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Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01
HOTEL MEN TELL FAITH
IN IMPERIAL VALLEY

Faith in the future growth sand
development of FL Centre. as well
as in present conditions in this
city. was expressed by the Two hotel
men who yesterday addressed mem
bers of the Ell Centre Chamber of
Commerce at their MONDAY meet
ing.
Major w. r. Irwin, new owner Of
the Hotel Barbara Worth, who to-
day takes over the control of that
hosiery, stated that two things
about the Hotel Barbara Worth had
impressed him during the
past few weeks that he has been
here. The first was the beauty and
charm of the hotel, which is so in
keeping with Imperial Valley. ut
is said the speaker. zone of the
most beautiful hotels have ever
seem
The second thing which impressed
the new owner of the hotel is the
genuine interest of every citizen of
FL Centro in the Hotel Barbara
Worth. He has found more com-
munity interest in this hotel, he
stated, than in any hotel with
which he is familiar, not except.
ing community owned hotels.
In commenting on this interest
Major Irwin stated, The man who
assumes the management of this
hotel assumes q position of public
trust which is the result OF the at
tltude and interest Of the COM
munity We will keep abreast Of the
times, will operate a hotel OF which
the people of El Centro may be
proud and make it a community
center for the people of the city
and at all times act for the good
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01

however. has made no official an
nouncement as to his attitude.
Preparation of the ordinance now
is completed by the district attor-
ney's office and copies are ready for
presentation Monday. Maps, too, are
ready for the use Of the board.
Edward H. Law. county clerk.
awaits the decision Of the board be-
fore preparation Of maps showing
voting precincts in the county.
In the meantime. the voting pub
lie has little time to devote to the
subject as the world series gets un-
derway today.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01
LIVESTOCK MARKET

LOS ANGELES, Oct. l. U.P)-
Livestock.
Hogs-Receipts. 100; market about
steady; locals S525 to $500.
Cattle-Receipts. $50; market ful-
ly steady; load medium Utah steers
S6.4O; Arizona MeXicans, S4.75:
feeder steers, s4.00 to S485; heifers.
$500 to S6.10. Common to good
COWS, $500 to S475.
Calves-Receipts, $50; holdoYers.
l08; market very slow, weak; few
calves, .s4.25 to $3.50.
Sheep-Receipts, 100; lambs, 25c
lower; four deck good Wooled Ari-
zonas, $500; others unsold.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01
Scout Activities
About Valley

Five Sea Scouts and two skippers,
DnguS of Yuma and Rogers OF
Westmorland will attend the Sea
Scout training course to be given
in Long Beach Saturday and Sun
day under the supervision Of Com
modore F. H. BOsbyShell Scout Di-
rector II. E. Lounsbury viii leave
for Long Beach Friday night to at
tend the course and to be present
Monday at regional conference Of
directors
J. E. Brock. president of the Boy
Scout council. and Director II. Z.
Lounsbury were in Brawley yeSter-
day as luncheon guests Of the Rota-
" club. The occasion Of the visit
was a conference with Carl Jacob
son regarding what shall be done
with the $1,000 insurance money re-
ceived in compensation for the
burned scout headquarters in the
Laguna mountains.
Troop 7. B. S. A. met last eve
ming with Edgar Nance as scout
master and william Capps as as
sistant scoutmaSter. This troop IS
sponsored by the Elks club and met
in their hall.
At the scout hut in the city park
troop had its opening meeting
with the new scoutmaster, James r.
Eggstaff. in charge. This is the
Rotary troop.
Both troops made plans to assist
the public service committee Of
Womans Ten Thousand club IN its
canvas of the town for clothing for
school children in needy families.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01

