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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-02
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REDUCE DISCOUNT
 Paris, Jan 2.-UP)-The Bank of France reduced it's discount rate to- day to ? per cent from 2H per cent. The reduction meets the recent cut in the New York Federal Reserve bank to per cent. The two banks now have the lowest rate in the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
NON-SkID ROAD
CONSTRUCTED IN
GREAT BRITAIN

WASHINGTON, Sept 5. UP)-
Automobiles will have trouble try
ing to skid on a new road being
built at Sheffield, England, the
commerce department has been in
formed
Work already has begun on the
project-a mon skid" highway
and nearly 100000 square yards
of new surface is being laid over the
old road
The trouble in cities has always
been to provide a road surface that
would be non-skid, and stand up to
heavy traffic said City Engineer
w j. Hadfield, designer of the new
highway.
Hadfield said he experimental
extensively with many grades of
tar and clippings before he dis
covered the ideal blend" A rough
surface is used, but I'VE are salts
tied that it does not cause trouble
to tires he said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
ASKS CARE IN
DRIVING WHEN
SCHOOLS OPEN

"Inattention OF motorists driving
in school zones, coupled with care
lessness of children in observing
traffic, are the major causes of in
creased child fatalities during the
period following the opening of
schools in September according to
Judge l. Mayfielo, chairman of the
Imperial safety conference of the
California State Chamber of Com
merce.
Safety habits formed during tho
school term are apt to be forgotten
during the vacation period. While
these habits are being re-learned.
it is the responsibility of every mo-
torist to observe added caution in
the vicinity Of schools.
when an automobile driver sees
child in a place of danger. or has
reason to believe that it might run
into a place of danger, it is mis- duty
TO exercise such care as would reaS-
onably avoid a collision. No oper-
ator is safe to proceed upon the hy-
pothesis that a child will probably
take any certain course of action,
To him. a child should be an object
to be avoided and he should have his
car under such control that he can
accomplish this under any circum-
stances"
To protect the school children Of
California from the danger of traf-
tic accidents, the safety conference
is asking the cooperation of all mo-
to drive with additional care in the
school zones, it is stated.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05

models to the Deluxe custom eight
line. Regardless Of the needs OF a
motorist, he finds the price car and
the body style desired in one OF
these widely diversified lines,
In value, Graham probably
reached its peak with the Prosper
ity Six. The lowest priced six ever
produced by the Graham factory,
it offers everything that can be
desired in a motor car. A seventy
horsepower engine, roomier and
more beautiful bodies, hydraulic
brakes and a host of refinements-
Still, it is sold at a price within
reach of anyone.
''It is such innovations as this
that have placed the ham-Paige
Motors Corporation in its present
favorable position in the country's
sales of motor cars.
But with all its advantages, the
Prosperity Six is only one Of four
lines in the Graham list Of models.
There is the larger Six and two
eight cylinder models, heavier cars
with more powerful motors. In the
custom jobs. the purchaser is per-
mitted to name his own type Of car,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
Published by
IMPERIAL VALLEY
PRESS, INC.
SENTIMENT STILL LIVES
w. c. COSTELLO
Manager

