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Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-26
Real Estate Bargains
Joe PaIooka

FOR SALE OR EXCHTNGE-A nice
36-room family hotel, lease and
furnishings of very nicely located
and established hotel. Will ex-
change for a good home or 40
acre ranch. Now is the time TO
buy as good hotels are seldom Of
fered for sale at the beginning of
the rush season. Other interests
demanding my time is the reason
for selling. Address st Regis no.
tel, Brawley, Calf. 26t3
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-26

FROSTLESS INLAND AREA -
Patented land and relinquish-
ments for sale, cash or terms.
Earl C. Pound, 730 A ST., Braw-
ley. Phone 10. 8-tu,S-lmo
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Imperial Valley Press
Information Department
BUY TT I'M Ell CENTRIC
Hutchinson and Company

Certified Public Accountants
Audits = Systems = Monthly Supervisors
Income Tax Consultants.
Rooms 112-114 Rehkopf Building
Phone 525 H. L. Soper Res MGR Ell Centro Cal
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-26
Miscellaneous For Sale

FOR SALE - One John Deere hay
press and one John Deere general
purpose tractor, good as new Must
be sold at once. See Ed Nice at
Nice's Feed Store, across from
the library. 25t2
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BENSON'S POULTRY
YARD
Buys all kinds of poultry.
SIG EAST SIDE AVENUE
CaleXico
4t1mo

NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING APPLI-
CATION FOR LETTERS TES-
TAMENTARY.
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the
County of Imperial, in the Mat
ter of the Estate of TAKAJI
SATO, Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that a petition for the probate of
the will of Takaji Sato, deceased,
and for the issuance to Raj Sato of
letters testamentary, has been filed
in this Court, and that Friday, the
9th day of January, 1882, at Two
O'Clock, p M, of said day, at the
Courtroom of said Court, at the
Court House, in the City of Ell Cen
tro. County of Imperial State of
California, has been set for the
hearing of said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and contest the same, and
show cause, if any they have, why
said petition should not be granted
Dated December 18th, 1881.
EDWARD H. LAW,
Clerk.
BY C. w. HINDERKS,
Deputy Clerk.
GLASSFORD S5 SMITH,
Attorneys for Petitioner. 16tl0
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-26

the Elks to assist him in diStribut-
ing the gifts from his overflowing
pack.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-26
NEW 3 WAY PROTECTION

NEW 3 WAY PROTECTION
TO CHICK BUYERS
Before buying find out just why
WHITES BONDED CHICKS ARE
BETTER and how you are pro-
tected. Send for our new FREE
folder and prices.
THE WHITE HATCHERY
PETALUMA CALF.
Approved by Sonoma County Farm
Bureau. Sat-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-26

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE 40
acres, clear of encumbrance, soft
soil, two miles east of Jasper
school. Small payment down or
trade for clear or nearly clear
near Pomona. Could help buyer
plant to citrus or pecans. VIM. d.
Johnston, 1l8 Lincoln Ave, Po-
mona. 3-th-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-26

FOR SALE wood, dry eucalyp-
tus, stove and fireplace, $3.50 per
Il cord on ground; $3.50 delivered.
One mile north of Highway Date
Ranch or Box 279, Rt 2. A. Pc
terson. 22t5
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ROOM FOR RENTAL 734 Brigh-
ton. tfdh
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Exchange

FOR TRADE - Alfalfa seed for
heifers or good young COWS. The
Fair. 1915 Main st. Phone 1890.
16t10
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For Rent-Farm Lands

WANT TO LEASE from S to 40
acres alfalfa. Could handle some
corn land. Might buy out tenant
having good lease. Soft land
preferred. Have cash. Write Mrs.
Barker, Press Box $50. 23t3
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FOR RENT-Rooms, $3.50 to $4.O0
per week. 425 Brighton. 24t3
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-26
Automobiles For Sale
For Rent--HOuSes

FOR RENT-5-room house, unfur-
nished. 723 Broadway. 26tl
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FOR SALE - Wire-haired fox ter
rier puppies. Eligible A. X. c.
registration Blue ribbon stock.
144 South Eighth st. 22t6
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-26

FOR SALE - Gas heaters slightly
used, half price. Phone 534-J 2lt5
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-26

