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ever having heard the sound or
knowing word of that language.
Brothers Invented "TaIkIng
Automaton"
Another boyhood experience
which DR.. Bell delighted to recount
was the attempt of himself and his
brother Melville to construct a
talking automaton." The idea was
to copy Nature herself and build
machine which would, as nearly as
possible, duplicate the parts of the
human body which are used in the
uttering Of speech sounds. To Alex
ander fell the work Of making the
skull, teeth, lips and tongue, while
his brother fashioned the larynx-a
remarkable contrivance in which
rubber bands took the place Of the
vocal cords-and a pair Of bellows
to provide the talking machine with
breath" Work on the device pro-
crossed so successfully that the
boys were soon able to make 1t say
Mama" so convincingly that a wo-
man in a neighboring apartment
made a hurried search of the build
ing for the child she believed to be
uttering such plaintive cries Of dis
tress.
Inventors Background Aided Great
Discovery
In this work, and in similar boy
ish excursions into the field Of sci
entific research, the father Of the
two youngsters took a keen interest
and offered his active coopera-
ton and advice. Unknown to themi
he made use of these childhood in
terests as a means of preparing his
sons to follow his own profession.
To this early training, in large mea-
sure, Alexander Graham Bell attrib-
uted the peculiar combination OF
characteristics which made 1t pos
sible for him to discover the prin-
ciple Of telephony and to translate
that principle into a practical in
vention which has profoundly infu'
enced human history.
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Bell, followed it, as did his other
son, Alexander Melville Bell, father
Of Alexander Graham Bell. Alexan-
der Graham Bell followed the same
line Of study, but applied himself
particularly to the application of
the principles, discovered by his
grandfather and his father, to teach
ing the deaf to speak.
Father Invented Vocal Symbols
Carrying further the studies
which his father had begun, Alex
ander Melville Bell had invented a
remarkable system Of symbols for
depicting the actions Of the vocal
organs in uttering sounds.
1.-THE symbol" said Alexander
Graham Bell, later, in discussing
this system, which his father had
called visible Speech" could be
analysed into a direction to do
something with your mouth, and II
you followed the direction you ut
tered the sound, even though you
never heard it before"
Boy Interpreted Fathers Symbols
The future telephone inventor,
even as a child, became sufficiently
familiar with this Visible Speech"
to enable him to assist his father in
public demonstrations of the sys-
tenn. He would be sent out of the
room while members of the audi
ence would utter sounds, which his
father then Transcribed into the
proper visible symbols. Then the
youngster would be called back and
would be asked to utter the sounds
which these symbols depicted. In
later years DR.. Bell told with pride
how he had astonished one audi
ence by reproducing the noise Of
saving wood, which ventriloQuist
had asked the elder Bell to translate
into his Visible Speech characters.
Still more remarkable was the
youngsters performance in repro
ducing, from a slip Of paper on
which his father had written a few
Of his symbols, one of the most diff
cult sounds in Sanskrit, without
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as we ahghted from the street car
on the way home and to bed, we
ran into S. C. and T. raising a
rough house on Dale st. Something
had happened to S. C.'s shoes. She
was in stocking feet on the damp
pavement. Said old monkey, "my
people"
What L. NJ. doesn't know isn't in
the books-so says his wife, who
is comedy but dumb-oh, so very
dumb.
Old prejudiced Thomas Dixon,
author of anti-Negro propaganda
novels, who made thousands from
his book, "The Clansman" (The
Birth of a Nation), is broke and
badly busted!
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from the relief lists.
Funny Happening of Week: This
will probably make some of our
fellow staff members hot but we
got a big kick out of the way il
was reported the Finley Wilson Wis
it was handled. 1t seems that there
are several factions among the
Bills and Daughters and each side
tried to keep the other from get
ting to the "Lttle Giant"
Wilson, astute and experienced,
saw through the whole proceedings.
Due to somebody's bungling, a
committee had to hang around the
Union station in st. Paul all day
waiting for the G. E. r. to arrive.
At the public dance planned in his
honor, only a small crowd was on
hand, due, possibly, to lack of ad-
vertising and publicity. Governor
Elmer Benson and Mayor Gehan
showed up around 8 p. m. to well
come the guest of honor and only
three or four persons greeted them
and they left. It was a regular
Amos and Andy proposition with
no heads or tails to plans. The
public, which generally admires
Wilson, was disappointed in the ar
rangement and from the growing,
grumbling and amusement evinced
by lodge and temple members the
general opinion seemed to be "some
mess"
At Dale and Rondo t'other night,
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Twin Town Talk

