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Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07

Rather than risk a slow death by
starvation, scores of Chinese labor
ers in Lower California are risking
arrest and deportation to China by
United States immigration officers,
according to stories brought into
the United States by some of those
who have been arrested.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07

After the middle of August fish
ing license will be required for
gathering abalones. In district two
one half the trout season is extend
ed to February 20 from the l4th
covering the steelhead run.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07
TEN YEARS AGO
August !. 1921

The Delta Implement company,
dealers in agricultural implements,
farm machinery and supplies, has
been taken over by John Johnson,
a well known horticulturalist of Es-
condido, and Theodore Barnes of
the Motor Supply company, of this
city.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07

Three hundred deer have recently
died in Gordon Valley, Napa Coun-
ty, from a disease of the lungs al
fecting sheep and goats, though
uncommon. .lxY
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07

The state has a game fowl refuge
of 254l acres in southern Butte
county. near Pennington, where
there IS never less than 300 acres
of water.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07

The governor wishes to give US all a
six day holiday next month. Why not
knock off for the balance of the year?
With pay of course.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07

Keeping track of the airmen these days
is like trying to follow one ant in a col
ony, herd, flock or whatever bunch of
ants is called.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07

his truck with tin pans and threct-
ened to arrest 200 of the leaders.
GO on and arrest US they
shouted. You haven't any Jail
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07

The gangster who used a child as
shield is good sample of what the gang
ster is.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Fair tonight and Saturday but
overcast early Saturday morning Gil
coast; normal temperature; gentle
to moderate west and northwest
winds offshore. Fair Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07

Funny these graft charges always
break out when Jimmy Walker starts on
a vacation. Or does Jimmy plan his va
cations accordingly?
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07

Ten miles of the Redwood High
way between Fortuna and South
Scotia bridge is being graded and
surfaced.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley for This Date
in Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
August ], 1911

Chief Engineer Kalright Of the
San Diego and Arizona railroad Is
expected to reach the valley today
There is some additional data he
desires before the actual work OF
construction is begun from Mobile
to the west next month.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07

That the Ell Paso and Southwest
ern- Rock Island railroad system is
aiming direct for this valley seems
certain, and information which has
developed during the last few days
makes 1t probable that more Wig
orous policy of construction will be
followed, to complete the road
through to tidewater before the
completion of the Panama canal.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
August J, 1916

candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for congress, is actively cam
paigning the district. His nomina-
ton is apparently certain and his
present efforts are largely based on
preparation for the November elec-
ton.
j. L. Trayers left yesterday foi
Redlands and will be away from
town a week or more. Mrs. Trayers
and daughter, Ruth, are in the
coast city also, have gone there two
days previous.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-07
The Weather

Los ANGELES AND VICINITY
Fair tonight and Saturday but
cloudy in the morning; moderate
temperature; gentle southwesterly
winds. Sunday fair with moderate
temperature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

his district should he desire reelection. It also prevents congress from being in session during national conventions. Special sessions may still be called upon the demand of the president.
 The president and vice-president will now assume office on January z4th instead of in March as has been the custom for 90 many years. We can readily understand the need for delayed inauguration in the old days. but there is no need of sacrificing two months of year now in the interests of worn-out custom. Every president of the United States with the exception of Washington has been inaugurated upon March 4th Of course that does not account for vice-presidents who succeeded to office upon the sudden death of the president We hope that the amendment will be brought before the forty or more state legislatures in session now SO that a speedy enactment of the amendment may be secured. To delay action may cause as long a postponement of ratification as there was in securing passage of the bill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26
Lame Ducks Banned

