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Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19
TWO VETERANS

1t is not an unusual occurrence in parts Of the
United States which have been settled longer than In.
nni Valley, for business houses to observe the one
I1ndredth anniversary Of their founding, and in
some can point with pride the saying is to
undred years Of existence.
Centre has no such "Old timers, but it has two
ess houses which might be reckOned real Veter
S business age is considered here. B. SalomOn
company and the Imperial Valley Hardware Com
are observing anniversaries this week
The former, organized p years ago by Ben Salo-
landmark among Ell Centro establishments. Nr. SaO
mon has been separated from the company several
wears but the policies which he established have been
carried out by the firm which bears his name.
Twenty years ago, George Anderson and n.
p Never associated themselves III business on MOI
est scale their efforts growing into the Imperial al
lev Hardware Company, Of the largest concerns
of its kind west of the Mississippi river The orgl-
nal owners still direct its policies which have been
unchanged since the business founded.
The growth OF these firms has been synonymous
with the growth Of Ell Centro The years OF her exist
ence have not been all beer and sHttes. There nave
been times when required considerable business 2b-
itv to keep things going bat the men behind the firms
have met the demand
There are, perhaps, other businesses in II Cen
celebrating their anniversaries this week and 1or the
present they hold the spotlight
The Press extends its congratulations TO the Two
aterans parenthetically IeseIEn" the thought tnal
we are older than either Of them in manner OF speak
ING and hopes that the Imperial Valley Press Of May,
oG06 NAV carry little story 70 the effect that oaio-
mons and the Imperial VALLEY Hardware Company are
mis- week observing the h~ndrcdta anniversary Of
their establishment
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19
GO TO II RTRON

The decision of BurOn Fits to resign as lieutenant
governor of the State of California will cause only
slight regret among the Of the state in view of
that popular veterans plan to seek election district
attorney of Los Angeles county
None would discount the Importance of the office
of lieutenantgovernor, for indeed it is an important
office, but diplomat handle the office to the
tire satisfaction of all, and Buron Fits is dpo
mat. He is fighter.
!. And if there was ever a place where fighter can
get plenty of fighting it is in the district attorneys
Hffice at Los Angeles. AS the most important metro
a1ifRp in the West Los Angeles is in the spot
lntinuously and too often in thepast few years
um has shown upon it unfavoraby because Of
Pssness with which it seems surfeited.
little blame for the lawlessness can be traced
in the district attorneys office and the stran-
which corrupt politicians have upon it. Sew
es mshandled in recent years have been moth
than national scandals.
&ycessfu operation of the office requires a two
ed fighter who will refuse to be influenced by poll
4cians and who will adhere to thing ony-IaW
forcement.
Buron Fits proved himself fighter in the Ar
gonne and he has been proving it every day since None
but fighter could survive eighteen major physical
operations and keep going. Fits keeps going.
AS district attorney of Los Angeles county he can
serve the entire state better than he in the state
senate for he put biggest showcase in order
and keep it
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19

Deed in and to all of the following
described property situate in the
County of Imperial, State of Cali.
fornia, to-wit:
The North 50 acres of the
West half Of the Northwest
quarter of Tract 140, Township
16 South, Range IA East, S. b.
M, according to United States
Government Supplemental plat
of rcsurvey approved June IA,
1910, and on file in the United
States Land Office at Los An
gelcs, California;
Excepting thcrcfrom the
East Ten O0) acres thereof.
Together with all appurten-
anccs. or 50 much thereof as
shall be necessary to pay the
total amount of the principal,
interest, advances, charges and
costs then due and unpaid.
Dated this 18TH day of May, 1929
PIONEER ABSTRACT & TITLE
GUARANTY COMPANY.
BY w. W. McEUEN, Nicc-Prcsidcnt
Attest: J. S. CAMERON, Asst. Sec
Corporate Scal.)
MAY 10 26 June >
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19
No. 1892
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE

