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6 Imperial Press PuhlifchcO cvrry Saturday at Imperial, San Diego County, Cal. , .«--~-_~_____>-«______. fjrnry C. Heed. (Iditcr sad Wsasger 51 BSC BIT! I0S: Oai >**r .... $|.5O SU Mofithi ••'•'•' JS ADDRESS: Khimu. I*kkxs, Ittij^r*, ial. San I>icg\» County, Calif. » r •*',.■ at thr ttaprrUl, California I*. ~t. * . «• A* ir.. .-..Mm NUlil niilf Saturxlav. Angutl 10, I*X>l. If crentxHiy muhiul be a« well with the opinion and reconv roendations which the Schley Court of Inquiry ha* been i»nlered to ha ml in at the close of the inquiry. a» they now profema to be with the personnel of the Court, it would hca beautiful ending «.>f a xTJt»re or lctk» ugly ai>d disagreeable matter. Of the personnel of the Court -Admiral IVwey and Rear Admirals Kiml>erly and lienham for judges. «k» to speak, and Cap*. l.<-r:i'.v. wh«> has t*een Judge Advocate of the Navy for uiue years, for Judge Advocate— noth ing but commendation could bespoken, not only because of the eminent careers of the officers, but becau-^ neither of them has ever txreu draw n iv to express ing an opinion of the Sampson-Schley controversy. Such men will form their opinions and make their recommenda tion solely on the evidence presented before the C«.»urt. The Court will meet September 12. and it% sessions will be open. Opinion differs as much a* tv how long it trill *i* as to what the finding will be. \VTiatcv«rr it may be, no punishment can follow for anybody. a» the naval regulations provide that no officer shall be punished who is. not brought to trial within two year* of the date of the alleged offense. Sec retary 1,/onj; ha*» issued an order, which should have been i%«kucd long ago, for bidding ofSccr* of the Na\"y to publicly discus.^ and express opinion upf»n the Sampi»on-Schley matter. Nhvv* nieint>er»» of the House have for many year* been astonished at and have h-ijinetinie!» viciously attacked the luxuries with which Senator* have hurrounded themselves but «hen the improveraento now under *vay on the Hout>e hide of the Capitol are complet ed. at» they will be before Con^re** meets, the member* of the Houm: will have a-* many luxuries at their di*po*> al a- Senators, so that *uch attacks will no longer be in order. The new ventilating lystCffi and fixtures con nected with the Chamber of the Houm will probably t»e the moi»t elalx/rate and coKtly ever put into a building — they iuclude the very newest idea* in unitary ventilation. In short, the Chamber of the Houwr will be refitted from #allery to baoement and will have the übual luxuries found in ex pensive clubii, which long ago played their j»art in getting the Senate called the "Millionaire* club." I>k. Koch's claim that tubercutocis in animaU cannot be communicated to human being* would be more consol* ing if it were not so vigorously opposed by other eminent scientist* in all part* of the world. BECKSTAKY la»NC's order will put a »n<u to naval officer* talking about the Bamptosi Schley men, but it won't *U>p the rcluuhiriK of what oflicer* »aid before the order wa» issued. DATE PALMS MAY SOLVE THE ARID LANDS PROBLEM Department of Agriculture Will Make txprrimrnts With Trtes from the Nile Delta TllKriAtr |mliv may %»\\e the problem of trhat tudo with the arid I.umU of Aritona. California and other west ern Mate*. *ay» the Now York Sun. X \|ii iim-nt •» li.t \»• Ih-«mi made in the past j»y the agricultural department and experiment station*, but renewed interest i* N'ini; taken by the acction «>f }i!ant Introduction of the depart incut of agriculture, am! Prof. I>. G« Palrchlld, agricultural explorer fort tie department, now traveling in Africa, ha* procured a uutnt>er of i%uckcr», »>r off»hiH>t*. from the delta of the Nile which ho ha* shipiH*<l to the il«*p.trt ment and which will l>o distributed in the southwestern j>art of thi* country. In the I'nited State* the tlate is an article of luxury, but in it* native country it i* a moat imiK>rtant food, ; many region* in Arabia and the Sahara being uninhabitable but for the date palm. The United State* annually imjfc'rts nearly a million dollar-/ worth of date*, but it is possible, the depart* me tit belive*. to raite all the date* needed in thiscountrjr. The date pal ui although grown profitably only in art*' and *etniarid region*, i» not in the proper tciiM? of the word a desert plant j It require* a fairly abundant, atxl. \ above all, a constant supply of water j at the rootss, and at the name time it i delight<» in a perfectly dry and very hot climate. The date palm i* able to rtand much more cold than the orange tree, hut not *o much a* a peach tree. NAFTZGER ON IRRIGATIAN MX. A. H. NAKTZGER, who was calK-tl ca*t the other day to testify Ik- f<»re the Industrial Comnii»»ion, as wat to have been expoxted.did nut fail to drive home a few fact* in regard to the possibilities of the "(Ireat Went." On the subject of the arid lands and the po*»ibility of their reclamation, Mr. Naftzger nay*: "It has been carefully estimated that under a ft r stem of national irrigation seventy-five million to one hundred million acre- of land* now practically desert and wort hle»> could be reclaimed and made productive. It would be nearly or quite impossible