FOR SALE-Pedigreed Mary Wash
ington asparagus plants. Roy
Shepard, S miles southeast of Ell
Centro. 22t6
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For Rent

FOR RENT-Small cigar and lunch
stand. 815 Main st. 26t6
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livestock For Sale

HORSES FOR SALE OR TRADE
Chester Vaughn, 4 mile west OF
West Side school house. 22t5
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-26

FOR RENT - Room with car park
ing space. 627 Orange Ave. 22t6
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I don't quite get
the idea Of some of our good
citizens desiring to prohibit the sale
Of firearms to honest citizens and
business men, collectors and ner-
chants. I'd say encourage them to
go armed and issue permits to them.
If they don't know how to handle
a gun and shoot, provide a place
ana teach them the art. It's the
only way TO suppress this banditry
and killing, at least giving citizens
chance in the present reign of
terror.
The bandits have all the ad-
vantage and are anxious to Use it
They don't have to buy guns. They
can break into hardware store or
rob an armory and supply them
selves with better guno than the
police are permitted to carry. I say.
arm the citizens, even the women.
If they can shoot, it will make our
state a better and safer place to
live.
The bandits of today are a lot of
yellow dogs, too cowardly to give a
man a chance for his life. Their
idea IS shoot first and if you have
no gun they shoot anyway.
The police are doing their best.
but they can't watch all of us. WHY
not help them clean up? Let every
man have a gun, but let him secure
a permit and register, showing his
ability and fitness. EMER
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17
Hypocrisy in Saddle

Once again the state advertises the fact
that hypocrisy rules at the statehouse and
that ignorance and intolerance are more pow
erful than intelligence.
Killing the bill which would restore the
legal right to prescribe whisky to patients
merely means that the thing will be done in
defiance of law. There is truth in the sinister
comment Of one legislator that no one will
die for lack of whisky. That will be cared for
by the bootlegger instead of the physician
There were few of the legislators who
voted against this measure to whom credit
must be given for enough sincerity and more
than enough ignorance to cause them to get
that way. They even believed it to be dry
question.
AS matter of fact, all that was involved
was a censorship by ignorant men over those
trained in the science of therapy. Ignorant
men won. Science is chained.
And few men can go back home with an
abb for their misdeeds in behalf of greed,
pillage and, perhaps, private plumber.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17
TT STEMS tn MI nx, HAYWOOD
L L O1%A1N1O ~ 1N1G bt BROUN

A NUMBER Of scientists got TO-
IA gether in Cleveland recently
and made speeches at one another.
Scientists are human beings like the
rest of us, and when a professor
delivers an address he rather likes
to see it reported under big head
lines in the newspapers the next
day.
The wise men of Cleveland did
pretty well for themselves. They got
a lot of headlines, but most of them
went to Professor William F. Og-
burn. He seems to be starting in
where the late DR.. Osler left off.
DR.. Osler. as you may remember,
said at a dinner dance once that it
might be just as well to chloroform
every man as soon as he reached 40.
Of course, the good doctor was
joking. But even a jest generally
carries with it some element of be-
lief and conviction. I imagine that
DR.. Osler thought that mankind
does its most important creative
work before the age of 10.
After that It's process of re-
peating and accomplishing what
the individual knows Or thinks he
knows. He doesn't break much new
ground-at least, that's the theory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17

by the blood of tyrants 1t is its natural manure"
His writings never could been sent through the
mails under the present ruling of the postoice de-
partment upheld by the federal court.
Nor the martyred Lincoln any more docile
He was very explicit in his advocacy Of revolution
as sacred right" He said on this point:
ANY people anywhere being inclined and having
the power have the right to rise up and shake of
the existing governments and form new one that
suits them better This is most valuable a most
sacred right-a right which hope and believe is
to lberate the world"
Further, in another place he set forth a view
which could be seized upon with great propriety by
American Communists today, when they are being
denied the fundamental American rights of free
speech, assemblage and press:
IF by mere force of numbers, a majority should
deprive a minority of any clearly written constitu-
tional right, 1t might, in a moral point of view
justify revolution-certainly would if such right
we're vital one"
We hope Mr.. Fish never will discover Lincolr's
famous assertion that the international bond of the
working class should be placed ahead of the patri
otlc bond commanding loyalty to ones country.
1t IS not contended that any Of these great Amer
leans was right in any Of the above contentious
1t merely is asserted that Mr.. Fish does not seem
to be very familiar with their deeds and thouebts
winch means that he hardly is conversant with good
old American tradition
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17
Meanest Gouge

