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C. C. C. IN CLOSEUP

Tucson has had q closeup of
the C.. G. @. in the past few
months and likes the view. 1t
will be recalled that when Presi
dent Roosevelt first proposed
the forest army during the cam
paign the idea was booted from
almost every corner of the land.
It was called absurd, visionary.
impossible and silly.
It is to be suspected that the
criticism stimulated the chief ex
ecutive toward proving that i.
could be done and it would work.
The plan was put into effect and
25O,OOO boys were put to work
throughout the United States ia
forestry jobs. Z
The reports began to come in
from the forest areas and they
were good reports. Forestry
experts told of ten-year pro
grams which had been complet
ed ia q few months, Of sctHa1
trails laid, telephone lines CON
pleted. pest control campaigns
we'll 10 hand. Some Of b e
critics began to boost.
A few of the camps we're plac-
ed in Pima county. but most of
them we're far away from the
centers of population. Th o
three were assigned to the ion
mediate vicinity of Tucson. The
city was doubtful. The Difficult
ties which might arise from let
ting several hundred irrespon.
sible boys patrol the streets of
the town were pictured.
Today Tucson knows those
boys better. Local people have
discovered that most of them are
fine young fellows very much
like their own sons. Plans for
moving the camps away from
the city have been protested
vigorously and announcement
that they would remain has been
hailed with relief-Arizona Star.
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OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

How would this strike you as
an investment opportunity?
You are given chance to
turn q certain part of your
monthly or annual earnings over
to a group of financial experts.
A contract is drawn whereby
you buy" a definite sum of the
easy pay ment plan. They will
take your payments and invest
them in government bonds. in
the best Of industrial securities,
in first mortgages on good rural
aud urban property. Their total
investment. made up by hundreds
of thousands of small payments
such as yours. embraces the
whole sweep of sound American
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of basic industries.

of basic industries.
Freight: Carloading for week
ending March "a, showed drop OF
2.8% bot the total was steel 26.e
per cent above like period in
1888 and s 40 above 1882.
Lumber: Total number of EN-.
ployes increased 2 82% in Fehru
ary over January and increase
10 payrolls amounted to 2 3896
Last year there was 4 per cen.
decliue in these items.
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Teachers

You several hundred dollars this summer,
and you better position and larger salary
for the coming year. Complete information will be mailed
receipt of three cent stamp. Send for it to-day
Rural Schools and City Schools
Summer Work and School Year Positions
CONTINENTAL
TEACHERS AGENCY, INC.
1850 Downing st.. Denver Colo.
Covers the ENTIRE United States
Thanks for sending good positions apply
80 during first five enrolled
SCHOOL OFFICIALS-We you touch very
finest teachers. Our service is free you.
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But in spite OF national and in
ternational problems, business
must go on.
Automobiles: Incomplete re.
ports indicate passenger car
sales for March exceed CON bined
January and February totals or
a gains of $3.50 over March 1888.
Steel: Prices are being ad
vanced along With wage in
creases 10 steel and bituminous
coal industry.
Retail Trade: Spring buying
satisfactory. Easter shopping
throughout larger part of coun
try added generously to upward
trend Of consumer buying that
has been in evidence for several
weeks. Increase in retail trade
has not been matched by any
proportionate gain 10 the activity
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ECONOMIC H,GHLlGHTS
4 9 81

Easter has come and gone
again. Instead. of peace on earth.
and good will toward all. there
is unrest. class hatred and actual
revolution in many parts of the
world. Politics has become the
biggest business" It bids fair
to consume savings and capital
of many countries. Taxation
grows and the constant fear of
wars drains the public treasures
to prepare for war.
With growing talk of facism,
communism. and socialism as q
remedy for worldly troubles. we
as a nation, should not lose sight
of one outstanding fact. namely;
! that we, the people of the Unit
ed States, are the government.
No other form of government
ever gave such complete control
to the people" as does our own
constitution. We have no ruling
class here that it is necessary to
revolt against ia order to protect
ourselves. By the ballot we, th 9
people have the power to express
our views in more emphatic.
orderly and speedy manner than
can ever be accomplished by
force.
In these days of unrest and
discomfort we should remem Der
these facts. We should appre
ciate the great government that
we have. We should get down on
our knees and offer q prayer of
thanksfulness that our ancestors,
through trial n d suffering,
created a constitutional form Of
government that gives each aud
every one of Us the greatest
liberty and equality of opportun.
ity of any people ia the world.
Our constitution is the poor
mans greatest heritage and the
rich mans only protection.
Ooe OF the most startling state
ments Of the year, Whether it be
| comedy. error or tragedy. came
from Dr.. Writ. superintendent of
Gary's school system. He quot
ed remarks be claims were made
| to bin By "orain trusters" to the
effect that If they could proIong
the country's destitution they
would cause the American peo
pie to demand that the govern
ment operate industry and CON
merce; that they believed they
had Mr.. Roosevelt in q swift
stream from. which he could not
turn back or escape and that
they believed they could keep
him there until they were read y
to snpplant him with q Stain.
Dr.. Wirt's full statement is as
touoding. Taken literally. it is
evidence of we'll laid program
| to fool the President and destroy
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our present form of government

