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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21
Legion District
Holding Meeting

Legionnaires and auxiliary men,
berS of San Diego and Imperial
counties are conducting two days
business and pleasure session at
Coronado Tent City today and to-
morrow.
The two counties comprise the
22nd Legion district and large at
tendance is expected according to
G.. w. Fisher, commander of the
district.
Tonight's program will be marked
by a parade and dance, with busi-
ness session, barbecue and sports
on the docket for tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21

Published every evening texcept Sunday By The
Imperial Valley Press Inc. 625 State street,
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manager Telephone 26. business office; 700 edl-
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Associations
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21
LIGHTNING SHOCKED MAN

GAINESVILLE, o. U.P) ~ Paul
Trimble, a florist, is recovering
from effects Of a shock sustained
while taking bath during a Sc
we're thunderstorm He was unccn-
scious for a time,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21
RIVER READINGS
CCC MEN DROWN

BROADALBIN, N. Y. July 81.
UP) - Five CCC workers were
drowned today in Steel lake when
their boat overturned Three others
swan to safety.
The party was enroute to the
dense Steel lake area 10 relieve
another CCC group which had been
combating a forest fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21

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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21

Both apricot and cherries have
returned twice as much to growers
at Wenatchee, Wash, as they did in
1888.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
July II, 1919
A booklet on Imperial Valley by
w. E. Packard Of the University
Of California has just been pub
lished.
j. G. Bradley left yesterday for
a SIX weeks vacation on the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO

TWENTY YEARS AGO
July 21, 1914
Lee Seibert was here from Brawley
last night.
Steve Lyons has gone to Venice
TO spend the summer with his
brother Edward.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21
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LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY

Fair tonight and Sunday with
overcast in morning; seasonable
temperature and humidity with
little change; gentle wind, mostly
southwest.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21
TEN YEARS AGO
InIv 21 1924

Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Lingo left
yesterday for the coast.
L. M. Moore is back on the job
after 15-day tour Of northern and
central California.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
DRIVE THEM OUT

Reports from various parts of the
state indicate that other Californans
are beginning to realize that Imperial
Valley was not going off half-cocked last
spring and winter when it was claimed
here that radicals and Communists had
selected this state for the scene of an
open revolt against American institu-
tions.
In San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley
and all sections of the bay region, in the
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys
and, in fact, all up and down the state,
law officials and "vigilantes" have taken
up the trail of the reds and are max
ing it hot for them. Over 500 have al
ready been jailed, awaiting trial.
Union men in the San Francisco area
have recognized the fact that they had
bad leadership in the recent general
strike and that the leadership in great
many instances was red" Many of the
raids staged on the Communists have
been the work of union laboring men,
who, from all accounts, have been doing
good job of cleaning up
Governor Merriam pointed the path
way when he charged the strike was the
work of "alien radicals" The people of
the state know that such charge would
not be made by CallfornlaS S hlgheSt OIL
cial unless he had absolutely good
grounds for making it.
They are taking Merriam's word, as
they should take it, and this has spurred
on the warfare against the reds
1t should be an intensive campaign
that will not be halted until every "alien
agitator" has been made to give an ac-
count of himself, deported if possible
and if not, given Jail sentence or
trial for criminal syndicalism.
California should clean up and stay
cleaned, so far as Communism, agita-
tors, reds" and '''parlor pinks" are con-
cerned.
Mr.. Farley came, saw, but didn't say
a word that would help the distracted
politicians any.
But General Johnson-he didn't act
that way at all. He said plenty and all
but the Creel supporters would like to
shoot him for saying it.
Looks as though the valleys summer
weather has been transferred to the
middle west.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21

Mr.. Farley came, saw, but didn't say
a word that would help the distracted
politicians any.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21

Looks as though the valleys summer
weather has been transferred to the
middle west.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21

Adams county, Idaho, produces
fine Strawberries, but it is ofte
necessary to use heaters to protect
the crop from frost.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21
LOCAL TEMPERATURES

data compiled by Howard EN-
mons, local observer for the United
States weather bureau)
Maximum yesterday ......................l09
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21
Three Arrested In
BraWley For Theft

