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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03
CalexicO Youth
Reported Missing

A schoolboy who disappeared
September 26 after leaving his home
at Calexico on the way to school
today was the object of search
by the Imperial county sheriff's
office
Mrs. Lenore Mabry, mother of
Roy Mabry, reported his disappear
ance. The boy has not been seen
nor heard from since leaving bis
home for school, the mother said.
He is Is years old and weighs
las pounds. His hair is blond.
and he was wearing a flesh coler-
ed mesh broadcloth shirt, light
corduroy trousers and brown suede
shoes.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03
28-HOUR-DAY PAY ASKED

OSHKOSH, Wis. U.P)-A time
slip asking pa,l Tor e hours work
in a single day was turned in TO
the city council recently by E. w.
Goettman, city warehouse en-
ploye. Convinced that not even
the most ambitious person could
work % hours in one day, the
council refused his claim, despite
his contention that part of the la
Dor was done by his wife on ware
house books.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03
SCHOOL BOASTS 6 STUDENTS

ALBANY, Ore. U.R)-School will
keep for McCulley Mountain de-
spite the fact that there are only
two pupils enrolled. Ranks of the
pupils will be better filled, how
ever, after the teacher arrives. She
has four children of her own,
which will boost the enrolment to
sig.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03
Burglars Enter
Rancher's Home

Only one burglary in Imperial
county during the weekend was
reported to the sheriff's office,
when M. A. Conn told officers his
home three-fourths of a mile north
of Ell Centre on the Dogwood road
was burglarized.
Conn said the thieves made away
with a suitcase, containing among
other things an army discharge to
John Abulla, a trunk full of clothes
and papers, and the pink slip to an
automobile.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03
sD0m't Quote Me-
BY United Press .

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. - News
paper releases given out by the
Republican national committee
carry the initials WIN, and a SER
ial number in the upper right
hand corner. Walter Newton, po-
litical secretary at the White
House, says he doesn't know why
his initials should be used.
Copies are sent to him from ma
tional headquarters. He says he
doesn't have time to read all the
speeches which are put out in ad-
vance text. He also receives, it is
understood, copies of Democratic
literature through party intelli-
gence channels.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell OF
Imperial Valley for This Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
October 8, 1912

At last work is to be begun at
once on the great EaStside high
line canal of which there has been
talk for years and which will con-
stitute the greatest step in valley
development taken since the origi-
nal main canal was started. This
will add about 100000 acres to the
irrigated area of the valley.
Climatic conditions the last few
days have been such as to mystify
the natives of the valley who have
not been able to figure out the
threat of storm.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03

Published every evening Except Sunday by the
Imperial Valley Press, Inc. 625 State street. e
Centre California, w. C. Costello, business man.
ager. Telephone IS, business office 700, editorial
department Full leased wire United Press Asso-
Citations
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03

The United States supreme court
was scheduled TO make its annual
courtesy call on President Hoover
after reconyening in fall term to-
day. There was much interest TO
see whether Associate Justice Nc
Reynolds would accompany the
other members Of the court. He
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03
Editorial Page
and
Features
A WISE PROBATION

FUDGE FRANKLIN SMART of the
y San Mateo county superior court
appears to be deserving of commenda-
ton for his action Saturday in freeing a
l6-year-old high school student, accused
OF shooting his stepfather in protecting
his mother from her husbands cruelty
In dlsmiSsing the charge against the
youth Judge Swart took very wise step
by accompanying it with a stern censure
for the youths action.
Few will question the justice of the
courts action in freeing the boy There
was really nothing else to do Releas-
ing him offered no danger to society.
The danger came in any possibility of
GROWING him with the halo of a hero,
and the courts remarks took precaution
against any such development.
you perhaps had a legal right, if
necessary to Stay him." Judge Swart
said, but l doubt if it was necessary.
If we begin to allow kids to pass judg-
ment on when men should be killed, So
ciety possibly won't be very safe, and it
is assuming a lot of responsibility for
boy of 10 to pass judgment on man
and execute him-kill him without a
trial"
Cases similar to this particular one
arise frequently and all too often the
slayer is regarded as a hero He may
be, but telling him and the world so is
not only dangerous to the youth himself
but has bad influence on other youths
who are apt to see license in the attitude
taken toward the first youth.
Taking life is a serious matter, though
we have placed a very cheap value on
life in recent years. Mature men DELHI
crate long and weigh every bit of evil
dence before bringing in a death verdict
in the courts. 1t would be disastrous to
society, as Judge Swart points cut, to
permit immature youths indiscriminate-
ly to assume the role of judge and exc
cutioner.
Judge Swart appears to have handleda
difficult situation in a highly compe-
tent manner.
One for Ted Cooks column and his
own Los Angeles Examiner: Final
Death Try Success.
-O-
Apparently Jimmy Walker Is to get
another chance at it.
There is very slight danger, whatever
reports to the contrary may be, that any
of our public officials or politicians con-
template a Gandhi hunger strike.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03