No wonder such c. You can't bills
and step out with cute little danes while the wife sits home MAX
ing excuses to your creditors
Two other members of the largest Mill City church
last week Both choir members and they had heck
getting urecognized who had mbbed gggesoup
into tacab the other All this the block
Fourth Ave, according to sleuths
The story going the rounds in St Paul that Is persons
list wany dropped
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Decoration Day Picnic at Bass
Lake, Saturday, May %, given by
Minnehaha Temple No. 129, Daugh-
ter Elks, at BASS LAKE--Advt
Cabaret Dance given by Daugh.
ter Elks Marching Club, Elks Rest
14S Hyland Ave. No, Wednesday
night, May 19.-Advt.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08
Armistice Day
In Imperial Valley

If the Armistice Day celebration at
Brawley is not a success, it certainly
will not be the fault of Brawley Ameri-
can Legionnaires. Plans already de-
veloped point to a parade without par
allel in the history of such affairs in
Imperial Valley, and to a program
which the valley as a whole cannot af-
ford to miss. The almost certain sue
cess of the celebration makes it more
imperative than ever that the rest of
the communities in the valley throw in
with Brawley to make this a peak for
observance of Armistice Day here.
Time has dulled our appreciation of
what Armistice Day means The words
of an Ell Centre LegiOnnaire, spoken
recently, may help to recall some of its
sigificance.
"Armistice Day was not just the day
when we stopped fighting" he said. 1T
was the day when our lives were given
back to each one of us. When we enlist
ed we gave our lives to our country
il makes no difference whether we ever
got farther than a training camp or
not Our lives were not our own. Then,
on Armistice Day, they were given back
To us. We were our own men again.
That's what Armistice Day meant
then-and that's what all of us should
remember today There is sufficient
cause in that remembrance for any
amount of celebration.
Brawley citizens have arranged a fit
ting celebration this year. 1t is up to
the rest of Imperial Valley, now, to
join with Brawley in staging the affair.
Civic organizations, fraternal groups and
business houses can do no less than pre-
pare and enter floats in the Brawley
parade, and otherwise take part in the
celebration. Let US make this truly a
valley-wide observance this year, in trib-
ute to the men who did not come back,
and in honor of those whose lives were
given back to them on Armistice Day
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08
What Doors We
Americans Can Be

Because certain factions IN American
labor ranks could not swallow their in
feriority compleXes and exhibit decent
spirit of courtesy-Or even keep quiet
for the lack of 1.-THE Duke and Ouch
ess of Windsor have postponed their
proposed trip to the United States, and
may never visit this country. There is
something that makes the majority of
us blush with shame in the news that
the former King Edward and his wife,
with their belongings packed and their
shipping booked, cancelled their trip
at the last minute because one labor
group in the country howled that the
Duke planned stunning trip profess
ing to study labor
There was no reason for the outburst
of the Baltimore Federation of Labor
against the proposed visit of the royal
couple to this country. 1t was thing
which, logically, should have interested
the union group only as an item of news,
or as a possible vehicle for improving
labor conditions through the Duke of
Windsor's housing studies. The action Of
the union was just as un-American as
was the action of British diplomats in
forcing Edward to choose between his
throne and the woman he loved.
1t is too bad we sometimes think,
that our vaunted freedom of speech is
allowed by individuals to be debased to
the point where it permits insults to
innocent persons. Actually, the trouble
is that those who make most use of this
freedom sometimes think least of the
results-and of other peoples rights.
If there is any way the labor group,
or any other group can wipe out this
stain on the name Of our country, the
public should be justified in demand
ing firmly that the correcting step be
taken.
Apologies are due from America to
the Duke of Windsor and his wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08
Editorials and Comment
MONDAY NOVEMBER s. 1897
News Behind the News
= Walk Into NY Parlor