Frank Armento, Tomas Perez,
Juan Balbino and Donate Fonseca
were arrested in Brawley late last
night and brought to the county
Jail where they are held on
grand theft charge.
According to information obtain
ed at the Jail the men are alleged
to have stolen an automobile be-
longing to Clyde Williams. They
stripped the car and then drove it
for some distance on the tirelesS
rims. Police followed these marks
in the road and caught the four
men with the car.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21

But General Johnson-he didn't act
that way at all. He said plenty and all
but the Creel supporters would like to
shoot him for saying it.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21

We hope those Hawaiian volcanoes
behave themselves while the islands en-
tertain the Big Chief.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-21

sss 4 ; 80 oss
Evening star., 1934-01-07
A Good Recommendation.

Suppose a Government worker has
accumulated thousand dollars or over
in his retirement fund when he dies.
Under the present rules and regulations
the money must be administered by
the courts. His family is put to the
expense Of engaging an attorney and
of paying the various fees and costs
in connection with getting what little
money there is. The costs are some
times far out of proportion to the
amount Of money involved, and there
is delay in obtaining the cash so ur-
gently needed.
One of the recommendations Of the
Civil Service Commission in its annual
report is to end this condition by the
passage of legislation giving the Gov
ernment employe or annuitant the
right to designate beneficiary. AS in
the case of private insurance payments,
or in the case of Government war risk
insurance, the money would be paid
directly to this beneficiary on suitable
proof of death and Identification. 1t
is said informally at the Civil Service
Commission that, as far as known,
there is no objection to this change.
1t should have been made before 1t is
to be hoped that it can be made i'm
mediately, and dependents of Govern
ment workers relieved of a wholly un-
necessary item Of expense and incon-
venience in connection with the COL
lection of money rightfully their own.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
Doing Things for Themselves.

Citizens of Southwest Washington
are to be congratulated upon their
decision to take things into their own
hands and campaign directly for the
varior7 civic improvements which, they
have good reason to believe, are right
fully due that section of the city. When
citizens show the positive interest mani
tested in the mass meeting last night
at Neighborhood House, and undertake
vigorously to correct what seems to
them to have been tendency toward
unjust discrimination. they have already
made progress. Some of the notable
civic improvements in Washington have
resulted from the persistent agitation
Of citizens bodies unwilling to allow
temporary rebrlffs from the various
budgeting authorities to deter them.
After citizens of Southwest Washing
ton draw up their bill of particulars and
demonstrate the need Of the improve
ments they seek-such as school build
ings and playground Development
their labors will be rewarded. A panied
but patiently passive attitude by citi-
zens is yet to win a school building
Evening star., 1934-01-07

tariff policy. Mr.. Peek's recommends
tions, naturally, tie in closely with Mr..
Roosevelt's reputed intention to seek
from Congress certain tariff powers as
to rate changing, now vested exclusively
in the legislative branch.
What will eventuate from the vari-
GUS suggestions and negotiations under
consideration is for the moment prob
lematical But it is encouraging to
know that the vital matter of foreign
trade is receiving serious attention.
Exporting interests have feared that
concentration on domestic recovery was
causing both the American people and
the Federal authorities to ignore the
Importance of cultivating and develop
ing foreign markets for our agricul-
tural and industrial produce. Though
export represents a minor percentage
of the United States total business
volume, it is nevertheless large and
essential item, and the time now being
spent at Washington on ways and
means to expand export is time worthily
devoted. The recent liquor-quota barter
with France - the American apples
for r-French-wine deal-opens up vista
of interesting possibilities for widen
ing American tade overseas. Perhaps
before current explorations are over
methods will be discovered of persuad-
ing some of our hesitant European war
debtors to evince a more substantial
interest in the output OF American
farms and factories.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
Foreign Trade.