became eligible for retirement last
spring and has been increasingly
less active in court work. He has
been absent during many sittings
of the court.
Fortune magazine prints in its
current issue probably the only
photograph ever taken of the su-
preme court in session. The chair
of Justice McReynolds, next To
that of Chief Justice Hughes, was
vacant. He was attorney general
under Wilson.
The appointment of Louis D.
Brandeis to the supreme court
more than 16 years ago has be-
come a live campaign issue this
year in Massachusetts,. The Re-
publican candidate for governor,
William S. Youngman, opposed the
appointment. Brandeis, a Boston
lawyer then, was regarded as an
anti-capitalist reformer. He was
described as a Socialist by Repub-
lican critics. Youngman's opposi-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03

ton to him then is being recalled
for its effect on the Jewish vote
according to report from Massa-
chusettS. In 1920 Warren G.
Harding, when a presidential can
didate, was obliged to explain that
his senatorial opposition to con-
firmation of Brandeis was not due
to racial prejudice but to economic
differences.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03

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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03

1t is dangerous thing to scott at the
warnings of desert inhabitants. The
death toll at Tehachapi would not have
been so great had warnings of those who
know been needed.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03

Since the appearance of the
photograph of the supreme court
in action, guards are expected to
be extra alert to keep cameras
outside the courtroom. Visitors are
not allowed to carry cameras into
the chamber.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03

is in demand and a busy time is
predicted by all dealers
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03

Five weeks more and it will be all over
but the voting.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03

Apparently Jimmy Walker Is to get
another chance at it.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03
TEN YEARS AGO
nofnhar . 1000

Julius Willoughby won the race
for student body president at the
high school. He was Junior cam
dictate and defeated the senior
candidate by a majority of 81
votes.
Real estate is becoming more ac-
tive as the season advances, Ranch
property as well as city property
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Oetohpr 2 1917

Announcement was made last
night that the Southern Pacific
company raised the salaries of To-
cal employees of the company.
cal employees of company. Office
men are to receive an additional
$40 a month and warehouse men
S.. The raise was made because of
increased living costs.
United States regular army men
will patrol the Mexican boundary
at CaleXico on the afternoon and
night soldiers are to leave in order
to prevent <merican citizens from
crossing to MeXicali.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03

One for Ted Cooks column and hi:
own Los Angeles Examiner: "Fina
Death Try Success.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-10-03

There is very slight danger, whatever
reports to the contrary may be, that any
of our public officials or politicians con-
template a Gandhi hunger strike.
Evening star., 1932-11-03

offer Is that Of relation between cause
and effect. Our present troubles derive
in part at least from our past foolish
ness and heedlessness. We were care
less, wasteful, prodigal in the years
when it was fashionable so to be. We
danced, and now we are paying the
piper.
On every hand one hears the familiar
resolution to be more cautious, less ex-
travagant in the future. So much have
We learned But there is further step
which we ought to take: We should
recognize the necessity for making a
complete adjustment to reality. We
should Danish speculation from our
thought We should resolve to gamble
no more, and we should discipline our
selves to abide by that resolution.
Above all, we should not gamble about
the return of prosperity. Good times
must be paid for. The coin with which
they may be bought is hard work, SEN
sible budgeting, sane living-in brief,
an accurate adjustment to the real
values Of the world in which We live.
II the depression teaches people that
one fundamental truth, it will be worth
all it has cost, and the cheerful phil
osophers will be justified abundantly.
Evening star., 1932-11-03

