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Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

Hoppin, Jessie Grant, Evelyn and
Frances Powell, Frances Sunstrom,
and Margaret Layne: Messrs. VIII
liam Sunstrom, Robert Adams, and
Andrew Grant.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Merkle OF
Los Angeles were weekend guests
at the Charles Hackleman home re-
Gently.
"A delightful three-day visit end
ed for Mr. and Mrs. Alber Rees and
family on Monday when they de-
parted from the home of their host,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Baler, for their res
idence in Glendale.
Hershen Grandey and James Coin
motored TO Los Angeles to attend TO
business on Saturday, returning TO
McCabe Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Smith at
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
WOMAN INJURED BY
FALL FROM CHAIR

Mrs. w. S. Lee of the Princess no.
tel suffered painful accident yes
terday afternoon when she fell and
broke her right leg near the hip.
She is resting we'll today in FL
Centro hospital 1t is expected she
will have to remain there for some
time, according to her physician.
The accident happened when she
was standing on chair in an at
tempt to reach articles on high
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

LOo hNOEIIEo. HpIII J' NU,Fo
Livestock.
Hogs Receipts none: good live
butchers quoted TO 5000.
Cattle = Receipts $50; slow. few
sales: about steady; common steers
S6.40, bulk cows, s4.25-5.25. Calves
Receipts l50; nothing sold.
Sheep - Receipts 1900: weak;
good 60-pound spring lambs, $3.50;
quoted at $3.50
shelf. She lost her balance and fell
to the floor.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
@Mar!teD

LOS ANGELES. April 0. U.D-
Following arc so-ay-S market quo
tatiope.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-16

The Italians have q proverb, He
who will not take sides must sit on the
fence to be shot at
Surely those who will not take sides,
even in the interest of righteousness
and justice, are blameworthy.
Is not life q battle, and is there any
reason why any che should be excused?
One thinks not of the battlefield,
however, so much as of the everyday
life of the average human being.
Not every one is in a position to di-
rect an army or make momentouS
decision which l.lay affect the lives of
thousands.
Almost every one can have enough
regard for the integrity of his own
heart and mind to permit himself to be
stirred by events.
A phenomenon of this country today
is that so many people have managed
to get themselves into mental attitudes
where they believe that nothing which
does not affect them personally can be
of any concern 10 them
They are willing to see abuses with
out getting in the least angry, just so
long as they are rot abused themselves.
They can read and hear of moral
wrongs, and Cf conditions inimical to
the health of Nation, without once
getting "het up" about it all.
1t Is none of their business, they
figure. Why should they worry about
matters which are not their concern?
1t is difficult, perhaps impossible to
convince such people that success and
comfort are not al! there is in life.
Intellectual integrity is something, to
the man or woman who values it. To
be secretly ashamed of ones self, even
II others have no inkling of 1t, is strict
lV no pleasure nj all
x X X
Whether one believes in the soul or
not, the word itself is a very handy one
to have available.
There is something to man, utterly
outside his physical and mental make
up, to which he has given the name of
soul"
It is this part of him-and truly it
seems part-which is ashamed when
he reads OF some great public question,
or knows OF some small private one,
and yet steadfastly refuses to take sides
on the matter.
There is vast difference between
just shooting off the mouth" and hav-
ing definite, manly opinion.
The latter is necessary to a man.
No man can be a man without hav-
Ing enough red blood in his veins to
say what he thinks, within the bounds
VI ACdoOlI dIlu uGCcIlCy.
X X
The important thing is not that one
be right, but that one be brave enough
to have some sort of opinion.
1t is getting off on the wrong foot,
in life. to think that one must be
right" at the expense of every one
else being wrong"
Right and wrong are relatives. What
one believes right today he may regard
as wrong tomorrow. What ones neigh
Dor thinks right one may believe quite
wrong.
1t is a false belief, that one must
be right, when the only qualification is
that one should be honest.
Now being honest means being brave.
Some of the bravest fellows in the
world are little shrimps, physically, who
take their future, and their very lives
in their hands, as it were, to voice
unpopular opinions in the face Of
hypocritical mass thought.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-16
House Control.