our present form of government.
Congressmen Bulwinkle Of
North Carolina, has demanded
an investigation. Ia reply to in
terviews Dr.. Writ says in regard
to his comment, Il meant every
word or it aud I'll have more to
say if I am called before an in.
vestigating committee in Wash
ington." Also be stated be is
willing to "be a sacrifice to get
the people thinking about what
is going on" Comment is im
possible until an official inves
tigation has developed further
facts.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
sDor1't Quote Me-
By United Press I.

possible that the spring sessions
may be held in the new court
building across the way.
The speakership fight in the
house next December is going to be
deadly one. Holders of patronage
jobs, such as errand runners for
the Democratic cloakroom, are
cagily keeping their mouths shut.
One of them complains that he
almost lost his job during the Rain
ey-McDuffie fight for the speaker
ship last session because he offered
to introduce new member to
Rainey.
Keep out of this and don't so
lobbying around" an angry McDuf-
fie champion warned him. Most
silent of all are the staff members
In the speakers office. They want
to stay in no matter who wins and
won't even hazard guess as to
the probable chances of candidates
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
Thompson Enters
Against Ashurst

PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 25. W.P)-
Col. j. E. Thompson, wealthy min
ing man, today entered the senator
ial race against Henry F. Ashurst,
veteran Democratic incumbent, af-
ter receiving the nomination at the
Republican state convention.
The Republican nominee is con-
ceded little chance of being elected.
At the Democratic state conven-
ton, Rep. Isabella Greenway resign
ed as national committeewoman
and was succeeded by Mrs. Samuel
White of Phoenix, first vice presi-
dent of the Federated Democratic
Women'S Clubs.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
NetU Members Are
Sought By Band

Urgent need for new members
for the Ell Centro municipal band
is expressed today by Horace VIII
liams, director.
The band is now in its fifth year
Of organization and it has offici-
ated at numerous public affairs
and has given many concerts which
have been enjoyed by many.
Prof. Williams feels that Ell Cen
tro will not wish to lose the band
and urges all those who play band
instruments and who would be in
terested in the band to meet tonight
at 7:45 o'clock in the court house.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
HEIRESS NOT
BADLY HURT

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 25. U,R) -
Mrs. Virginia Gates MeCafferty,
hitch-hiking daughter Of a prom
inent Philadelphia family, must
spend the next six weeks Of her
honeymoon in Sutter hospital here,
recovering from automobile acci-
dent injuries, DR.. Maurice Hop
kins said today.
The doctor said that neither the
23-year old Philadelphia girl nor
Dan McCafferty, the jobless youth
she met and married while hitch
hiking in Idaho, was injured SER
iously.
McCafferty has a fractured yer-
zebra in his back and body con-
tusions. Ills wife has multiple
fracture of the left foot and skull
decorations. X-ray photographs dis
proved earlier reports she had skull
fractures.
Ellen johnson, 7, Sacramento,
was killed in the accident and
doctors fear her nine year old
sister, Marjorie, will die. Their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. r. john
son, also were injured seriously
in the crash between their auto
mobile and one driven by Nc
Cafferty at Dixon, near here, Sun
day night.
Mrs. McCafferty is the daughter
of Thomas Gates, President of the
University of Pennsylvania.
She and her husband were en-
route to El Centro when the acci-
dent occurred.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25

