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Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07
BANK ROBBER
FOUND GUILTY
in QUICK TRIAL

Pollard Boykin, 25, robber the
Calipatria branch of the Securities
First National Bank of Los Angeles
early this year, decided Judge
Vaughn N. Thompson yesterday af-
ternoon when he found the Indian
guilty of robbery in the first de-
gree.
Sentence will be passed by Judge
Thompson Thursday.
Trial of the Indian who walked
into the branch bank lone-handed.
robbed the cashier of large
amount of cash, and dashed out
only to be caught within half an
hour, took but little while in court
Lee Nuffer. appointed by the court
10 defend Boykin, offered no defense
testimony. From the nature of the
case none was possible. Only four
witnesses were called by the prose-
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07
The wind lifted Tie silk lat

"He jumped out of the window
guessed the Fox.
NO, you're wrong! jumped out
of the window" said the Bob Cat,
who wasn't at all proud of himself.
why ever did you do such silly
thing as that?" asked the Fox
There you were, right in the room
with Uncle Wiggily while he was
lathering his face for a shave and
you turn around and jump out of
the window when you might have
caught and nibbed him, and, maybe
you could have saved some nibbles
for me. Why did you jump out?"
Because Uncle Wiggily lathered
my face with his soapy whisker
brush before he lathered his oWn!"
howled the Bob Cat. HE brushed
soap in my eyes, nose and mouth
and I had to jump out. That's the
reason"
oh" said the Fox, II seel"
I'm glad you didn't see me with
my face covered with Uncle Wig
gily's shaving ather," mewed the Bob
Cat. II must have looked silly"
You did" barked the Fox.
How do you know" asked the
Bob Cat. did you see me?"
mo, but I can guess how you
ookedl" chuckled the Fox.
What are you laughing at?"
snarled the Bob Cat.
oh, nothing" said the Fox, look
ing straight at the Bob Cat. "But
you were saying there is only one
thing left for you to do and that is
to catch Uncle Wiggily How are
you going to do it?"
Il am going out now, look for
him and when see him will jump
at him and catch him!"
Alta a boy, Bob Gait" howled
the Fox, 'and save some nibbles for
me-"
Maybe" was all the Bob Cat
would promise. So away he ran
with his silly little tail, no bigger
than a baby's thumb.
Now it happened about this same
time that Uncle Wiggily hoped out
from his hollow stump bungalow to
look for an adventure and he wore
his tall, silk hat that looked like
piece OF shiny, black stove pipe with
hole in one end like a cannon.
The hole was where Uncle Wiggily
put his head SO he could wear his
hat.
The rabbit gentleman hoped
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07

cution, three of them bank clerks
and the fourth an officer.
H. j. Ingram, c. o. Thompson and
Edward G. Grovenor were the bank
clerks called They told of Boy
kins entrance into the bank, when
he threatened them with small
pearl handled revolver. w. G.
Bill" White, police officer, was the
last witness called.
White testified to the running
gun battle through the streets of
Calipatria, which ended when Boy
kin was finally captured after seek
ing refuge in a residence.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07
MAN WOUNDED
BY OWN GUN

D. A. Castillo of Westmorland
was accidentally shot in the side
last night when a rifle he was car
rying in his automobile discharged
as the car jolted on an uneven
portion of the highway.
Castillo's wound was not OF SER
ious nature, the bullet merely en-
tering the flesh and touching no
vital spots. He was in Brawley
when the accident occurred. DR..
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07
MORE PHONE CABLES

Work is nearing completion on
the installation of approximately
five miles of telephone cable in the
El Centro exchange to provide need
ed facilities to care for future
growth. According to r. j. Kliegel,
manager of the Southern California
Telephone Company, the project,
requiring an estimated expenditure
of $14. 100, is scheduled to be COM
pleted shortly.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07
Injured Climber
Reported Better

