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Daily Thought

Wherefore should I fear in the
days of evil, when the iniquity of
my heels shall compass me about?
Psalms 49:5.
A religious life is a struggle and
not a hymn.-Mme. de Stael.
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MR.. FORD IN REVERSE

Mr.. Henry Ford proposes to make little factories
out of big ones and scatter them over the United
States. There now are $500 manufacturers making
Ford parts. There ought to be 10000, says MI. Ford.
He foresees an early scrapping of his River Rouge
plant. the worlds most elaborate factory, and farm
ing out much of its work to the thousands of small
plants.
The new and little Ford plants will be built in
rural communities where power is available. workers
can live on small farms and raise their food. The
Ford idea goes even farther. 1t ~contemplates
growing" Fords on the farms.
Auto bodies can be made from the ceIlulose of
corn stalks, steering wheels from soy beans.
Has this master mechanic of the world of bolts
and human robots come to realize that a civiiza-
ton separated from the soil is doomed? Does he
feel, with so many others, that we have reached
the point of diminishing returns in our skyscraping
cities?
The Ford plan of decentralization seems to fit
into the ideal of President Elect Roosevelt for a
new type of American community, one half-ruraI,
haIf-industrial.
If the Hollywood vogue keeps up we'll soon be
hearing the girls rave about "the cutest spring
dress you ever saw-and with two pairs of pants!"
Pawnshop operators complain of an oversupply Of
dress clothes. Evidently a lot of the boys prefer
less formality in their soup and fish these days.
Considering the modern trend in merchandising,
If beer comes back it'll probably be wrapped in
cellophane with a tube of shaving cream.
Now the movie columnists are picking the ten
worst films of the year. Most of us, alas, suspect
we picked EN- too, but we don't remember the
titles.
The year 1888 is designated by the Japanese as
"the year OF cooks" Let's hope Japan won't forget
that old injunction about spelling the broth.
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forces, but for differentiation and
isolation. 1t is as if we entirely
reversed the miracle which Eze-
kiel saw, for the command which
rings between the hills is, Each
for his own"
Not content with the barriers
raised up by shifting sands, we
want to heap upon each substance
of salvation the weight of suspi-
cion and hatred and distrust.
There is with us a noise and a
shaking, but it is the sound of a
still greater disintegration.
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that the billions which might be lost to us through revision can be
made up through the increase of old markets, or the creation Of new
ones
W. have argued this point until many Of us are convinced Of its
logic, forgetting that everything depends not only on what Europe is
willing to concede, but on what Europe can concede.
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NJ. E.TracySay
DEBTS "RELIEF" ABSURD IDEA.

EUROPES attitude toward war debts has
l. nothing in common with the American atti-
tude.
AS Neville Chamberlain says, The concep-
ton of concessions by Great Britain in return for
scaling down of the war debts is not a British
conception" No more is it a French, Italian, or
Belgian conception.
We see revision as something which should
not be granted without concessions. AS a matter
of fact. we are irving 10 make ourselves heliavn
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Considering the modern trend in merchandising.
If beer comes back it'll probably be wrapped in
cellophane with a tube of shaving cream.
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Now the movie columnists are picking the ten
worst films of the year. Most of us, alas, suspect
we picked 'em too, but we don't remember the
titles.
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SCIENCE.
5000 Alloys in Use
BY DAVID DIETz

iron, copper, lead, zinc, sluminum,
tin and nickel.
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If the Hollywood vogue keeps up We'll soon be
hearing the girls rave about the cutest spring
dress you ever saw-and with two pairs of pants!"
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Pawnshop operators complain of an oversupply c
dress clothes. Evidently a lot of the boys prefer
less formality in their soup and fish these days
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Figures Upon Sand

XXTE have taken a stick and
wv drawn magical designs up
on the surface of the earth. And
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The year 1888 is designated by the Japanese as
the year OF cooks Let's hope Japan won't forget
that old injunction about spelling the broth.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16
PHILADELPHIA
BIRTHPLACE OF
MARINE CORPS

