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Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19
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LET THE COURTS DECIDE 1T

The guilt or innocence of David Lam
son is still a matter for the courts of
California to decide.
A proper respect for the courts should
dictate that all individuals and institu-
tions refrain from attempting to preju-
dice this case one way or the other until
q final decision is rendered.
We do not believe the proper respect
for our courts is being accorded by nine
San Francisco ministers, who advocated
yesterday from their pulpits that Lam
son be set free.
Neither do we believe that these min
listers are setting the good example which
they should set to others, by making this
case a pulpit issue. There are numer-
out other things more in keeping with
church work, if the ministers wish topics
Tor their pulpit discussions.
That the Lamson case may be left in
the courts with confidence that justice
will be done to him. is evident from its
progress thus far. The young Stanford
intellectual was found guilty by jury
and sentenced to be hanged. An appeal
to the supreme court resulted in the find
ing that he is entitled to new trial. In
the eyes of the law his case is now in the
same status it was following the death
of his wife He has been accused of that
crime and goes before the court to be
convicted or acquitted of the charge.
The fact that he has previously been
found guilty and has spent year in the
condemned row at San Quentin prison,
has no bearing on the case so far as the
courts are concerned.
If the law ignores his conviction, GER
tainly others should be content to ignore
the reversal granted him and let the case
go before the courts on its merits.
Were a newspaper to advocate the
quilt or innocence of Lamson it might
we'll find itself hailed before the court
to answer contempt charge. We can
not see where these ministers are not
guilty of such breach.
When men who are looked up to as eX-
amples of law and order publicly and
openly express a lack of confidence in
the ability of our courts to accord justice,
it is not to be wondered that less intelli-
gent men consider all courts and all in
strumentalities of the law as corrupt and
unjust.
Certainly there is as much doubt and
uncertainty concerning the guilt of Tom
Mooney as there is regarding David
Lamson. We may be mistaken but we
have no knowledge Of a church taking up
MONEYS case.
Nor do we feel that these ministers
are doing the cause of the church any
good. In making an issue of the Lamson
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19
Don't Quote Me-
By United Press

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. - To
birthday party Of a prominent
Washington woman went Harold L.
Ickes, secretary of interior, Henry P.
Fletcher, Republican chieftain, Ray
1mond P. Moley, unofficial brain
truster, and Donald R. Richberg,
Resistant president"
Ickes spotted Fletcher, nodded
sadly, and greeted him thus:
"Ah, Henry, glad to see you at a
birthday party, but don't you think
we ought to be celebrating wake?"
Replied Fletcher, with mind on
those 100000 Republican votes:
"Oh. no, not that. This is birth
day party. I'm thinking Of those
many happy returns
That ended the Ickes- Fletcher en-
counter. Thereupon our spy obsery-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

ters denouncing him for desecrating
sacred memories to date have come
from Kentucky.
The letters don't bother Lynn so
much. The personal calls are the
things which irk him.
The latest of these was by Rep
John E. Rankin, (Dem) Mississippi,
who was hopping mad over the news
that Lynn had had the effrontery to
remove from Statuary hall the like
ness of jefferson Davis, president
of the confederacy. Rankin said the
Davis statue had been sent to the
capitol only four years ago by Mis-
sissippi and that the architect had
better replace it in the hall, pronto.
He was informed that MiSsissippi's
statue had not Deen removed, that
it would not be removed, and that if
he had troubled to walk through the
hall on his way 10 Lynn's office he
would have seen it in its accuStom-
ed place.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

ed Moley heading toward Richberg.
Here's the way Moley greeted the
head of the national emergency
council:
Now, Roland, speaking as one
assistant President to another E. p"
Richberg had a snappy come
hack for that one, 700, but our birth
day party correspondent says she
forgot what he said.
Pity David Lynn, the architect of
the capitol, whose painful duty it Is
10 remove from Statuary hall
enough statues Of state heros TO
keep their combined weight from
caving in the floor.
Almost every time ne moves a
statue into the halls Of the capitol,
he receives a complaint, either by
mail or in person. Most Of the let
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19
ROAD SUPPORT ESSENTIAL