There is some hope for anti prohibition ists after all. It took congress good many years to vote away a century old custom but it finally bestirred itself sufficiently to do away with lame duck sessions. Although Senator Norris of Nebraska was the prime mover in the campaign to outlaw duck members of congress he won't get all the credit for bring ing about passage of the bill which obliterates them. It wasn't his bill which was passed this week by the house and last week by the senate. It was compromise and consider ably amended measure with the credit of sponsorship going to Representative Clifford.
 Of course the bill must be ratified by three -fourths of the states within seven years to make it binding. It may be close to that before this amendment to the Constitution is added. But at least we feel pretty confident that no longer will representatives be pre- vented from assuming office until thirteen months after election day. Under our pres ent system of congressional sessions which was evolved in the day of the stage coach and horseback mode of travel, congress convenes once year on the first Monday of Decem- Der. We elect representatives in November of the even years, but fail to seat them until the December of the odd years.
 Under the proposed amendment they will assume office on the January 4th. immediate. ly following their election. There will still be one session of eongress-annually. but the session in the even or election years will be limited to four months. adjourning on May 4. This proviso was inserted at the request of Speaker Longworth who insisted that in an election year congressman should be given ample time to return home and canvass
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26
Back To The Farm

For 10 years steady tide of people have been quitting the farms and rural neighbor- hoods. and migrating to cities and towns. This tide has far exceeded the return flow of those who left cities and migrated back to the country. Thousands of deserted homes are found on the back roads. Many farm fam flies have had no part with their boys and girls. who have gone to the factories and mills and stores to find work.
 This drift still keeps on but in 193O, &C., eording to the department of agriculture, for the first time in 10 years. the population of the farms increased. The gain of the rural population was 250,0OO in the year. The drift from the farms to the cities. still ex- ceeded that from the cities to the farms by l56.O0O. Yet since 1.392.OOO people quit the cities and towns last year to go back to the country. the two movements nearly bal- anced each other.
 A lot of people found that the fact that the factory job at certain time paid high wages. did not prove it would pay them every week in the year. The demand for many factory products fuctuates with peoples tastes and fashions and whims. The demand for the food the farmer produces is permanent to this extent, that people have to eat three meals day. Most of them eat them somehow. even if the factory has shut down.
 The tide between factory and farm will ebb and flow as business rises and falls People should not change back and forth too fre- quently. The man who goes to the city one year and then goes back to the farm the next, has not accomplished much to build up his future stability. He needs either to study how he can produce something from the soil for which there will be regular demand or how he can make the products of his hands or brain SO needed in the towns that he can sell them even when others are lying idle
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

It begins to look as if the good old New York World is about to lose its identity Under the terms of the will of the late Jo- seph Pulitzer. its founder, his heirs provided for the continuous publication of his paper by his male descendants Provisions of the will further stipulated that there could be no public financing of the newspaper. In the last five years the World has found it hard to exist under such conditions. Had its present owners the sons and grandsons of Joseph Pulitzer. been able 10 seek financial support by issuing bonds or stock in the Press Pub fishing company they might have been able to weather the storm. They are now apply ing for permission to sell the property. We don't know of newspaper that commands more respect than the New York World. Its editorial policy for years ranked it among the real progressive journals of the country. It was true to the tenets that Joseph Pulitzer laid down years ago. but that in no way in- terfered in it's keeping in touch with the times. Should the World eventually lose it's identity not only will New York mourn its passing but also a host of other communities throughout the land where the World is read and appreciated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26
Sizing Up A Man

You can't always size up person from one incident. There is Machinist's Mate Glenn Jennings of the Coast Guard, who 3 couple of years ago came in for great deal of criticism for shooting and killing an in- nocent Niagara Falls citizen. while looking for rum runners. Jennings was tried for manslaughter twice, and acquitted. Prejudice against him was not appeased. He had had an unpleasant time. The other day Jennings . was heard from again. Fishermen were ma rooned on an ice foe on Lake Erie near Buff falo. A Coast Guard crew reached the. foe with skiff. and the chilled and frightened fishermen crowded into it. The boat wouldn't hold them all When it was loaded to the gunwale. one man was left on the ice. to face the cold and darkness, with a storm rising.
 Then one of the guards slipped from the boat. helped the lone fisherman into it. took the mans place on the ice foe and stood there while the crew pulled for the dstan, shore. It was Glenn Jennings. The boat could not reach him again. He spent the night alone on the foe and was rescued next day And if that machinists mate was a lit- tie too quick on the trigger once on time he is now probably square with the universe You can't draw straight line on piece of paper without two points to guide you. or curve without three points. And human character requires at least two or three point judgment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

