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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04
Don't Quote Me-
-Ry United Press .

through that room to begin trip
as momentous as that on which
Mr.. Hoover departed yesterday.
He was setting out on his sixth
trip OF the campaign trip from
which he will return either as the
next president or the next ex-
president
Many places in Washington are
reserved for the President. The
aires and large meeting halls have
presidential boxes. They have
been little used during Mr.. Hooy-
er's administration. Mr.. Hoover
while President has never gone TO
the theatre. Mrs. Hoover, howey-
er, often occupies the presidential
boxes at concerts.
Yuma Valley has 1880 acres
planted to cotton and the crop will
be about 10000 bales.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04
UNCLE WIGGnLY AND BUB'S
DOG

Uncle Wiggily was hopping along
through the woods one day when
he heard some one calling him:
"Unkie Wigl Unkie Wig! Unkie
Wigl"
why. that must be Baby Bunty
the little orphan rabbit" said the
rabbit gentleman TO himself. "She
must be tagging after me, but she
is far from the bungalow"
Mr.. Longears stopped and looked
back. He could not see Baby Bunty
but still he heard the voice calling
'Unkie Wig Unkie Wigl Unkif
Wigl"
Dear mel" whispered the rab-
bit gentleman. Perhaps that is the
Fox. the Wolf or the Bob Cat pre-
tending to be Baby Bunty. They
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04
CHILD DROWNS

SANTA MONICA, Nov. 4-tU.H
Mary OYerton, 9, was drowned
last night when she slipped off a
stool and plunged into filled bath
tub, appal entity striking her head
as she fell. Her body was not dis
covered until some time later.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04

Published every evening Except Sunday By thu
Imperial Valley Press. Inc. 625 State street, =
Centre, California, W. C. Costello, business man.
ager Telephone %, business office: 700, editorial
department Full leased wire United Press ALSO
ciationA
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04
u. S. Labor Agent
Arrives In Valley

Captain w. N. Cunningham, led
eral free employment agent VINO
represented the government in the
valley last winter returned last
night after an absence OF several
months. =,
Present plans are that he will
remain here all winter and be in
charge of the labor situation. he
spent part of the summer in North
ern California, ala recently has
been in Phoenix, Arizona, where
Arizona labor was used in picking
the cotton crop. Captain Cunning
ham is in favor of using local Ia
Dor in every instance, he said this
morning.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04
Looking Backward
fhat the Press Files Tell OF
Imperial Valley for This Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
November 4, 1912

1t is doubtful if there ever was
shown a greater diversity of farm
products at a fair than is on ex-
hibit at the fair in FL Centre this
morning. Races and entertainment
are scheduled for the afternoon
and evening.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04
TEN YEARS AGO
Nn,rot,nhan A 1000

Ray S. Carberry, chief engineer
of the Imperial Irrigation dis
trict today was operating water
companys No. A, 6, 2, 7, and IL
and the Southside Water company
under the lease pending final deed
ing of the property to the dis
trict.
Plans and specifications for the
new court house are expected to
be completed within a short time.
After they are approved and &C
copied by the board, the next step
will be advertisement for bids.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04

Negotiations are pending for the
building of 100 foot frontage on
Main street to provide four more
store rooms. There are no vacant
store rooms in town and it is re-
ported that demand now exists for
several.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04

ONE SHOT kills. TWO BIRDS
FALL RIVER, Mass. U,P)-Pres-
colt Wilbur bagged two cock pheas-
ants with a single shot. The pheas-
ants were fighting at the time.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04

SUBSCRIPTION RATEs-Delvered BY carrier,
per month. SIS cents; by mail, SO cents per month
In advance. Entered at Fl Centre. California post
office as second-class matter. Member California
Newspaper Publishers Association. NJ. G. Mogen-
son. national advertising representatives.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Noyayuhpr a 1917

Imperial county will have no
more contingents to leave in a
body for American Lake training
camp. There will be 10 more men
sent to fill the county's quota.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04