WAsHINGTON.-The CIO says to the AT of
Bare your head and we will tap it with
Sledge-hammer. You will then 20 down and
out and stay out
The AF of L says to tbs CIO:
Walk right back into our mousetrap and
have dose Of our highly effective lethal gas
That's the effect of the proposals of the two
labor groups and it explains why the unity nego-
tiations are not getting anywhere. The proposal
Of CIO that it return to the AT OF l. as an auto
nomouS department under Its own name SIMPLY
means if its claims of a larger membership are
true that John L. Lewis and his colleagues would
at once dominate the federation If its members
were to be given proportionate voting strength
at AF of conventions. The federation pro-
posal on the other hand, means that craft
unions desire to absorb hundreds of thousands
of workers organized by CIO and insist that
CIO unions come back minority under the
effective control of AF OF L convention machin-
cry.
Each side attacks the others membership
figures. The AF of L claims 3.250000 workers
and CIO 3830,0OO. It's impossible to find out
the real strength behind these statistics
The proposal that disputes between rival
affiliated unions be settled at the next fedora
ton convention calls attention to the AF of L
voting system. One vote is allowed an inter-
national union for each thousand members whose
per capita tax of I cent month is paid to the
federation The carpenters union had 5000
votes at the Denver convention, although CIO
people declare its membership probably has
dwndled toward $4,000. In former years John
l. Lewis paid for voting strength OF 5000 when
it was well known the membership of the United
Mine Workers was far below 100000.
1t is now being taken for granted in Washing
ton that Jim Farley will be a candidate for gov
ernor OF New York in 1888. 1t is also generally
believed that he can have the Democratic state
conventions nomination and that he will be
elected.
Farley hasn'5 said a word to anyone about
it, apparently. But the assumption has been
greatly strengthened by his decision to cam
paign for Jerry Mahoney in the New York mayor
atty fight. The White House has kept hands
off but its real sentiment is believed to be more
accurately represented by Secretary Ickes, who
recently went to New York and gave Mayor F.
H. LaGuardia public pat on the back.
Anyone who wants to run for governor of
New York on the Democratic ticket is practically
compelled to play ball with the New York Demo-
cratic machine politicians, all of whom have
been behind Mahoney. In case Roosevelt was
consulted at all and approved Farleys leap
into the local battle, the President at least
aware that nothing at that stage of the cam
paign could put Mahoney over.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08
Still Coughing?

No matter how many medicines
you have tried for your cough, chest
cold, or bronchial irritation, you canV
get relief now with Creomulsion.
Serious trouble may be brewing and
you cannot afford to take chance
with any remedy less potent than
Creomulsion, which goes right to
the seat of the trouble and aids ma
ture to soothe and heal the inflamed
mucous membranes and to loosen
and expel the germ-laden phlegm.
Even if other remedies have failed,
don't be discouraged, try Creomul-
sion. Your druggist is authorized to
refund your money if you are not
thoroughly satisfied with the bene-
fits obtained from the very first
bottle. Creomulsion is one word-not
two, and it has no hyphen in it.
Ask for il plainly, see that the name
on the bottle is Creomulsion, and
an get the genuine product and
,e r5lief you want. (Adv1
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08

If there ever was man WI
seemed fated to live out an acute
personal tragedy on public stage,
that man must be the Duke of
Windsor
His recent speech before the
Anglo-American Press Club at
Paris merely carries his tragedy
one stage further and makes its
ironic poignancy more obvious.
In that speech the duke said
that he had no intention of lead
ing an idle life. He hoped, he said,
to make some contribution toward
solving the worlds present grave
problems: for that reason he is
making his present tour, studying
labor problems in Germany and
housing problems in the United
States
The tragedy, of course, is the
old, old human tragedy of too
late. For this man who sets out
to contribute to a solution of the
same confused, harassed and deS-
perately unhappy person who step
ped down of his own free will from
the one place where he might have
been able to make such a contri-
button effectively.
First he was Prince of Wales and
then he was King of England; and
although the king of England no
longer holds the substance of ac-
tual power, he possesses as do few
other human beings a sounding
board from which he can impress
his ideas on the minds of his fell
low men. His least word and his
slightest gesture are observed by
millions of people. A man who
sought to help the world solve its
problems could hardly ask for a
better pulpit.
But as prince, this man was not
ed chiefly for his intimate associa-
ton with the gay night club crowd.
America fairly crawled with girls
whose proudeSt boast was that
they had danced with the prince;
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08

