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Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
GOOD LUCK, BRAWLEY!

CATURDAY and Sunday our neighbor-
~ ing city of Brawley is to turn back
the pages of history to the days of 40,
when ''men were men and the women
were proud of them
In preparation for the affair citizens
of the city have been busy for several
weeks past devoting much time and en-
ergy to make the affair a success. They
have quit in only one respect-there
has been no shaving, so that faces of
Brawley citizens of high and low degree
might somewhat resemble the hardy
men of 40.
To some, this sort of action is ridicu-
lous. The appearance of few men is en-
hanced by beard. In practically all
cases a beard is decided drawback.
Those who scott at the man who goes
shaveess overlook the fact that he is do
ing it in a good cause. He may be en-
barrassed by his appearance and anyone
who thinks it doesn't take courage to
raise a beard in beardlesS community
has only to try it to find out different
ly.
Brawleys program is sponsored by the
Elks of that city. Any profit derived
from it will be used in a good cause and
all who attend the two days celebration
are assured of one thing-a good time.
We all need a good time now and then
and if we can get it and aid good cause
at the same time, we should avail our
selves of the opportunity.
We wish Brawley the fullest success
in its big program for its citizens certain
ly deserve it. But after getting a glimpse
of Henry Jackson, George Kruger and
Lon Cromer hiding behind Smith Bros.
facades, we devoutly trust the beard
raising idea does not extend to Ell Gen.
tro.
eve forgot to mention that we saw
Allen Witter with beard and that's
terrible sight.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19
City Schools To
Close On June 2

Warm weather and the closing of
the. school year are occurring si-
multaneously this spring, for the
first school of the county TO close
will be Colorado, on MAY %.
Due to rainy weather and the in
terruption caused by the governors
holidays, schools throughout the
county will end the year on diff
ferent daSes. Central high school
and junior college and the Ell Gen.
tro city schools will run a week Ia
ter this year, the school term end
ing June 2.
Last school to close as far as
information available at the coun-
ty superintendent of schools Of
flee is concerned is North End
which will remain open until June
ID.
Commencement exercises for the
county schools will vary, some
schools holding joint graduation
services and others holding their
own.
First diplomas to go out were the
two sent to the Colorado school
this mrning. Last year, 701 diplo-
mas were granted.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19
BEDTIME STORIES
BY HOWARD E. GARRIS
tCopyrtxht 1892. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)

ture and, at the same time, do
favor for Nurse Jane"
"Oh, I'm so excited" saueaked
Miss Mouse with a jolly little shiv-
er as she held her tail up high SC
the red ribbon on it wouldn't get
dirty. tits wonderful"
t"Well. hope we nave a nice little
adventure" said Uncle Wiggily.
1t did not take him and Miss
Mouse long to reach the Duck Pol.d
on one edge of which Lulu, Alice
and Jimmie Wibblewobble, the duck
children, had their home.
"I smell something very spicy"
all of a sudden squeaked Miss
Mouse.
That's the sweet flag root" said
Uncle WIggily as he snlffed the air
with his pink, tWinkling nose. "Yes,
here is where Jackie and Peetie
Bow Wow have been digging for it, y
he went on pointing to the paw
marks OF the doggie boys in thS
soft mud on the edge of the pond.
"They must have come here as
soon as I let them out of school,
said the Mouse Teacher. "And
now what do we do next, Mr.. Long
ears-I mean Uncle Wiggily," and
she smiled at the bunny.
1--WE must dig for the root" sale
the rabbit. But it is rather mud
dy work and if you don't want tc
soil your paws"
"Oh, but it wouldn't be an ad-
venture if I didn't get some of the
root myself" laughed the teacher
So she began to dig up the roots
which were down under the muc
and water out of which grew the
| tall, green, slender leaves, as long
as those of the cattails in swamps
Indeed, cattails and sweet flae
leaves look much alike.
"There's a fine big root!" ex-
claimed Uncle Wiggiiy as he dug
one up.
"I have one myself" squeakec
Miss Mouse, "or I will have in g
moment. But it is pretty far dowr
and-or, Mr.. Longears! Oh, Unclt
| Wlgglly! Help! Help! Help! Snt
squeaked. "Blub! Wub! Dub!" ant
then Miss Mouse splashed into tht
water as her paws slipped in the
mud.
"Ill help you! I'll save you'll
cried the rabbit He jumped to pul
the Lady Mouse out and just ther
Jackie and Peetie Bow Wow alsC
rushed to the rescue, barking LOUD.
". Soon Miss Mouse was safe, al
though wet and muddy.' But sht
didn't mind. She said it was
fine adventure.
And ii the gas will fry some
strawberry hash for the peanut lol
lypop's breakfast, I'll tell you mex
about Uncle Wiggily and the Bol
Cats bite. You will laugh,
think.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

