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IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
PUP,: ; SHED B y IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS, INO.
W. C. COSTELLO, Manager
Issuer Daily, Except Sundays
Er‘-M at the Post Office, El Centro, Calif., as Second Class Matter
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Month 55c
Sax Months , 52.50
Year By Mail $5.00
A I AMSHIXG WAR SCARE
Fortunately the Nicaraguan war scare is evaporat
ing. It has been short-lived but it has afforded a lively
topic of conversation inside and outside of congress
while it lasted.
The outstanding feature of it ail is that a large num
ber of partisan senators and newspapers are left dang
ling by the gills. They were ready to attack the presi
dent for his policy in Nicaragua and those who lacked
the courage to do that directly hit him over the shoul
ders of Secretary Kellogg. As a rule they are not keen
to attack President Coolidge, While they were froth
ing, he was as usual, keeping cool and getting informa
tion. They were sure he didn’t know what he was do
ing when he was backing Diaz instead of the flamboy
ant Sacasa as the head of the Nicaraguan government.
This, they yammered, gave offense to Mexico which is
just now in the throes of a revolution, confiscating
property of Americans and threatening the lives of
American citizens.
These hostile gestures at Washington have, for the
most part, been made by those who would like to suc
ceed Mr. Coolidge. They have been demanding arbitra
tion to discredit his ability to handle the situation.
When they finally did this he promptly agreed to it.
This took away their breath and they have suddenly be
come speechless. The situation is not likely to reach
the stage of arbitration. So these voluble patriots are
dumb. Mr. Coolidge is adroit and he has easily con
founded his enemies. Honesty and sanity are weap
ons he effectively employs. They are exactly what the
public expects him to use. Senator Borah, who is am
bitious to become a presidential candidate, has ris
charged some shots that have gone wide of the mark.
And the Democratic head hunters are likewise flutter
ing.
The real danger, it has been diligently broadcasted,
lies in Mexico, not in Nicaragua, Calles, they say, is
offended. He is threatened at home and must make
a showing of resentment in order to placate his en
emies. He is doing tMs, but he will at last yield to the
inevitable either to the suggestions of the United
States or to the revolutionists, who may at any moment
blow him out of water.
President Coolidge’s expression of goodwill toward
all Central and South American republics, have taken
additional wind out of the sails of his critics, if there
additional wind out of sails of his critics, if there was
any wind left in them. The business of fanning blazes
of hatred and excitement at home and abroad has sud
denly collapsed. Our marines, he says, are to be with
drawn from Nicaragua as soon as peace is restored
there and American lives and property are secure. The
United States has tranquiiized affair's there for years
and brought about prosperity. It is on friendly terms
with the Nicaraguan government. President Coolidge
may be confidently depended upon to perform similar
benevolent functions in Mexico, meantime calmly, but
firmly safeguarding American rights in our neighbor
ing country.
The approach of a presidential campaign in the Unit
ed States makes it important to beware against politi
cal propaganda. Refusing to be flustered by it will be
President Coolidge’s best suit.
Six American brothers named Zucker, who own and
operate a chemical manufacturing company, are noted
for the harmony with which they conduct their busi
ness.
“How is it possible for a family to get along as you
do without friction?” they are often asked. One of
them explained the mystery the other day.
“When we deadlock on a matter of policy," he says,
“which isn't often, we have a referee whose decision all
six of us are agreed shall he final. That is our mother.
We simply adjourn to mother’s home, set the case be
fore her. and she decides.
“It works like a charm, for mother's always right.
At least, if she isn’t, we never know the difference, be
cause we always abide by her ruling. And you can see
for yourself, the business has prospered!”
Perfectly simple, isn’t it? Millions of families in
this country have pursued the same sensible policy
successfully when the children were little, only to for
get it somenow when they grow up.
S YMPA THETIC CL RIOS/TY
A citizen writes sadly to his newspaper as follows:
“It never tails that when I go to work on a new job,
the inquisitive will inquire: ‘Are you married?’ I)o
you stay at a rooming home? What street is it on?
How much is the room, rent? Do you board yourself
What restaurant do you patronize?’
Ihe busybodie. look in my lunch box and then tell
around the shop just what I have and don’t have. My
experience is not exceptional, and I have known many
other similar instances, and I write this as illustrative
of the malicious meanness of human nature, as I never
knew it to lail that an inquisitive person is alwavs a
knocker.”
It is easy to sympathize with this wail. The nosy,
tale-bearing human is quate a, pest. And yet isn’t
there another side to tnis intense inquisitiveness. Isn’t
some of it honest interest in a fellow-worker?
In those days when so many young men and women
live and work in communities away from their own
kin, there is a perfectly natural interest in how the
other fellows are making out. Not all of those inde
pendent folks are perfectly happy and satisfied with
their own situation. They like to hear of another
rooming house or restaurant that is perhaps an im
provement in price and accommodation over their own.
They want greatly to know whether their own expe
riences are as fortunate—or unfortunate—as those
of the other workers around them.
