continually
press upon Government, as they do,
their claims, for favor and exemption.
The question is whether any organiza-
ton can be maintained without some
animating special interest. Good ,citi.
zenship is too vague even for the
league. Its departments of efficiency
in Government. public welfare in Gov
ernment and international cooperation
to prevent war, SO named, betray the
beginnings of a creed, while the
fourth, on the legal status of women,
shows at least touch of direct group
interest
X X X X
A DEFINITE stand against pro-
tective legislation for women was
taken by the National Association of
Women Lawyers in the passage of
resolution at the annual convention
in Buffalo, N. Y, August 30 and 80. i.
The resolution as adopted pledges
the association to file formal protest
whenever and wherever laws are pro-
Evening star., 1927-09-11
Wandering Horse
and Festive Dog
Get Aid i'm Toxic

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Japan.-The wandering
horse" and the festive dog" as
well as the human pedestrian, are
protected by traffic rules in Toxic.
AT the rise of the hand police
man stop rapidly" say rules post.
ed in English" in the central po-
lice station here.
when a passenger of the foot
hove in sight, tootle the horn.
Trumpet at him. MelodiousIy at
first, but IL he still obstacles your
passage, tootle him with vigor and
express by word Of mouth the
warning, HI! Hi!'
Beware the wandering horse
that he shall not take fright as
you pass him by. DO not explode
the exhaust box at him as you pass
him by. Go soothingly by. Give
big space to the festive dog that
shall sport in the roadway. Go
soothingly in the grease mud, as
there turks the skid demon"
Evening star., 1927-09-11
By CORINNE FRAZIER.

A CTIVITIES at the headquarters
~ OF the National League o1
IA Women Voters are in full
4 4 swing for what promises to be
a record-breaking year, begin
ming with Fall and Winter board meet
ing, speaking tours for members oi
the board Of directors. the national
convention in the Spring, and culnl
mating in enthusiastic participation IN
q non partisan way, in the campaign
and presidential election.
Miss Belle Sherwin. league president,
who has been absent on Il months va
. walton, will return to Washington next
week Mrs Arthur Ringland of Wash
ington, d. c., the leagues new seere-
tary, is expected hack this week from
q months attendance at the Williams
town Institute of Politics. Miss Gladys
Harrison, executive secretary, has tax
en- up her duties after FIVE weeks alb
eence.
In recent issue of the Survey, Miss
Harrison reviewed the work OF the
league as an experiment in political
education, and particularly the
leagues development as an outgrowth
of the suffrage movement. She point
ed out the significant record of prog
ress in the last seven years, as re-
vealed in the action and reports at
recent general council meeting in
Washington.
1 "As the event of suffrage retreats
the individuality of the National
League of Women Voters, which was
its offspring. is beginning to emerge,
Miss Harrison said. Presumably the
handspring of its existence has been
the fact that the members of one sex
had a relation to the vote which was
ln hos
Washington, in place Of its usual dele
gate convention. a meeting of its gen
eral council, composed of its board of
directors and two officers from each
Of its ~ State leagues. Such a meet
ing is revealing. and this one discloses
q continuing and increasing vigor
which, seven years after suffrage, calls
for explanation.
IT believe the explanation lies in
the fact that the league, in the strug-
gle of addressing itself to an almost
impossible task. has hit upon and de-
yeloped methods which are themselves
energizing and vitalizing. Not be-
cause it is composed of new voters,
who are women, but because of the
ways it has found to relate the inter-
est of citizens to government. the
league is significant today.
"a What is the procedure by which
q large organization can act simulta
neously as an educational agency and
as a supporter of program of action?
The immediate relation of study to
use and action is characteristic of
adult education, even that which is
not strictly vocational. The immigrant
studies English and the Constitution
in order to become a citizen. The
bride-elect takes cooking lessons in
order to feed her husband without
f1asco. 1t is political education for
and through participation in govern
Evening star., 1927-09-11

ment, which the League of Women
Voters is empting-vocational edu
cation by the laboratory method. The
method has proved itself stimulating
to educational invention in a most
neglected field.
1T is to sharpen the challenge of
the vote, to vivify the educational
process of study and discussion, quite
as much as to achieve the success of
particular measures, that the league
supports a legislative program. 1t
follows that the league must con-
stantly readdress itself to shifting
needs and conditions. Such action is
easy enough for small group of like
minded people, which can leave its
affairs to a small governing body.
The league, however. is large. and the
common denominator among its men,
bers. aside from sex. is no more than
general desire to use the vote in
telligently. How can such an organ
iZation act on current controversial
issues without disruption?
THE answer is in scrupulous re-
gard for representative procedure
within it's own ranks. The recent
council meeting received the reports
of two committees which had been
going over this procedure with a fine
tooth comb. The recommendations
for change were slight, but all in
the direction of increasing advance
consideration of the program on the
part of the local league and individ'
ual members. and the understanding
use of the program after adoption.
* K x
UT ONG ago the practice was estab-
H lished of sending out. three
sH1 xNf4 Ea fsN,.
at which action is to be taken. printed
work. with all proposed new matter
indicated in red ink. This preliminary
period is one of study. consultation
and discussion-not of referendum.
The deliberative freedom of the con-
vention itself is carefully preserved.
Two other points should be men,
tioned-items are customarily placed
upon the study program for a year
or more before going on the active
list, and the number of items added
in a year is small, the rate being about
equal to that by which other items
are written off through accomplish
ment.
1.-The three additions this year H.
lustrate with particular clearness the
leagues habit of dealing with 'situa-
lions not SUBJECTS. Inc SeneFdl cOuH-
Gil, which takes the place of the con-
vention in alternate years. is limited
in action on program to proposals due
to altered conditions To the pro-
gram of efficiency in Government de.
partment, therefore, was added the
study Of corrupt practices legislation.
The child welfare program was modi-
fed so as to permit support of meas
ures-State or Federal-to continue
programs of maternity and infancy
hygiene in the States after the expira-
tion Of the Sheppard -Towner act in
1929. In the department of interna-
tional cooperation to prevent war, ar.
bitration has been for several years