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lon has influenced in peculiar degree
the history OF his time.
One of the interesting Slants in Mr..
Melons character is his continuing at
lection for Pittsburgh the city he helped
to make, the city which helped to make
him. There today Is the great marble
temple OF the Mellon bank. Inside, Ill
place OF honor, stands the iron statue OF
benjamin Franklin which once stood
over the old bank.
Even as boy he lived III bankers
World Dropping i'll to his fathers bank
20 uelp take down the shutters on the
way to school. dropping In after school
70 sit in the cage. he knew OF his own
aIiuwiedge the effects of the first epoch
making banking act Of 1864. as he was
,ater to administer the provisions Of the
Equally important act creating the Fed
eIai Reserve.
1t was III those early banking days
III Pittsburgh that one Of MIR. Melons
greatest friendships began. 1t developed
out OF common interest in what was
to become the most important tendency
in American industrial development.
and 1t continued in what was to become
Mr.. Melons most important secondary
interest-his discriminating collecting
of paintings.
A young man named Prick was inter-
ested in new coke process. He came
to the MELONS for financial assistance
He got 1t. Mr. Mellon and his brothers
were among the first American bankers
to appreciate the soundness of what is
sometimes called industrial banking,
and the Importance of what he calls
the indignation of industry"
The first is the financing by bank
of new processes or resources to enable
them to get established on their own.
The second is the development within a
single industry of all the facilities to
turn raw material into finished pro-
ducts. Mr. Mellon from the first be-
lieved in both systems.
The Mellon Washington knows must
now be believed to be not an entirely
different Mellon from the Pittsburgh
young banker of that day. Careful con-
servatism, that foundation for public
confidence and steadier of public credit.
Continued on Fifth Page)
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London May Lose
Famous Old House

London is in danger of losing still
another of her famous old mansions
If negotiations for the sale of Lans-
downe house succeed there is little
doubt that this stately Adam house will
be demolished like its neighbor, Devon
shire house, to make way for a huge
block Of buildings containing apart
ments. restaurant and hotel
LanSdowne house, which, with its
gardens. covers the south side of
Berkeley Square, is at present in the
occupation Of H. Gordon Selfridge, who
secured it furnished from the late Lord
Lansdowne eight years ago.
1t is a typical specimen of the
domestic architecture of Robert Adam,
who, with his brother. built the Adelphi
and was erected in the middle of the
eighteenth century.
Lansdowne house is famous for its
political associations. In its classic
drawing room the old Wing coterie used
to meet early in the last century. and
in recent years 1t was the scene of i'm
portant conferences of the Unionist
party.
Thomas Moore, the Irish poet. sgd.
ney Smith, Lord Macauley and Nine
de Stael are among the notabilities who
use to be met there at parties In the
old days.
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This Hoary-Headed Falsehood
Has Lived Long Enough
BY BRUCE BARTON.