More than year ago a Republican
House Of Representatives was elected.
The margin Of control was extremely
narrow, the G. o. P. having 2l8 seats
to GIG for the Democrats and one for
the Farmer-Labor party. During the
year, however, this new Congress has
not been in session, and deaths have
taken from the Republicans their
slender majority, transferring the lead,
temporarily at least, to the Democrats.
Had President Hoover called the Con-
gress into special session last Spring
he might have had Republican organ
ization Of the House. But the President
had other ideas and the country has
been without a session Of Congress
since last March.
The change in the political COM
plexion Of the House, due entirely to
deaths, lends emphasis to the fact
that Congress elected to represent
the American people does net come into
existence actually until thirteen months
after, 1t has been chosen, uneess the
0hiek Executive shall deem It neces-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-16
Finally.
From the Cleveland Nau.

from the Cleveland News
Public Office, sought repeatedly and
unsuccessfully by the one-time Gen"
Jacob S. Coxey. has finally come to
him at the mature age of n. On va
rious occasions he has reached on for
the governorship, for the senatorial
toga and for the privilege of House
membership in Washington. He would
have accepted these posts as either an
independent or Republican. AS
republican he was recentIv elected
mayor OF MasSillon, a lesser honor than
some he has eyed, but an honor never
theless.
1t is noteworthy that a chief plank
In his present platform bears close re-
semblance to one of the ideas which
motivated his famed march on WASH
ington in '94, the march which earned
him a short Jail term (for trespassing
on lawns) in the Capital and his title
OF general" This calls fer the is
suance of 100000 in non-interest-
bearing bonds for the UNEMPLOYED. In
"a he advocated Government absorp-
ton Of such bonds from States. co,ln-
ties, tDwns and villages to proceed with
public works and provide employment.
The kernel of this thought has per-
sisted through the years with him.
MaSSillon may seem rather limited
laboratory when compared with those
represented by his sundry candidates..
But age brings with it an increasing
disposition to be contented with less, TO
appreciate things as they come. And
Gen." Coxey, mayor-elect. Is ~.
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A Happy Combination.

1t was particularly gracious action
on the part of the State Department
to secure for Signor Grandi and his
party a flying boat with Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh as pilot for the trip from
New York to Washington today. Not
only gracious, but a strictly modern
way of doing things in this modern
age. Italy's foreign minister is thirty
six years old. Lindbergh, one of the
foremost flyers in the world, is twenty
nine. The Caribbean Clipper, loaned
by the Pan-American Always to the
State Department, has just been built.
1t develops twenty-three hundred horse
power from its four motors and carries
forty-five passengers with a crew of
five. So all in all it is happy combi-
nation. Two young men who are
known wherever language is spoken, the
latest development in air liners and
novel and fast method of bringing
Americas distinguished visitor straight
to the Nations Capital.
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Adjustment Of Rail Wages
Added to Present Problems