Massachusetts can draw upon the Swift and Ware rivers tributaries of the Conneeti- cut. in creating vast storage reservoir to supply the metropolitan area of Boston ae- cording to decision handed down by the United States supreme court this week. Thus ends another fight in the many that have been waged over rights to interstate waters The supreme court ruling held that the need of Massachusetts of good supply of potable water was greater than the evil that might re- suit in diverting water from the Connecticut and hence overweighed it. The special mas ter appointed in the case some time ago was upheld by the court in all his findings. Massachusetts cannot reasonably be expected to draw upon polluted water sources in the eastern part of the state. Still the court should not expect state to continue to pollute streams and then not pay the penalty. It is lesson to the Bay State. too. to wage war against stream contamination.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26
z5 IN BARBARY Ez l'AH 4MkA NEW YORkER6(R(

Marrakech. Morocco.-The Coney Island of North Africa happens to be a huge square drenched in the blood of another century.
 And if the ballyhoo men of Coney are still worrying about the decline of good spielers. recommend heartily at least a dozen out here who learned their trade from an- cestral showmen of other countries.
 The gentle art of drawing a crowd is far more adroftly .practiced by these half-clad natives than by any Barnum of the boardwalks.
 At any rate. afternoon in the Square of the Sinners'-otherwise known as Place Djema el Fna-is like nothing to be found elsewhere under the sun. moon or stars.
 Here you'll find the fanatical Aissaouian who jumps and dances on glass and, for so many extra pen-
 nies, will eat bit of it.
 Here you'll find the cobra tanner who needs no flutefi but can initiate
 it's strill notes with some trick of whistling through his teeth. For 8 few extra pennies, when he has gathered the crowd around, he will undertake to let two snakes fasten their fangs in either ear lobe and then he will swing into mad twirl
 until the snakes become parallel with the earth.
 And here, too, you will find the Amos and Andy of this section of the world. For, strange as 1t may seem. the boys and girls who come down to market from the hills and mountains and desert seek out their q vrn, AvSI Nxrr~ of the gents who provide 1t go into hilarious blackface act. To make
 it funner they affect wornout Amer ican clothes. like comedy Negroes in 6 Harlem show. Of course the very sight of tattered pair of white mans pants is enough to send any good Spahi, Moor or Berber into convulsions. The act is straight slapstick and should be caught by some of our better Broadway critics, for here is true primitive panto- amount of batter that I am unable to translate, being in Arabic.
 The next big laugh act has its counterpart in any American circus.
 It's our old friend the clown and the comedy mule.
 It appears that this number is only about a thousand years old,
 which is why we still laugh at it. The mule in this case is a diminu- tive burro and two clowns go through what Variety would call
 "comedy business" That Is, they keep kicking the burro which tries
 to kick back but always misses aim. Then a huge Negro. who could readily hold the little animals in
 one hand, stands on it's back and does quick flop. So it goes, and the men Tn burnooses and boards laugh just as heartily as you and you and you and me.
 In the next circle and the next and the next squat the story-tellers,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

tee is headed by Dr Frank Boas, of Columbia university, New York city. and includes Dr Gonzales Casanovas of Mexico, Dr Jose Oiticica, of Brazil and Dr Julio Tello of Peru.
 The work of the committee com plements that of lopez Lira, secre- tary of the Mexican National univer- sity, who has long urged the inclu- sion in the curricula of that institu- ton of courses in Nahoa, Maya, Tarasco and other distinctive tongues of the Indian nations of this country.
 The resolution of the congress at Hamburg has been communicated to the authorities of the chief univer- stiles of all the Ibero-American re- nubltna.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