a plant that grows on the edge OF
the Duck Pond. The other name
for sweet flag is Calamus. The
root is sweet to eat when you
nibble a little of it as soon as you
pull it. Take it home and dry 1t
and the root is spicy and good for
pains. And if you dry pieces OF
sweet flag root in the oven with
some sugar it is almost as good as
candy"
"Oh, let's go get some" cried
Miss Mouse. II am sure it will be
q most wonderful adventure! 1t will
be the first one I've ever had"
ct hope it will not be the last"
said Uncle Wiggily. Come on, Miss
Mouse! Let's gol"
Uncle Wiggily had hoped to the
Hollow Stump School to bring home
Baby Bunty, who had the tooth
ache. But in school Miss Mouse let
Tommie Kat, the pussy boy, pull
Bunty's aching tooth with string
as Tomnnie once had pulled thc
tooth of Billie Wagtail, the goat
When Uncle Wiggily reached IL G
school he found Baby Bunty and
ell the other pupils had gone home
SO he sat and talked with Miss
Mouse and when she said, rather
sadly, that she never had an ad-
venture, why Mr.. Longears very
kindly offered to take her on one
do you know where this sweet
flag plant grows?" asked the Lady
Mouse teacher as she ran along be-
side Uncle Wiggily.
"Oh, yes" answered the rabbit
"And only a day or two ago Nurse
Jane asked me TO bring some home
for her TO make into candy root
So you and / can have our adven'
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

WASHINGTON, May 10. The
secretary of labor has a new hat.
1t is not tri-corn. And that's news
because Frances Perkins has worn
three cornered hats since she was
ten years old.
After the new administration
came into office on March 4, Miss
Perkins at ttended congressional
hearings, cabinet meetings and
press conferences in the same hat
she had worn about New York as
industrial commissioner in that
state.
The tri-corn hat, with the little
dab of white, became a familiar fix
ture in the Sunday rotogravure and
copy readers also felt safe in writ
ing in a reference to it in any copy
about Madame Secretary.
But that is changed now. The
rotogravures soon will be present.
ing a new and smarter Miss Perk-
ins and the copy readers must
abandon their old method of des-
cribing Americas only woman cab
met member.
The new hat-this is a woman's
description of its a black stiff
straw with a narrow brim which il
lifted over the crown, leaving 6
bandeau. Three stiff quills, two
white and one black, are grouped
around the crown.
A bandeau-for the benefit o.
men who aren't posted in sucf
matters-is that part of the crown
in the new style hats which re-
| mains under the brim.
Miss Perkins wears her new hat
pulled down over one eye. Her as
sociates declare she looks mucf
smarter in it than in the tri-corn
Mrs. Roosevelt was eScorting {
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19
Editorial Page
and
Features
THE CANAL CONTRACT