inside will be white and mealy."
Waiting until he knew the pota-
toes were roasted, Uncle Wiggily
poked one out of the embers with
long stick which he stuck in it.
"Done to turnl" he chuckled, as
he looked at the black outside.
knowing it would be white and
sweet within. Done TO a turni"
Yes, and I'm going to do you to
a turnl" suddenly howled a most un-
pleasant voice and out popped the
Fuzzy Fox. Then, all at once, I'm
Gle Wiggily made potato pancake.
He didn't mean to do it, but
be dropped the hot potato. 1t fell
on the ground, plopi 1t fell on the
toes OF the Fox and squashed and
flattened out just like a pancake.
"Oh, wowl Oh. wowl oh, wowl'
hoWled the Bad Chap as he danced
on his burned toes that we're yer5
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
AID BROUGHT TO HUMANS AND
LIVESTOCK TRAPPED BY STORM

drifts which had baked horses to
carry food and supplies to eight
Newman, Calf, hunters stranded at
Steamboat Bluff. Constable Carl
Becholt led another party on horse
back to the assistance of four men
and four women in the He'll Hole
section 20 miles west of Tahoe City.
Ranchers were hoping the mild
weather will last long enough to
enable them to reach their livestock,
trapped by drifts on the mountain
meadows. The storm, unexpectedly
early, caught the ranchers unpre-
pared, and gave them no opportu-
nifty to lead their sheep and cattle
to corrals.
In the party trapped at Steam
boat Bluff were M. S. Rose, Ralph
Rose, Frank Rose, Tony Nunes, Sid
Bell and three others. Seven 9TH
ers in the group fought their way
through heavy drifts to tell OF their
plight. Food supplies were scarce In
the cabin in which the hunters had
taken refuge.
Those in the He'll Hole area in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Armer,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Bailey, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Doleschal, all of Pasa-
dena, and Mr.. and Mrs. Jordan,
Azusa.
Forest rangers found William Ny
ers, San Francisco deer hunter, be-
side campfire in the Plumas coun-
ty section after a 24-hour search.
He had become separated from his
companions during the storm.
So far as is known, only one life
was lost. Harry Allen, miner, was
found frozen to death near La
rnrto
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
BE ED-TIME STORIES
BY HOWARD e. GARRIS
Copyright 1884 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicsse)

there were many dry sticks in the
forest.
II must always build fire on a
rock or stony place when I make
fire in the woods said Uncle Wig
gily. talking like a Boy Rabbit
Scout. "Pire easily spreads in the
woods and once it gets going in the
dried leaves it is hard 10 put out" ="
Carefully building fire where it
would do no harm, the rabbit gen.
tleman waited until there was a
pile Of red hot embers, and in these
he put the potatoes to roast.
Outside Black
THE outside skin of the potatoes
will turn black and hard in the
fire" said Unole Wiggily. But the
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25

TAHOE CITY, Calf, Sept. 25.
W.P)-Milder temperatures and clear
skies today were expected to relieve
the plight of 25 persons and thou
sands of sheep and cattle marooned
in the High Sierras by the seas
on's first snowfall.
While state highway forces were
opening the mountain passes, block
ed by a fall of Is inches, word was
awaited here from the rescue par
ties which set out with dog teams
and horses to aid two large groups
stranded by the storm.
Roy Andrews, Brockway, drove
his crack dog team through snow
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
Spartans Aided
BY Local Club

Over $3.50 has been raised by the
Junior Chamber of Commerce to
aid Ell Centro's Spartans, as re-
suit of the sale of season tickets
for the high school football games.
It was announced last night
that the sum was S400 but further
returns this morning indicate that
it will be over $3.50.
The team headed by Albert De-
Vore won over the team headed
by Bob Marshall and will be din
ner guests of the losers in two
weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
LOCALIZED LOTTERY