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. l6. U.P)-
The United States Marine Corps
America S famous Soldiers of the
Sea had their birth in Philadel-
phia.
Engaged in compiling a history
of the famous corps, Major Edwin
H. Mcclellan has established head
quarters here aid will study doc
uments and letters relating to the
organization of the unit in IT'S.
Letters in the files of the Histor-
ical Society of PENNSYLVANIA. to-
gether with the original muster roll
of the first company of marines,
provided valuable material.
The first marine expedition left
Philadelphia in l776 under COM
mand of Captain Samuel Nicholas,
Pennsylvania, to capture am
munition and supplies in the Ba-
hamas. A unit of marines served
with Washington ;: army through
out the New Jersey campaign and
in the battles at Trenton and
Princeton.
In the Universal Gazette for
July 10, 1900. an account of the
first band concert by the marine
band is detailed. Shortly after that
the national government was moved
to Washington ard the marine band
went there.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16


episode marked the beginning of
the romantic story of oil in Amer
lea and in the world, "a story which
relates the upgrowth of a despised
waste product into commodity
upon which has been erected the
greatest single industrial enter
prise in the nation, and one which
has completely reyolutionized the
worlds transportation"
brakes discovery would have
been relatively useless, the Cen
eral Petroleum executive pointed
out, if at that time crude methods
of refining oil had not been known
and if, since, science had not de-
voted intensive research into the
composition and hidden qualities
of oil in an effortAto fit it to con-
tinued development in transporta
ton changes. 1t is. only in the last
ten years, Mr. King declared, that
the fruits of this research have
matured in satisfactory perform
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16
OF LABOR HAS
PROVEN CAPITAL ENIGMA

Stoner. Her husband is Paul Will
son, an attorney. He has been
called Mr.. Perkins" upon occa-
sion.
Some of Madame Secretary's pho
tographs flatter her. Some are
most uncomplimentary. None look
like her.
She is a small plump woman,
with dark skin, pleasant smile and
circled eyes. from many years of
really hard work She gained her
first fame as the efficient labor
commissioner of New York state.
President Roosevelt liked her
work so we'll that he appointed her
secretary of labor frori a list of
distinguished POSSIBLE ties. Miss
Perkins wore her notorious hat 10
Washington, but it cccasioned SO
much comment that she put it
away in moth balls. She now wears
one of those tricky chapeous which
will go out of style as rapidly as
a popular song.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16

personnel Of the 500 stations which
the company operates throughout
the Pacific coast. Working hours
of the men, other than managers,
on duty prior to the adoption of
the agreement have been reduced
to 40 hours per week, but the men
have not been given reduction
in salary. .a~
The first groups of men to be
added to the service station pay
roll are attending at two-week s in
tensive period of - classroom and
school" station instruction in
preparation for their duties as SER
vice station attendants. In the
course of instruction the men are
required to study the mechanism
of automobiles and learn the spe-
cific fabrication requirements of
each moving part. They are then
given practical instruction in lub-
brication work, versed in the myr-
lad other duties demanded of an
efficient operator and assigned to
active duty in station.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16
Home OWners May
Get Blanks Here

Home owners of this locality who
wish to apply for loans from the
Home Owner S Loan corporation
may obtain the necessary applica-
ton blanks at the office of the I'M
perial Valley Building and Loan
association, at lac South Sixth
street in Ell Centre.
According to j. S. Jones, secre-
tary of the local association, this
loaning agency was created to re-
lieve distressed loans only.
1t does not apply to property
providing for more than four fam
lilies or to business property.
1.-The association will cooperate
as much as possible he said, "by
aiding the applicants in filling out
the blanks and by giving all the
information we have at the pres
cnt, -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16
GARAGE GROUP
|NEETSFR|DAY