executives and employees is held. The
Journal offers this appraisal Of the Sit
uation: ITO say that company eXecu-
tives should be willing to meet the
brotherhood chiefs at once, without re-
sort to anything savoring of petty tao
tics-Such as, for example futile ref
erence Of the request to general mana
gers or other subordinates-is not to
say that everything the unions will de-
mand as a consideration for a wage
reduction will be fair, or right, or prac-
ticable. Whether the maximum hours
of-service law ought to be amended at
this time, or any working day short
ened or railroad companies bound to
institute uniform pension systems re-
CARELESS of their financial condition,
are all grave questions. The brother
hood chiefs, 1t must be supposed, are
not unmindful of the extent to which
tney can ALLEVIATE the sympathy of
PUBIC harassed by its own economic
difficulties if they are too exigent in
the impending bargaining or the APP
proacnes thereto. But, in any event,
rallroad executives should quickly and
Whoie-heartedly do their part to bring
general conference together"
IL Is most desirable that the rail-
ROADS ana their employees shall seek to
ADJUST these questions of common In
Cerest without official Intervention" de-
clareS the Philadelphia Public Ledger,
and the Rutland Herald voices the judg-
ment: Until now, the union leaders
nave steadily held to the high scale,
declaring that the railroads could pass
on the added cost to the customer.
NOW 1t is apparent that this cannot
DC oone, so some compromise would
seem to be inevitable. There is this
nopefu! fact about it; the leadership of
tne railroad unions is usually intelli-
genG and conservative and has won yir.
tually all Of its advantages by negotia-
ZION. There certainly can be no harm
IA taking over this extremely impor-
tant matter OF wage scales"
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sary to call a special session. This is
a poor arrangement for those who be-
lieve in representative government
Senator George w. Norris of Nebraska
has sought for years to bring about a
change, repeatedly offering q resolu-
Constitution to the effect that a Con-
gress elected in November shall hold
its first session in the succeeding jan
uary, and that President of the United
States, chosen by the people at the
same time, shall be indicted into Office
also in January.
This resolution has several times
passed the Senate by overwhelming
votes, but has been blocked on each
occasion in the House. Even had the
last Congress in its final session put
through the Norris resolution, it would
have been too late to affect the meet
ing time, and in consequence the po-
litical makeup of the incoming Con-
gress. An amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States must be
ratified by three-fourths of the States,
either through their State Legislatures
or through specially called constitu
tional conventions, all of which requires
time.
Representative John @. Tilson of
Connecticut, the Republican floor leader
of the House in a statement just
issued, calls attention to the fact that
the political majority In the House has
already been changed by death and
adds that it may be changed again. The
Republican leader, who is also a can
didate for the Speakership nomination
of his party, has urged that the G. o. P.
members of the House present united
front in the coming session. This is
probably too much to expect. But it
is hard common sense. Perhaps it will
be easier for the Republicans of the
House to work together when the party
is in the minority than when it has
majority. At least the two wings of
the party will have a common enemy
in the Democrats, which may lead to
cessation of hostilities in the Republican
ranks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-16

where in the United States whose formal
action resulted in the expression of op-
position.
Many Of the legal groups which have
recently gone on record in favor of
the World Court merely brought up
to date action taken by them in pre-
vious years. East and West, North and
South, the country's most representa-
tive bodies of lawyers unequivocally
recommend adhesion to The Hague
tribunal on the ground that the Root
reservations adequately safeguard Amer
ican rights.
1t is nearly nine years since, under
President Harding and Secretary
Hughes, steps were initiated to align
the United States with its sister ma
lions in maintaining the Permanent
Court for International Justice. Presi-
dent Hoover may ask the Senate this
Winter to ratify the resolution of adj
herence. If he does. the American peo-
pie, craving to do their part to tighten
up every conceivable piece of ma
chinery capable of maintaining world
peace, hopes the senatorial snail will at
length crawl to a decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-16