MRS. EMMA MARTIN, 80 of Chicago,
M and Nerville Williams, sc, of Niles,
H., were married the other day, after
having been divorced for "a years. They
had been married for 20 years and reared
five children before they separated.
The reunion of this couple seems proof
that sentiment is still powerful factor
in society, in spite of the scientific trend
of modren philosophy which sometimes
insists that steel and iron and the Five
Year Plan are much more potent. Men,
cries apparently last just as long as they
did when song-at-twilight set the tenn
pc of the age.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams were in part
nership during the best years of their
lives. They probably sacrificed now and
then in order to buy rose-sprigged cups
for the dining room, and wondered why
boys shoes wear out SO much faster
than girls. They may have congratulate
ed each other because their sweet peas
grew higher than their neighbors'. All
of their dreams and longings and aspir
ations grew up, side by side.
But when their children were grown,
and their days weren't quite so busy, and
they didn't have the sense Of being
needed so much, they reached cross
roads They separated.
But they couldn't forget. Maybe the
scent of lilacs, rain-sweet in early spring,
did funny things to their hearts. Maybe
the sight of father and mother and five
small children walking down the street
together called up picture that had
lot in common with the younger family.
Anyway, they kept remembering
When their children, grandchildren and
great grandchildren started to suggest
that they ought to get married again,
they listened and took the advice Not
so much, it is fairly safe to wager, be-
cause the others wanted them to do so,
but because they themselves were lone
some for each other. Besides, their sec
ond marriage has sense of novelty.
The intervening years have wrought
changes in both of them
Middle age may change people. But
the last years of life are rather pathetic
ally dependent on the first years. They
seem to tie up together. People don't
talk so much of what they did when they
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05

soon the rabbit gentleman came
hopping back with the sticky gum.
! He picked up the rubber ball, put
some gum on each side of the crack
and then pressed the edges together
| Just as your mother mends broken
dish when you may have dropped
it on the kitchen floor.
Now we'll put the bail back in
the sun again to dry" said Uncle
Wiggily to Baby Bunty, "and soon
we can bounce it again"
Fine and dandy" said Baby
Bunty. who sometimes used the
most surprising words for a little
orphan rabbit. But she meant no
harm.
All of a sudden, while Uncle
Wiggily and Baby Bunty were look
ing at the mended red, rubber ball
lying out in the sun, surprising
thing happened. That is, it sur
prised the little orphan rabbit.
For, all of a sudden, that red ball
began bouncing up and down and
hopping around all by itself with
cut any one throwing it.
"Oh, would you look at that!'
shouted Baby Bunty. why does
my red ball bounce all by itself?"
IT don't know" said surprised
Uncle Wiggily. Il never saw it do
that before. I'll have a look" He
hoped toward the ball, which was
jumping around in the most sur
prising way. And as the ball
bounced, all by itself, a voice from
; inside cried:
Let me out! Oh, please, let me
OUT"
who are you and where are
you?" asked the rabbit uncle.
Il am big, green graSshopper
and I'm inside the red rubber ball, ."
was the answer I'm jumping
around trying to get out"
How did you get in?" asked I'm
Gle Wiggily.
when the cracked ball was lying
on the grass said the hoped, Il
| jumped in. Then, before / could
jump out, I fell asleep and you
stuck the ball together and shut me
in. Please let me out"
So Uncle Wiggily opened the ball
and let the grasshopper out and
then he fastened the ball together
again The grasshopper went
home. Punty bounced the mended
ball and everything was all right.
And If the coffeecake will stop
playing tag with the tea biscuit, I'll
tell you next about Uncle Wiggily's
hard work.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
Texas To Save
Buffalo Herd

GOODNIGHT, Tex, Sept. 5. U.P)
The state of Texas has come to
the rescue of a laundering herd of
$50 buffaloes and will preserve the
last great herd of the monarchs
that once ruled the plains.
The herd, the pride of the late
Col. Charles C. Goodnight. was
doomed to provide sport for hunters
this fall, as the present owners pro-
posed to dispose of the animals in a
mighty last hunt.
The proposal caused the legisla-
ture to pass a bill intended to save
the herd. The bill declared the buf-
faloes game animals and forbade
their destruction.
Definite plans to preserve them
will be completed at a barbecue on
the Goodnight ranch September T.
Gov. Ross Sterling, state officials
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05