Of Ell Centro. our business assocl-
ates and the citizens of this COM
munity.'
John Drummer. manager and own
er of the Hotel California and Las
Palmas, stated that by making a
good appearance a hotel can do
much to stimulate business in a
community The first impression
a visitor gets Of a city is the I'M
preston made by the hotel at which
be stops said Brunner
For that reason we have remod-
eled and improved the Hotel Cal
ifornia, knowing that if the visitor
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01

permitted to expose bare arms. If
they wear short -Sleeved dresses. the
law says they must have separate
sleeves extending to the wrists.
BY no means are all foolish laws
on the statute books though. the
pastor declared. Some which have
been proposed are just as absurd.
South Carolina legislators consid-
cred a bill which would scrap New
IONS law CT gravity and would re-
Quire the teaching of EinStein'S
theory on relativity in schools.
A Georgia grand jury has drafted
proposed bill providing prison
sentences for love thieves.
Illinois considered a bill prohibit
ing use of the word painless by
dentists. while Missouri debated one
making it a crime to catch a frog.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01
Drops Dead FROM 4,
Fear OF Maltiac

NEW YORK. Oct. /. W.R \ one
man was frightened to death today
when a crazed dock laborer ap-
peared in a Brooklyn bakery with
huge knife in hand and demanded
bread for his family
The crazed workman finally was
subdued, after a series of battles
with the bakery workmen and po-
lice. He is Henry McNair, 30, Of
Brooklyn.
John Thorsen, 81, Brooklyn,
dropped dead.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01
Whole Town Picks Hops

FALLS CITY, Ore, U.P)-Thera
was no surplus OF labor here when
the hop picking season opened. The
whole town turned out TO work in
the fields and all itinerant travel
ers who could be persuaded also
were given jobs. The picking last
ed two weeks
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01

Chambers of commerce of seven
cities in the San Gabriel Valley
have postponed the orange empire
trip to Mexico until late IN jan
uary.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01

A. H. Anthony. Fallbrook. San
Diego County. reports selling this
year 10 tons of avocados, mostly
Fuerte, from four acres of trees.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01

The local price on eggs, furnish
ed through the courtesy of Zurcher
Bros, is as follows:
Medium or pullet ...................... 26c
Extra ...................... SOC
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01

THERE are more safe miles in
Il the Silvertown than in any other
tire -. We make a generous trade
in allowance for your old, doubtful
tires Don't risk blow outs and skid
ding start riding on safety tested
SilvertoWnS today
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01
Mart!ets

LOS ANGELES, Oct. /. Up)-
Following are today's market quo
"a
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01

Look at this emblem carefully. You will see II often
in the coming months.
For this is the emblem of hundreds of thousands of
publicspirited motorists who have been aroused by
the toll of 32500 deaths highways and
last year. 1t stands against KILLERS it stands for
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01

safe, sane driving that means
life to thousands of people
each year.
Would you like to join in this
great national crusade against
reckleSSnesS and carelessness?
Would you like to become a
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-01

l. To drive at speeds in keeping with the
safety of others as we'll as myself.
?. To keep on the right side of the road,
except when passing.
3. To pass only when / know there are
ample time and space-never on blind
curves or when nearing the crest of hill.
4. To 60 through intersections only when
/ have the right of way.
5. To observe all traffic signals.
6. To give signals myself that can be
clearly seen and understood, before turning
or stopping in traffic.
7. To drive only when in full possession
Of my faculties.
8. To keep my brakes, lights, and horn in
good condition.
9. To operate my car on tires which assure
a positive grip on the roadside traction
and freedom from hazardous tire failures.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-26
EDITORIALS
Depression Teaches