WHEREAS, by Deed of Trust
dated June l6, 1925, recorded July
27 1925, in Book 90, at Page 420.
and following, Official Records of
Imperial County, State of Califor-
mia, to which record reference is
hereby made, X. 7. Pcntecost and
Sue c. Pentecost, husband and wife,
and George w. Reasonover and
GwendOlyn Reasonovcr, husband
and wife, did grant and convey the
property therein and hereinafter
described to Pioneer Abstract and
Title Guaranty Company, Il corpora
tiOn, as trustee, to secure, among
other things, the payment of one
certain promissory note in favor of
Southern Trust and Commerce Bank,
Il corporation, for ~, 10000 and
other sums of money advanced and
interest therein, and,
WHEREAS, the said trust deed
has been duly assigned to the Bank
Of Italy National Trust and Say
ings Association, II corporation, and,
WHEREAS, default was made in
the payment of installment of prin
cipal due June 16, 1927, and Il de
fault in the payment of interest due
June l6, 1927, and subsequent in.
stalmentS of interest, and the said
Pank of Italy National Trust and
Savings Association, Il corporation,
in accordance with provisions of
law applicable thereto, did record
: "a .p = I.,
cr of Imperial County, state of
California, a notice of such breach
of obligation, and of its election to
declare all indebtedness evidenced
10y said promissory note and secur-
ed by said deed of trust imme-
diately due and payable, and of its
election to cause the said property
to be sold to satisfy the obligations
secured by said deed of trust and to
accomplish the objects of said trust,
and has demanded that the under.
signed trustee sell the property
granted by said deed of trust, in
, accordance with the. terms thereof,
for the purposes therein and herein
stated, and
WHEREAS, more than three
months have elapsed since the re-
cording of said notice, and said de-
fault has continued to this date.
NOW, THEREFORE, Notice is
, hereby given that the Pioneer Alb
, stract 4 Title Guaranty Company,
by virtue of the premises and of tho
authority vested in it hy said deed
Of trust as trustee, will sell at pub.
lie auction to the highest. bidder
for cash in gold coin of the United
States. on the 1lth day of June,
1928, at the hour of l0:o0 a. m. of
said day, at the northern entrance
of the court house in the City Of
RI Centre. County of Imperial,
State of California, all the inter
| est conveyed to it by said Trust
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD E. GARIS
Copyright, 1927, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
FENCE HOLES

For a long time tile Woozie
Wolf looked ut the sentence with
letters missing from manv words.
The Lady Mouse Teacher from the
LolloH stump School had written
the puzzle with white chalk ON a
black rock.
You cant nibbla Uncle Wig
eily until you put in all the mis-
sing Iettcrs and recite the verse,
the Mouse had squeaked.
"Then l give up. I can do it,
IN nibble Uncle WiggiIy some
other time, snaricd the Wolf, and
Lack 10 his den he went.
"Thank You, Miss Mouse >
spoke the bunny gentleman. You
saved my life with that puzzla. -
1T was You who taught me how
10 make puzzles, said Miss Mouse.
Fut this was so easy even q baby
wolf could have read it.
"Ot course, chuckled Uncle
Wiggilv. ~ can read it myself.
When the missing letters We're put
ir the verse said: Once little
boy had a great big dog. He used
t. sit upon the fence and croak
lust like frog How was that? >
Very good, answered the
Lady Mouse. "That't the answer.
Bat did YOU mean went on
Uncle Wiggily, THAT the boy
,roaked like a frog or the dog
did
'Oh, why do YOU ask me 50
many questions laughed Miss
Mouse. And then she crcpt away to
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19

lis silly little tail, no bigger than
your thumb. For wherever the Bob
Cat went his tail went also.
Il think m going to catch that
rabbit this time, purrcd the Bob
Cat to himself. THE Fox and
Wolf couldn t fool him, but think
# | hide behind one of those fences
down at the bottom of the hill, and
make noise like an ice cream
soda, Uncle Wiggilv viii stop and
look to see what it is, and then ! i!
catch him.
SO the Bob Cat went s}inhng
lis way down to the bottom of the
lll where there were some fences
with holes in them.
"When | make Il sound like an
Ice cream soda il will sift through
the holes,' thought the Bad Chap.
{" Uncle Wiggily win hear it and
G. me around the corner to see what
il 5 all about Then l II grab him!
Uncle Wiggily and the Bob Cat
reached the fences at the bottom of
the hill about the same time. Thr
Bob Cat was just getting ready to
h:dc and make a noise like an ice
cream soda but, all Of sudden,
through one Of the fence holes,
Mr.. Longears caught sight Of the
silly little tail, no bigger than your
thumb.
''Oh, Mr.. Bob Cat! | see you"
cried the rabbit. :" Comc out! You
can t play any tricks on me! -
But the Bob Cat was so angry
that out from behind the fence he
rJshcd, growing; "IH have your
cars. anyhow.'
Before the Bah Chap could nib
hIc any ears, all at once through
five holes in the fences five diff
fcrent tails were, thrust and a voice
said
Here we are, Uncle Wiggily,
Five friends of yours. We have
stuck our tails through holes in
the fence and the Bob Cat must
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19