Yes" Uncle Wiggily answered
the ball has a big crack in it."
"Oh, must have bounced it too
hard said the little orphan rabbit,
who lived with the rabbit gentle
man in his hollow stump bungalow.
Either that or I bounced it too
hard" said Mr. Longears. 1t is
rather difficult, which means hard
to say just who did it. But, at any
rate, the ball has a big crack in it. "
And won't it bounce any more?"
asked Bunty, sadly.
1T will bounce no more, said
Uncle Wiggily.
TRY it and see,' begged Bunty.
So Uncle Wiggily threw the ball
down on the ground as hard as he
could, but it did not bound merrily
up again as it had done before.
No said Bunty. sadly, cit
doesn't bounce. But know how it
can be made to bounce, Unkie Wig,
and the little orphan rabbit used
all the baby talk that she was al
lowed. Just those two words I'm
k4e Wig" and~no more.
How much do you think the
broken red, rubber ball can be made
to bounce again?" asked Uncle Wig
gily. Not that he didn't know him
self how to do it, but he wanted TO
make Baby Bunty think and see if
she could find way Of doing things
for herself
The little orphan rabbit looked
at the long hole where the ball had
cracked from being thrown down
too hard and then she looked up at
Uncle Wiggily and said, with a
smile.
why, you can mend this the
same as you do when you get a
puncture in your automobile tires,
can't you, Unkie Wig?"
"Of course I cam said the rab-
bit gentleman. I'll take some
sticky cement, or glue, like gum
from a pine tree, and I'll stick and
fasten together the edges of the
cracked in the red, rubber ball
Then well see what happens
"Oh, you're very clever, Unkie
Wig" said Bunty with a laugh.
so are YOU" said the rabbit gen.
tleman. Nov wait here and I'll &c
! get the sticky cement from the PINE
tree"
Baby Bunty put the broken, rec
rubber ball out III the sun on thu
grass where it would be dry fol
Uncle Wiggily to mend it. Prett!
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
One TEST FOR
AUT0M OBILE
SAYS REED

There is only one real test OF
the value of automobile-and that
is-do people buy it." That is the
statement of w. c. Reed, local
Graham dealer.
THE sale Of Graham cars am
ply evidences the value of the car
in the eyes of a motoring public
that is acknowledged to be more
value-wise than at any previous
time" continued Reed.
1T has always been our policy 10
hold our old friends and make new
ones by offering what We consider
to be the best value on the market.
In proof of this statement, invest
igate what Graham has to offer.
"A complete lime of SKIES and Fights
ranging from the low priced Pros
perity Six, through two othel
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
Both Drivers
Are In Wrong
In Some Cases

Frequently it takes two to make
an accident as we'll as two to make
a fight, according to Captain Art
B. Hickcox, now engaged in safe
ty tour sponsored by Oldsmobile.
He points out that this fact is be-
ing recognized legally and that the
Detroit traffic courts have enter
tanned charges against both parti-
cipants of a traffic smash when the
evidence showed that both COM
plainant and defendant were re-
sponsible.
"One of the major causes of SER
iouS accidents is cutting out of line
and passing other cars on the high
way says Hickcox. Cutting out
is necessary so long as we have
some drivers who want 10 go 20
miles an hour and others whose af-
fairs demand double that speed on
the highway. And it can be done
without danger providing all con-
cerned use common courtesy, good
judgment and a fair amount OF
caution.
Danger comes from three sides
each under the direct control OF
a driver. First, the driver attempt
ing to pass misjudges the distance
and speed Of the other cars. Sec
ond, the driver of the car being
passed becomes smart and tries 70
race, regardless of the danger in
Yolved. Third, the driver of an APP
preaching car, angered by seeing
car on his side of the road, de-
clines to slow down uptil it is toe
late. If a triple crash occurs each
of the three drivers involved is To
blame.
The same is true of fender bump
ing episodes at street intersections
One driver may have the right OF
way over the other but that does
not prevent or excuse him from
using all possible precautions To
prevent an accident.
Likewise, pedestrians should not
jay walk, but If one does, that does
not make him fair game for any
! passing motorist. In an accident
of this type frequently walker and
driver are equally blameable.
Every motorist should know the
capabilities of his car and drive ac-
cordingly. The Oldsmobile we use
for safety demonstrations has rap
id acceleration, excellent brakes
and is easily controlled and steered
In fact, the car is speeded up, stop
ped or turned so easily and quick
ly that almost any type of accident
may be avoided, providing the driv-
er is on the job
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
Bedtime Stories
BY HOWARD E. GARRIS
Copyright, 1928, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGuY'S SURPRISE