American Colored people are
down deep in the dismal depths of
unemployment. Much of the buoy
ant hone that has vitalized our en-
deavors has been blasted and in its
stead there is chaos, confusion and
despair. This depression has brought
us face to face with our weakness.
1t has revealed to us that our strong
est institutions are not impregnable,
that our reserve is insignificant and
that or massed capital is woefully
weak and insufficient. So depress-
ing was the picture that the last year
presented that the most sanguine and
optimistic have ceased to utter their
incessant praise of the progress that
we have made in so years. At this
time the Colored race is in slought
of dependency and the future hangs
before it darkly.
The great virtue that this deplor-
able condition will bring about will
be the realization of the Colored man
of what he has actually accomplished
and failed to accomplish. The Color
ed man in America has learned that
the foundation of industrial success
must be built soundly and that sound
building requires time, energy and
intelligence. He has learned that
mushroom growth will not endure
very long. He has learned that for
tunes will not be made in minute
and that flash, pomp and fanfare
pass away whenever acid tests are
made.
The hope and optimism that the
Colored man evidenced before the
present panic was pathological, it
was founded on fancy and not on
fact. 1t was an illusion that by force
of natural causes must vanish and
pass away. Optimism should be
based on fact; while hope is a mighty
fine thing to have it is not nearly
so serviceable as knowledge and UNI
derstanding.
Out of this present miasma we
find this ray of light. 1t has seeped
into the brain of the Colored race
that its buying power is its strongest
asset. AS long as the Colored man
finds money, earns money and Sc
cures money to buy the commodities
of life with, Just so long will he be
in position to develop and shape his
destiny. The Colored man in Amer
lea even in the depression has spent
millions of dollars. In the course of
time he will earn more and spend
more. He has learned that his spend
ing can be marshallcd and directed
so that it will bring him far greater
return than he formerly dreamed of.
Herein lies his ultimate salvation.
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Don't Cry So Much

We listendcd few days ago 10 a
recital of conditions in India by an
Indian educator who is taking grad
uate work at the University of Cali
fornia, and we came away from the
meeting feeling that the Negro in
America was, after all, the most for
tunate group among the darker races
of the world.
1t is interesting to know that other
groups live under adverse conditions
in other parts of the world. Unless
we know this, we encourage the atti-
tude that we alone of all races, have
difficulties and obstacles to sur
mount. 1t is profitable to study the
condition of other groups similarly
placed, and to see ourselves as fac
tors in a worldwide, rather than in
an isolated, problem. To look at our
selves from this more inclusive view
point is to make available for our
use, with necessary adaptations,
methods of attack which have proven
successful in other chimes.
With all the disabilities we suffer
in this country-and they are many
after listening to the first-hand ac-
count of midas struggle against
Great Britain and of the many fact
ors that complicate and retard any
satisfactory solution, we came from
the meeting feeling that the Negro
in America had much for which to
be thankful.
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Southerners Hear Plea For Equality

LAKELAND, Fla, Feb. rs. =
When a Negro daughter of slave
parents can stand before an audi
ence of persons born and reared in
the South, talk frankly of such ira
ditionally explosive topics as social
equality and social justice, win fire.
quent applause and afterward have
her hands clasped by persons who
have never before made that partic-
ular gesture of friendship toward
one of her race, it is evidence not
only that the speaker is persuasive,
but more than that-that the South
is assuming a new attitude toward
the Negro.
Mrs. Bethune Takes Place
Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune was
was reflected at an inter-racial con-
ference here which has just closed.
The conference was under the leader
sip of DR.. Judd M. Spivey, president
of Southern College, an outstanding
Southerner who has thrown his dy-
manic personality with full force into
the task of pouring oil on waters
long troubled by race friction.
Born on a South Carolina planta-
ton, Mary Mcleod Bethune, one of
family of II children. learned to
read and write at mission school,
settled at Daytona Beach rs years
ago and later became president of
Bethune- Goodman College, position
she still holds. But it was not of her
personal achievement that she spoke
in addressing the audience of South
ern College faculty members, stu
dents and other white and Negro
men and women representing vari-
Gus vocations. She went straight to
the heart of the race problem, plead
ed for social Justice, pointed out in
justices that are being practiced
upon her race. and did it with such
sincerity and zeal that her remarks
were followed by applause, instead of
the derogatory comment that often
follows when a Negro speaks with
such candor.
Sees Improvement
She did not say that leading
magazine is going to publish an ar
ticle about her as one of the DO
most important women in America,
nor did she say that it is her splendid
supply of common sense and clear
vision that have qualified her to rep
resent her race in promoting the new
attitude among white people.
That the Daytona Beach educator
was correct in stating that the race
problem in the South is becoming
less acute, there is little doubt. There
is cause for optimism; but here in
Florida, as well as in other Southern
states, there are still mountains of
prejudices which will be moved only
by the coolest of thinkers. DIR. Will
Alexander, perhaps the best known
interracial worker in America, gave
last weeks conference right start
by warning the delegates in his open
ing address that objective thinking is
the only sane approach to solution
of the problem. His statement prob
ably had much to do with the fact
that the conference discussions on
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the following day were comparative
ly free from emotlonalism. The para
mount ISSUES between whites and Ne
groes were discussed from a detached
scientific viewpoint which would have
been an anarchronism in the South
OF quarter OF century ago.
The conference did not produce
definition of social equality, al
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Environments Blamed
The conference apparently was in
unanimous agreement that whatever
race prejudice exists in the South has
come from environments; that it has
not been a matter of biological in
heritance. It would appear. there
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Deaths By Homicides
Among the Negroes
Continued from Page ~