when he had rubbed the chalk
marks off the rock that was like
a school blackboard. But | must
hop along and have another.
Up hill and down dale, over the
fields and through the woods hop
fcd the rabbit gentleman, and II"
was twinkling his pink nose and
thinking how soon il would be sum
mrr when, all of sudden on dis
t3ent hill, he saw the Bob CAT.
"Oh, hot said Uncle Wiggily
to himself. "There is one Of the
BAD Chaps, and l think he 5 after
nic.
Surely enough the Bob Cat had
seen the rabbit, 50 he began creep
ing down the hill after the bunny
uncle And after the Bob Cat came
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of I'm
perial Valley for this Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Nav 10, 1908

The National Fruit and Produce
Company, which will distribute the
cantaloupcs grown by members of
the Imperial CaEtaloupc As9ocia-
tlon, has received the labels to be
attached to cantaloupe crates this
season. The words "California Can
taloupcs, - IN red ink help to form
the border Of the label. An unusually
attractive girl is extending plate
on which is cantaloupe ready to
eat The Imperial Fruit and Pro
duce company, which will ship
through the Edmund rcycke com
.pany, has also caused a new label to
be printed for the coming season.
Its shipments will be designated
the "Arrow Brand. An arrow in
flaming red is shown penetrating II
c;,ntaloupe of standard size.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Nav 10 1919

s. NJ. BiXby has sold his home
ranch of so acres between FL Cen
tro and Imperial for $4,000 net,
he retaining the produce until Oct
ober |. The buyers are old friends
Of his from st. Paul ID. X. and Amos
llavencr. Mr.. and Mrs. BiXby are
among the earliest pioneers of the
valley. 1t will please their friends
to know that they will buy another
place here, and continue to make
their home here.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19

guess who We are Just by looking
at our tails and not looking oyer
the tops Of the fences.
"sOh. what fine ppzzle,' cried
Mr.. Longcars. ''Go on. Pob Cat
he said. "Look mt the tails through
the holes and guess whose they are
before YOU Try to nibhlc my ears.
Now see ii You can be smarter
than the Bob Cat and guess whose
tails these are. And if the letter !
doesn t see the Blue Jay trying to
drop acorns through the hole in the
letter 0. YOU shah next hear about
Unele Wiggily and the fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19
TEN YEARS AGO
Nav 10, 1918

Imperial Valleys first fat
ccw train : is being made up for
Kansas City No longer will butch
cls of the valley be able to offer
any figure they desire, knowing
they have no competition. Now
Kansas City offers from 5 to 9
cents pound for the valley cows.
!. 7. Sparks of the Southern Pacific
now has - ears assured for the
train, which will move ouj OF here
June >
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19

San Diego county expects soon to
erect a modern court house on the
site at present occupied by one old
and inadequate.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19

her home under toadstool, after
again thanking Uncle WiggiIy for
having helped get her tail out of 4
cIack in tn" rock.
"Well, that was pretty good
adventure, said Mr.. Longcars
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19
1or RYAN wITHDRAWS IN
FAVOR OF BURoN FITT

LOS ANGELES. May l9-JoSti'a
nan former deputy district atfor-
- has withdraw from the race
w. & district attorney Of Los Angcles
eonntv in the fall elections.
Id has as.-4 that --- -aIg-It-'-
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19

In 1891 and 1892 the tin minas
near Corona, Riverside county, pro-
duccd 250,O00 pounds of tin.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19

... tlr.r VOTES to Lt.GoE BHroa
Pitts. u0o announced D,. candidacy
..~tyra@r.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-19