Uncle Wiggily had bought Baby
Bunty a red rubber bouncing ball
He took it home to the little orphan
rabbit and he and she played with
it. tossing the red ball around and
bounding and bouncing it up and
down on the gorund until, all of a
sudden, the ball stopped its jolly
bouncing.
What's the matter with ito
asked Baby Bunty.
I'll take a look Uncle Wiggily
said.
When the rabbit gentleman
looked at the ball he found it had
a large crack or hole in it. All the
air had leaked out, just as it does
f1om a punctured auto tire and the
ball would no longer bounce.
Did you find out what the mat
ter wasp asked Baby Bunty.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05

and members of the Texas legisla-
ture have been asked to attend.
Leading the fight to preserve the
herd is Fred Haskell, former West
Texas neWspaperman. While the
state game commission is said to
have money enough to preserve the
herd and acquire land for it, Has
kett proposes to stage statewide
campaign for raising funds by pub
lie subscription for use in purchas-
ing the 10000 acre ranch for the
herd.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05

select the style of upholstery and
the color of the finish that most
appeals to his individual taste.
These custom cars are in no way
rubber stamp motor cars. Each
one accurately reflects the char
acter of its owner.
with this wide diversity of mod
els and prices and the known quail
ity of Graham, we believe this will
be Graham's biggest year"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
CHURCH IN GRAIN
TRADE FOR PROFIT

BENTON, Kan, Sept. 5. (U.H-
If raising grain is the oeSt way for
an individual to make money, II
ought to be a good way for church
to raise it, too, according to mem
bers of the Benton Methodist con-
gregation.
Needing $4,000 to retire mort
gage for a new building, the church
secured $50 acres Of land, which will
be planted in wheat and oats, with
members of the church dividing the
work on the farm.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley for This Date
in Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
SPpfpmbpr < 1911

Imperial county has won eleven
awards at the California State Fair.
Some glory, this, for the baby coun-
ty of California. c. w. Collins, who
has had charge of the Imperial
county exhibit at Sacramento,
wires that it has received four first
prizes, one second prize, and two
medals and fiyS cash awards.
A warm welcome was given MI.
and Mrs. ChaEes dinton, who re-
turned on Saturday evening from
their wedding trip. a lively bunch
of young people gathered at the
station and showered the bride and
bridegroom with rice as they de-
scended from the train and as they
made their way along the walk.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
Issued ID a lily, Except
Sundays. Entered a {
the Post Office, Ell Cen"
tro, Calf, as Second
Class Matter.
BY AIR AND BY SEA

WHILE Jimmy Doolittle was shattering
w the transcontinental air record yes
terday by taking that little jaunt from
Los Angeles to New York in less time
than Frank Hawks did, a 73-year-old
sailor in Long Island was telling
friends he will soon maui up the mainS'l
of his 40 foot yawl and start a watery
journey to the islands of the South Pa
cific
Over the wires of an ultra-modern
communication system that keeps one
half the world informed of how the other
half is living came both stories-romance
in balloon trousers and romance in the
peg-top pants of a decade ago.
And, somehow, the tale of the ocean
voyage in a boat no longer than the
houses most people live in seemed to
grip the imagination more strongly than
the story of the breathless, hurrying
flight through the air above the United
States.
Captain H. E. Raaoe, who skippered
Jack London when the famous author
was gathering experience for his later
stories, is the old voyager who is about
to start on the journey that may never
see his return.
Tossing on the giant waves, each one
far larger than his little ship, Captain
Raabe will have time to forget the pain
full discussions of gangsters and killing
that bothered him so much on shore.
In choice words the captain tells his
friends he prefers Soloman Island cannl-
balls to the civilized gangsters of his ma
tive land, and in this he scarcely can be
blamed. For the cannibals, during their
widest uprisings, could never account
for the terrifying number of innocent
victims taken as the toll of gangland;
and the uneducated imaginations of the
wild men could not begin to picture the
kidnappings, murders and even worse
crimes that are the every day diet OF the
American newspaper reader.
This civilization of ours would prob
ably terrify the cannibals more than 1t
does Captain Raabe.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
CHICKEN ATE LID TO BOWL