Ross =. Huffman, Holtville man
who was injured Sunday night
when he slipped and fell down the
precipitous side of Mount Signal
is resting easily today in the Valley
Hospital in Holtville.
A complete medical examination
of Huffmans injuries showed that.
in addition to two broker feet ana
injuries on the head three OF
Huffman's ribs were broken near
the spine. Three stitches were
taken in the scalp wound.
Huffman, with two others, was
picnicking on Mount Signal when
he started TO climb the highest
peak. Near the top he slipped, and
fell down the side into canyon.
It was l3 hours after his fall that
Huffman was finally found and
taken to the hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD E. GARRIS
Copyright, 1928, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY'S HAT CANNON

There Is only one thing left for
me TO do mewed the Bob Cat as
he sat ON his silly little tail, no big
ger than your thumb, in the den of
the Fuzzy Fox. only one thing LETT
TOR me to dol
What is that?" asked the Fox,
rubbing his tongue over his sharp
teeth, for he was very hungry.
II must catch Uncle Wiggily, that's
ALL" snapped the Bob Cat. 1T is
the only thing left for me to dol"
"Why?" asked the Fox. What
has Uncle Wiggily done now?"
He insulted me and was very i'm
polite" the Bob Cat said.
"Insulted you? Impolite? How?"
asked the Fox
Yesterday" the Bob Cat an
swered, II climbed up the honey
suckle vine OH the side of Uncle
Wiggily's bungalow and I crawled
in his bathroom window when he
was shaving. And what do you sup
pose he did?"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07
ARIZONAS GEOWTH SHOW

PHOENIX, Ariz. U.P)-Maricopa
county records for the past 81 years
indicate the remarkable develop
ment of Arizona. In 1893 the
county had an assessed valuation OF
S7974.780. The valuation today. as
shown by a survey just completed.
is sl53 3,802 .843-an increase of ap-
proximately 20 times
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07

An important step in the settle
ment of legal and financial ques-
tions involved in the water problem
of Imperial Valley mas been taken
in the filing by Receiver Holabird
of a petition to the court for an
order for sale at auction of proper
ty of the California Development
company. If the order for sale Is
granted. the property probably will
be bought by a company organized
by the Southern Pacific for the
purpose of acquiring It,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07

The one-man farm proposition
advocated for Imperial Valley and
endorsed by the Ell Centro Chamber
of Commerce, is worked out with
from the vineyardists standpoint
by growers who advocate that 40
acre ranch is most suitable.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07
TEN YEARS AGO
April Z. 1921

Mrs. II. P. Cripps. Mrs. Ben Sal
omon and Mrs. Ira Hobby were
hostesses yesterday afternoon at the
Barbara Worth hotel at one of the
most beautifully appointed bridge
luncheons of the season. Covers
were laid for 10 guests.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Auril Z. 1916

Having persuaded C. N. Perry
and John Stewart Ross to stand for
reelection as trustees of the Gen.
tral Union High school district,
those interested in the welfare of
the school are anxious that they
receive a good complimentary vote.
Mrs. Bayless Waller is candidate
for trustee of the grammar school.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07

ers in California can average such high
standards of conduct as its teaching pro-
feSSiOn
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley for This Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
AnriI 4 1911

The Imperial Valley Oil and Cot.
ton company made its last run OF
the season ut the FL Centro Cotton
Gin this week, bringing the total
number of bales ginned TO 5,8l2.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07

Phil D. Swing was installed as
exalted. ruler of the Elks lodge last
night. J. Stanley Brown officiated
as installing officer.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07
THE WEATHER

LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY
Fair and moderately warm tonight
and Wednesday; light to gentle
northerly winds.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07

Il. H. Foster of Brawley rendered
first aid treatment, and Castillo
went home.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-07
HFRN CALIFORNIA

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Fair and mild tonight and We'd
nesday; moderate northwest winds
offshore.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15
Sweet Potato Tests
Show Fertilizer Needs