President Roosevelt has on his desk
a report prepared by George N. Peek
looking to the better organization of
Government facilities for promotion of
foreign trade. Details of the report
have not been disclosed, but it is known
that the late chief Of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration has recon-
mended a closer coordination of Fed
eral agencies now working at more or
less cross or overlapping purposes with
respect to American commerce abroad
Unconfrmed statements attribute to
the Peek plan scheme for clothing
a proposed foreign trade administration
or corporation with authority, now
lodged in the State Department, to deal
directly with foreign nations in trade
pacts. On that account, it is said, the
Peek recommendations encounter op-
position from departmental officials,
who scent in them, an unwarranted
interference with certain ''prerogatives." !"
Meantime, the Presidents Executive
Commercial Policy Committee is con-
tinuing its deliberations In connection
with the administration's new reciprocal
Evening star., 1934-01-07
RELIGION In MODERN LIFE
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES,E FREEMAN D. d. L. d, D. c. L,
Bishop of Washington

domestic life than the man-made
mechanisns we have devised for our
profit and comfort.
1t Is because we believe that religion
in this new age is on a saner, more
consistent, yes, more Christian basis
that we again affirm, it is more appeal
ing and effective than it has ever been.
IT Is touching life at more angles, its
clergy are more intimately identified
with agencies and movements that seek
better living conditions, its adherents
are giving more of practical, selfless
service, yes. and Of means, than at any
time In its history. Take religion out
OF our life, Stifle its many voices, para
lyze its multiform agencies and we re-
duce the world to Soulless and con-
scienceless machine. Such world says
one, becomes a chaos and q jungle"
AS we face new year we do so with
sure confidence that religion In all It's
noblest aspects, freshly translated in
terms of service, is to occupy a larger
place of vantage than 1t has known in
our generation. We are compelled to
assume this outlook. for we see no hope
OF anything approximating permanent
recovery without it. We have tried
everything else, we have multiplied
laws. set up organizations, promoted
systems, made solemn resolutions, and
with what result? Confusion worse
confounded. We have built our Nation
of cities, developed our complex social
and industrial mechanisms, multiplied
our luxuries, rendered life more easy
through labor-saving devices, and yet
we have suffered such a catastrophe as
we have not known in cur history.
Something has been lacking, else our in
genuity had saved US. We are begin
ming to discover that soulless business
and Goddess homes and conscienceless
society are not the guarantors of peace
or the conservators of continuing pros
perity.
We enter the new year with renewed
hope and freshened courage We are con-
fident that a new day Of promise Is
ahead and that, despite all our exag-
gerated appraisal of material values,
our self-confldence and proud assur-
ance, we are to rediscover the highway
that leads to a wholesome, cleaner,
more satisfying life.
Evening star., 1934-01-07

The field Of religion. to use John
Wesley's famous phrase, is the world.
We affirm at the outset the conviction
that religion is more virile, more wide
ly operative in the world today than
ever before. 1t is expressing itself in
new terms, terms that are closer to the
human understanding, more intimately
related to the problems that have to
do with life here and now. Where
once religion had. to do with a misty
and hidden future, today it is touch
ing with understanding sympathy the
life that now is. Where once its dog
matism awed and repelled, with much
emphasis upon the stern penalties that
await the sinner, today it is approx
mating more nearly the ideal set by
the gentle Master OF Nazareth, who de-
clared: God sent not His Son into the
world to condemn the world, but that
the world through Him might be
saved" This does not mean that it has
softened its attack upon body and soul
destroying vices, this 1t may not do, else
it loses its place of power and useful
ness. On the contrary, it is presenting
its message with finer intelligence
and a better understanding of human
foibles and weaknesses. 1t has learned
that reproof and correction may be ad-
ministered with gentleness and yet with
hrmness and that the physician who
ministers most effectively is he who
seeks through tested remedies to save
the patient from the malady that
threatens his destruction This atti-
tude Is the new approach Of religion
to our modern world. Religion is not
an organized police force designed TO
shadow men, seeking how 1t may in
dict and pillory them. 1t is more in
terested in Paradise regained than in
Paradise lost. 1t believes that its pri-
mary purpose is to seek a new heaven
and new earth. wherein dweileth
righteousness. Every church, rightly
administered, is a sanitary agent de-
signed to cleanse and render more
wholesome the community in which It
is placed. No matter how neglected, 1t
is as indispensable to healthy living as
the ether is to breathing 1t is more
necessary to the security Of the state.
Of commerce, industry, our social and
Evening star., 1934-01-07