BASTIAN, Va, Sept. 3. U.p)-Re-
turning from a visit in the neigh
borhood, j. H. Breeder missed the
lid of the family sugar bowl. His
wife was preparing a young chicken
for dinner. When the chicken was
cut open, the lid was discovered
in its gizzard.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05

Ventura County tested 1882 dairy
COWS during July, with an average
butterfat production of 25.O7 pounds.
Sixteen COWS were culled.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05

The lemon by-products factory
at Corona, Riverside County, re-
ceived its biggest order, 10000
pounds of citric acid.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05

With the return of Ray Ellis, as
sistant farm adviser, and the COM
ing of Miss Mildred Corbin, home
demonstration agent, today the
farm bureau office will have all the
talent back for work.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05

were so. But they reminisce about the
teens and the twenties.
Mr.. and Mrs. Williams needn't worry
about a community of interests: lhey
have it, and they took very wise step.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
TEN YEARS AGO
September ), 1921

Monday being Labor Day, legal
holiday, the city library will be
closed all day. The courts and
public offices and all of the banks
and the majority Of the business
houses of the city will also close for
the day, and a majority of the cit
liens will be off for the mountains
or the seashore, most of the holiday
seekers being prepared to leave this
evening.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Senfemher s. 1915

Fishery w, Reynolds and Harold
Bell Wright have been up in the
San Bernardino mountains for a
week, where the Clune Moving Pic
ture company is filming a motion
picture drama of Harold Bell
Wrights recent book, The Eyes Of
the World" for presentation all over
the Union.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-09-05

Today the county board of su-
pervisors will meet to set the tax
rate for the Imperial county for
the coming tax year. From the talk
of the supervisors who were in ses-
sion yesterday to canvas the cleo
ton returns, the pruning hook will
be used on every expense twig that
shows up on the county tree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-15

Brown asserted. since it permitted them
to save precious seconds.
Policemen stationed at the street
corners were tolerant with those who
persisted In adhering to the rotary turn.
and with a word of warning moved
them quickly on their way.
At Fifteenth and X streets. one OF
the Busiest crossroads during the morn
ing rush hour, vehicular trafhc moved
with machinelike dispatch. Buses
traverse this corner in great numbers,
many of them making turns. The
heavy flow from the north and west
mingled in a steady flow at this point
without the semblance Of congestion.
Drive Close to Officer.
A habit Of Washington motorists Of
keeping close to the center Of the road
way when passing through an inter-
section-a habit occasioned by the TO
tary turn-gave promise Of tieing up
traffic at some points but most were
quick to realize that the most direct
way for the through trafnc was Via the
right hand lane, close to the curb.
A difficulty experienced at manual
controlled points was the tendency Of
many drivers making left-hand turns
to pass to the right Of and outside
the policeman directing traffic. Police
man P. G. Tanner Of No. 3 precinct,
controlling the now at Connecticut ave-
unue ard L street, had several close
calls as drivers swept close to him when
he motioned them to turn in front Of
him.
At Connecticut avenue and K street,
with no policeman TO guide them,
motorists attempting to turn left of
Connecticut avenue into K street be-
came entangled with street cars. often
tanning trafic for nearly block in
all directions. At this point 10 old-style
turns were counted within as many
minutes, while 2 minor crashes were
observed.
Another cause of the few tie-ups no.
ticed was the failure of drivers to COM
plete the left turn against the red light
on the street into which the turn was
being made. Many Of them pulled up
in the middle Of the intersection and
waited for the light to change-as the
old turn was made-instead of complet-
ing the swing without stop.