Yields of 24O bushels of sweet po-
tatoes an acre as compared with the
average of 100 bushels an acre have
been secured in fertilizer tests made
with sweet potatoes in Currituck
county by representatives of the
North Carolina Experiment Station
and the United States Department of
Agriculture.
The experiments show that ferti-
izers containing ; to 4 percent nitro
sen, s percent available phosphoric
acid, and 8 to 10 percent potash pro-
duce the best results. Many growers
in the early producing area in Curri-
tuck county have adopted the new
formula with excellent results. Be-
cause of this, the tests are now being
made IN four additional counties. The
growers find that the new mixtures
give less injury to young plants, per-
nit better stands and produce larger
yields with consequent higher profits.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15
FARRELL HEADS
I. 0. s. OF A. in
W COUNTY
Enthusiastic M e e t n g
Held Recently At Bost-
ian School House; Off,
GERS Elected.

Featured by the election of officers
for the ensuing year and decision to
sponsor and promote local pageants
and plays pertinent to the national
George Washington bicentennial cele-
bration, the county meeting of the
eight Washington camps of the P. o.
S. of A. held recently at Bostian's
school house near China Grove, proved
to be the best in the history of the
organization. Several hundred men,
bers attended from different sections
of the county.
Officers elected follow:
A. L. FARRELL, president.
A. B. Patterson, Vice-president.
John H. Bost, secretary.
J. S.. McCorkle, treasurer.
Reports from the various camps
were received, showing conmendable
progress had been made during rbe
past year.
Several excellent talks were made by
members of the association. Reports
were also received from the recent
national convention held in Atlantic
City.
The Bostian school house camp
again won the honor banner for the
best work and results during the past
year.
In line with the work of the nation
al organization, the local camps decid-
ed to sponsor the George Washington
bicentennial celebration locally and
plans were mapped out to have the
various schools, churches and other
organizations in this county to stage
various pageants and plays of a pat
riotic nature. The material for these
performances is being furnished free
by the bicentennial commission in
Washington upon request.
The following county wide COM
mittee to supervise this work and to
carry out the purposes involved, was
named:
John S. Steele, Cleveland.
w. B. Duttera, Salisbury.
C. R. MENUS, China Grove.
G. Ray Peeler, Faith.
]. S. McCorkle, Mill Bridge.
Z. A. Klutz, Rockwell.
Carl Cline, Bostian x Roads.
W. G. Isenhour, Lowerstone.
Delightful refreshments were serv-
ed. The Patriotic Order of Americans,
representing the ladies, also shared in
the occasion.
The next meeting will be held in
Salisbury the first Monday in January,
1882.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15
EDUCATION

Schools everywhere are under way and the
colleges are opening. There is a larger number
of students in all grades, from kindergarten
to university, than ever before.
As long as this state of things keep up there
is no reason to have any apprehension about
the future of America. We are getting very
close, as a nation, to the point where every
person above the age of ten will be able to
knowledge of simple arithmetic. That may not
sound like a very high educational standard,
but it is enormously higher than that which
obtains in almost every other part of the world.
Every year sees more young Americans en-
tering high schools, larger and larger numbers
pressing so hard upon the facilities of the COL
leges that those institutions are put to it to
find money and space in which to carry on
their work. All Of this means that we have a
steadily increasing proportion of people who
have been taught how to use their brains. In
the long run it is always the people who have
learned how to think who control the affairs
of a nation. These young folks are learning
how to be different from their parents. That
is the real purpose of education, boys being
different from their fathers. They will look
on the world differently when they are forty
from the way in which men and women who
are forty today look at it. They will try So
cial and political experiments which the older
ones regard as foolish and hazardous. But they
will make the world a different kind of a place
in which to live, and one that will suit their
generation better than the present world does.
Nothing is more useless, it seems to us, than
to try to keep conditions from changing. The
intelligent thing to do is to give the children
every possible opportunity to train their in
telligences, SO that when they start changing
the world over, as they surely will, they will
not be blind revolutionists but rather enllght-
ened evolutionists.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15