We need to Get two things
firmly in mind about American
business.
First: In a country growing as
fast as this, the earning power
Of money is very great. Your
banker will point out to you that
if, at FL, you begin saving
money regularly, systematically,
you will at so have as large m
income from your savings as you
now have from your salary.
In other words. any man in
America who will set himself
dosgedly at it can acquire
competence.
Ard second: Business in
America 10 expanding SO fast
that any man who will take
the trouble to equip himself, and
who will work determinediy,
can win a fair measure OF
success.
Luck, you ask? Yes.
~ believe there are lucky
men," said Charles M. Schwab.
"a have made it a rule OF my
life to surround myself with
lucky men; to have no other
kind Of positions Of Importance
that I control"
But when you come to ask
Charles M. Schwab what he
means by luck, you will discover
from his own career that he
means, first, hard work; second.
an unsuitable conviction that
no deserves to be lucky and is
going to be lucky.
Many men have the work
without the conviction.
Get that conviction today.
Get it firmly implanted in your
mind that in this country
majority Of the men your age,
who have less brains than you,
are going to be successful men
at so.
II you believe that you are
going to be one Of that majority,
If you save money and work,
you will win.
Don't tell me that you won't.
have never met you; but !
have met a good many self made
rich men. And, without knowing
you at all, ! tell you confidently
that you have more brains than
some Of them have.
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men who have worked for him in Wash
ington unite to admire this quality in
him. in the details of his administra-
ton as Secretary Of the Treasury.
And he has himself illustrated it from
time to time in his public speeches
However often Republican oratory has
justly celebrated the achievements of
his administration In connection with
the operation of the Federal Reserve
Board. he has on several occasions pub
licly called attention to the fact that
the passage OF the act itself was the
accomplishment of a Democratic adj
miniStratiOn.
Such acknowledgements are very rare
among men holding public Office of q
worthy of remark. Such acknowledge
ments in another man might have
sprung from sense of abstract justice
In Mr. Mellon they are part of his al
most shrinking modesty. They are a
part also of a certain Incorporating
honesty.
For there Is nothing abstract about
him. There is nothing vaguely magma
tive or philosophical. He fourisheS not
in the abstract but in the tangible. His
personality is a problem In geometry
not in higher mathematics.
Dislikes Useless Discussion. Z
Mr.. Mellon enjoys useless discussion
as little as he might enjoy biting at an
unfrayable obstacle. If a stone wall
blocks his exit. long before his opponents
have ceased to discharge their ammuni-
ton in defending 1t he will have for
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gotten the wall and sought another way
out.
His birthday almost coinciding in
date with his third term as Secretary of
the Treasury, Mr.. Mellon might we'll be
willing to let us count his candles, draw
interesting historic analogies and al
lude to his business successes.
For it should be q matter of just
pride to any man to be SO Superbly in
command of his intellectual faculties, so
physically adequate for further accom-
plishment at any age. II his hesitant
manner be disarming, Mr.. Melons ap-
parent frailty of body is deceiving
His Is a frame and face modelled with
the delicacy of distinction, not of in
validism. And If once our country was
in need of the young Hamilton. with his
imagination and daring. it was later
equally in need of the mature Mellon,
with his solidity of Judgment, his pa
thence.
Moreover, in the acquisition of those
riches. Mr.. Mellon had lived through
more, had been a part of--the financial
and industrial making of America
whose history bulks as large as that
starred with the names of military gen.
erals, the economic history made by
Frick, Rockefeller, Carnegie and the
rest.
Has Influenced History.
Out of that past. through those de-
veloping days. working alongside of
them and beyond nearly all of them
into the present. and of them the sole
one to enter into public Office, Mr.. Mel
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tang Congress now in session at Nam
king were hand picked by the central
government instead of being delegated
from the arenas they are supposed to
represent. War between the Wuhan
group and Marking seems imminent
and minor clashes are reported. The
sinister report arrives that Marshal
Feng Yu Hsiang, who has absented
himself from the congress, has resigned
as minister of war. and it is feared
that he proposes to join Wuhan. In
Shantung the infamous Chang Tsung
Chang. who is attempting to recover his
old tuchunate, is making Roadway
portentously, and the indication is that
Chefoo will soon fall to him. In the
great Province of Szechwan Gen. Yang
Sen maintains his independence and it
is rumored that he proposes to turn
over his entire strength TO WI Pei-Fu,
this long time in eclipse but perhaps
the ablest OF Chinese commanders, for
drive down the Yangtsze. There is ru-
NOR of a coalition to include Gen. Yen
Hsi Shan (Tuchun OF Shansi and, I'M
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brated on the gath of March
4 L Many candle symbolical of
each of the years of his many
accomplishments might be lit today.
Only he would not permit 1t.
He. would not permit 1t partly be-
cause of that genuine modeSty OF his,
but also for another reason. For there
are three sure-f1re ways of annoying
Mr.. Mellon. Let him hear you call him
the greatest Secretary of the Treasury
since Alexander Hamilton. Let him
hear YOU make some reference to his
great wealth. Let him hear you allude
TO his age.
Make any one of these errors and
then watch for the result in your
nearer. Slowly a bright pink floods