Word has been received that
immigration authorities have given
permission for bringing 1000 beet
field workers to pick cotton in
Imperial Valley. Farmers who
wish workmen must deposit $40
for each man secured from the
labor bureau.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04

If all the promises made by political
candidates in this campaign could be
kept it would be Utopia.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04

California Here Come, is an ap-
propriate theme song for the President
right now.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04

Wish we had a Florida paper tins
morning to read about the big earth
quake in San Francisco yesterday.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1932-11-04

How the mighty have fallen = the
Vanderbilt cup used to be awarded Tor
a grueling automobile race; now 1t Is
only a bridge trophy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-07
AN APOLOGY is DUE

DR.. Einstein's endearng sense of humor is as
heartening as the witless laundering of our own
state department. is humiliating.
He can laugh off the petty insult of the Woman
Patriot Corporation" which our Washington bureau
Gratis dignihed by calling him on the carpet in
Berlin, there to quiz him like a schoolboy.
A man whose cosmos embraces the starry cope
of heaven" we'll may smile at the antics of little
functionaires. DR.. Einstein knows the feeling the
American people have for him. On his former visit,
he found them more than hospitable, and now he
comes upon their urgent invitation.
Doubtless, too, as a world citizen, he has suf-
fered at the hands of his own country's patrioteers,
and understands.
Final issuance of a visa to its distinguished guest
does not, however, absolve the American nation from
its duty of apologizing to him on behalf of the state
department. We are more or less accustomed to
these i%ndignities to eminent visitors.
Other distinguished foreigners have been victim
lied by this strange ardor to protect America against
scholarship and enlightenment. But in this incident
it has caused our government to do an unpardon-
able thing.
We are glad that DR.. Einstein is big enough to
overlook it.
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Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

4 LII readers of the Dickens
IN story, "Bleak House." will
remember Little Joe, who is trying
to sleep in a London alley. The
policeman comes along, turns his
lantern on Little Joe and gruffly
commands: Move on out of this
you can't sleep here"
Little Joe replies, Il have been
moving on ever since I was born"
But the officer grunted, Il can't
help that-move on again." Then
Little Joe asks, But where tor"
It is a parable of u race, and
of each of us, whether we like it
or not. Man may not be totally
depraved, as the old theologianS
thought, but he is totally lazy.
He talks for a century, takes a
careful step forward, and sits
down-he wants to rest, to stay
put, to keep thinks as they
But it can not be so, lest zone
good custom should corrupt the
world" and he moves on, prodded
by his prophets and pulled by his
leaders.
AS the good and wise Emerson
said, God has given us a choice
between truth and repose." No
sooner do we fix up a philosophy,
or fashion a final faith, than we
hear a voice, not of the policeman
of the universe, but of God him
self, telling us to move on.
Where to? Out beyond the mar
gins of the mind, beyond the dim
edges of our thought and faith
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into a deeper mystery, a, larger
outlook, a richer and more re-
vealing insight.
IF we try to keep things as they
Il are, wonderings, questionings,
doubts, fears, hopes, dreams, de-
malls torment us. 1t is so because
we are more than animal, and
our minds are in contact with
something more and more, and
We desire it despite our fear.
A day arrives when we realize
that youth is gone, and we must
move on. Where to? Out of the
rosy glow of morning into the
light of common day, where we
must take our place and bear our
load.
On another day after heavy
years, we wake up to the fact that
life is far spent and old age is
creeping upon us. Again we move
on, whether we will or no, taking
the road down hill.
No one needs to be told of an
other day, which comes soon or
late, when we are told to lay down
our tools and tasks, and move on.
Out of the finite into the Infinite,
out of our frail mortality into
"the one vast life that lives and
can not die" as a soldier-poet
told us, where we can be what we
ought to be, think what we ought
to think, and fulfill the dream of
life.
Copyright. 1882, United Feature Syndicate
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-07
H BEST GIFT