working the same number of hours with semi
automatic machinery can produce more goods
and services than more men with the old ma
chinery.
In commenting on the tremendous increase
in the output of Labor under machine pro-
duction and the millions of workers now with
out jobs, DR.. Prosser said that chronological
unemployment may result in sweeping eco
nomic and social changes"
He stated that the problem of 'conserv-
ing" the worker displaced by machinery in
volved the problem of caring for all the un-
employed, regardless of the cause.
1.-THE committee also will make a report, u
he added, regarding ways and means of safe
guarding workers before displacement, at the
time of displacement, and after displacement
through improved placement and restraining
services in states and local communities"
1t is gratifying to know that the commit
tee has included in its program the problem of
earring for all the unemployed, regardless of
cause" The jobless millions have but little in
terest in scientific and microscopic explana-
lions of the causes which have deprived them
of the right to earn a living. What they want
is work.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15
FIVE MILLION JOBS WANTED

Workers in American industries during
1929 produced commodities valued at eight
million dollars more than in 1919, although
there were 675 900 fewer workers in 1929
than in 1919.
These figures have been compiled by gov
eminent authorities and have been released as
official.
AS a result of this increase in Labor's COM
modity-producing capacity, and business de-
preston, the employers have discharged more
than 10000 workers, turning them over
to charity funds for living for themselves
and their families, and placed 1000, 900 more
on part-time work and earnings with drastic
lowering of living standards.
The underlying causes and social results of
this catastrophe are being studied by a COM
mittee appointed by Secretary of Labor Doak,
to investigate archaeological unemployment
and the effect of the displacement of work.
ers by machinery.
DR.. Charles A. Prosser, former director of
the Federal Board for Vocational Education
and a writer on educational subjects, is chair
man of the committee.
In explaining the work of the committee
DR.. Prosser says it has divided the problem
into two parts. 1t will endeavor to determine
what effect chronological improvement has
on the volume of employment, and also what
can be done to conserve" the workers whom
the employers discharge because fewer men
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15

stalled a modern fire alarm system.
now know why we have several first
class fire trucks l now know why
Salisbury's fire loss is small. I now
know why you have been regularly
elected chief of the fire department.
Knowing these things, l desire to
doff my hat to you and your fire de-
partment boys. l believe in giving
credit where credit is due. l am proud
of our fire department and I know
every citizen in Salisbury who fully
understands your system and opera
ton will join in with a hearty amen.
GOVERNOR MATTHEW Rowan.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15
A COMFORTING "CREDO"

The editor of The Ladies' Home Journal il
evidently an optimist. The 'credo" he ad.
vance is a comforting sort of philosophy fol-
these strenuous times. 1t is we'll enough to re-
member hat in spite of our own sometimes
narrow perspectives, the world is growing
better. Editor Schiller says that he believes:
That most people like clean movies bet
ter than dirty ones;
And clean books better than dirty
books;
And clean plays better than dirty
plays;
That college professors who break
down the h%omespun religion of their STU
dents are as much public enemies as any
other racketeers;
That home-making is the most digni-
fed of all occupations;
That the elimination of %drudgery in
household tasks is the greatest job that in
dustry and invention have ever done;
That the so-called wild younger gene
ration is, on the whole, a fine, upstand-
ing bunch of boys and girls;
That crime would decrease if it were
less advertised and glorifed;
That we shall wake up some bright
Thursday morning and find that the de-
preston has quietly come to an end and
business is pretty good again;
That we in America are living in the
greatest country and the greatest age that
man has ever known.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15
OPPOSED TO MAKING RELIC
IOUS EDUCATION AN ADJUNCT
TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