that the Italians do not demand naval
parity with the French, as far as tom
mage and guns in actual existence are
concerned. Italy would be satisfied, &C
cording to her declarations thus far
with what she calls theoretical parity
The Italians, in other words, insist
upon the right to build up to French
strength at sea If they wish to. They
do not mean to say that they will
right is conceded them. Ambassador
de MARITIME, Mussolini's effective envoy
at Washington, invented a graphic
illustration of theoretical parity" II
the Ambassador, he says, should meet a
rich friend who was wearing a silk hat,
and he himself boosted only of an ordi-
nary felt hat, would it be fair (the
Italian diplomat asks for his pal who
can afford a topper to lay down the law
that MussoliniS emissary should never,
never, never wear one in case he should
some day be able to afford it? It's that
sort of all-time embargo against naval
parity which Italy sees France trying to
impose upon her: and to which, she
HrnIy aVoWS, she'll never consent.
X X X X
While Herbert Hoover's old Stanford
loot ball team was reminiscing in Wash
lngton the other day, a famous story
OF varsity days in the gay COS was
revived. Mr.. Hoovers Job as business
manager of the team was to watch
gate receipts at games. The Stanford
campus contained grandstands without
fence around them, so the only way
cash customers could be controlled was
10 station undergraduates at the en-
trance to each stand. One Saturday
afternoon benevolently whiskered Old
gentleman brushed by the boy who was
collecting tickets and indicated that he
was out Tor an inexpensive afternoon.
Inc lad pointed out to Business Man
ager Hoover the stranger who refused
10 pay. Hoover hiked into the grand
stand where he sat and stood his ground
III the gate-crasher disgorged his quar-
Ter. the benevolent old gentleman was
Andrew Carnegie.
Washington is licking it's chops over
a book entitled ooh Yeah?" described
ny tne publishers as mot worth the pa
per us written on" After that unusual
planned that the volume is "a compila-
G!on from the utterances of Herbert
hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Andrew Mel
lcn' henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller,
ST, ana other leaders of politics and
INDUSTRY on the prospects for the future
OF America" The publishers supple
ment: The future referred to is now
either past or present. The prophecies
are by actual statistical computation
IOO per cent off. Why, then, this
book? Because it glorifies for ali time
the American prophet on the subject
OF the American profit"
X X X
Many Washingtonians are enjoying
the elaborate special edition of the
Amer1can-owned Japan Advertiser of
TOXIC containing an exhaustive &C
count OF the visit to Japan of Col. and
MRS. Charles A. Lindbergh in August
ana September. 1t is a copiously il
Illustrated compendium of "a pages and
leads of with the message of welcome
addressed to the intrepid young flyers
by Baron Reijiro Wakatsuki, prime
minister of Japan.
(Copyright, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-16
A LAWYERS Court.

Last Summers World Court decision
in the German-Austrian tariff Ansch-
luss question subjected the tribunal
to the charge that it was more of
"a court of politics" than a court of
justice. Soon afterward the American
Bar Association, in annual convention
at Atlantic City, passed a resolution
favoring American adherence to the
court under the Root plan. From irrec-
oncilable quarters came the taunt that
the association acted perfunctorily and
without any considered mandate from
the United States best legal minds.
Since the Anschluss decision the court
has rendered an advisory opinion that
has considerably diminished the deluge
Of harsh criticism that followed the
split vote in the Austro-German tariff
case. 1t decided unanimously against
Poland railway traffc dispute between
1 that country and Lithuania. Even the
judge of Polish nationality, Count Rost-
worowski, absolutely rejected his gov
ernment's standpoint and wholeheart-
eddy agreed to the opinion delivered by
the court.
The American Foundation announces
the completion Of survey organized
to learn the exact degree to which local
and State bar associations have weighed
the question Of Senate ratification Of
the World Court protocols. The survey
reveals widespread sentiment in sup
port Of them. The vote was. in fact,
unanimous, according to John w. Davis.
chairman Of the American Foundations
Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr..
Davis knows Of no State. city, county
or local organization Of lawyers any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-16
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

What hypocrites human beings are
even the best of them, when in public
The wise man never voices anything
but what may be called standard opin-
ions in crowd, because he knows that
some one off not several some ones)
VIII leap up at once to garble what
he has said
What! the old institutions are at
tackled? Then We must fly to their de-
Tense at once, lest our fellow hypocrites
see that We, too. believe as this hereti-
cal fellow, shame and fie upon him!
What every one knows, in his heart,
is the practice must never be admitted
in theory. He who is brave enough
toollsh enough) to speak the truth on
certain things will find a SNUG array
of standard thought against him.
For this very reason, and all the
more because of it. the man who is
not afraid OF his own opinions will re-
train from useless disputation. over
matters which after all are largely mat
tiers of belief.
He will save his ammunition for the
times when he must take sides. rather
than sit on the fence to be shot at
from both directions.
There is risk in it, certainly.
But the history of warfare, both phys-
ical and mental, is filled with risks.
and none the less so because one sought
the storm cellar at the first shell.
In the daily life of most human
pelhgS there are countless opportuni-
ties for bravery of thought and deed
One need not get red in the face to
speak up, or make ones eyes glare
with hatred over questions which after
all are merely questions.
IL is enough to say what one thinks.
To say what one thinks!
Ihere is job for every man, woman
and child in the world.
Men dead thousands of years reach
out from their graves to put a cold
hand over the mouth.
The pull OF ambition, the wish to get
along, the desire not to offend-these
are but few of the indictments which
muffie the voice of conscience.
X
The defense of the downtrodden and
the abused available to every one, if
in no other way than the expression of
opinion among ones fellows.
opinion is mighty, and there is no
telling what a few words, uttered out
Of sincere belief, may do to the minds
and hearts of others.
Expect no word, or even thanks, for
ILlC ClldIlCcS are ABOUT nllnQreQ TO
one, when such a conversion takes
place, that you will ever hear about it.
Nevertheless feel sure that out of
darkness and chaos. tumbling over each
other in the human mind, light at last
succeeds.
No one has monopoly of right, or
OF truth, or of justice.
The least philosopherlike fellow in
the crowd may strike a note which will
leave doubt in dozen minds which
formerly were convinced, and end at
last in converting them to an opinion
which works toward righteousness.
Good things may result simply be-
cause some unsung brave man preferred
to take sides, at his own risk, rather
than sit on the fence 10 be shot at any
way.
No medals may be pinned upon his
manly breast, but he will have the APP
probation of his soul. Money and posi-
ton are well enough, but ones soul is
something.
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Today in Paris.