upward over his finely chiseIed face.
His large blue eyes look off into space.
And there Is a sort OF gentle silence
present One Of WaShingtons more
brash and violent statesmen made such
a blunder once It was after dinner.
Hanging upon the wall was certain
painting by one Of the great old mas
tiers whose purchase Mr.. Mellon was
considering.
II used to be like that" the voluble
statesman remarked. Il used to think
it'd be swell to have persons hear I'd
paid 100000 for a picture"
The painting he was looking at was
valued at many times that figure and
some of those who knew Mr.. Mellon
realized at that moment that the rea-
son why he would finally decide not to
keep it was in part because he utterly
shrank from having 1t heralded abroad
that he had purchased SO famous and
so expensive picture.
Gives Credit IN 0therx
This modesty of Mr. Melons is some
thing much more profound and search
ing than that of the mere 'shyness"
with which he Is sometimes credited
From it there branches as from the
tree of his being his almost anxious
ard meticulous desire to give complete
credit to others
Men who have worked with him and
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tonnage entering. During 1928 1t over
took Antwerp and Rotterdam in turn.
and finally 1t just nosed out London.
The 1928 figures approximately for the
five leading ports Of the world are as
follows: New York, 100000 tons;
Hamburg. 2l,500,000: London, 2l,300,-
600; Rotterdam. 20,500, 900; Antwerp.
100000. Hamburg's highest pre-war
figure was 100000 that for 1919 was
100000 The population of Hamburg
is increasing at a terrific pace. 1t now
approaches 100000, whereas in 1905
it was only about 100000.
X
CHINA.-If, as the dispatches assert.
the present situation in China has
never been surpassed for chaos even in
that country it is sufficiently unsettled.
Certainly the Marking government has
gone a dangerous arbitrary length in
attempting to establish the central au-
thority, in asserting the unitary as
against the federative principle. 1t is
said that considerable majority Of the
members of the third national Kuomin-
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and commenting on the project under
consideration by the committee OF an
international bank. which should hanle
German PREPARATIONS payments.
Though the communique contains no
such hint, it is plausibly enough rumor-
ed that the project contemplates that
the bank should function as a medium
for transmission of war debt payments
to the United States. Obviously such
an arrangement would make for con-
yenience, though no doubt the idea
would be abandoned should Washington
frOwn upon it Though We could scarce
ly refuse payments SO tendered).
1t is obvious how such bank OF
temporary and limited function might
evolve into a permanent planetary in
Stitution, co-Ordinating and protecting
all the exchanges. We are told that
Mr.. Owen Young, the grand advocate
of the bank project, has very much
In mind the evolution suggested. There
is nothing novel in the idea OF an in
ternational bank of the larger function:
it has occurred to everybody, just as
aerial nayies" We're imagined long be-
fore Langley. But its realization seemed
indefinitely of the future. Should 1t be
realized by way of the evolution sug-
gested, should the international bank
to deal with German reparations pay
ments be so framed as to make its evo-
luton easy, almost certain. into a
permanent International bank of plane
tary function. Mr.. Young would re-
quire no further monument; immor-
tally of fame would be assured him.
x
NOTES.-The dismal effects of the
terrible Winter on the economy of the
European Continent are being recorded
in reports of industry and trade, espe-
cially In those from Germany.
Little news reaches us of how mat
tiers are going in the kingdom of the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes under the
new dictatorship of the King. Let us
hope that the adage mo news Is good
news" applies in this case.
The Mexican instruction Is practical
ly over: another dismal chapter In Mex
lean history has been written.
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~HERE are few hoary-
headed falsehoods that
have lived too long.
Il One Of them is this:
NINETY five per cent Of the
men who 90 into business in
this country fail"
have heard speakers get that
off at dinners with ponderous
gravity; have seen it again
and again in magazine articles.
Recently a statistician has ex-
amined the records of business
success and failure in this eouno-
try, and has proved conclus've'y
that the statement is not true.
Ninety five per cent OF the
men who enter business do not
fail; and of those who do fail
a good many start over again,
pay up their debts and die
successful.
We have fallen into the habit
Of talking about success as It It
were something exceptional.
In America success is not the
exception--it is the rule.
l am continually amazed by
the mediocre men--men OF one
idea, men who bore you to death
il you have to talk with them
half an hour-who win out.
Five years ago a group OF us
used to wag our heads sadly
about the fate Of poor Horton.
He was buried alive in a great
corporation. To be sure, we did
not think he deserved much Of
the world; he had no genius.
only a logged sort of loyalty.
The other day ! received an
engraved notice that Horton had
been made general manager Of
his concern.
| picked up the latest copy OF
a trade paper yesterday. On the
cover was the name Of poor
stick used to know.
We wondered, when he mar
ried. how he could ever find a
job that would pay him enough
to support a wife.
That was six or seven years
ago. Yesterday in this trade
paper ! found full-lensth pic
ture of him, seated in his
mahogany trimmed office. He
has been made his eempany's
president.
{ConYri
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RECOVERY OF I'LL RUSSIA
IS FORESEEN BY EMICRE
Emissions the 'White, Blue, Red Flag
Which Is to Be the Symbol of His
Regenerated Country.