Imperial Valley representatives are
meeting today in Tucson with those from
other communities in Southern CalifOr-
mia and Arizona to discuss matters per-
tanning to traffic over the southern
transcontinental route which passes
through here.
1t is we'll that the valley has men who
are keenly interested in the development
of traffic on this route. 1t has always
faced stiff competition from other routes
and in recent years the competition has
been strenuous, to place it mildly.
Phoenix in particular has been recog-
ni2ed as center for much of this COM
petition, giving its support to a direct
would detour weStbound traffic from the
tranScontinental route which passes
through here. Tucson, on the other hand,
has worked in cooperation with Yuma,
Imperial Valley and San Diego, to build
up traffic through these points.
The necessity for hammering away on
the southern route is apparent to all. If
the PhoeniX-Los Angeles route is allowed
to take the play away from the southern
route, all Imperial Valley will be the suf-
ferer, for all of the valley has much to
gain from tourist travel.
Today's meeting is to decide ways and
means to maintain a consistent advertis-
ing campaign in behalf of the southern
route. 1t is project to which Imperial
Valley has given good support in the past
and which it must continue to support
more strongly now than ever before.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS

case they are guilty of meddling in some
thing that concerns them no more than
it does the BARRIERS, the plumbers or the
teaching profession of the state. 1t is the
type of meddling that can only do the
cause of the church harm in the eyes of
fair-minded citizens.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

Published every evening texcept Sunday BY The
Imperial Valley Press, Inc. 625 State street,
II Centre. California W. C. Costello business
manager. Telephone 26. business office: 700 edi-
tortaI department.. Full leased wire United Press
Association
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

The annual dairy short course at
the branch college of agriculture
at Davis. Yolo county, will be held
February 4-8. 1885.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

White Federation wheat yielded
double the crop obtained from
Turkey wheat on dry land, for
B. H. Reck, Morrow county, Ore
gon.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

A japanese policeman tried to kill
himself for misdirecting the emperor's
car. Whatever their faults we feel rath-
er proud of the American cops who don't
look at it that way.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

Raymond Pitts, Selma, Fresno
county, was made an American
farmer at the recent Kansas City
convention.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

j. E. Bergtholdt, Auburn, has been
selected as member of the state
wide cherry grower committee
which control 1885 shipments.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

Miami is going to stage an Orange
Blossom Game" in opposition to the Pas
adena Rose Bowl Game Why not
have the winners play for a combined
bouquet.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

After hearing those ST. Mary's names
called by the announcer a descendant of
the Celts finds it difficult to see any
thing Gaelic about most of them.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

Mr.. Roosevelt is quoted as saying "All's
we'll in the United States" Possibly so,
but we still have too many idle
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19
Looking Backward
What the Pres. Files Tell OF
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
November 10, 1914

All hotels and rooming houses
are full of people here to attend the
county fair.
The WestSide baseball league is
the latest feature to be developed
in the Seeley district.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

More than 100000 pounds of
crude rubber from guayule has been
shipped this season from Salinas.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
November 10, 1919

The post office and store at Sils-
bee was totally destroyed by fire
last evening.
About 25 men responded. at
Coach Fighters call for basket
ball players yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19
TEN YEARS AGO
November 10, 1924

The second night of the Amer
lean Legion play was even more
successful than the first.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-19

Gerald H. Shaw presided at the
meeting of the Acacia farm center
last evening and made an inter-
esting discussion of the farm bu-
reau work in the valley.
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Mailing, Crashing Goes On

MUCH wailing and crashing of teeth still goes
WI on. When a man has been sick long enough
even a return TO health seems to him no more than
another symptom. The lads of Wall Street still
are crying that all is lost including honor They are
going to miss their tribulaOns. But the stock mar
ket prices are inching up A few new highs OF the
year have been established in the last month or So
Last week 1 sold a short story to a magazine The
depression must be over.
Frankly, / think America is recovering from us
slump too quickly. We did not go through our
travail long enough to accept the fact that 1t was
constitutional. Today. at any rate tomorrow, we
will say that it was no worse than a bad headache
and let it 90 at that.
I am not so heartleSs that 1 would like to see
iobless men carry on under their misery one day
or one minute longer. Unfortunately what we call
prosperity has too little to do with jobess men, 1t
may cut the total of unemployment somewhat but
even the most piping sort of business in the past has
left millions the side lines.
Unlike Santa Claus, Old Man Recovery misses
many chmneys. He is coming back now to behave
in the way he has behaved before. There will be
large benefits for a handful small sOps for quite
a few but for very many there won't even be an
orange in the toe OF the stocking.
I'm all for sending Mr. Recovery back around
the corner from whence he came and 1 would ask
him not to return until he brings his distant cousin,
Mr.. ReadluStment
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Biz WheeIS-LittIe Wheels