Continued from rage /.
ored %; and white. sec; and deaths
by homicide, colored. Ga; and white,
500.
In Brooklyn. in 1929, where the
population constituted 1.6 per cent
of the total population. the colored
deaths from suicide numbered 5
and the white deaths, from the
same cause. 1922; while the deaths
by homicide were; colored. 8; and
white. "a In 1928 the deaths by
suicide were; colored, Z; and white,
PA; and deaths by homicide, col
ored. 7 and white. 81
In Newark. N. j.. in 1928 where
the population constituted 5 per
cent of the total population, the
cOlored deaths from suicide num-
bered . and the white deaths. from
the same cause. rs, while the
deaths by homicide were. colored,
30: and white. Is In 1929 the
deaths by suicide were colored, l.,
and white, Sc; and deaths by homi-
eide. colored, Il; and white. %.
In Philadelphia in 1928 where
the population constituted s per
cent of the total population the
colored deaths from suicide num-
her 16 and the white deaths. from
the same cause, 272; while the
deaths by homicide were; colored
"a, and white rs. In 1929 the
deaths by suicide were: colored. II:
and white, 2S1: and deaths by
homicide, colored 81 and white
gu
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Future OF Negro In
America Not Hopeless
lContinued from Page I'D

tOOnClflueQ 1TOHl Il age l..
on than the ballot in the North.
In politics you should be independ-
ent and keep the white politicians
guessing.
1.-The future of the Negro does
not depend on either money or
education, although both are very
bft help. Be self-supporting. Me-
groes as race have been living on
tips. Any time that one of you
gets where you can give tips in
stead of taking them, you are a
help to your race.
while there is talk about white
people wanting the Negro to leave
the South, if the race pitched up
and left like the children of Israel
they would be followed as were
the children of Israeli barrow pre-
dicted.
Migration Cause of Trouble
What was discouraging to him,
barrow said. was that. due to mi
grafton, racial prejudice was grow
ing in the larger cities of the North
and causing delicate situations, as
the one growing out of the Sweet
case in Detroit. THE more you
come North, the more they will
hate you was his observation.
Color is just a matter of taste, :"
barrow said land the prejudice
against the Negro was not because
of his color, but because he had
worn the badge of slavery"
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Washington, D. c., in 1896 for the
purpose of raising to the highest
plane the home life. the moral stand
ards, and the civic life of the Col
ored race. No particular social, po-
litical or religious groups claim the
sole interest of this organization.
Through the work of departments
and committees. it attempts to reach
the individual members to the end
that the purpose of the organiza-
ton may be carried out literally"
In concluding her talk, the speaker
said that the membership of the ma
tional association now numbered
100000 and that last year the ma
tional president, Mrs. Sally Stewart
of Indiana, was sent to Vienna, Aus
tria, to attend the international ra-
cial peace conference.
The president of the local Colored
women's club is Mrs. Edna Watts.
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Jersey Numbers King
'Put on Spot" and Slain
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talking to someone. Police believe
that he responded to the call in the
dark passageway because he knew
and did not fear the person who
made the summons.
Since Friday night, according to
Miss Beulah Miller, who lived in
the house with the numbers hacker
he had remained at home. She
intimated that he had been keeping