Noie-Dr EeoHid SfrdkhouSky is
member OF the Ge0roet0un School Of
FOREIGN Seruice and himself Russian
emiGrs. The SON Of a Russian Governor.
he fought AGAINST The BOiSheriks. tGG&
1gOuHded. imDTiSoned and finally escaped
from his ndfire land TO take HD sdRcG-
ftonal pursuits in other lands.
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BY ANNE HARD.

r VERE is the great and modest
man whose birthday is cele-
brated on the Gath of March
Il L Many candle symbolical OF
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IS: Il: :, Fl: E; Il ::
walls there seems TO be no life
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Copyright, 1927
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The following is brief summary of
the most important news of the world
for the seven days ended March 49,
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-26
Taylor Case In
Limelight Again

LOS ANGELES, Oct. %. U.P)-
The William Desmond Taylor muir
der mystery had one of its spas
modic returns to print today when
friends of Earl Boruff, Al, Long
Beach detective who was found shot
to death on October 1S, told the
sheriff's office that he "knew too
much about the Taylor business"
Boruff, according to the reports,
worked on the famous motion pic
ture Staying, and recently told
friends he would have solved the
mystery of Taylor's death if he had
not been told TO clay off,"
Taylor, then leading screen di-
rector, was shot TO death in 1928.
Mabel Normand and Mary Miles
Minter were questioned regarding
certain phases of the case. Boruff
then was with the department of
justice, according TO friends.
When Boruff's body was found
his own gun was beside it, indicat-
ing possible suicide, but later his
pocketbook, minus its contents, was
found a considerable distance from
the body.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-26
DAIRYMAN TAKES
LIFE FOLLOWING
FAMILY QUARREL

Nick Katheriner, 40, Portuguese
died late Yesterday afternoon from
self-inflicted bullet wound in the
head following family quarrel. He
was dairvman living about quar-
ter of a mile west of Silsbee schoo-
house. The body is being held by
Lemons funeral parlors pending
funeral arrangements which will be
announced later.
Mrs. Katheriner told Deputy Sher.
iff Rodney Clark that she and her
husband had quarrel. He stopped
arguing and grabbed a % calibre
rifle. His daughter attempted TO
wrest the gun from him but was un-
successful. He put the gun to his
right temple and pulled the trigger,
falling over on a bed unconscious.
lie died Il few minutes after the ar
rival of Lemons ambulance.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-26
Border Pioneer
Dies Suddenly

A coroner's inquest was to be held
this afternoon By Deputy Coroner
G. G. Cockley to determine the
cause of the death of j. w. Mccoy,
70, one of the Oldest pioneers in
Imperial Valley. lie had resided
in Calexico % years, having come
there in 1901. The aged pioneer
dropped dead just after entering his
house at $40 Pierce avenue. He is
believed to have died from an at
tack of heart trouble.
Mccoy was n bachelor and ma
tive of Virginia. He came to Cal.
cXico from Phoenix. Before NOV.
ing to Phoenix he lived in Illinois
and in Kansas. Two nieccs, one at
Millbras, Calf, another in Iowa
and u nephew in Virginia are known
surviving relatives, Cockley said
Tclcgrams have been sent to notify
them of their unclc's death.
j. +. Steintorf, friend of Mccoy,
was enroute TO the dcccased's home
to inform him of the death of a
friend, Thomas Face, III Colorado,
when advised of McCoy's death
McCoy's body was found by Mexi-
cans who frequently visited him.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-26
Daladier Will
Form Cabinet

PARIS, Oct. 26. U.P)-Edouard
Daladier, president OF the radical
socialist party, announced after q
series of fsconferences today that he
was prepared to accept President
Castor iDoumergue' invitation to
form new cabinet to succeed that
of AriStide BRAND, which was dc.
featcd Tuesday.
Daladier called on President Dou
mergue at the Elvsee Palace this
afternoon and officially Informed
the chief executive that he accept
ed the invitation to form Il new
government.
The socialists. under the leader.
ship of Jean Paul-Boncour, who had
been prominently mentioned as a
possible successor to BRAND. an
nounced they would meet tomorrow
to decide whether or not they would
participate in the new cabinet for
nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-26
Winwright Lauds
Imperial Valley