Reticence in such matters isn't one of the things the
rising generation is accused of. But to a sympathetic
onlooker their persistent inquiries seem to be stirred
more by a sort of scientific curiosity than by “malic
ious meanness.”
Farmers veil for relief not because they expect much
kelp, but became it relieves their feelings.
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Bed-Time Stories
Copyright, 1927, by McCiure
Newspaper Syndicate
Ey HOWARD E. GARIS
UNCLE WIGGILY AND NOSIE'
POSIE
One* 1 upon a time, as Uncle It ig
gilv was hopping through the woods
wondering, in a way, whether he
would happen upon an adventure,]
! all of a sudden the rabbit gentleman :
1 come upon a large box in a clearing
I The clearing was a place where
there were no trees and few bushes.
1 and Unele Wiggily could see the box
■ quite plainly. It was about as
j large as his bungalow and the Wog
j glejig bungalump put together.
"I wonder who lives iu that qui r
'box house?" said Uu.de Wiggily.
| speaking out loud, though not re.illy
i knowing he had done so.
| ‘-Nobody lives in it." answered
I a Nquiggli- Bug, who, with his broth
I er «-aeh one wearing a fur eoat, was
Ii ut playing snowball. “Nobody,
said the Squiggie Bug, “lives in
that house. In fact. it isn t a
house.
“What is it, then?" asked Uncle
Wiggily.
Before the Squigghr t ould an
swer a voi o' from the box called:
“Let me out! Oh, please let me
out! ' ’
“I thought vou said no one lived
there," remarked Unele Wiggily.
“No one reallv lives there, in a
manner of “peaking, “ went on the
Squiggle Bug. “But that box is
a trap and Nosie l’osie is caught ,
there. ’
“That box a trap! N'osie Tosh
• aught ihere! How dreadful!
eried the rabbit gentleman. “Who
j- Nosie r*osie?“
“We don't know," buzzed the'
, second Squiggle Bug. speaking in
I place of his brother. *‘ We got hero
i just as the door of the trap box
• sprang shut, and we heard a voice
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| “And whoever it is, whether a i
! ] im or a her, its name is Xosie I’*■»
it-," went on The other Squiggler. !
“We have been trying to think of j
a way to let it or him or tier out,
but we couldn't."
“Being that we lire so small you ■
) know. “ said the other tsijuiggler to
Vnele Wiggily.
“1 see," said the rabbit gentle-
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know.
man. “Well, I’ll let Xosio I’osie
out.'' With that Uncle Wiggily
took part of a rail front a nearby
fence and, putting one ( nil under
ibe odge of the trap door, began to
pry it up. As the dm r «hd up and
open something long end thin, like
a snake, stuek out from beneath
it.
•'Better be eareful” cried the
Squigglcrs. “Snakes like rabbit?,
Uncle Wiggilv.”
“I'm not afraid,” rpokc the bun
uv. ‘ • Anyhow snake? don’t come
out in winter.’’ So he raised the
<!o« r higher and then, all of a sud
den, nut of the trap box stopped a
cute, little baby elepji.nnt. I say a
littli' bn by elephant, but of course |
even the smallest baby elephant was
mtuli larger than Uncle Wiggily.
"Oh, how kind of you to let me j
out! trumpeted the baby elephant
as he stood near Mr. l.ongears. ‘‘l
am Xosit* Posie, vou know."
’'l didn't know it until you told!
me just now.' said the buanv.
•'Oh, yes," went on the baby
elephant. ‘‘l am ealled Xosie be
' auso my trunk, or nose, is s 0 long,
yon see," he added. "And I am
: called I‘osie because 1 am so fond
! of flowers.''
"Mow did you get in that box
: trap? asked Uncle Wiggilv while
: the Squiggle Hugs flittered their
1 'sings beneath their fur coats \erv
! stylish like.
••Why," explained Xosie,
■ was walking along to get back to
’be warm barn where the < ir us is
slaying for the winter, when, all of
a sudden, J .smelled peanuts. Vou
■sec. my mother, who .s a log ele
phant, works m a c reals, ’ explain
• on the small * so 1 know p--.\
l nuts when 1 smell Vm."
•‘Tel! t:s about the peanuts,"
suggested on** of the Smugglers.
' Oh, yes," went on Xosie l’osie.
Well, I smelled peanuts and they
were iu that. box. which I didn't
know wax trap. I went in aft-r
*he peanuts, down slammed the door
and I was caught. IVI be there vet
if it hadn’t been f,, r you, Unde
A’igg-ly. Thank you, so mu-h.”
"ITay, do not mention it," spoke
tie bunny politely. "It was a pleas
,i re for m o to hrl vou. M
‘‘And, here, 1 think, is a chance
t°r me to help you.” suddenly
t i rnpcted Xosie Posie. And it sens.
Tor just then the Woozie Wolf, who
, had si-t the trap to rat eh Uncle Wig
| July, came along and now tried to
e itch the bunny. Hut the babv eh
Fi ant reached out his long trunk of
i nose and blew a lot - f snow "
1 the eves of the Wolf so the bad
chap roughed and sneezed, and
By Williams
while he was doing that I'nele Wig
gily honued home t 0 his bungalow.