Among the trade groups which
are making Roadway in forming
codes of operation under the pro-
visions in the MIRA is that COM
posed of the garage and auto re-
pair men. whose officers have call
ed a meeting to be held Friday
evening. at s O'Clock. at the foot
ball field of Central Union high
school.
At this meeting permanent
name will be selected for the assoc
iation, constitution and bylaws
will be adopted, and code of OPP
Grafton will be framed which will
govern the operations of the men,
bers.
The garage and repair men have
held several meetings, and their
program of organization has gone
steadily forward. Lou Ballard Of
Brawley, is president. Chef Haller,
of Calexico. and James Hushman,
are first and second vice presidents,
respectively, and c. B. Hawkins, OF
Brawley, is secretary treasurer.
President Ballard has asked the
newspapers of Imperial Valley to
announce that it is imperative
that all garages and repair men
in the valley should be represented
at the Friday meeting, and more
especially those who have not at
tended earlier meetings of the
group. The matters considered are
of vital interest to all those en-
gagged in automotive repairing, and
no garage or repair man, can af-
ford, in his own interest, to be
absent, Ballard states. There will
be several speakers who have made
intensive studies of the NRA legis-
lation, and of the code which it
is proposed to adopt. and the meet
ing will be of greatest interest to
men engaged in this line of activ-'
ity.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16

Taking steps to comply with the
provisions of President Roosevelt s
unemployment agreement, which it
signed on August 3, the Union Oil
company Immediately enlisted new
men in the service station and sales
departments, and issued instruc-
tions to reduce the hours of the
men working prior to inception of
the NRA compact.
Working hours of employees in
the producing. transportation, and
refining departments of the COM
pany were adjusted to conform with
terms of the Unemployment agree
ment.
In keeping with the provisions of
the NRA pact, large number of
men have been selected for en-
ployment in Union Service Stations,
Inc, the company's retail mar
keting subsidiary, v. H. Kelly, di-
rector of sales. said The new
men, Kelly stated, will complete the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16
Lou S. p. Fares
OUer Holidays


Cent-a-mile roupdtrip excursions
over the Labor day and Admission
Gay week lends wilf7be Southern Pa
cifics travel bargains for the holi-
days, according TO announcement
today.
Scheduled from August 81 to
September 4, the Labor day Offer
ing of dollar day" transportation
will cover all stations on the rail-
roads lines in six western states,
with return limit Of September II,
it was made known by j. w. Dono-
hue, district freight and passenger
agent.
The Admission day excursions
September and 8, are 10 be oper-
ated between all California points,
and will also include Reno. he said.
September IL will again be the re-
turn limit.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16

ance of internal combustion mo-
tors, and in this research General
Petroleum Corporation and its par
ent organization, the worldwide
Socony-Vacuum Corporation, have
been the acknowledged leaders.
''It is this patient, tremendously
expensive experimentation that
has finally resulted in our new
General Four-Star gasoline" the
official concluded. Between this
motor fuel and ordinary gasolines
there is almost as much difference
as between the drilling equipment
of today and that used 20 years
ago. AS an indication of the per-
lection of refining that this auto
mobile fuel undergoes, it is inter-
esting to note that it is so remark
ably free from gum-forming char
acteristics that it falls even within
the United States Government
specifications for aviation gaso-
line"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16

EDITORS NOTE: For the
first time in American history,
women now are taking a large
part in the administration of
the United States government.
The five most important fem
mine holders of key positions.
as appointed by President
Roosevelt, are charged with
such diverse duties as admins
tering the labor department.,
supervising the mint, handling
diplomacy with Denmark. run
ming the civil service commits
sion, and being personal repre-
scntativcs of the President him
self.
The United Press has inter
viewed these women, scruti-
nized their lives, talked with
their fellow workers and eX-
amined the reforms they have
made in the few months since
their appointment. The data
has been written in the form
of five daily dispatches Of which.
this, concerning Secretary of
Labor Frances Perkins, is the
first.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16
DOLLAR SLUMP
HITS TOURISTS
BY STEWART BROWN
United Press Staff Correspondent