Possibilities of Imperial Valley
were discussed yesterday at the Ki
wants luncheon at the Barbara
Worth hotel by George Winwright
local assistant farm advisor. who
was the principal speaker of the day
Winwright gave his views of the
potcntialities of the valley in com
parison of farm land in South Da.
kota, from where he was recently
transferred.
A very bright future was predicted
by the speaker who expressed him.
self as being very much surprised
at the rent ranchers pay here for
land when the value of the land is
held so low.
DR.. John l.. Brandt, who is hold,
ing series of lectures at the State
Street church, was called on for a
few remarks. He complimented I'm.
perial Valley in general and FL Cen.
tro in particular.
Theophilus Fitz rendered several
vocal numbers which were we'll re.
ceived. Visitors for the day were
Ralph Cohn, l.. G. Finell and f.. w
Beidelman, all of Calexico, and Leo
Hetzel, FL Centre.
President Carl Jones announced
that the Kiwanis would hold a joint
meeting with the local Rotarians
next Thursday and consequently
there would not be n Kiwanis meet
ing the following Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-26
Plan To Unite
G. O. P. Bodies

SANTA BARBARA. Oct. 26. U.P
A proposal that 10 counties in
Southern California be formed into
an organization to be known as
"rhe Southern Counties Republican
Committee" was placed before chair
men of Southern California counties
today.
The purpose of the organization,
according to Fred II. Shauer, who
recommended the formation of the
organization, would be to discus.
and take action on all political mot
ters relating to Southern California
Among the counties that were askeC
to Join in the formation of the com
mittee were: San Diego, Imperial
Orange, Los Angeles, Kern, Ven
tura, San Luis Obispo, Rivorsid,
| Santa Barbara and San Bernardin,
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-26
SHERIFF WILL
STAND TRIAL
DECEMBER 5TH

Trial Of Sheriff Charles l.. Gillett
on five counts in the accusation
filed against him by the grand jury,
was set for December by Judge A
.C. Finney, in the superior court this
morning
OF the 81 counts named in the ac-
cuSation. all but the five were dis
missed, the court holding that dis
missal of one indictment by District
Attornc ylieald during the recent
trial Of the sheriff, and the jury g
verdict of not guilty on the other
two indictments, nullified the re-
naming 81 counts in the accusa.
ton.
The court ruled that the dismissal
and acquittal would be n bar to
trial of the sheriff on the same
charges under the accusation as
were named in the indictments, and
set the date of trial far enough
ahead to permit the district attor.
ney to apply for writ Of mandate
from the appellate court TO compel
trial on tho other charges, if he so
wished The district attorney con,
tended that he could try all the
counts again under the accusation
if he so desired, but the court ruled
against him.
Attorney Harry w. Horton, coun-
sci for the sheriff. asked that the
trial be started Monday, but this
was refused by the court. The
charges on which the sheriff will be
tried accuse him of moral turpitude.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-26
Indiana Dry
Leader Dies

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. o6.-U.P}-
The man who gave Indiana the most
stringent prohibition law in the ma
tion Is dead.
The Rev. DR.. f. s. shumaker, 60,
for two decades Superintendent of
the Indiana Anti-Saloon League and
known as "The perfect prohibitions
iSt," died late yesterday. Physicians
diagnosed the fatal disease as a NAL
ignant tumor the liver.
Those who supported the superin-
tendent in his long fight to make
Indiana the driest state in the union,
contended, however. that he was
martyr to the "cause." His health
was broken by a two months sem
tencc which he recently served in
the Indiana Penal Farm for con
tempt of the Supreme court which
he publicly charged was wet, and he
never recovered.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-10-26
Police Chiefs
Fate Deferred

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26. W.P)-
a special session will be held Mon
day by the police commission in an
effort to reach decision concern
ing the demands of the Developers
Association, civic organization
that Chief of Police Davis be re-
moved from office.
The commission sat in executive
session all day yesterday hearing
witnesses produced by the associa-
tion, and announced at the end of
the meeting that additional time
would be needed to complete the
ease.
Chief Davis is accused by the De.
velopers' Association with being in
efficient and guilty of malfeasance
in office.