No excuses should be accepted from
members of the legislature if that body fails
to curb the rapacity of those who prey upon
the necessities of the poor through outra-
geous interest rates
Tomorrow evening public hearing will
be held on bills designed to end this sort of
pillage. Those interested in preventing pow
erty and the evils of poverty should attend
The usurer will be there, in person or by at
torney, to protect his legalized brigandage
For many years money lenders who hide
behind suspicious report of the Sage Foun-
dation that AZ per cent is fair charge on
salary and household goods loans have been
able to defeat the demand for legislation re-
ducing that rate
There is also suspicion that, in former
sessions of the legislature, bills of this sort
have been introduced for no other purpose
than inviting those engaged in this most
profitable sort of business to make defeat
profitable to the legislator.
The present depression has emphasized
the evils that come from extortonate rates
Of interest Every charitable organization
can trace the necessities of many supplicants
to the fact that they paid, over years of en-
ployment, outrageous rates of interest on
money borrowed for some special crisis. To
many workers sickness in the family has
meant life term of peonage.
The state fixes the rate of interest which
may be charged by banks to men in business
at 8 per cent, which is termed fair wage
for money. But when money is loaned for
the business Of living to those least able to
pay, the law authorizes AZ per cent. By de-
vices known to themselves, many of those
who have grown wealthy by this method
raise the rate to much more than this extor-
Tomato sum.
No business could save itself from bank
ruptcy which paid such rate of interest on
money borrowed No worker can long keep
away from the bread line and the soup
kitchen who is driven to this form of Dor
rowing.
The legislator who opposes law to curb
this rapacity invites suspicion of his inteli-
gence, his honesty, even his claim to being
human being.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17
Depression Puts Capitalism on Trial

steed as a hundred did two or three
years ago, and sends sixty of those
trained men to the employment
agencies.
The present depression is a veri-
table handwriting on the wall"
Considering the three principal
countries involved, United States,
Great Britain and Germany, it &C.
ours at a time of no shortage OF
any foodstuff or raw material.
1t occurs when by reason of ap-
plication of scientific discovery TO
agriculture, industry and transpor-
tation each country really is
wealthier than ever before in po-
tential per capita productivity. And
it occurs at a time of no money
stringency, but is contemporaneous
with the most efficient banking and
credit organization the world has
known.
In short, hard times and bread
lines today are a contradiction in
terms, the hard times and bread
lines of overproduction, of necessi-
ties, with, Of course, an under
developed market for luxuries.
IN the absence of wars and ru-
a mors of wars, with all the unde-
veloped natural resources of the
world to fall back upon, but with
no very rapidly growing population
to increase consumption demands,
such as we knew in this country in
the early nineteen hundreds, this is
really not surprising situation,
although it has caught many una
ware.
The scientists who have been in
venting the new gadgets have been
looking forward to it right along,
but hoping that the industrialists
and politicoS would start readiust-
ing in advance.
Such phenomenon as wars and,
in sections like the United States.
unusual population accretions. hith-
erto have provided the excess, or
abnormal, consumption that blinded
the economic eye to the fact that
science rapidly was catching up with
and surprising normal human
moods Of man.
All over the civilized world the
outstanding fact is that potential
per capita production, as an eco.
nornic factor, is increasing much
more rapidly than population.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17
ProIonging Infancy

Y HOPE it isn't so. I'm much more
Il taken by Professor Ogburn's no.
ton that life is growing so much
more complex, what with the ma
chine age and the advance Of
knowledge, that the future may see
infancy prolonged all the way up to
80 or 40 years Of age.
Which means that if I hadn't
been born before my time I'd just
about be getting out of my kiddy
car right now. I'm afraid this pro-
lessor, too, was having his little
joke. But he also based his fan
taSy upon real belief.
If I can assume the audacious
privilege of speaking for somebody
else, I think he meant to say that
the business of getting educated
and learning more will have to be
prolonged in the world of the fu-
ture.
Part of that's true already. I've
always thought that there was a
grave danger in the psychology
which surrounds a college educa-
ton. A man gets out, and they
give him q couple Of letters to use
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17
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B1TEaeH
!AMNlVGR$ARYI
8s
LAENNEC'S BIRTH
February II