IOUS EDUCATION AN ADJUNCT
TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
= = =
To the Editor:
What percentage of public school
children are without church af6lia-
tons? Why take one hour from school
time for religious education-how
much can be absorbed in one hour per
week-thirty-sir hours per annum?
Churches conveniently located near
schools are by what reason the proper
ones to deliver to any group of chill
dren appropriate religious education?
How can a sectarian church teach
nonsectarian religion when it accepts
converts to its sect?
If churches want to give children
of the unchurched religious education,
let them adopt the church schedule
and plan of operation to the child, not
the child to some plan conceived by
an adult mind for his own onven
fence.
Since when have American church,
es degenerated to such a state that
they must plead for assistance of the
public school or any other group Or
institution? Keep our public schools
free from any and all religious en-
tanglements."
DnEAc1Irn
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15
WITH HUMBLE APOLOGIES

An insurance company wrote out a $1,000
life policy in the name of one Samuel John
son. Premiums were paid promptly for a few
years, but suddenly stopped. After sending a
few delinquent notices, the company received
this reply:
Dear Sirs: Please excuse us we can't pay
any more premiums on Sam. He died last May.
Yours truly, Mrs. S. Johnson"
christian Register.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15
FORBIDDEN STREET SCENES

A group of Americans who went to Turkey
to take motion pictures for Oriental atmos-
phere was not allowed to take pictures in Is
tanbul. Officials of the new Turkey, willing
enough to have westernized aspects of the re-
public filmed, objected when camera men
started taking pictures of the beggars and cats
that still give S%ultanic flavor to Istanbul
streets.
Boston News Bureau.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15
DR.. Us. Forbes, President,
Salisbury Civitan Club,

Or. J.eS. FORBES, ~PreS1QenI,
Salisbury Civitan Club,
Salisbury, N. c..
NY dear DR.. Forbes:
Decision of your club to continue
awarding citizenship trophies IN the
SIX high schools of the county and the
junior high school of Salisbury $ but
one step in your program of "build-
ing good citizenship" But is a big
step; a step worthwhile.
Teaching the young girls and boys
of today the object and meaning of
good citizenship" is indeed a noble
program and will pay dividends both
material and SPIRITUAL as is SO beau
tieully expressed in the Civitan Greed.
1t is needless for me to wish you
and your club continued success in
this undertaking. 1t has been my priv
ilege during the past few years to OBJ
serve the interest taken by the various
students in these awards. Not only has
success rewarded your efforts but, in
addition, you "have built a better and
nobler citizenship" Your motto
builders of good citizenship-is not
merely a matter of words, but a re-
atty. You have made, and are now
making, better citizens,
GOVERNOR MATTHEW Rowan.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15
MULE BITE

People are snake-bitten, dog-bitten and
mule-kicked, but rarely is a person mule-blt-
ten. Yet Mark Burrell, about 40, of Cleark
Creek, was bitten by his mule SO severely last
Tuesday that he was brought to Highlands
for treatment. The animal sank its teeth into
the calf of his leg and held on for nearly five
minutes.
-Higblands Maconian.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15
To the Voters of
Rowan County:

ANS W eA4
Statistics recently published by the
census bureau show 1854 persons in
Rowan county are eligible o vote in
the general elections. This represents
the maximum voting strength of our
county.
1t would be a fine thing if anything
like this number would actually par
ticipate in the elections held from
time to time. However, the tcta! tab
ulation of votes following the cleo
tons in the past fall far short of this
figure.
1t is not that our people are unpa-
t%riotic; rather, it is because they fail
to realize the matter of voting is a
duty and not only a privilege. This
condition is lot local but world wide.
GOVERNOR MATTHEW Rowan.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-15
Mr.. w. A. Brown, Chief,
Salisbury Fire Dept:

Salisbury Fire Dept:
Salisbury, N. c..
My dear Chief:
For the first time in my life, l have
really derived something practical and
beneficial from fire prevention week,
thanks to you and your department
for the demonstrations given last
week. Heretofore, fire prevention
week to me has merely been some
thing t. take up space in a newspa-
per. But this year it was different.
Through the activities and demonstra-
tons of you and your department,
fire prevention week turned out to be
something to fill up a certain Uranium
vacancy.
l now know how to turn in a fire
alarm. I now know why the city in