Inevitably hearts are kinder with the approach
OF Christmas. Every one is in the spirit of giving.
Thoughts turn to the manger and to the cross.
For a few days or a week or so, brotherly love
rises just a trihe higher.
There come the usual gathering Of gifts for the
giftless, the distribution Of baskets in hungry homes,
the gestures of sympathy and Of generosity which
brings such huge dividends in satisfaction to the
eiver.
This year, if there be any who are at loss as to
tne outlet for their kindlier feelings, comes the sug-
gestion that there are many thousands of men and
women in this city to whom the greatest of gifts
would be a job, even for a day.
Through no fault of theirs, these thousands are
barred from the right to work. Through no fault
OF theirs, they must face Christmas with bitterness
OF heart, perhaps something of despair because the
return to prosperity has been so long delayed.
These thousands want to work, to belong to in
dustry and business, most of all to earn for them
selves and their loved ones. not only a living, but
the right to live as others live.
In this and in every other city, there is much
work that could be done, work that will make homes
brighter, the city more appealing, business houses
more attractive.
Give a Job" might we'll be the slogan for this
OAlntmdo, anu IL IedllIeu, CneTe Will De more OF the
zeal Christmas spirit in homes than could be taken
there in trucks loaded with baskets.
The city, as a community, should start at once
to obtain funds that will put men back to work on
such self-liquidating projects as can be financed by
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Such work
could engage some thousands of men.
But right now, the immediate need is for some
work, however brief, for the many who desire and
who need this great boon.
Work for the voorhees, could do more to bring
back the spirit of Christ than any other benefaction.
Real brotherhood means sharing. The distribution
of labor on high standards of living must come if
Christmas continues to be held sacred.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-07

Students Grow Taller
BY DAVID DIETz

HARVARD university students
IL of today who come from old
American stock are taller and
heavier than their fathers or
grandfathers.
They still are gaining in height
and they constitute one of the
tallest groups in the world.
1 don't know what Yale is going
to say about it, but that is the
conclusion reached by Gordon
Townsend Bowles, research stu
dent in anthropology at Harvard
university.
Bowles has just completed a
study titled New Types of Old
Americans at Harvard" which is
being published by the Harvard
University Press.
Perhaps Yale and other Harv-
ard rivals will be somewhat APP
peased by the fact that Bowles'
study of Harvard men corrob-
crates the findings Of other an
thropologists, among them Baxter
and Shreiner, that there is a gen.
eral tendency for the Nordic,
Alpine and Mediterranean races
of men to grow larger.
But nowhere has this been con-
firmed so strikingly as in the
Harvard generations of the last
eighty years.
BowleS' book also contains cor
responding studies for college
women at Vassar, Smith, and Mt.
Holyoke and shows that the pres
ent students at these colleges are
taller and heavier than their
mothers.
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Peoples Voice

Editor Times
nOESN'T it appear ridiculous,
- after all the strenuous work,
confusion, and expense the people
were put to with the general cleo
ton on Nov. 8 that we have not yet
elected a President and Vice-Presi-
dent?
This task will not have been COM
pleted until the members of the
electoral college chosen by the
voters in November meet and cast
their votes in February.
This constitutional requirement of
our electoral college hampers the
true expression of the voters. Many
thousands of votes were wasted as
all the votes cast in the several
States for the electors more than
a mere plurality counted for naught.
Hence why MT elect our President
by a popular vote?
To do away with this non-essen-
tial and cumbersome system prob
ably will not meet with approval of
the highly organized political ma
chimes which put up presidential
candidates.
Congress hesitates to pass an
amendment to submit to the states
for approval until it is reasonably
sure it is popular with the people
and the political machines have sig
nif1ed their willingness for such ac-
ton.
A united effort of the public press,
which goes far to mold public opin-
ion, along with the support Of pro-
gressive statesmen, can get action
and eventually bring this needed
change about to eliminate the cleo
toral college.
While this is no new question for
discussion, it is one that needs more
agitation.
The lame ducks" through an
amendment Soon will have been
eliminated and the public press will
be entitled to much of the credit
when the job is finished.
ORA GILL.
4033 Graceland avenue.
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Near Worlds Record
ITHE present college generate