ReaSsembled III the less heated at
mosphere of Paris, the Council of the
League of Nations today resumes its
weeks ago, for preservation of peace in
the Far East The United States in
terest in this renewed attempt Is
heightened by the dispatch to Paris Of
Ambassador Charles G. Dawes.
The State De- artment is at some
pains to depict Gen. Dawes status as
that of an innocent bystander and pas
sive observer, but none of the high con-
tracing parties is likely to be deceived
by that official description of his status.
On the contrary, opinion has crystallized
during the past few hours that it is
American influence, to be visibly ex-
pressed by Ambassador Dawes, which is
now destined to cut way out of the
Manchurian impasse. The confidential
communications recently exchanged be-
tween Toxic and Washington more
than suggest that Uncle Sam is cast
for a mediatory role in Paris this
week.
The emphasis laid by Secretary
Stimson upon the detached character
of Gen. Dawes mission is highly sug-
gestive, because it is acclaimed in
Toxic as a concession to Japanese
susceptibilities. Japan objected audi
bly, to our action in directing Consul
General Gilbert actually to sit in with
the League Council. Ambassador Dawes
is to stand by, and not sit In. Happily,
there is no reason to suspect that this
diplomatic device for saving Japanese
face will in any way curtail the gen.
erals usefulness, as it certainly de-
notes no diminution of the United
States anxiety for a peaceable solu-
ton of the Sino-Japanese controversy.
Paris news cables on the eve of today's
momentous Council session reflect the
universal belief that Americas part in
impending events will be influential
to the point of decisiveness, though
Washington insists 1t has projected no
formula"
Gen. Dawes issued statement, fol-
lowing his arrival in Paris, containing
these words: 1.-THE League Council in
the Manchurian situation is consider
ing matters which presumably affect
not only the treaty rights and general
interests of the United States under
the nine-power Pacific pact, but re-
late to the Kellogg pact, as well. I am
here, therefore, to confer with members
OF the Council individually with regard
to a problem which is of common con-
Germ and involves mutual treaty rights.
shall hope to make every contact es-
sential to the exercise Of any influence
We may have in properly supporting the
Leagues effort to avert war and to
make effective the Kellogg pact"
Thus are effectually burned any
bridges that might seem to be leading
from Washington straight into the
League of Nations Senators Borah,
johnson, Moses ct al. can now be PACED
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-16

A spirit of American determination
and courage leaves the Thanksgiving
proclamation one public document con-
corning which there is no chance for
argument.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-16

Democrats are figuring on control of
the House of Representatives. Author
ity may be announced, but control in
the strict sense of the word is a diff
ferent matter.
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Versatility.

Now may the merry Congressman
Select comic text,
And say, Lets all laugh while we can
We may get angry next.
Let's send away the shapes of care
Which round our pathways slip.
Before our wrathful souls we base,
Let's have a comic strip"