among whom The Star has for three
fourths of century been leader, who
view the unnecessary destruction OF a
growing tree as murder and who de-
nounce as a form of sacrilege the con-
version of greensward, trees and shrub
berry of the park breathing places Of
the city into the concrete desert Of
street surfaces or the sites upon which
are piled the stone or brick of public
buildings. They have helped to rescue
the Mall Park from Disagreement and
dissertation of railroad occupation and
they hope that in carrying out the fine
Mall development there will be min
imum of tree destruction and that there
will be the maximum Of appreciation
of trees and the greensward Of parks
predicted for the future.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
Difficulties Met i'm Efforts to Solve
Problem of Depression in Agriculture

effect on consumption. Competing
products could be substituted for corn.
The tax of cents pound on hogs
is being applied gradually in an effort
to bring as little shock to consumption
as possible. But the tax increases have
been Offset almost entirely by price de-
clines that farmers think mean trans
fer of the tax to their backs.
In cotton manufacturers have claimed
that consumption was affected by the
tax of AZ cents a pound. To offset
competition from paper and burlap,
compensating taxes were levied on those
products. This compensating tax pro-
gram might be extended endlessly II
the Government went ahead with its
processing tax plans on a scale broad
enough to include all basic farm prod
uctS.
Then in the ofIing is the prospect of
revolt Of consumers against the taxes:
They now represent a concentrated
sales tax, applied on the country's prln-
cipal foodstuffs. These taxes are de-
scribed as an offset to the advantage
given by tariffs which permit. the prices
Of manufactured articles in the cities
to be higher, but voters might not take
should advance sharply. City people
are to be taxed over a billion dollars
in the next two years, II present plans
carry through, in order to give farmers
a larger share OF the national income.
OF the present domestic allotment
system Secretary Wallace says:
1T admittedly is but temporary
method of dealing with an emergency.
It could not be relied on as pern1a-
nent means Of keeping farm production
in line with market requirements. The
need Of annual campaigns for acreage
reduction and OF the various measures
to prevent evasion involves complicated
and expensive administration"
The Secretary declared that in the
long run it would be cheaper to pur-
chase farms than to lease or rent them
or any portion OF them. In this atti-
tude he is supported by Prof. Tugwell,
who said, on December 2S:
1.-THE Federal Government will, I be-
lieve, perform two functions with re-
spect to our land in the future. 1t will
directly hold and administer, as public
forests, parks. game preserves grazing
ranges, recreation centers and the like,
all areas which cannot at the time De
6lcCIlVcly PhAf~SS
ership. And it will control the private
use OF the areas held by individuals to
whatever extent is found necessary for
maintaining continuous productivity. II
is only by conceiving the Government
in this double active and supervisory
role that we can expect to attain per-
manent system Of agriculture.
And it is permanent planning toward
which Government officials are turning
their attention. They think the tenn
porary system that now is set up will
give farmers more money and tenn
porarily relieve over-production Of some
crops, but only national land policy
will put farmers back on their feet.
Prof. Tugwell says that IF full use
were made of what already Is known OF
the technique of farm production we
could probably raise all the farm prod
ucts we need with half our present
farmers, or 1914 per cent of our total
working population" That indicates
the size of the problem of adjustment
that lies ahead.
tCopyrisht. 1934o
Evening star., 1934-01-07

Former Secretary Woodin's physical
condition is improving and the news is
gratefully received. Secretary woodin
was one Of the staunch supporters of
President Roosevelt's consistent policy
of maintaining a warm sense of fellow
humanity, whatever the emergency
might be.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Good Old Times.