The codUr2 moth Is emerging One
month Jr'tr than Iast vcar in the
,al4-. .a.. Lea -.e. county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05

the Tammany friend of labor" Robinson,
the crude politician of the West, said what
Smith, the slicker politician of the East, has
had in mind in all he said about collective
bargaining, something analogous to col
lective bargaining, the Rockefeller Plan of
Scab company unions, in other words.
Take Robinson's words little further. He
speaks against "abuse of injunctions' in la
Dor disputes. This means absolutely moth
ing unless it means that he is in favor of
injunctions in labor cases, except where they
can be adjudged (by capitalist COURT to be
an "abuse" of injunctions. And he explains
exactly what he means:
in other words the process has been abused
in labor disputes by the granting of injunctions
in PRETENDED emergencies" (Our en-
phasis)
He means injunctions in labor disputes
must be granted to employers against the
workers only when there is a real emer-
gency, and not merely pretended" one.
The employers must have injunctions, he
says in effect, only when they need injunc-
tons in order to beat the workers. He cites
the democratic platform to prove it.
Why, then, is this criminal anti-labor plat
form of the democratic party supported by
trade union bureaucrats? Because there is
a very real and fundamental agreement be-
tween the views of such men as William
Green, the trade union bureaucracy gener-
ally, and the anti-labor views which Robinson
expresses. (And of course there is no real
difference between the democratic and re-
publican positions on the subject)
Is not the Executive Council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor now doing every
thing in its power to crush out every spark
of resistance in the working class against the
employers offensive? Is not their openly
expressed policy of partnership between
labor and capital only another name for a
system analogous" to company unionism?
And have they not already given their crea-
tive support to the infamous bar association
project for a national anti-strike law which
would practically universalize the power of
injunction against all workers organiza
tions?
The closer Al Smith comes to that COM
pany unionism analogous to collective bar
gaining" the closer the betrayers of labor
headed by William Green will come to All
Smith.
Vote Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
By /. AWTER.

CLEVELAND, Sept. 4.-Jim Mau-
rer, vce-presidential candidate of
the socialist party, was booked to
speak in Cleveland on August 49,.
The picnic at which he was to speak
vas arranged by the Jewish
'branch" of the socialist party in
Cleveland. Socialism is so respec-
table that the picnic was announced
at the meeting of the Cleveland
Federation of Labor, one of the most
reactionary central labor bodies in
the country, which prides itself on
knowing how to deal with the mill
tants and progreBsiyes. Notices
were in the cleveland Citizen" ed
tied by that old-tine socialist, Max
Hayes. What more could one want!
Surely a respectable crowd would
appear at Lakeland to hear Jim
Maurer.
Did not Jim have enough of the
"red" about him to attract even the
militant, the Communist? Had he
not been in the Soviet Union and
made fine speeches over there-and
even over here when he returned?
And Maurer had not yet been in
Cleveland. Surely good crowd
would gather to hear him-the "fu-
lure vice-president" of the United
States.
But it was all miscalculated. To
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05

"The 1000 families who live on
this avenue between 34th St. and
goth st. spend total of $3.50, 900 900
or $4,000 per family during the
year. They spend for women's
clothing S5O,0o0,00O year, or $780,
900 day; for liquor, according to
the reporter, $15,000,0O0. They
spend $26,922 day for yachts, SILL
53S day for flowers. A father
spends $4,000 for a single debu-
tante daughter. The women and
girls in this section on average each
spend yearly $6,250 for clothing,
$4,000 for furs, $500 each in beauty
shops, 5000 for hats. The paltry
five millions that these four thou
sand families give to charity" is
only one-tenth of what the women
spend on clothing alone. And a
large proportion of these people are
protesting Christians"
"The following is a partial list Of
their yearly expenditures:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
American Capitalists Live in Luxury
By GEORGE PADMORE.

There has never been a president
of the United States who has been
so fond of boasting about the pros
perity which the capitalists enjoy as
Mr.. Coolidge. This gentleman, who
owes his position as chief executive
of the most powerful and richest
nation in the world to the servile
way in which he serves the interests
of the American bourgeoisie, can
we'll pirate about the great wealth
which the owning class of America
controls.
There is no doubt about it. Amer
lea is the banker of the world, due
largely to the last war when the
workers fought and the exploiters
remained at home and fattened on
wartime production. A partial ex-
animation of this idle chatter of the
president reveals the fact that when
Coolidge talks about prosperity he
means the prosperity of the bankers,
industrial capitalists and corrupt
politicians. True, there is prosper
ity in America for the MELONS,
Rockefellers, Fords, Schwabs, Hoo
vers, AL Smiths, Raskobs, du Points,
ETC., etc. But there is not even the
full dinner pail for the workers, poor
farmers and the oppressed Negro
race. Whatever little these groups
once enjoyed is today thing of the
past.
In this age of trust, monopoly,
syndicates and cartels, the middle
class of America is fast disappear
ing into the ranks of the proletariat,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
The "Unionism" of Al Smith.