especially to see Shanghai and
Peiping. But I waited too long
fear.
Add unappetizing signs: That
one over a Ninth avenue fish mar
ket reading Every thing that
swims, craWls or clings."
The old Morning Telegraph
newspaper shop, now the site of
Jack Dempsey's restaurant. was
long the towns most picturesque
plant. 1t was an abandoned car
barn, patched up and made over
like some derelict structure in a
Shantytown One reached the
various departments up rickety
stairs and the editorial room was
amusing and mellow. Desks of re-
porters and editors were often cid
boxes with smaller boxes as chairs.
The walls were scrofulous with
tattered burlesque and circus post
ers. Almost anyone with expert
ence could land a Job there. There
were few rules. Many drank open
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08
Other Editors Saw
Is ISOLATION NECESSARY?
wall Street JournaD

Sir Arthur Salters article in the current
issue of The Political Quarterly of London, en-
titled Europe Looks to the United States" be-
comes particularly interesting in view of the
current Brussels conference of the signatories of
the Nine-PoWer treaty, in which this country
is taking part. Taking a sympathetic view on
the whole, he nevertheless criticizeS orr policy
of isolation on what he evidently conceives to be
practical and unanswerable grounds. He con-
cedes that the United States might well afford
to pay for the consequences of the next war
ticipate or not rather than risk participation in
one. But he suggests that a compromise policy
of eating our cake Of peace and having it too,
could be and should be followed.
Rather" he says referring to the United
and so nvulnerahle that she could take action
which might be decisive in averting war, while
still remaining free, if war came, to decide
either TO participate or stay out.
Is it not just this type of reasoning which
could well lure the United States into playing
so closely to the fire that she might be badly
burned in the process? Nations can be kept at
peace, if at ALL only by the threat of greater
force being used against them. Should the
United States embark on any such threatening
course the consequences would be unpredictable.
She could not have the safe, easy retreat al
ways at her disposal which Sir Arthur contem-
plates. Nor could her representations to other
countries be either safe or effective if she cou-
pied with them assurances that she never, never,
really would 20 to war TO back them up.
Despite his apparent reasonableness, Sir Ar
thur does not persuade US that international
threats from US would bear only the fruits
like to gather.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 1918
Estate of
FRED WILLIAMS,

DtCedSSu.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned Irene L. Williams. as
administrative of the estate of Fred
Williams. deceased, to the creditors
If and all persons having claims
against the said deceased. that WITH
in six months after the first publ
cation of this notice they either
file them with the necessary vouch-
ers in the office of the Clerk Of
fhe Superior Court o the State Of
California, in AMI for the County
IF Imperial, or exhibit them with
The necessary vouchers to the said
irene L. williams, as administrative
Of said estate. at Room 207, Bank
Of America Bldg, Ell Centre, Cali
fornia, the same being the place
for the transaction of the business
Of the said estate in the County of
Imperial, State of California.
Dated at Ell Centro, California, this
9Th day of November. 1887.
-. IRENE l.. WILLIAMS,
AdminiStratriX of the Estate
OF Fred Williams, Deceased.
Childers and Roberts, Attorneys
for Administrators.
N8 IS % 90
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 1912
NU. EOIE
Estate of
HENRY H. DAILY,