MIR. UTzEBECK advanced to the center of the
1V1 hotel bedroom. shot his cuffs, heXed his Shout
ders and turned smile muscular that it
jiggled his scalp
Now he began spreading his hands in a rea-
soning gesture, we have a very simple proposition
We will imagine two big wheels spinning rapidly
One is big wheel and the other is little. The big
wheel gets hitler and the little wheel gets bigger.
One is employment, the other the unemployed.
When capitaiistc industry doesn't want the work.
ers they go to work on the other wheel and it
grows bigger. When captalistic industry picks up
the wheel gets bigger gain"
Tell him." Mahatma Sinclair suggested, "the
about the twelve barter transactions in which
not a cent of money changed hands"
That is a long one Mr. Utzebeck demurred.
"All right; anyway, tell him.
Knowing what in store, Mahatma Sinclair
moved to the table and fortified himself with a
baked apple The come-apart capitalist eXcayated
the interior of a baked potato the size OF foot
ball.
And your correspondent already dazed by Mr..
Utzebecks huge arms waving in circles in illustra-
ton Of the rapidly spinning, expanding and con-
tracing wheels now bowled down by the ter
rife confusion and power of Mr. Utzebecks long one
about the twelve transactions. We expected to be
hit almost any moment with a nut or bolt from
that spinning human mechanism.
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PenitentS DOf SdckcIOh

lust the vaguest ripple OF better times induced
y many Denitcnts TO take of their sackcloth, put
the ashes on the dumb waiter and 90 back into
giddy raiment While the nervous breakdown was
upon US many promises were made. Sick indus
trialsts were ready to get together and agree on
new dispcnsation. Old devices Of careessness and
corruption were to be vigorously uprooted.
believe there even were remarks about labor
being a partner in industry and with my own ears
I heard several prominent manufacturers assert
that they would be wholly satisfied with smaller
profits than they knew the old days, if only peace
and security could be established along the eco
nomic front. Not very much of that sort Of talk is
being heard today.
Ny prediction Of the return of prosperity IS
based to some extent on the decided squirt in the
enterprises concerned with luxury and entertain
ment. This is a theatrinal season far beyond the
feeble mummery of last year People are coming
back to the restaurants football games are crowded
once again and there betting at the race tracks.
These may be trivial symptoms. Sometimes an
increase i'm this of spending rises merely out
of desperation I doubt if it has any such signif-
canoe right now.
Chiefly l base my prophecy or e obvious TACT
that big business is growing ar 7dnt once more.
It is no longer compromising and conciatory toward
employees.
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limiting commercial banks to
lending on absolutely self -hquidat-
ing obliga tions-ordinary COM
mercial credits.
Those who wish to borrow for
long terms should do so from lend
in institutions which are not
banks and whose existence is not
imperiled by the freezing Of its
funds. Above all, lending by banks
in the stock market should be
rigidly prohibited.
I know that most bankers will
not agree with these recommen-
dationS. That is chiefly because
bankers, who may know a good
deal about how to run a bank,
know little or nothing about our
economic system. If we want a
reasonable stable economic ma
chine we must come to this.
Above all, I warn solemnly
against any continuance of the
vicious holding company system
dPPllGA W UdllhDs OOI BCOCACt L
daresay like all peoples, are obdu-
rate about turning a deaf ear to
warnings. But this one is serious.
If holding company banking is
permitted to flourish it will abso-
lutely destroy us.
I warned about holding COM
pany banking back in the twen-
ties. 1t was this indefensible
thing which wrecked the banks of
Detroit and Cleveland and. for
that matter, many other places
and sent the repercuSsions Of
those failures through thousands
Of smaller banks. I see signs too
obvious to be ignored that it is
to this astounding folly bankers
will turn for their exploits if pros
perity should return.
There is, indeed, much to be
done if we really want to make a
serious effort to get the capitalist
system of functioning again.
(The End
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Peter and Paul Brothers