ON Feb. II, 1881, Rene Theophile
~ Laennec, French physician
famed for his invention Of the
stethoscope, was born at Quimper,
Brittany.
His invention, by means of which
a physician can listen to sounds
produced by the body, was at first
a mere roll of paper. His idea,
crude as it was, was diffused rapid
ly into every country.
But Laennec did far more than
introduce a useful and convenient
device into medicine. He explored
with extraordinary skill the physi-
cal signs in the chest which cor
respond to large number of dis
eases.
The major part of our chestlore
and much of the technique and
nomenclature of chest examination
came direct from him.
Despite continual Illness and the
shortness Of his life, Laennec's
brilliance and devotion to duty at
a Paris hospital enabled him to
transmit his views and methods to
many other physicians.
He is said to be among the great
est physicians Of all tims-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17
Make Your Own List

TRY to run over in your mind
L any list of ten or twelve living
Americans who seem vitality impor-
tant to you. I'll try at the same
time.
Very likely our lists won't coin
eide. But I'll bet that there will be
hardly a chemical trace of any
Phi. D. in any of our lists. Most of
us are going to name Henry Ford
and Edison.
Whether we like them or dislike
them, it's hard to get around the
fact that these two men. have and
are influencing the way in which
you and carry on from day to day.
Another popular name will be that
Of Lindbergh. He isn't on my list.
Not that I don't admire and get a
thrill out of his achievements in the
air. But can't see that these ex-
ploits affect me particularly.
I don't think they affect you very
much. Your life would run along
about the same, even if Indy never
had hoped for Paris and landed
there right OF the dot.
4
7 THINK that a lot of us confuse
l. effort and making motions with
intellectual activity. I have de-
tected that belief in the offices of
some of my business friends.
They can't stand it because some
minor executive or bookkeeper or
photographer isn't doing something
at some particular moment. They
always try to think up a task for
everybody around the place, so that
there shall be rustling of paper and
the rat-tat-tat of keys on the type
writer and shouting and Office
memoranda passing all over the
place.
And there's that old adage that
nobody ever gets ahead if he
watches the clock. I don't expect to
be chosen as the head Of any big
business, ever.
But the rule I'd make for the stat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17
BY ROBERT P. SCRIPTS

THE Bolshevist contention is that
Il MARKHAM theories have proved
correct, and that throughout the
western world the industrial system,
based upon individualiSt capitalism,
is a failure.
The Fascist contention is not so
different from the Moscow view.
Hence, Russian Bolshevists and
and Italian Fascists try to invent
and demonstrate something better.
And the rest of the world observes
both experiments with unusual nerv-
ousness-perhaps because of real
fear one or both may result in sue
cess, or such appearance of sue
cess as will threaten all other ex-
listing institutions.
Assuming the chief objective of
advancing civilization is to secure
not simply freedom, but economic
and social security for great masses
of population, the case against the
capitalist-individualiSt state is
strong, particularly at this time of
worldwide business and employ
ment crisis.
In industrialized countries, since
the beginning of the nineteenth
century, the working world has ex-
perienced nothing but a series of
such crises. And in every instance
the great wage-earning majorities
have been chief Sufferers.
Despite acquired skill at given
trades and willingness to work, fam
lilies have been broken up, children
starved and self-respecting wage
earners forced to ask for charity
at more or less regular intervals
since inception of the so-called ago
of steam.
#
Il VEN in normal times, the job of
II no laborer is secure. Steam
shovels and ditching machines over
night displace armies of the pick
and-Shovel order. one cheap new
tractor leaves at least two otherwise
employable ploWman jobless. A
quickly developed electrical gadget
has within the last few years re-
placed the whole corps of Morse
system telegraphers with a handful
of typiSts.
Newly invented rolling mill ma
chinery permits forty steel workers
to produce this year as much rolled
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17
ANAA AoO4 lands