Ihe baby elephant went back to
the circus, where his mother was
waiting, and the Squigglers went to
the movies. So everything was all
i ght. And if the milk bottle pud
ding will take the postage stamp
pie skating with the goldfish, I’ll
tell you next about Uncle Wiggilv
and Pincliie lnchie.
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell of Im
perial Valley for this Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
January 28, 1907
Or. Bond was over from llolt
ville. Thursday. He and Mrs. 11. A.
Holt have a fine ranch on the East
side and are doing some extensive
improvements.
A subscription is being circulated
to aid in securing and maintaining
a free reading room in Ki Ceutro.
This should be subscribed to liber
ally for a convenient place to drop
into and read one's favorite maga
zine or paper is of benefit to all
of us and it helps materially to
while away the time outside of
working hours; especially is this
true of the man who is at work
and has no home of his own where
he may spend the evenings.
Parties here are in receipt of
the senate document, relating to
the lower Colorado matter, which is
one of the most interesting little
pamphlets. Jt contains all of the
telegrams that passed from Presi
dent Roosevelt to F. Tl. Harriman
of the Southern Pacific company,
together with many photographs of
the damage done by it he high wat
er. It certainly is 'complete with
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3 MORE DAYS OF
WHOLE TOWN’S TALKING”
COMING SUNDAY, JAN. 30
“FAMILY UP STAIRS”
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Hat Sale
For Men!
-Stetsons - Kingsburys and Dobbs
In Broken Lines
$5 to $7.50 Hats $3.85
$8 to $lO “ $5.95
$l2 to $l5 _ “ $7.85
Rare Good Savings On Fine Hals
WE WANT YOU TO SEE THESE REAL REDUCTIONS.on
good felt hats in the men’s store well known makes such
as Dobbs, Stetson and Kingsbury in styles and shades that
are desirable.
—Plenty of browns, tans and greys with some sizes missing in
some of the styles—see them in the windows.
New College
Hats $3.50
Black Felts-Fancy Bands
HERE’S THE SMART NEW HATS for young fel
lows. Black felt College hats—snap brims with
fancy bands—they are all t*'e rage on the campus
and are shown first here in El Centro.
realistic facts and should be quite
a valued possession.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
January 25, 1912
A neat bungalow is being erected
ut Seeley on a choice corner do
nated by the tow'nsite people, to be
used for church purposes until a
larger and more permanent building
can be constructed. The structure
will also bo used temporarily as a
school house, for the new district
which is being organized. The work,
on the building has been donated
by the carpenters and ranchers in
and about the town. <
Four automobiles left Brawloy
yesterday for the trip over the new
route by way of the Coachella vat
lev and Banning to Los Angeles.
Several autos from Yuma have also
undertaken the trip this week.
J- J- Pettus, an extensive busi
ness man of Gordon, Texas, has
sent to the Press for literature on
Imperial Valley, as he has become
interested hero anil is considering a
removal to this valley to engage in
business.
TEN YEARS AGO
January 2S, 1917
A marriage license has been is
sued to Victor Sublet!, age-1 3N,
and Miss Stella McXamara, age 1
38, both residents of Brawloy.
Former Chief of Police Wilson,
well known in Imperial count*’, is
having a hard time landing a job in
San l'iego. He was recent lv do
pose<l ns head of the police depart
nient and an effort made bv his
friends to land him the superinten
denev of the juvenile department
appears to have been unavailing,
llis successor. J. K. Steer, canno’
see the wisdom of the move.
1 Mrs. \ irgil Mr Combs of Los An
gelrs is the guest of Mrs. Hen Sale
! men.
Mack Sennett of the Keystone
j Film Co. fame, accompanied bv T)e
puty Sheriff 11. W. Cline, J. p. Mrs
Tuesday, January 25,192
ton and Ed Featherstone of I,
Angeles, cume down this moruij
for some duck hunting in the v|
ley. The party Is registered at I
liarburu Worth.
License Service j
Closes Saturda
Motorists of lm|K-rial Valley
are to take advantage of the !
license service offered them by
State Motor Vehicle Dopar.p
must do so this week. The ten
rnry office situated in tin- cm|
court house will In- closed St-fur
This announcement was made j
morning by Inspector Walter (I
More than 3500 licenses I
been issued at the office and 1
deeds of motorists are being hi
led daily. The inspector, howu
urges that those wishing to oil
licenses through this bureau fill
plications at once as only a litrl
amount of work can ho done bl
closing Saturday.
This is the first year that ml
ists have been afforded this sol
and the venture has been a su-J
till or r. It eliminates the nl
sitv of sending application!
Sacramento and the waif of sol
days by the motorist for the rl
->f the plates. I
THE WEATHER
I.os ANGELES AND VICE
I fi r tonight and Wednesday
moderate toin|irrnture.
S( H’TII Id UN c\ 1.1 roKNI/
•’air tonight and Wednesday;
E’ost in the interior tonight.
Mot.cy to Loan on Automi
Slot ling Securities Co. Jnr.. Ft
Cross. Mgr. OfiO Main St.