New York Citys effort to finance at
least part of her unemployment relief
burden by means of a gigantic lottery
simply emphasizes the way in which the
pressure of this relief problem can cut
across all lines of ordinary governments
al procedure.
The lottery is game of chance which
has been held illegal throughout the
United States for several decades. Fed
eral authorities do not allow data on
lotteries to be sent through the mails;
city police spend good deal of their
time trying to squelch the infinite va
riety of "policy" and numbers games
which flourish everywhere
All this is because the people of the
country generally have come to realize
that a lottery costs more than it is
worth 1t encourages the gambling hab-
it. and creates steady drain on the re-
sources of people whose means are lim-
tied; furthermore. it is not even, uni
formly, good thing for the lucky win
ners.
And yet this device condemned by
public sentiment for years, is now about
to be adopted by the largest city in the
country.
For New York faces no ordinary
crisis. Fully one-fourth of all the city's
inhabitants are on city, state, or federal
relief rolls. The city needs S50,000,000
year to take care of them
Relief funds are gone. Right now the
city is taking money ear-marked for 9TH
er purposes to feed the hungry
Pressure of that kind can erumple al
most any opposition, can overwhelm al
most any prejudice or habit of mind
For the problem is one that cannot be
lodged.
The jobless must be cared for; if you
doubt it, ponder for a moment over the
things that could happen in city like
New York if more than a million people,
unemployed and flat broke, were sud-
denly told to shift for themselves.
And the whole business is a warning
for the rest of the country-one of those
fire-bells in the night that Thomas JEFF
ferson used to talk about.
The unemployment problem has the
bit in its teeth, and it may yet run away
with US. We must get the jobless back
to work
Let the problem continue to develop,
and we shall have social tension which
could drive us in directions that seem
utterly impossible today.
New noiseless street cars have just
been perfected This should boost the
sale of alarm clocks considerably.
-O
The wealthy heriess who married the
hitch-hiker should have been more con-
siderate of the motorists. The highways
will be cluttered with hitch-hikers now.
Statistics have shown that married
people live longer than single people.
Could those be Mussolinis statistics?
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
Former Advisor
On Visit Here

Raymond Rube) Ellis, formerly
farm advisor for Imperial County,
was in the court house this morn
ing visiting his friends.
Ellis is in Los Angeles now where
he is connected with the Taylor
Milling Co. and at present is max
ing one of his frequent business
trips to the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25

hot from the roasted potato. "oh,
wow!"
Done to turnl" chuckled Uncle
Wiggily. Done TO a turnl" And
when the Fox ran away to dip his
hot toes IN cold water, Mr.. Long
ears ate the rest Of his roast po-
tatoes. And If the paper doll doesn't
burn her toes when she dances on
the gas stove, I'll tell you next about
Uncle wiggily's lucky hook.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25

This will be the courts last ses-
sion in the tiny old senate cham
Der of the capitol, where Henry
Clay and Daniel Webster made
their historic speeches. It j: even
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25

Alex Adolph, Sanger, Fresno
county, has banner crop of Mus
cat grapes because he wasn't able
to irrigate during a hot spell in
May.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25

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Associations
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
SOCIETY CAN'T NEGLECT TEACHERS

The unpaid schoolma'am has become a
familiar spectacle. In Chicago, after
four very lean years, she has finally
been given her money; but in some other
cities she has not, and in great many
more she has had to take drastic redue-
tions, or has been given only part of
what is owed her.
What has been happening to her in these
hard years? Does she look on the So
ciety whose youth she is instructing with
the same enthusiastic eyes that beheld
it in 1929?
Nobody can speak for all the teach
ers, of course. But once in while a
teacher speaks for herself, and what she
has to say can make disturbing reading.
In the current issue of The Nation"
a Chicago teacher tells how she felt
when that city finally borrowed money
from the RFC and paid up.
She got, at last, her four years pay.
BY the time she had settled all her debts,
she had just S94 left-all that she had
to show for four years work at a sup
posedly good salary. As she says, she
was luckier than many of her colleagues.
She had not gone hungry, or lost her
home, during the depression.
81 lost only my insurance, my auto
iiiociiC dHQ MY oCiA-i CopSSt, siiS "illSo'
II did lose one thing more, but that is
not to be regretted-my faith in the
status quo. Few of us are the sweet,
complacent, non-thinking 100 percenters
we used to be-
And this new attitude, which the
teachers got through working without
pay, she says, has been passed on to
their pupils.
A few days ago a pupil asked her if
any big fortune had ever been made "by
not stealing" Four years ago she would
have answered in the traditional school
book manner. But now?
Now" she says, Il have seen the
board of education in action. I have
seen its members-coal merchants and
real estate dealers-bending school poll
cies to their own profit. have seen the
instruction of the United States Cham
Der of Commerce to reduce educational
appropriations wherever possible.
II have heard myself called red for
daring to believe l had earned my salary
and was entitled to it =. | couldn't an
swer that boy honestly and patriotically
at the same time"
Pondering over this attitude, and re-
flecting that this young woman cannot
be the only teacher who has reached
such conclusions, one is forced to the be-
lief that organized society can hardly
do a more suicidal thing that permit its
sehoolma'ams to go unpaid during
time of great social stress.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
UNCLE WIGGILY'S POTATO
PANCAKE