to do thin without government aid. If govern ment aid we objected to on the ground that the development of these arid land* would bring them into produc tive competition with, and tend to de crease value* of farming lands in the Eastern fttates, the aiuwcr U. first, that the development of any portion of our country i* incidentally a bene fit to all: but more specifically, if thene desert lands should be watered, vast quantities of machinery. Implements and other manufactured good* would have to come from Eastern -tat*-.. This alour. I think would more than compensate for any, otherwise possible depreciation of Eastern farming lands, occasioned by increased Western com petition. If the \Ve*t shall have more water, the Eai»t will have more trade •*But these Western land* would for the most part be devoted to a different cla»s of product* than those of tht Eastern itates, increaning interstate | commerce and developing home mar ket •» in both directions. ••Again, who can nay that the*** Western land* will not be necdetl for homea for the overflow of Eastern cit ies and towns. Under the rapidly de veloping economic and industrial con dition* that »>"W a*toni*h the world, and particularly by n-av»n >>i the in Imperial prcoo I Kerckboff'Cuzner J I Ftlill & Lumber (& ! > «HOL«»»L. ..0 • JJIWIDCP SSSioS""' < % RETAIL OCALCRS IN L-UIVILJL.I I ... MILL WORK { YARDS AT J ' ban mdko. wholmui Main Office Cor. Alameda & Macy Sti * LOt ANQILI9, Maim Orrica k POMONA. PABADKNA. ■ j* • m- #n a • ' LAMANOA. AZUBA. COVINA. LOS ANGELES. CAL. * TTTTTTTTTTTTT+TTTTTTTTTTT ; freijh^of^allJKinds \ | Handled With Care ! i i . If you are coming 1 to the Imperial country you will \ ■ find it to your advantage to consign you 'freight to * Wesley Patton, < who has first-class rigs for handling anything from a • box of groceries to a steam engine. Ami if Patton \ handles your goods you will know they arc handled 1 , right side up with care. , • If you have any land to In." put in cultivation or crops • ' to \>a harvested, he will look after that too. f 4 . Imperial, Cal* tnxluction of the 'community interest' idea, having for its ostensible object economy in l»«»th production and dis tribution, there is strong probability that many who are now wage earners must in the near future obtain their livelihood by cultivation af the soil. The government own* these arid lands, and it is certainly not unreasonable nor improvident that it should expend some of its revenues in making them irrigable." THE "OLD-FASHIONED BOY" AN EASTERN newspaper, remarks the I«os Angeles Herald, inquires: "Where Is the old-fashioned boy— the boy who wa<» his father's mainstay and his mother's 'little man' when the father was away from home?" The identical old-fashioned boy to whom that writer alludes is at present, prob ably, bald or *jray and inclined to pct ulaucv. He may be, in fact, the jm?h cil'pusherhimself, He sees what i* left of the old-fashioned l*>y of other days when he now glances at the mir ror. And with the glasses that Time ha» ordered him to wear, he sees, through the long vista of yearn, a boy that i» an ideal, but that never wa» a reality. If the old*fa»hioiied t*»y could appear today by the side of the l>oy of the period the two would pa»* for twins. There would r»r a difference in apparel but in all else they would 1m? a* much alike as two peas. The name re»tle»» activity, the tame preference for play ItisteVd of work, the name uropetuity for iniftchief, fun and fr»»lic, would characterize both of them. And when It comes to the test of "father*** main* »tay" and ••mother 1 * little man," tin* resemblance %v«»nld be mi perfect Ihiil, as the wig-maker *ay*. you couldn't tell "which is .switch.'* It in nheer noncsemic— that idea that the American boy in degenerating. The di (Terence that nome old ]>eoplc think thi-v sic is an illti nlori. incident I Ito lon^-range observation. In thin case it is the observer, not the object, , that has changed. lUh impaired vis ion enable* him to see only the excel- Icncicn of «>ld-faHhioned )M>yho«xl, <>!• souring the fott>lcM and imperfections. The average boy of Unlay in a fac 1 simile <»f his father and of hi* grand father. He in probably no better, and \ he in certainly no wor»e. A lx»y is naturally an prone to mis chief "an the nparkn to fly upward." He means no harm. His heart in usu ally an big a* a football, and he will rink hi* neck to do a favor. Hi* prone ness to intHchief in inherent. It is the ebullition of hi-* surplus vitality. Fun and frolic are an neccH*ary to him an milk to a kitten. Hut hi* sympathies are tender, hi» heatt-ntringn are easily 'touched, and when you view him aright he patten the teat quite a* well an the old-fashioned boy as "father'n main stay" and "mother'a little man." Tim distinguished officer* compris ing the Schley court of inquiry will <l«i well to extract all the satisfaction jm»h siblc out of the general press commeii elation of them, ai l they may find the time materially changed after »hey have rendered an opinion and made recommendation*. There ««rr more minder* committed than arc ever |>ttblinhc<l in the paper* murders committed t»y the tongue* Th«- jx.werof <Ica<lly |M»iH<>ii U in it. August I.iuliei*' Home Journal.