1hetu fuss StdlI correspondent
GENEVA, Aug. Is. - When the
United States left the gold STAN
oard thousands of Americans FLED
from Switzerland Swiss hotels, in
consequence, have suffered disas-
trously.
Hundreds Of palatial hotels prac-
bcally are empty. The few Amer
lean tourists who venture to spend
their deprecated dollars here have
been forced to live in boarding
houses and travel third-class on
Swiss trains. Swiss train fares are
expensive because of the mountain
Gus roads.
Diplomats. consuls. newspaper
correspondents and business men
who are forced to live in Switzer-
land are complaining bitterly.
Many of them have given up their
flats and cars and are living in
cheap hotels, or boarding houses.
Switzerland, with the exception
Of Holland, is the only country in
the world whsoi still maintains its
currency at its pre-wsr parity.
Before the United divorced its true
currency from gold a dollar would
buy slightly more than five Swiss
francs-not enough to buy lunch
or dinner in any middle-clsSs res
taurant.
Now Americans get less than
four francs for each dollar. This
means they pay approximately two
dollars for a meal which in the
United States would cost rs cents.
A pair of socks now costs approx
imately Sl.50, pair of garters
$500, a package of cigarets about
&c cents.
Even before the dollar depreci-
ated, living costs in Switzerland,
because of her pre-war gold pari-
ty. were higher than in most Eur
opean countries.
Official figures show living costs
in Switzerland are still about 30
per cent higher than before the
war, Since the peak of prosperity !
in 1929 they only have dropped |
an average of about ~ per cent. |
This fact has been causing thou |
sands of tourists to spend their /
vacations in cheaper countries /
where their dollars would go far
Their
The American diplomatic corps /
was hit the hardest. Hard upon
a series of cuts in their salaries
and housing allowances came the
of the dollar. Prac-
tically all of them petitioned Wash
ington to make good the differ
ence caused by loss in exchange.
Several are on the point of resign
ing.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16
Population Of
France Shrinks

PARIS, Aug Is. W.P)-The popu-
lation of France is shrinking. Of
fetal figures Professionally issued
for the first three months of the
year show that the population still
is decreasing. There we're 900 few
er marriages than in the cores
ponding three months of 1892, while
the number of births was ITS, 1853.
compared with 1878.
In the same three months there
were 10000 deaths of children I'M
Ger one year. Loss of infants,
even more than fewer births, con-
tributes to France S shrinking pop
ulation. The total excess of deaths
over births for all ages was 32.25O.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16
STYLE CHATS
With ALMA ARCHER

When you see stockings with
queer embroidered holes in their
tops that look as though l had
been tfEre with my rare species Of
needlework, you will be looking at
the new Butinol hose Off hand,
one might think silk stockings get
enough holes on their own &C
count without purposely putting
them there, but that IS not the psy-
chology of inventive genius. If
your nerves can take it, the in
nate idea Of buttonhole stockings
is sort of a hypodermic game
having to do with trico-Italian silk
boomers, whereby one endeavors to
jab the hole in the stockings with
the garter firmly attached to the
bloomer. It's sort of a mating
season theory, each unhappy with
out the other. This particular
team is intended for that consid-
cradle element that goes without a
girdle because it loves to and is
bored with round garters. Don u
know any other reason to cite
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16
Petroleum Refining
Discoveries Told
By Official