The weather was getting cool in
woodland near the Orange Ice
Mountains where Uncle Wiggily
lived in his hollow stump bungalow
Johnnie and Billie Bushytail were
glad. The Squirrel boys liked cold
weather for then Jack Frost ripened
the nuts and cracked the burrs 70
make it easy TO eat them.
Uncle Wiggily's rabbit boys and
girls were also glad cold weather
was coming. They had TO wear fur
coats all the year. And a fur coat is
much nicer in Winter than in Sum
mer.
"Hai Hal Hal" laughed Uncle
Wiggily as he hoped out Of his
bungalow one cool day.
why are you laughing?' asked
his wife.
Because, now that it is cool
weather can build camp fires and
roast potatoes, corn and apples and
have fun with the children after
they come home from school," said
Mr.. Longears.
"Oh, I never saw such a rabbit
as you are for playing with the
childreni" laughed Mrs. Longears.
wont you ever grow up?"
Il hope not said Uncle Wiggily,
twinkling his pink nose.
We'll, perhaps it is just as well, 3"
said Nurse Jane Fuzzy WuZzy as
she spread some carrot jam on a
piece of cabbage bread Uncle Wig
giiy liked that. He held it in one
paw, taking big bites out of it as
he hoped along. 1 mean he took
big bites out of the carrot jam on
the cabbage bread. Goodness,
hope you don't think he bit his pawl
Potato Roast
II know what I'm going TO do,'
said MIR. Longears as he hoped
along over the back end of his yege'
table garden which was short cut
TO the woods. "I'n go out By myself
build a little fire and roast some
potatoes. II everything goes al
right I'll have a potato roast fol-
the children tonight"
1t did not take Uncle Wiggil,
long TO dig some potatoes. They
grow underground on the ends o.
the roots of vines. you know. Hi
pockets filled with potatoes. Uncle
Wiggaly hopped on until he came K
the woods, There, on a flat rock
he built a fire of dry sticks, fol
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25

Fruit growers of Coachella valley
are scheduled to visit Imperial Val
ley soon for a special tour.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
TEN YEARS AGO
September 25, 1924

Delbert Finley has returned from
a three weeks vacation spent at
La Jolla.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25

Wachtel Brothers, auctioneers,
who have recently come to the val
ley from Missouri, report that they
have conducted a record breaking
number of sales for this season of
the year.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell oil
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
September rs, 1914

G. D. Armstead, local hotel man,
has bought the Reynolds hotel in
Riverside.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25

An old-fashioned Imperial Valley
dust storm was in progress late this
afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Near-
ly 10 members of the house of rep
resentatives will be has-beens when
the 73rd Congress convenes, re-
gardless of what happens in No.
yember.
A check of primary returns, res
ignations and deaths revealed today
that out of the 435 members, at
least that number will be off the
ticket in November.
John J. Douglas, D., Mass, de-
feated in the recent primary has
been chairman of the house edu-
cation committee. Douglass loss
will be felt because he was a lead
er in the fight for RFC loans for
school AID. However many can
didates for the speakership are glad
10 have this important chairman
ship among the plums when they
begin &c start trading for congress
sional jobs.
The United States supreme court
session is bringing the elderly
members of that dignified body
back to town rapidly. But the man
who will awaken the most interest
when he arrives back will be the
ncnogenarian, Oliver Wendell Hol-
mes, Jr., retired member OF the
August tribunal. Holmes customar-
lily returns to the capital with that
pleasing smile and twinkling eyes
when the court meets, and leaves
when the court quits. He clings to
routine tenaciously.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25

Two horses fighting each other pro-
vides an unusual sport for Philippine
Islanders. Nothing as unusual as the
continual donkey-elephant battles in the
United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
September 25. 1919

tJOPeSHHfOOf 10, 1O1O
Travellers from San Diego yester-
Gay report five or six fires raging
along the route.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-25

New noiseless street cars have just
been perfected. This should boost the
sale of alarm clocks considerably.