THE papers tell us that Mrs. Henderson, the
i, L widow of former United States senator from
Missouri, wants to present mansion to the govern
ment for the use Of the Vice-President
This is not so attractive as it might seem, for it
would that the government immediately would
be called upon 10 make an annual appropriation to
maintain the establishment.
There's no particular reason why the people Of the
United States should ne called on to keep the Vice
President and if should be foolish enough to do it
the next thing would be mansion for the Speaker
OF the house Of representatives and SO forth and
so on.
A ND there's another thing about it that should
n make the nation shudder. If Vice President
would Immediately have an argument as to whether
Mrs Gam should sit in the conservatory in the
bay window.
No, sir, we don't want any OF that
We do not wish to knock the worthy proposition
to erect memorial down in Spencer county, Indiana
in honor of Nancy Hanks the mother of Lincoln but
we do believe the proposition proposed in extrava-
CANT and inappropriate.
We believe it is out of all proportion.
It now is proposed to erect a white structure Of
many flutes and furbelows, structure which at first
blush would seem to suggest Constantinople rather
than the United States a structure far more elab-
crate IMAM the PLAIN lie IL Is proposed TO honor.
It would that simple marble temple small
and white, with columns, would more 1ttingly grace
the memory of this forest mother, who in her day
knew little but poverty, little but suffering.
WE are going monument crazy. Not to mention
w any other projects, it is proposed to erect
a million dollars worth of memorial marble down at
vincennes ostensibly to honor George Rogers Clark
who has been dust almost century, and whose last
years were spent in poverty.
Also it is proposed to build a memorial highway
along the route taken by the Lincoln family when
they went to Illinois. This would be in a little trav.
eled region and if you ask it's Just scheme to
get road for g region tia couldn't get it other
wise.
There's lot of bunk, also as.certain amount Of
graft. in this orgy OF monument hKlding.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17
Cotton Again Fails

THERE are $4,000 acres under
l. irrigation around Yuma, $1,000
in the river bottom and $4,000 on
the mesa. The mesa is plain
ninety feet above the river bottom.
You wouldn't suppose that ninety
feet meant much, especially in a
region like this, but it does.
The river bottom is subject to &C.
casional frost, but the mesa is not.
In the river bottom farming runs
largely to cotton, alfalfa and pecans.
On the mesa, they are going in
for grapefruit and dates. AS in so
many other places, cotton has
proved a veritable curse, carrying
down not only hundreds of farm
ers, but banks and comercial in
situations as well.
Bad enough for the south to keep
on fooling with cotton in such a
crazy, obstinate way, but plastering
this high-priced irrigated land
with it is nothing short of sheer
fOlly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-17
The Bonus Loan RiU

To the extent that it helps World war veterans rrbo
are unemployed or who for some other reason are in
neeo OF a1d the soldier bonus loan bill passed bv the
house is useful legislation
But the bill, as passed, doesn't stop there The
opportunity to make larger loans on adjusted comnen
sation certificates is not limited to those veterans who
really need it.
It goes to the welto-do and the hard-up alike: to
the lucky and the unucky; to men who were prosper
GUS before the and have been prosperous since
as well as to those whose ability to make living was
impaired seriously by their service Its effect is not
equal by any means
We have said before that those in need of assist
ance should be given it, But the present legislation
displays not only unwarranted fear of the soldier
vote"-as if men who fought for their country now
would vote against their countrys best interess-but
is dangerous legislation financially.
Sums ranging from $3.50 to $500 are made avail
able to some three million men. The veterans bureau
and house leaders estimate that 100000 men will take
advantage of the opportunity offered by the bill On
this basis, the bills COST exclusive of administrative
COST will be about $7OOOOOO0O If all were to apply
the cost would be than $170oo0OOoo, it is said
Therefore, the administration opposes the bill It
argues that the government already faces deficit of
half billion dollars, and that an additional billion
or would necesstate bond issues disastrous to
federal finances and to the commercial credit structure
If the President vetoes the BILL as expected, the
veterans will get nothing
Why not limit the benefits of the increased loans
and lower interest to veterans actually in need thus
keeping the total expenditure within the financial
safety zone and preventing veto?