TWICE in the last year and half an
L overwhelming majority of the voters
in Imperial Valley have gone to the polls
and given their endorsement to the ALL
American canal project.
A high salaried attorney was employed
to draw up the contracts, and large
sums spent in holding the elections. The
voters cast their ballots in good faith.
Apparently all of this money and eff
fort and time has gone for naught. To-
day Phil Swing, whose interest in the
project cannot be questioned, advises
that the construction of the canal will
be deferred indefinitely unless changes
are made in the contract, or a supple
mentary agreement drawn up.
am wondering how much longer the
folks in Imperial Valley are going to fol-
low the legal advice and the political
leadership of the men responsible for this
farce.
Boulder dam, authorized at the same
time the canal was approved by con-
gress, has been under construction for
three years. The Metropolitan aque-
duct, a supplementary project involving
vastly greater obstacles than the ALL
American canal, is now underway.
But Imperial Valley is still waiting for
its so-called friends of the canal" in the
Imperial Irrigation district. offices to
turn the first shovel full of earth.
A substantial group of farmers and
business men in Imperial Valley-unfor-
tunately in the minority-have recog-
nized the defects in the present canal
contract since its inception.
Frank Beal, whose memory we honor,
left his sick bed to tour Imperial Valley
previous to the first canal election in an
effort to inform the electorate of the
fatal weaknesses in the contract. His
effort cost him his life.
Others have sought to do the same
thing-but their voices have been drown
ed in shouts of derision from the puppets
of the political racketeers at the district
offices Any and all who dared express
honest criticism of the contract and the
methods by which it was being sold to
the people of Imperial Valley were ac-
cused of being hirelings Of the power
trust and dupes of a mythical bogey
man. The canal contract has never been
discussed frankly on its merits. Instead
of meeting the opposition candidly, its
supporters sought to win their point by
lambasting the characters Of those who
disagreed. Such methods always lose in
the long run.
Today we are confronted with new de-
lays, and the necessity for further revis-
ion OF the contract.
What are we going to do about it?
The Chronicle offers the same remedy
this newspaper has advocated consistent
ly in the past.
The first essential is to take the canal
problem out Of the hands of the politi-
clans and make it an economic issue
Calexico Chronicle.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19
Don't Quote Me-
BY United Press .

guest through the White House and
they came to the famous Lincoln
bed.
The bed is a huge, black walnut
affair, with bulky canopy that
seems ABOUT nine feet high. The
bed is about eight feet long, and is
decorated with eagles and other
embellishments.
"I've always admired the bed"
Mrs. Roosevelt told the guest, "but
I can't help thinking how LAD
you'd be if that top ever fell down
on you"
So far as the White House at
taches know, no one has slept in
the bed in recent years.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

are "not entitled TO further care"
under provisions OF the economy
act. it was stated today at the vet
Grams administration.
The veterans administration
insisted however, that no sick vet
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

Hiram Johnson, Jr., recently sold
the 2,000-acre Rio Alto ranch at
Cottonwood, to the Weiss interests
of San Francisco which will pull
out the trees and plant alfalfa and
clover.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Press. Inc. 625 State street,
El Centre, California. w. C. Costello, business
manager. Telephone 26, business office; 700, edi-
torial department. Full leased wire United Press
Associations.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO

No longer will butchers of the
valley offer what they like for fat
COWS to kill and sell here as the
first "fat cow train is being
made up for Kansas City. Kansas
City offers from eight to nine cents
for them.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

Cantaloupe growers are expert
encing considerable difficulty in
getting men who are willing to con-
tract for hauling crates from field
to station. Offer of nine cents a
crate for hauling a distance Of five
miles, is made. Last year the price
was one cent per crate per mile.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19
Social Workers
End Convention

SACRAMENTO, May 10. UP
With San Diego chosen as the 1884
convention city, delegates to the
California Conference of Social
Workers were enroute home today
following conclusion of their 25th
annual meeting here.
Officers for the ensuing year
were elected as follows:
President, DR.. Roy Campbell,
San Diego; vice-president, Mrs
Louis Nordlinger, Los Angeles;
treasurer, A. B. c. Dohrmann, San
Francisco, reelected; executive Sec
retary, Miss Anita Eldridge, re-
elected.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19
ASK VETS TO LEAVE

WASHINGTON, May 10. UP.
A number Of veterans have been
asked to leave the veterans home
at Sawtelle, Calf, because they
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

Time was when Texas never would call
on the federal government to knock over
a few border bandits but would get them
herself Is ma" Ferguson responsible
for the change?
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

Those who would like to know what is
wrong with boxing have only to read the
ridiculous squabble over the gloves in the
McLarnin-Cor bout.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

There appears to be nothing of the
milk of human kindness involved in the
Wisconsin milk war.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

Grams were being removed from its
homes or hospitals.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

1t is said that about 500 trench
silos were used in Tulare county
ranches last winter.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

If good wishes could win contests, the
Spartan four-man team would have
cinch tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19
TEN YEARS AGO
HHo- 10 1000

Valley lambs are in great de-
mand in Kansas as 1919 lambs sold
there today at SIT per hundred.
They averaged SO pounds each
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

PRESIDENT PLANS SAIL
WASHINGTON, May 10. W.P)
President Roosevelt will sail down
the Potomac river tomorrow on his
yacht, the Sequoia, to work out de-
tails of his plan for the reorgani-
cation of government.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