Every time the spokesman of the big capt.
talist political parties open their heads on
what they call the labor question" the
growing intimate relations between the heads
of the great open-shop industrial kings and
the heads of the American Federation of
Labor become clearer.
1t seems that all capitalist leaders are
''for labor" in this election campaign, and
certainly the reactionary trade union bureau
Gratis are for capital
Here are few words from the Labor Day
address of Al Smiths running mate, SEN
ator Robinson
The employers of laborers in large numbers
have long applied business methods in their
enterprises ANALOGOUS TO COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING. While the present system is
not perfect in its operation, it is nevertheless
deemed essential to the carrying on of the ma
tons business, as well to the best interests
of employees"
We have put into capital letters the words
analogous to collective bargaining" What
does this strange expression mean? What
is the method analogous to collective bar
gaining" which 'the employers of laborers
in large numbers have long applied?
Evidently by "the employers of laborers
in large numbers" Mr.. Robinson can only
mean the great industries such as the Steel
Trust, the monster automobile manufactur-
ing corporations, machine manufacture in
general, corporations such as those of the
Rockefellers, with perhaps some large raik
roads, etc. And he speaks, not of collective
: bargaining, but of methods analogous to
#collective bargaining, and not of trade
<union methods applied by the workers. but of
"business methods" which the employers
"have long applied"
If Mr.. Robinson means anything atall he
means to suggest that the democratic party
platform has in view company unionism as
the utmost that the democratic party wants
to promise the workers. system analogous
to collective bargaining" but applied" by
employers of laborers." (And of course
even these are empty words-for Mr. Raskob
and Mr.. du Pont will decide for themselves
whether they can best suppress their"
workers with or without company unionism)
Some careful thinking ought to be done by
any workers who may be under the spell of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Coolidge prosperity" Applies Only to the
Exploiting Class; How Other Half Lives

which grows bigger and bigger un-
der the oppressive weight of big
business. Marx was truly right
when he said: SIN proportion as
the bourgeoisie is developed, in the
same proportion is developed the
proletariat, the class of modern
workers who live only so long as
they find work, and who only find
work as long as their work increases
capital"
How Capitalists Live.
In order to illustrate how utterly
false and bankrupt this swan song
of Coolidge prosperity, as far as the
workers are concerned, we publish
partial list of the report of the
Park Avenue Association which
should be compared by American
workers who are today confronted
with one of the most acute economic
depressions in the history of the
nation.
"The most Characteristic example
of American luxury may be found in
the record of expenditures on Park
Avenue, New York City, as esti-
mated and officially stated by H.
Gordon Duval, late president of the
Park Avenue Association, published
in the New York Times and World,
Jan. % of last year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Gar of Pressmen's Union Wakes Wealthy On
Continued Betrayals of Workers

has broken many strikes this way.
One of his most infamous exploits
was breaking the 1919 New York
"vacationist" strike. Recently he
sent professional scabs in to break
the pressmen's strike in the Cuneo
Co.'s plant in Chicago. Such scab-
herding comes easy to Berry as he
himself was originally a strike
breaker in St. Louis, where he was
given a card in the union to induce
him to quit scabbing.
Broke Pressmen's Strike.
The strike of the New York web
pressmen illustrate the methods of
Berry. In 1921, under influence of
the great postwar drive against
labor, Judge Manton, arbitrator in
the New York pressmen's dispute
with the employers, made an award
conceding all the employers de-
mands including wage reductions
and drastic worsening in working
COiOlJlOIlS. Although SiiIdSSu, Oilc
web pressmen fulfilled the awards
terms until the agreement expired in
1923. At this time Berry, arbitrar-
lily taking charge of the situation,
dallied and delayed for weeks,
maneuvering with the employers to
force the workers to accept unfavor-
able terms.
Finally the pressmen struck, tying
up all the big New York papers.
Berry outlawed the strike and
ordered the men back to work. He
also issued call to all his locals
in the U. S. and Canada to furnish
scabs at $4,000 per day and he open
ed an office to recruit strike-break-
ers. The Burns Detective Agency
worked with him recruiting scabs.
The strike lasted II days. The men
were driven back to work under
conditions but little better than
those of the Manton award, in the
name of the sacredness of contracts.
The employers praised Berry ex-
travagently, and so did the labor
reactionaries.