Good Old Times.
Oh, can remember when long years
ago
The public complained of the ice and
the snow,
When people protested against the
great chance
That Innocence took when 1t played
with finance;
When Science was bafied by "When?"
'Where?" and "How?"-
Things really aren't so different now.
Oh, can remember when glasses would
touch,
While some spoiled the party by drink
ing too much:
When the tariff evoked oratorical skill
And mention of currency brought us
a thrill.
Despite many changes of fashion. vow
Things really are not so different now.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
Britain's Vague Attitude
Under Growing Criticism
BY A. G. GARDINER.

LONDON, January 6-All eyes are
turning once more to Geneva-anxious-
ly If not very hopefully. The coming
resumption OF the Disarmament Con-
ference does not find the situation ap-
preciably better than that which pre-
vailed when the adjournment took
place.
One thing is clear: The adjournment
was an expedient for avoiding a naked
confession Of failure. That IS an ex-
pedient which can hardly be repeated.
The conference has now been living a
sort Of fitful life-in-death for q year,
and unless o decision is reached now
its impotence can no longer be dis
guised.
The prospects of such a decision are
not encouraging. Sir John Simon has
had his Christmas tour and his conf
Dental talks in France and Italy, but
it would be a sanguine observer who
believed that those talks had materially
affected the outlook. Signor Mussolini
has preserved a significant silence since
the practical ultimatum he delivered
two months ago, and there Is no reason
to suppose he has changed his view
that the control of Europe should pass
to the great military powers.
The oficial exchanges that have
taken place between France and Ger
many in view Of the resumption Of the
conference do not give much promise
of an accommodation. II Is true that
on the face of them disarmament pro-
posals which Herr Hitler has laid be-
fore the French government are not
impossible. No one likes the suggested
to- 1F o1r 70
100000 instead Of the 100000 proposed
in the British draft convention, for
such an increase would mean equiva-
lent increases elsewhere. But agree
ment should not break down on this
issue. Herr Hitler's figure would stiIl
represent q substantial all-around limi-
tation Of men under arms In Europe,
and If applied to armament equipment
in equal measure, coupled with effective
Evening star., 1934-01-07

Photographers find themselves bur-
dened with a curious responsibility in
public affairs. The usual instruction,
Smile and look pleasant" is sometimes
interpreted by the subject in exagger-
ated terms that seem to indicate great
mirth, when the accompanying print
indicates a situat,on that is by no
means a laughing matter.
Evening star., 1934-01-07

1t is inconsiderate Of microphone
stage managers to follow a serious in
depreciation Of current events with a
vivacious performance of the melody,
"Oh, You Little Chatterbox."
Evening star., 1934-01-07
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Tennyson dies he leaves no successor Of
epic rank, and the great orators like
Gladstone and John Bright in England.
and Wendell Phillips and Beecher in
America are old men. Genius, to be
sure. is for no one age, and makes its
own conditions: but the tendency Of
the times is certainly against the pro-
duction Of works CT the emotions rather
than the intellect"
Evening star., 1934-01-07

Retail merchants report an improve
ment in business which is in itself a
very satisfactory answer to the COM
plicated economic problems on which
the ablest minds have been at work.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
Drink Detection.

"Do you think the dispensary is bet
ter than the old-time saloon?"
II guess it is" answered Uncle Ben
Bottletop. with the old-time saloon
you had to peek under lattice door
and recognize the drinking men by
their shoes. With a dispensary you
can get a full-length view of them
through plate-glass window.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
Abstruse Computations.
Now doth the man Of intellect

Now doth the man Of intellect
Proceed with calculation,
Which shows that we must not neglect
The pay roll of a Nation.
And so philosophers proceed,
In palaces or attics,
To show us how we truly need
The hire mathematics.
Some men," said Uncle Eben, sis
allus so special sympathetic an soft
spoken dat dey gifts on ~ nerves by
remindin' me of an undertaken"
Evening star., 1934-01-07
Price List,

In shoes each year new styles we see.
The list Is comprehensive
And yet the bootleg seems to be
The style that's most expensive.