SUBSCRIPTION RATES - Rellvered by carrier,
per month, 55 cents; by mail, so cents per month
in advance Entered at El Centre, California, post
office as second-cass matter Member California
Newspaper Publishers Association. M. G. Mogen-
son, national advertising representatives
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

The Business girls club held the
final meeting of the year last
night.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

Mariposa county mining develop
ment is being maintained and sew
eral properties are showing good
prospects.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Mo- IN 1910

The great harvest season is now
on throughout the valley. Alfalfa
and grain harvest are in full swing
and in two weeks the first of the
cantaloupes will be shipped. Apri-
cots are coming to market and
milk, hogs, cattle, poultry and eggs
continue to be shipped in great
quantities.
Stage lines are becoming an i'm
portant feature in the life of the
valley. The business between El
Centro and Imperial is so great
that the owner of the line incor-
porated with capitalization al
$4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-19

Mrs. Roosevelt was escorting
The Washington times., 1933-11-21

Observation-Disclosures Chapter,
Catholic Daughters of America.
1880 p. M, Willard Hotel.
Meeting-National Association
Of Lubricating Grease Manufac-
turerS, all day, Willard Hotel.
Hearing-Talc and Soap Stone
Industry, all day. Willard Hotel.
Coonference-National Bitumi-
nous Road Material Distributors
Association, all day, Willard Hotel.
Dtsplay-Arthur M. Rosenberg
Company.
Meeting-Polish Club Of Wash
tngton, 8 p. m, willard Hotel.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Bell
Chapter, D. A. r., 8 p. m, VIII
lard Hotel.
Lecture-"NRA and Socialism" /"
5:10 p. M, 709 G st. N. w.
Dance-Georgia State Society,
$3.50 p. M, Shoreham Hotel.
Card Party-Trinity College
Alumni, 8 p. M, Mayflower Ho-
tel.
Exhibit-National Society of In
dependent Artists, all day, Ten
O'clock Club, 1903 K st. N. w.
Meeting - Columbia Historical
Society, 8:15 p. M, Cosmos Club.
Instruction - Esperanto classes,
1880 p. m, Mt. Pleasant Public
Library Branch, Sixteenth and
Lamont Streets N. w.
Dutch Supper Holy Nam e
School, West Virginia Avenue
and Neal Street Northeast.
Rathskeller Party - University
Club.
Meeting-Mithras Lodge of Per
lection, Scottish Rite, p. M,
Cathedral Of the Rite.
Meeting-Lewis Mackall So
0iety, 8 p. M. Hamilton Hotel.
Meeting-Washington Branch,
American Bacteriologists, 8 p. M,
Army Medical Building.
Meeting - Anthropological So
oiety Of Washington, 8 p. M, Ma
tional Museum.
The Washington times., 1933-11-21
WHAT'S DOING TODAY

Meeting-Columbia Association
of Baptist Churches, 2:30 p. m,
Fifth Baptist Church, E between
Sixth and Seventh Streets South
west.
Meeting-Petworth Citizens AS
sociation, 8 p. m, Petworth School.
Dinner-Sons and Daughters Of
the Union of the Civil War, 6
p. M, Meridian Mansions, 2400
Sixteenth st. N. w.
Meeting-American Gold Star
Mothers, 8 p. M, Hamilton Hotel.
Meeting-Iota Gamma Phi
sorority, 8 p. m, Hamilton Hotel.
Meeting-Phi Gamma Alpha
fraternity, 8 p. M, Hamilton
Hotel.
Card Party-St. James Cathe.
dral, 8 p. m, Thirty-seventh and
Rhode Island Avenue, Mt. Rainier,
Md.
The Washington times., 1933-11-21
De L0bOuLaye Lduds
u. s. French Status

Relations between the United
States and France have been
friendly for over a century and
o half, and nothing can ever
disturb that tranquility, it was
declared by speakers at the cele-
bration of the 150th anniversary
Of the first treaty between the
two countries, held last night at
Catholic University.
Andre de Laboulaye, French
ambassador, gave the principal
address. Other speakers were
DR.. John J. Meng, Elizabeth Kite,
archivist of the American Catho-
hc Historical Society, and DR..
James Hugh Ryan, rector Of
Catholic University.
The Washington times., 1933-11-21
THAT
COLD
where IT LIVES
in the System!