TINE present college generation
Il of Harvard men of old Amer
lean stock constitutes one of the
tallest groups in the world, Bowles
finds.
The Sara, a tribe in central
Africa, averages 5 feet liz inches
per adult male and this is the
only group which Bowles finds to
surpass it. The Harvard group
averages 5 feet 10 Ito inches.
Harvard sons are IL inches
taller than their fathers, who
averaged 5 feet 8 6-10 inches in
height. The sons are correspond
ingly heavier. The sons average
1872 pounds in weight, whereas
the fathers averaged at the same
age only al 1-3 pounds.
Bowles finds that Harvard men
have been growing taller at the
rate of one inch every thirty
years.
If the present rate of increase
in growth continues, the Harvard
class Of 1882 should average more
than 6 feet in height and more
than $50 pounds in weight.
1t is of interest, however, that
while the Harvard men have been
gaining in both height and weight,
they have been gaining height fast
er than weight. The result is that
while they are heavier, they are
slenderer.
in his study of college girls,
Bowles finds that the daughters
average 5 feet 4 $40 inches in
height. This represents an aver
age gain in height over their
mothers Of l Ito inches.
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Is Mystery

A S has been mentioned, Che
IA condition may be spread not
only from contact with infectious
material that is in the blisters, but
far more frequently through some
infection that may be inhaled.
Dr.. j. F. Schamberg recites an
instance in which a physicians
daughter, Is years old, developed
a slight sore throat. and imme-
diately was isolated in a room on
the upper story of her home.
On the following day she was
found to have the eruption of
chickenpox.
An 8-year-old brother. who was
with her on the previous day, was
kept in a distant part of the
house, but sixteen days later he
also came down with chickenpox.
His only possible contact with
the disease was through his sister.
NEXT: Guarding against
scratching.
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Figures Don't Lie

GONE may be surprised at Bowles'
- finding that the girls Of today
are taller-and heavier-than their
mothers.
After all the talk one hears of
dieting and the habitual references
in novels and magazine stories to
slim h%eroines, one naturally thinks
the present-day girl must be lighter
than her mid-Victorian predecessor.
But it has been said that figures
don't lie" And no doubt, that must
apply to the figures under discus
sion as well as to columns Of Stats
tics.
Bowles also ~contradicts another
popular belief; namely, that a first
born son is usually larger and husk-
Ter than his younger brothers. He
shows from his studies that just the
opposite is true.
His study is based largely upon
measurements of Harvard fathers
and sons Of old American stock,
principally Of English, Scotch, Irish
and German ancestry.
IL OF l,oOO pairs
of fathers and sons, as well as a
comparison of SAL brothers.
The study Of the girls is based
on a comparison of 1,071 mothers
and daughters at Wellesley, Vassar,
Smith and Mt. Holyoke colleges.
Records obtained in physical ex-
aminations at the various colleges
furnished the data used in the COM
parsons.
Bowles' study covers considerable
ground. 1t involved more than 1900
measurements and includes in its
correlations the measurements of
soldiers and sailors in the American
revolution ard the stature of Swiss,
Swedish, Danish, Italian and Japa-
nese military men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-07

Courage IS what women need in MRS. FERGUSON
married life. To sit down one day and look squarely
at your problem is the only intelligent course.
Woman, behold your husband! Gaze on him UNI
afraid, with unprecedented eyes. Weigh his faults and
his virtues. See him as he is and not as your ro-
mantle fancies have made him.
Once you have done this, and done it we'll, life
will be less difficult. For then and then only YOU
can build your future.
THE chances are that such an honest inspection
4 will show you that the man you have married
has, like all mortals, bad faults, but that in the main
they are trihing and that his virtues far exceed his
vices.
And you will come then to the reality Of exist
ence. You will accept him finally and at last as he
is, no better, no worse, and cease trying. to make
him over into something you probably would not
love after the reformation.
Or this contemplation Of the face Of truth may
disclose a tragic picture. You may see a man be-
yond redemption, and realize in one binding flash
that this creature for whom you have suffered, for
whom you have toiled, is utterly unworthy. that he
never has been worthy.
So you will know at last that it is a waste OF
love. a waste of life, to remain tied to him. And
though you may not ever be reraid for the lost
years and dead dreams, you need no longer suffer
deIusion and futility.
You viii be free. And freedom, even with a
broken heart, is better than bondage in a fools para
disc.
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Why Not End the Var?