the truest actors have ever looked upon. They are venerable old fel- lows capable of amazing facial and vocal registration--the sort that the high salaried movie actors strive for but seldom achieve. Here 1t has to be more than an art-it's a neces- sity, a livelihood. If story-teller loses his crowd he loses his pennies. For everything depends on the pass ing of the hat and the tossing of coins. There is more competition among the tale spinners than any others in this strange arena. They tell the colorful tales handed down from generations and centuries they tell the tales of grandfathers and great-grandfathers And crowds of white-draped figures stand, kneei or squat in circles about them for hours in motionless attention. If the story be not so good, they wan goes.
 All the time, the air is hideous with the whanging of hundred drums and the footing of strangely pitched pipes; the strumming of nasal instruments and the shrieking of native singers. There are the boy dancers from Andalusia, who dance like girls and make up their eyebrows and cheeks: the blacka- moor dancers from the Senagalese belt and the troupers from over the mountains in Sudan. .. The herb doctors and the fortune tellers. The sweetmeat vendors and the travelling doctors who pull teeth. Travelling barbers shaving patrons in outdoor seats. The peddlers sell ing dried locusts of instead of pea nuts and the cobblers mending san- dals while you wait.
 Here is a world-Coney Island. a thousand times more exciting and all staged in an arena which came honestly byt it's name, "Square of the Sinners" For here heads fell by thousands at pasha's signal and blood ran in red rivers ata Q days end.
 GILBERT SWAN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

< If you would like to be satisfied with your lot in life, build service station on 1t. Mrs w. R. Potter. past president of the Texas Federation of Wo. mems clubs. & If you would invest in friendship. purchase a dog.
 --Le Baron Cooke.
  There ,s too much hypocrisy in college football.
 --Knute Rockne.
  Relief from owing too much money, does not lie in borrowing A. Traylor. The rumor has been developed to point where 1t has almost become national institution.
 Richard whitney.
  Prosperity by propaganda, of which this country has had large doses, Is hai mful.
 Philip Le Boutillier.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26
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VICTOR HUGo,s BIRTH.

VICTOR HUGO'S BIRTH.
 On Feb 26, 1902, Victor Hugo, the greatest French poet of his century, distinguished dramatiet, novelist. essayist and politician. was born at Desancon, France.
 As a child he was taken in the train of his father, a French gen. eral, through southern France and finally into Spain, where his educa- tion was begun at Nobles' College. Madrid.
 Hugo married cousin in 1922. Four years |. later his tragedy Cromwell" established him the leader Of the romantic movement in literature. With the success of his "Ruy Blas." the French academy admitted Hugo to its membership. To distract himself from the grief occasioned by the drowning of his daughter, Hugo plunged into politics. Created a peer in 1845. he sat in the Constituent Assembly Of France. When he was banished from the country by Louis Uapo- leon, Hugo went to Brussels and London where he began his Les Miserables," perhaps his greatest work.
 He died in Paris at the age of s3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26
TO-DAY'S SELECTED POEM

SKETCH (Re-Printed from The Christian Science Monitor The shadows of the ships Rock the crest In the low blue luster Of the tardy and the soft inrolling tide. long brown bar at the dip of the sky Puts an arm of sand in the span of salt The lucid and endless wrinkles Draw in, lapse and withdraw. Wavelets crumble and white spent bubbles Wash on the floor Of the beach. Rocking on the crest In the low blue luster Are the shadows of the ships
 Carl Sandburg. in Early Moon."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

Elliott Thurston who contributes an in- teresting political column to the New York World two or three times weekly. comment cd recently upon the strange case of Repre- sentative U. s. Stone. Once upon time he was well liked and respected by his fellow members of congress. Now they openly avoid recognizing him. It seems the repre- sentative was SO unpolitic as to introduce a bill to chop off the congressional payroll the many relatives of legislators who are listed as clerks. stenographers, etc. A senator gets $12.000 year in addition to his salary for clerk hire; representative $5.000. Most of this. it is charged. goes to relatives. How could Representative Stone expect to be pop ular? How could he, indeed?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26
Good evening. HERE'S HOPING SPRING SHOWS SIGNS OF
 BUSINESS
"A SMILES THE THING.