Don't fool yourself about a
cold! It's nothing to be taken
lightly nor treated lightly. A cold
is an internal infection that will
quickly spread within the system
unless promptly checked. The
wise thing to take for a cold is
Groves Laxative Bromo Quinine.
First Of all, it is distinctly a
cold remedy and not a "cure-all."
Secondly, it is an internal treat
ment. Thirdly, it does the four
things necessary. It opens the
bowels, combatS the cold germs
and fever in the system, relieves
the headache and grippy feeling
and tones and fortifies the entire
system. That's the treatment a
cold requires and anything less is
taking chances. All druggists
sell Groves Laxative Bromo Qui-
nine. 30c and SOC. Ask for it by
the full name and reject a sub
Stitute.
The Washington times., 1933-11-21
Gage PIT. A. to GiUe
Card PARTY Friday

Plans have been completed for
a card and bingo party Friday
night by the Gage School Parent
Teacher Association in the school,
Second and v Streets Northwest.
Prizes will be awarded at each
card table and in the bingo
games. Refreshments will be
served. Proceeds will be used for
welfare work In the community.
The Washington times., 1933-11-21
Coroner Sits Death
OF Mrs. RittenhOMse

DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald,
acting coroner, is investigating
the death early today in Walter
Reed Hospital of Mrs. Frances H.
Rittenhouse, SIS, who was admitted
there yesterday suffering from
poison. Mrs. Rittenhouse Is the
wife Of Lieut.. Col. Basin N. Rit-
tenhouSe, q. s. A., retired.
Mrs. RittenhouSe was taken to
the hospital from her home in the
1000 block Belmont Rd. N. w.
The Washington times., 1933-11-21
Soviet Red Flag Flies
OUer NeIU York Hotel

NEW YORK, Nov. 81 G.N.S0. .
The red flag of Soviet Russia
will be flung to the breeze today,
over a Park Avenue hotel in
honor of william Kurtz, member
of the central executive COM
mittee of the U. S. S. R., and
president of Intourist Of Moscow,
who will arrive aboard the lie
De France on a business mission.
The Washington times., 1933-11-21

=, general dIagged-Out Con.
dition, DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
wonderful l-Soon gives the desired relief"
New size pkg, tablets Soc, liquid $780, Lge.
size, tabs or liquid. $1.3S. ''We Do Our PART"
The Washington times., 1933-11-21
*S5 4G5 RUNDOWN N-:WEAK?

Mrs. Florence Wilson
of 5l9 M ST., S. w.,
Washington, said: II
used DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription when
I was rundown, weak
and had feminine COM
plant and IL put an end
to these ailments.
For a cough and that
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
Mr.. Clarke Weds
in New Jersey

A wedding Of interest TO
washington society which took
place in Ocean Grove, New Jer-
sey, yesterday, is that OF Miss
Belle Polhemus, of Troy, New
York, daughter of Mrs. Margaret
c. Clarke, of Ocean Grove, and
Mr.. William Lawrence Clarke, OF
this city, son of the late Rev.
and Mrs. George Clarke.
The ceremony was performed
at the home of the brides
mother, at 1890 o'clock, the
Rev. Edward G. Wahl, Of the
New York Conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church,
officiating.
The bride had as her maid of
honor, Miss Blanche L. Weld
man. Little Sarah Matilda Pol
hemus was the flower girl, and
Master Roger I. Polhemus, the
ring bearer. Master William
Worley Wahl acted as best man
for Mr.. Clarke.
To Make Home Here
The couple will make their
future home in Washington at
1914 Columbia Rd. Mrs. Clarke
received her B. s. and M. A.
degrees at the University Of
Wisconsin.
The out-of town guests who
were present at the wedding
were Rev. and Mrs. Edward G.
Wahl and their son, William
Worley, of Goshen, New York;
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Fisher,
of Llanerch, Pennsylvania; Mr..
and Mrs. Lester A. Polhemus,
and their sons, John and Roger,
of East Northfield, Massachu-
sets; the Misses Margaret and
Grace Lough, of Frederick,
Maryland; Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton
F. Polhemus, and their children,
Margaret. George, and Sarah,
of Asbury Park, New Jersey;
and Miss Blanche L. Weidman,
of New York City.