convicted Of betting on elections are
disfranchised. Registration require
ments, time limits and moral and in
telligence tests further limit the elec-
torate.
1t is we'll known that some millions
Of otherwise qualified citizens fail to
register be6sass q AsA q interest or
through forgetfulness or Msse7s& Vssh
political arrangements. These self-dis-
qualifications are sufficiently numerous
in practically all elections to turn the
tide If the voters had registered and
cast their ballots. However, the ten
dency from the beginning of the elec-
toral system In this country has been to
increase the percentage of those eligible
to vote who 60 to the polls on cleo
tion day, partly through intensive cam
paigning by partisan leaders, and partly
by the arousal of sense of duty to
themselves and the State on the part
OF potential voters. Furthermore, the
tendency since the adoption of the Fed
eral Constitution has been to liberalize
the ballot. The establishment of the
secret ballot, moreover, caused a large
addition to the number exercising the
franchise, particularly in the presi-
Dental contests. A ballot this year
representing thirty-five per cent of the
total population of the country would
not be surprising in view Of the in
tensity OF feeling that has been aroused
by this campaign which is so soon to
end.
Evening star., 1932-11-03
A Franco-Spanish Deal?

European chancellories are buzzine
with excitement not unmixed with
anxiety over the visit which Premier
Herriot has just paid to the Spanish
government at Madrid The French
statesman gives his word of honor
that nothing beyond a mission of good
Will was the occasion Of the trip,
though he eyades direct comment on
the suggestion that hidden motives,
looking to a Francois Spanish alliance,
were its underlying purpose.
France and Spain have common and
abutting territorial interests in North
Africa. and the supposition in Europe
is that the conferences between M.
Herriot and Premier Zamora concerned
a readjustment of their mutual rea-
tions. No such realignment could take
place without arousing the serious at
tention Of both Great Britain and Italy.
The principal Spanish ports in
North Africa are Ceuta and Melilla
II any Franco-Spanish entente were TO
result in giving the French either con-
troll or strategic access, through con-
Meeting railroads, to those harbors. the
British would be bound to look upon
such a development as a menace to
their now unchallenged domination of
the Straits of Gibraltar. AS long as
Ceuta and Melilla. which flank Gibral-
tar on either side, remain Spanish and.
therefore, in weak hands, Britain feels
no peril at the Glib" But if France
were to dominate those ports, that
would be a horse of decidedly another
color. Ceuta would make an ideal sub
marine base. French-controlled no
ship could pass it without the o. K. OF
the French Navy
The French have other reasons for
desiring an arrangement with Spain.
Possession Of the Spanish Riff and
Spain's holdings on the East African
coast, the Rio Oro and Cap Judy dis
tricts, would facilitate the adlninistra-
ton of the French colonial empire in
Northern Africa and simplify the mill
tary problems, both local and Euro
pean, connected with it. Morocco, Al
giers and Tunis. rounded out by Span
ish Africa, would make France almost
the indisputable master of North Africa.
One Of the reasons King Alfonso was
toppled from his throne was Spaniards'
resentment of the b.ood letting and
treasure-sapping warfare necessary to
hold the colonies in North Africa. 1t
is suggested that deal with France,
whereby Spain could on the one hand
obtain a fat lump-sum for her ter
ritorial rights, while on the other hand
be rid of the costly task of military
subjugation of her possessions, would
not be unwelccme at Madrid.
What Italy and Signor Mussolini
would think about such a remapping
of North Africa is no. hard to guess
Franco-Ital!an relations in that region
long have been strained to the point
of making many authorities believe
that the next war" in Europe will
spring from the clashing colonial amb.-
tons of the two Latin nations in Africa.
Evening star., 1932-11-03
Rate BY Mail-Payable In Advance.
MARYLAND and Virginia.
All Other States and Canada.
Home for a Little Rest.

The Presidents decision, after many
DAYS of uncertainty to go home for the
election has been and will be made the
subject of an infinite amount OF discus
sion as to its psychological effect on
the voters. Doubtful Californians VINO
have about decided to cast their lot with
Franklin Roosevelt will do an about
face, moved by the picture OF the
President and the family circle getting
the returns on native soil. Doubtful
Californians who have about decided to
cast their lot with the President will
do an about-face, moved by the picture
of the President leaving his work in
Washington. So 1t goes, with Weighty
analysis of the Presidents route over
ground traversed by Gov. Roosevelt and
over ground left uncovered by Gov
Roosevelt, and the effect on the voters
OF choosing such routes. The example
set by the President in going this dis
tance to cast his vote as a good Amer
lean citizen will also receive due en-
phasis
But it is to be doubted if these specu-
lations in political psychology played
any great part in influencing the Presi-
dent. 1t Is to be doubted If anything
he does or says in these last few days
of the campaign will greatly change the
political map or influence the election
one way or the other, and he probably
knows it as we'll as anybody.
1t has been four years, four pretty
long and tough years, since the Presl-
dent has been able to go home. In his
telephoned radio speech to Californians
last night he struck a simple note that
must have brought response in under
standing from most men and women
"Our family" he said, has each year
made fond plans to return to spend a
Summer at our own home for normal
change and relief from work"
But something has always turned up,
as something usually does, to balk those
plans. This is really the first time the
President has had the chance to go
he will have the time fer rest and
few days of recreation that the last four
years have denied him. He needs rest,
No man has stuck to his. Job more
faithfully than the President and no
man has undertaken a more strenuous
and active part in the campaign than
he has For him, the campaign has
been work on top Of work.
The sheltered peace Of home is never
80 inviting as at the end of long,
hard day. And if one has the mental
picture of solemn conclaves of political
strategists counting the votes that might
be won if the President went home and
counting the votes that might be won
if the President stays in Wash
ington, the picture is probably all
wrong. The President would rather be
at home next Tuesday night, at home
with family and friends, than anywhere
else in the world. So he is going home.
Evening star., 1932-11-03
Hard Times.