4 things stand now We are establishing def
"A mite strathed society IN which there Will be
certain semi-permanent group called the work
less It has been argued in the past that there
could be nothing like prosperity without high pro-
portion of employment. That undoubtedly Is true
over any long of years, but in short cycles 1t
Just isn't So
That was proved during the war. From an eco
nomc point Of view. the army was not engaged IN
productive labor. 1t merely consumed.
Under our present relief program we have SIM
liar situation. OF course 1t IS the clumSeSt way
imaginable to deal with the fact that machinery
has made man infinitely more productive Instead
of shortening the work week the present setup con-
dennis multitudes to Go nothing This is no passing
fuctuaton No practical. hardheaded disciple OF the
profit system has suggested any way out.
II YOU cut relief YOU cut prosperity. II you IN
crease it by just much added purchasing power Is
recovery supported.
Recovery depends upon taking from Peter 10
nav Paul This is not system which can last Tor
ever Neither Paul nor Peter are what YOU might
call enthusiastic about it. REIMBURSEMENT would
move in another way Its slogan would come from
Rudvard Kipling and Gertrude Stein. 1t might
read peter is Paul and Paul is Peter and they are
brothers under the skin.
tCopvr.rht 1884, BY The Tines
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Your He a th
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN -

4 WORLD that was once fairly quiet is now be-
L n sieged by noise OF many varieties. The coming
of the machine age, Of rapid transportation, and of
devices for carrying sound through the have
multiplied immensely the sounds that assault the
Engineers have in the meantime been developing
methods Of soundproofng so as to make it possible
for those who wish TO shut out sounds TO have GER
tain amount Of quetude In England there is
anti-noise league concerned with cutting down the
total number Of noises, because it IS felt that these
constant stimuli may seriously irrtate the sick and
also greatly impede recovery
Certain sounds are painfully loud. II can be
taken for granted that If they So they harm
fully loud either to the ear or the brain, or both.
NTHEREAS rhythmica sound has the effect Of
w preventing or postponug fatigue, as an ex-
ample IN soldiers who are marching sounds that are
not rhythmical may startle, disturb, or irrltate.
The reaction to sudden, sharp, or unexpected
sound is a muscular spasm It IS an intensive gath
ering Of the muscles for fight or for defense
Associated with this sudden muscular spasm there
are the usual accomplishments of fear; namely,
contraction Of the blood vessels so that We become
pale trembling Of the limbs and what is generally
called shock.
If this happens frequently there results, Of course.
exhaustion and IN the end breakdown.
TT is because Of these shocks to the nervous system
L that noise is firing. To persons who are quite
i'll it may be so serious as to have an unIaVoraDle
effect leading even to death.
There are, Of course, persons who do not react
as much TO noise as do others They have the abll-
ity to concentrate and 10 shut out the world from
their consciousness.
OF course when we become accustomed to noise
we learn to ignore it. This applies 10 workers IN boil
er shops, in musical instrument testing laboratories
carpenter shops and similar industries.
While healthy man can stand the ordinary noises
Of the streets including even unexpected blowing OF
motor horns representative or weakly man suffers
exceedingly to such stimulation OF his nerves.
In cases Of pneumonia, sepss. heart disease &C
companied with insomnia, and persons who are much
weakened after surgical operation, noise IS serious
menace.
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Today S Science
By DAVID DIEIZ :