bOSlNESS When spring comes tripping down the road. Abreast the tide when at its flood. trust her shoes escape the fate. Of others in the springtime mud. And may her hair enshrine a rose. For then I'll know trades not a flop. Spring has some money in her purse. She's spent 1t in florist shop. o-O-o I suppose it's that devil may care | spirit that sends most of us hell bent. It begins to look as if the half pint bottle and not the eagle is the American symbol. o-O-o The fire that followed Under the Gaslight" at Jacques theater last night again demonstrates the safety of electrical illumination.
 o-O-o
 How I hate,
 That Freddy Birch,
 He always says
 Sec you in church."
 Please tar and father.
 This chap called Dick, About the weather
 He starts to kick.
 Lunching with Joe,
 Is never much,
 He always says,
 Baby let's go dutch.'' Oh what talkcr,
 Is Charley Stout.
 "TalkicS" are taboo,
 When hes about.
 ADA, AnsOnia.
 O-O-O Love was and is the original blind fold test, cigarette ads to the con- trary. notwithstanding.
 o-O-O
 With electric clocks coming in and cats going out, there won't be anything much for dad to do before retiring for the night.
 o-O-o One thing is certain, cotton stock ings and smocks never make a man look twice.
 O-O-O
 When d mans resistance stiff ems, he's probably eating more starchy foods. A lot Of newspa apermen get the idea they want the World. 5000 of them are bidding for the one down in New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

John w. Davis. who was the democratic candidate for president in 1924 predicts that the party will nominate wet candidate next year and also elect him. He bases his con- clusion upon the swing away from the re- publican party last fall and the desire for a change in administration. Although opposed to the present liquor laws he doesn't believe they will be changed in the immediate fu- ture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26
INDIAN DIALECTS TO BE
 STUDIED IN MEXICO

Mexico City.-Mexican collegiate and academic circles are preparing to lend the fullest cooperation to the committee lately appointed by the Americanist Congress, held at Hamburg. Germany, for the study and preservation of indigenous
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26
Personal Health Seruice (By William Brady. M. D.

Signed letters pertaining to personal
 health and hygiene. not disease diagnosis or treatment. will be answered by Dr Brady. Ad- dress him. care or the Democrat. sending stamp and addressed envelope.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26
DING, DING

As hOusekeepcr she was awful That's where came the rub, She had q ring around her neck And ring around the tub.
 o-O-O The man who built the eight day clock probably wanted one-day margin of safety.
 O-O-O Discretion may be the better - part of valor but it never won a war.
 O-O-o Sometimes the most simple things in life are the most difficult. Trying to park, for instance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

Prosperity always leads to gambling, but gambling seldom leads to prosperity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

st Andrew Club, in London, has voted to use only peat brought al. tho way from Stornoway, In the Outer Hebridesy for its nres. air hAahjva ovens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

Don't overexercise the fork. says doc tor columnist, just as we've learned to eat with knife. Whattle we use-ehopstieks?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26

All vehicles must be lighted not later than 6.08 tonight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-26
At 7he National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER Digest of Who's Who and What's What
 RODNEY
DAILY WASHINGTON LETTEl

turned around. want to know what it was.
 The Presiding Officer: The sena. tor will state his parliamentary in. quiry.
 MT. Caraway: It took me some time to get an opportunity to do it I wanted to ask what was the an. nouncement of the chair about the rule as he turned around to make his side remark?
 The Presiding Officer: The sen ator asked the chair when the rule mad been changed, and the chail stated that there had been nc change of the rule. The senator from Michigan has the floor.
 MT. CouZens: Mir. President. have been considerable concerned about this legislation for the reason that ... (Etc.).