is unfortunate. of course, that the world never has had enough
4 common sense and capacity for cooperation to end the Great war
Whch began IN August, 1914. What We possess now is not oar All
ai0ng the economic front the campfres burn and the bayonets briahe
" r demand Tor payment are shells flung farther than anv which
came from the mouth of the iong-range gun which the Germans trrne
IN Paris. England might say in all truth that no air raid ever cut q
oeepy into her vtalS as our pressure of our claims.
In a very literal sense we are making war against the rest 81 +o
world, N ours IS the heavier artillery. Still, each new trade barrier
leVeed against us constitutes a retaliation. and unless some halt js
oaIeo ~ me mac p oceedlngs we shall be back into trenches and dug
JUS again and pee1ng through periscopes at broken wire.
Instead of getting together and digging ourselves ont of tho Woe
we nave undertaken to dig ourselves in. And the excavation grows
deeper. ""WOH II"
MUCH has been made of the capacity of the various European
governments to pay, but We have given far too slight attention ~ or
r"t0ny 70 reserve Inc motion that interest paid to us or withheld
wholly fantastic. '" V~eS " "" Is
A prompt radical, ana satisfactory revision of the war debt problem
would lift the market value of securities sufficiently in a months time
to provide the income tax collectors with funds far in excess of those
received from abroad.
: have yet to rear anybody explain just how we will profit either
spiritually Or materially if we manage to force England into a default.
l can't Tor the life of ne see how that will tend to promote world
confidence WIN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-07
MAN ON HORSEBACK

Oklahoma may give America It's man on horse
back.
The Honorable Alfalfa Bill Murray, emerged,
booted, spurred and victorious, from his third en-
counter with the civil authorities of the Sooner state.
A year ago last summer, Bills sad eyes sparkled
with the CLINT of battle and his dropping mustache
bristled upward as he ordered the state militia into
the oil fields to enforce his conservation decree.
Later, when toll bridge concerns sought to close
his free span across the Red river, he donned his
campaign hat, buckled on his horse pistol, and per-
sonally led his "beardless boys" to blockade the
enemy bridges and open the peoples thoroughfare.
Now he has called his trusty forces to free his
friend, Colonel Zachary Taylor Miller, ex-owner of
the 101 Ranch circus, jailed for contempt when he
refused to pay $3.50 alimony. Murray's pardon of
Miller was protested by judge and sheriff.
Murrays answer was to send two militia officers
to the Jail with a pardon decree signed by himself
as commander in chic of the state militia" The
sheriff, rather than have trouble" turned the
pioneer plainsman loose.
I'm glad" remarked Colonel Miller as he
emerged, that Oklahoma has a Governor with CUTS"
ominander-in-C Chief Murray is represented as
being impatient also with the way things are being
run at Washington. Will we yet see him and his
provincial legions marching, like Mussolini. upon the
nations capital, and led, perhaps, by that kiltie
girls band so famous at the Chicago convention,
their dimpled knees cleaning in the sun of a
new day?
Lame ducks hardly qualify as beasts of burden
yet they can do a lot of log-roling in sixty days.
A medical authority says that women who con-
tinually are dieting to attain a slim figure eventually
grow melancholy. Reduced to tears, we suppose.
Watching some folks who bowl "just for the exer-
else" it's hard to imagine what other reason they
could have.
A Seattle girl says she received 100 proposals after
Offering to marry any man who had $4,000. 1t sounds
far-fetched. Are there that many men left with
5000?
Times like these have one cheering aspect. The
wife who finds a strange pair of gloves in her huS-
bands pocket is apt to put them on and be silently
thankful If they At.
A new deal doesn't help much if you haven't any
chips.