Although petroleum predates the
appearance of prehistoric man by
at least $50. 100000 years. and
was undoubtedly known in myth
and legend before the dawn of
written history, it is only in the
last "A years that the human race
has discovered oil was anything
but waste product of nature.
This striking fact was brought
to light yesterday by r. S. King.
vice-president and general sales
manager of the General Petro-
leum Corporation of California,
producers and marketers of new
General Four-Star gasoline, in
connection with the approaching
18th anniversary of the drilling
of the first oil we'll on the
North American continent. This
well, drilled by Colonel Edwin
Laurencine Drake, was brought in
one mile southeast of Titusville,
Pennsylvania, on August 81, 1859,
and ever since has been famous in
the oil industry as brakes Folly"
Drake engaged the first oil
we'll driller in the history of the
industry. man bearing the good
name of William A.
Smith," Mr.. King stated. THE
whole countryside laughed at the
idea of Drake and Smith deliber-
ately drilling for oil, as up to that
time the only drilling done in that
part of the world was for salt
brine, and the black, sticky oil
which occasionally came up with
the brine was always regarded as
a nuisance and of absolutely no
value.
with the crude tools at their
command, first hand drills and
later a clumsy steam engine, it
took these two pioneers from May
of 1858 to August of 1859 to drill
So feet to oil. August 81, 1859,
was a sultry Saturday, and late
that afternoon, when Uncle Billy
Smith and his young son Sam
pulled the bit from the hole, the
black oily fluid gurgled up to with
in a few feet of the top. That
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16
Comes West To
Locate His Man

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16 UP
The whole world is one big beat to
Police Captain Stanley Beatty of
Kansas City, Kansas
Beatty and County Attorney Fred
erick r. White came to Los An
geles to question a murder suspect
when they decided to inquire at
the federal buildings for possible
word concerning Paul James Brin-
Gle. wanted in Kansas City on
lottery charge. White went inside
while Beatty remained in the car
Idly scanning the passing crowds
the police captain was startled TO
see him pass. He leaped out and
seized him. Brindle was booked on
fugitive charge.
The two Kansas officers planned
TO question Paul Anthony Taylor
n, in connection with the murder
of six year old Kansas City girl
Taylor was arrested at a Hollywood
hotel last week.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN
United Press Staff Core spondcnt

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. = Ma
dame Secretary of Labot Frances
Perkins is the enigma of Washing
ton.
AS the first woman cabinet men,
Der in history she has astounded,
startled and surprised officialdoln
in her operation of the labor de-
partment.
Her first revolutionary act was
the publishing of figures showing
unfavorable employment trends.
Under William Nuckles Doak, her
predecessor, such figures usually
were suppressed.
She then dived into the gargan-
tuan task of wedding politics out of
the department. She reorganized
the federal employment service. She
virtually abolished Doak's "deporta-
ton squad" which had been gain
ing notice by packing foreign movie
stars off to Europe.
She helped draft the 30-hour
week bill which just missed be-
coming law. While she was in the
midst of trying to shorten working
hours for all Americans, her chauf-
feur quit.
He said he was tired of working
II hours a day!
The chauffeur spoke at length
for publication. Washington chuck
!. led, but Miss Perkins didn't
There is too mush talk and not
enough work around here" she said,
in making herself inaccessible to
newspapermen. She issued orders
that the department should give out
no information whatever, without
her personal okay. She never was
available herself to give this ap-
prevail.
The situation came to such pass
that one of her employees comment
cd:
"A man asked me what time it
was the other day. l told him
couldn't tell him because Madame
Secretary had not approved"
The employee was discharged a
day or so later. simultaneously
Miss Perkins issued orders that
news men could NOT use labor de-
partment telephones to send in
their stories.
LET them go to their offices and
use their own typewriters, she said.
The. weather by then was getting
hot. So were the scribes. Where
upon Miss Perkins held one of her
infrequent press conferences and
Modified her critics by serving iced
ginger ale.
She is so, Bostonian and Lucy
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-08-16
Plans Horses For
Hollywood Tours

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. l6. W.p)-
After all these years, Hollywood
may yet know what it's like to get
the real horse laugh.
Wallace Braden took steps to go
Hollywood critics one better by
asking the board of public utilities
and transportation for permission
to operate horse drawn vehicles for
sight seeing in the film capital.
"Hawl' guffawed an undigni-
fled member. THAT a good one.
But you ID better see Ed Wynn.
We only handle motor driven We
hicles.'
Still thinking the real horse
laugh would pay dividends, Braden
sought permission elsewhere.