Hard times are good for people. Ad-
versity develops character. The soul
grows by suffering. These are the
automatic dicta of a whole school of
cheerful philosophers, ancient and mod
ern. And there Is certain amount of
science in their thought. 1t really is
true that good frequently Genes Of evil
But it will be Just as wcll if in the
present circumstances Of this ye:r Of
test and trial the people and Their con-
stituted leaders in government and
business will be constructively realistic
in their attitude toward the causes and
effects of what is called the depression
We must not be fatalistic. We must not
be content merely to let things happen.
1t is the duty of thoughtful men to live
consciously, deliberately; to organize
and direct circumstance.
1t would be a facile performance to
accept prevailing conditions in the ex-
the balance will be corrected, and the
long-delayed argcsics from fairyland
appear with golden c2rgoes for gratui-
tous distribution to all and sundry. 1t
would be easy simply to wait, sustained
by the notion that the inevitable boom
will arrive without effort on the part Of
those who may be expected to profit
from its arrival.
1t should be clear by now that good
times are not nearly so accidental in
their essential character as they may
seem. Good times are the result of
good work, and bad times, by the same
token, are the result of defective think
ing. In brief, good times will c;m? only
as and when they are eaIncd and will
stay only as long as they are deserved.
No magician is available to crcate pros
perity, social health and progress out
of empty nothingness.
Hard times will be good for people to
the degree that people learn their les
son. And the principal instruction
which the present depression has to
Evening star., 1932-11-03
More Than Forty Million to Vote.

Ali evidences point to the casting next
Tuesday of the largest vote in the his
tory of American elections. A compila-
ton Just made of the registration by
States shows a total of 46,965 ,230, as
against 42,387, ,254 in 1928. With allow
ances for the evident round numbers"
of the tabulation in the case OF some
of the States, it may be accepted that
the registration has been somewhat
more than 47,000,000, or approximately
4,60O.00O more than the total registra-
ton of four years ago, or an increase of
almost ten per cent. The total vote for
President at the last election, including
all blank, void and otherwise defective
votes. was 36,879,414. If the registration
increase of ten per cent carries to the
number of votes cast next Tuesday, the
addition to the balloting will be 3,687,-
cal, which would make the total Of
votes cast in the election slightly mcre
than 40,50o,000
In 1920, the first year after the en-
reimbursement of all of the women OF
the United States by Constitutional
amendment, ballots were cast on elec-
ton day by about twenty-five per cent
of the total population, the highest per-
centage ever to vote in this country.
That was five times the percentage OF
the population voting one century
earlier. That percentage rose to about
thirty in the election Of 1923, when &c.
S7e,414 ballots were deposited in the
boxes. 1t is probable that at least two
per cent will be added to the ratio OF
voters to population this year, which
will give slightly more than 40,5oo,00o,
as previously estimated.
According to the census of 1880 there
are approximately 100000 people Of
voting age In this country, 100000
males and $4,000 900 females. These,
however, are not all eligible to vote.
There are some broad disquahfications.
the insane. the unnaturalized aliens,
those convicted of crime, certain In
dians not yet endowed with lands in
severalty, and the residents Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia who do not vote in
the States. In some of the States spe-
cial disqualifications have been pre-
scribed, as for example, in Arkansas,
Iowa. Nevada, OHIO, North Dakota,
Minnesota, Texas, Virginia and West Viz
ginia, United States soldiers and sailors
may not vote. In many of the States
those convicted of offenses against the
Ell ion laws and those who i've been