A NEW theory Of relatively IS the latest OBJECT OF
N study III the world of science. 1t includes the
corrections 10 the Newtonian theory which Prof.
Albert Elnsten made in his original famous theory
but il does not abandon Newton With the thorough
ness OF the ElnSten theory. In addition, 1t does not
require an expanding universe the extension 10 the
Finstein theory made by the Able Lemaltre.
Author OF the new theory Of relatively IS the chief
Judge Of the high court OF Allahabad in India. the
Honorable Sir Shah NIohamet Suleinan. The judge
is a mathematician trained at the University OF
Cambridge and in addition IS vice-president OF
AIoslem university.
DR.. Harlow Shapley lists this new theory among
a dozen OF the outstanding developments IN aStron-
omy during 1884
Among other events listed by Dr.: Shapley were
the following:
l. Study Of the eClipSLng double star Leta Aurlgae
by more astronomers than ever turned their te4e-
scope on one star at the same time before.
2 Confirmation Of the antiquity OF the earths
crust by VenneSe scientist. Miss Kroupa who finds
that the preCambrian rocks Of Canada are at least
1,72500oOOO years old
CONTINUING brief summary OF Dr. Shapleys
~ list Of astrononlic events in 1884
4. New studies, particularly at Mt. Wilson and
Harvard, on the sizes and shapes OF the exterior
galaxies and their distribution space.
S. Discovery Of a new astronomical puzzle by DR..
Paul Merrill Of the Mt Wilson observatory. For
some time, it has been known that so-called empty
space between the stars was not really empty.
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due to the operation Of the AAA
and stimulation of the building
industries as a result of PWA ex-
penditures.
IT doesn't pay to be flip with
i coatless men about the Office of
Secretary Ickes.
The other day an Out-of town
lawyer strobe briskly into the re-
ception room of the head of the
interior department. At a desk
in one corner was a man in shirt
sleeves busy with a large pile Of
papers.
The attorney strobe over to him,
announced:
L have an appointment with
Secretary Ickes."
'Yes?" said the man at the desk.
Yes" snapped back the visitor,
"and promptness, you know, is
royal virtue"
L am Secretary Ickes," was the
quiet reply.
TINE war department Will not
Il admit it. but it is intensely
interested in the case Of the two
college boys who have gone be-
fore the supreme court as con-
scientious DIRECTORS against R. o.
T. c. drill at the University Of
California.
Equally interested are fifteen
land grant colleges.
If the case is decided in favor
of the two boys. not only IS the
war departments r. o. T. c. pro-
gram in danger Of collapse, but
the fifteen universities fear an
exodus which will kill their war
department subsidy.
OF the fifteen universities, six
have an immediate interest in the
supreme court decision. In each
one of the six is a pending case
Of conscientious directors now in
college. They are: Ohio State
university, Kansas State college,
Pennsylvania State college, Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology
Seldom thought Of as a land
grant college,, University Of New
Hampshire, and University Of Hi
nois.
One vital angle Of the case is
not generally known. The boys,
whose fathers and grandfathers
were ministers, are not Quakers
but Methodists. Quakers, a rela-
lively small group. long have been
accepted as sincere in Directing
to military training.
But to put Methodists in the
same class would be TO make eli
gible for exemption the largest
Protestant denomination in the
country.
No wonder the war department
is worried.
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scientific - indeed the craziest
thing in our civilization. 1t was
not created by experts to meet
the needs of a highly complex So
ciety. 1t just grew, without
any logical relation to the func-
lions which a financial system
ought to perform.
Therefore we ought to make a
study of the whole thing and eff
feet a thoroughgoing reformation
of it all-Which means our banks,
our savings mechanisms, our in
surance organization, our invest
ment devices, our corporation
laws and our trading markets.
2. We have made beginning
on our trading markets. This
should be strengthened by (a
prohibiting security brokers from
specializing for their own account;
(b) prohibiting them from acting
as bankers and making loans on
securities; Co prohibiting banks
1IOllI llldh4IlS 1Oo44o vi oONAA AUAOp VI
any other form of collateral save
Self-liquidating obligations; cd
taking away from the Federal Re-
serve Board all control over mar
gins; (e) taking the autonomous
direction of exchanges out of the
hands of brokers and giving rep
resentation to all interests con-
cerned in trading; and (f) finally
putting all these things into laws
and directing the commission to
enforce, not make, these rules.
3. To reach our investment Sys-
tenn, our corporation laws which
are at the root of most Of our
troubles should be completely re-
cast. Corporations never were
intended to be instruments in the
hands Of promoters to milk in
dustry. They have grown so
chiefly through the competition Of
certain charter mongering states.
The first step is for the United
States government to enact ma