Deceased
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, D. L. Zinn Public Ad-
ninistrator, as Executor of the es-
tate of Henry H. DAILY, deceased,
to the creditors of and all persons
having claims against the said de-
ceased. that within six months after
the first publication of this notice
they either file them with the
necessary vouchers in the office of
the Clerk of the Superior Court of
the State Of California, in and for
the County of Imperial or exhibit
them with the necessary vouchers
TO the said d. l.. Zinn. as Executor
of said estate. at $40 Main Street,
Ell Centro, California, the same being
the place for the transaction Of the
business of the said estate in tae
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia.
Dated az Ell Centro. California,
this 9th day of November, 1887
D. L. ZINN,
Executor of the Estate of
Henry H. DAILY, Deceased
Childers and Roberts. Attorneys
for Administrator.
N81 Is % %
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08
Bruce Cation Says:
- Traqedy of the Man Who Began Too Late

England had dozens of anecdotes
about his fondness for this, that
or the other jazz band, about his
parties, about his frequenting OF
the bright-light spots in the en-
pire's capital and elsewhere.
And when he became king the
world watched him eagerly-not to
get a kingly and significant hint
as to the solution of its innumera-
BILE woes, but to learn which wom-
an, if any. he might choose to
marry
He spoke to the world over the
air waves, once. and the world
hung on his words - to discover
that the whole thing was too much
for him and that he was dropping
out.
And now this unluckiest of NOR
tails wants to make some contri-
button" toward solving the worlds
problems! Small wonder that in
his confusion he studies labor un-
ion problems in Germany, where
there are no labor unions, and
housing programs.
The man who fights with the
best there is in him and is beaten
by circumstance is not a tragic
figure-not really In this defeat
there can be an everlasting tri-
umph. The genuine tragedy is that.
of the man who is beaten by him.
self; the man who does have a
glifpse of what might be, but
who can't quite bring himself to
act en- it. And that is the tragedy
of the well-meaning and likeanle
Duke of Windsor.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08
LEGAL NOTICE

Please take notice That a meet
ing of the members of the Imperial
Valley Milk Producers Association
will be held on Wednesday, Novem-
ber TO- 1897, at l PM o'clock, at
the Imperial County Fair Grounds
All members are requested to be1
present.
f. S. WILBY, Secretary
Imperial Valley Milk Producers
|"' Association, Holtville, Calf
asss.z.. N | 10 incl
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08

ly from WhiSkey bottles in drawers
and lockers. And everybody loved
the shack and his job. There were
writer's on the Morning Telegraph
with OXonian' accents, spatS and
monocles, long-haired zealots burn
ing with the fire of crusaders,
bleary old has-beens shaken with
Whiskey tramors and cock hoop
collegiates on first assignments.
In those days there was the con-
trasting la-de-dah of the Evening
Fest that was on Vesey street. I'M
portant editors wore frock coats
and sat at glass-topped desks en-
closed with shiny brass ratings
The aislsways were carpeted and
here and there was a potted plant
But it TUNED cut some celebrated
Journalists, including the crack
dramatic critic John Anderson,
Harold Littlafield and Dudley Nj
chols.
During one of my jobless periods
I visited, hat in hand, both the
Telegraph and Post in quest of
berth. Bill Lewis offered to take
me ON after, Cnly a few questions
for $50 q week, but ] got no fur
ther than the office boy at the
Post He ran a practiced finger
over my visiting card, and, find
ing it not engraved, assured me
there were no openings now and
not likely to be.
Thingumbobs: DR.. George Rock
well, the comedian, is a shooting
gallery addict John McCormack's
son is making strides as a singer
CT Irish ballads Kent Cooper,
The A, p chief. is one of the
crack by ear" pianists Charles
Dickens at the time of his death
LETT the biggest fortune of any
English writer, $5OOOOO Kiplins
topped it with 100000
From a magazine story: No one
needed him until he began to sing
and then they swarmed about him
like flies to molasses. Men sought
his bow, women his SMILE
Vocal boy makes good.
YOU haven't read ALL the NEWS
until yCu READ the ADS
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-08

c a He'd semi =
cactus. " Then to
Ben Ali Haggi' S
studio to leave a
picture of his dog
Nimble, which he
g " e me. And
pirooting around
the new Sulka
Shop.
Home ana G. B
DriScoll ca m e
along, a fellow of
pleasant ease, de-