under cover as result of the num-
bers situation. He ventured out
about o'clock, she says, and the
shooting took place at 1915 as
he was evidently returning.
1t developed that Digs death
came about not because he did not
pay off, but because he did pay. A
rival syndicate. it was said, failed
to pay off Friday when tip from
Washington gave in advance the
number of the U. S. Treasury re-
port. AS result, the syndicate
backed by Diggs and his barons
picked up their patronage.
These rivals, it is said. demanded
"cut-in" on the patronage which
they had lost when they WEIGHED on
the payment, and the money was
denied them by the Diggs people.
II was this score which was set
tied in true gangland manner when
Diggs was waylaid and shot as he
was entering the alleyway of his
home, Monday night.
Seek Higher Ups
Police declare they are not sorry
for the end which came to the gang
ster. He has been giving them
trouble for nearly 20 years. He was
known as a cop fighter" and dur
ing his younger days never SUBJ
mitted to arrest without a fight.
He has been identified with under
world life for a number of years.
What is interesting police is the
high places to which their investi-
cation into the lottery business here
is leading them. Besides seven ar
rests which have grown out of the
investigation of the death of Diggs.
the police are running down clues
connecting men prominent in politi-
cal life here with the racket. An
exposure which may shake this lit
tie city from end to end may be
in the offing. they say.
Those arrested and being ques-
toned were: Nathan Orem, 81:
Meyer Jacobs, alias THE Plumber"
Jacob Shapiro, 40; John Avogardo,
30, all white; Miss Beulah Miller.
put down on the police docket as
the housekeeper Of Mckinney; Ed
ward Thomas, "a; and Thomas
Brown. 43.
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Forty White Christians

An Associated Negro Press dis
patch from Caroline County in Mary,
land, states forty white church at
PENDANTS refused to enter their
church because Negro minister was
sitting on the rear seat to listen to
white evangelist preach.
Evidently the idea of heaven in the
minds of these forty church members
is one not only of milk and honey
with golden streets. but one where
only souls of the white redeemed
dwell
We wonder what would happen,
if by any stretch of the imagination,
one of the white church members
should reach the portals of glory and
find that some colored soul had pre-
coded him or her into the glory land.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-26
Woman Speaks
For Colored Clubs

BILLINGS, Mont. = Representa-
tives from two member organizations
of the City Federation of Women's
Clubs outlined the philosophy of
their respective associations at the
regular monthly meeting of the fed
Grafton held Tuesday evening in the
Hunters room of the Commercial
club. The speakers were Miss Nav.
belle Boystrom, president of the
Business and Professional Women's
club of Billings, and Mrs. L. B. Nc
Cabe, who represented the Phyllis
Wheatley club.
Mrs. McCabe outlined the philos-
ophy of the National Association of
Colored Women and opened her talk
thusly:
"This association was founded in
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Bishop Scores Prejudice

ST. PAUL, Minn.-Bishop Robert
E. Jones of New Orleans. one of
the two colored NJ E. prelates.
roundly scored Minnesota and Mis-
sissippi for their prejudices at the
sixth annual meeting of the Phyllis
Wheatley Settlement House. Tues
day.
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Use word three times and 1t is
yours. Let us increase our vocabu-
larry by mastering one word a week.
ECLAT; ostentation; brilliancy of
effort. He delivered his speech
with great eclat"