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Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
ENDING THE BOGIE MAN

Professional economists and noliticians
may continue to argue over the gold
clause, but the man in the street and the
businessman are willing to let the decis-
ION OF the supreme court, returned yes
aerday, be the final word on the subject.
Briefly, the courts decision means this:
the power given by the constitution to
congress, permitting it to change the val
lie of the unit of currency, is not restrict
ed by any private contracts; congress
was within its rights in abrogating the
clauses in bonds and contracts calling for
payment in gold coin; congress has no
authority under the constitution to
change the terms of government bonds in
this connection; no damage having been
experienced by the holder of the bond
who brought suit for payment in gold,
no recovery or indemnity is allowed: that
congressional power over currency in
cludes the right to set up circumstances
under which gold certificates need not
be redeemed in gold.
The main benefit of the courts decis-
ion is that it permits business to continue
on its orderly way. Had the court de-
clded against the governments conten-
ton, chaos would have resulted, with
payments of S1.69 being made in present
currency for each one dollar face value
under the old gold standard.
AS it is, the beneficial effects of the
decision were seen yesterday in the stock
market rise and in the increased conf
dence and activity which marked all lines
of trade.
The fact that the court was divided
five to four in giving it's decision, is not
in the least alarming. Such divisions
have been known frequently in the his
tory of the supreme court. 1t does not
mean that the majority of the justices
are right and the minority wrong. There
is a difference of opinion in the scope of
Interpretation. 1t might be translated in
to these terms: the maj ority believes that
circumstances having distinct bearing
on the welfare of the country, justify an
Interpretation of the law by the court.
The minority does not think such an in
depreciation is required
The decision, directly or indirectly,
has bearing on every individual. AS
such it was of momentous Importance.
Having been given, business can now go
ahead unafraid that the bogie man is 60
ing to hop out of the closet and gobble it
up.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
WOMAN HEAD
Of PRISON TO.
LOSE POSITION
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 10. W.R,

OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 10. U,R)
The nations only woman warden
OF a prison will lose her job to
man, probably today. because the
state board of affairs believes the
office is mo place for woman"
Gov. E. w. Marland accepted the
boards recommendation that he re-
iGove Mrs. George A. Waters, war
den at Granite reformatory. Sue
ceeding her husband, who died, she
has been warden there for seven
years. Her successor will be vet
eran sheriff, Fred Hunt of Tisho-
mingo, if the senate approved.
Latent complaints against Mrs.
Waters administration came to
head Sunday when more than a
score of convicts broke from their
cells in the prison nested away in
the granite ribbed Wichita noun
tains, killed, a guard, and escaped.
The governor and the board said,
however, the break had nothing to
do with Mrs. Waters removal.
Today 18 of the convicts still were
at large. Tommy Soughern, 81, was
found at a farmhouse near the pri-
son. There was liberal sprinkling
of birdshot in his body. He had
been one of the group of fugitives
struck by shotgun charge fired by
M. R. Gallon, deputy warden.
Authorities had not missed him un-
til yesterday.
From what the board tells me"
Governor Marland said, There is a
bad moral condition out there. A
woman just can't manage it," $50
Chairman L. M. Nichols of the
board said that the institution
needed a definite work program to
keep the youths occupied. He said
he had studied the works of all pro-
minent penologists and had con-
cluded that a woman manager of a
prison is contrary to everything that
has been said and written on the
subject"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
BY FRED MYERS

United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, Feb. 19.-Clamors in
Washington for the Townsend old
age pension bill penetrated the ie-
gislative halls for 40 states this week
in a volume that assured a nation
al liberalization of pension laws, in
dependent and congressional action.
State law makers rallied in unpre-
cedented number behind 238 old age
pension bills in 40 of the 43 legisla-
lures in session or temporarily re-
ceSsed. Solons of seven states acted
favorably on the 5000 a month to
spend as you go Townsend plan, al
though they want the federal gov
ernment, not their own states, to
pay the bill.
A survey made by the American
Public Welfare association as of to-
day showed that bills for giving
money to aged indigents outnum-
ber any other type legislative pro-
posal by a staggering proportion.
Massachusetts, alone has nearly so
old age pension bills in the legisla-
tive hopper.
Twelve states would memorialize
congress to enact the Townsend
plan, with a national 10 per cent
sales tax. Three of them already
have done so. They are Oregon, Ne
vada and North Dakota. The propo-
sal has been acted upon favorably in
committee or preliminary readings
in New Mexico, Idaho, Montana and
Wyoming.
CALIFORNIA; legislature adopted a
resolution memorializing congress to
enact an old-age pension law, and
asked that consideration be given
the Townsend plan in determining
the type of bill to be passed.
Average Increased
The typical state pension bill, ac-
cording to the American Public
Welfare association survey, reduces
the age of eligibility for pension
from 10 to 65 years and increases
the maximum gratuity to approx
mately $50 month. The previous
average was nearer $40.
Only % states now have old age
pension laws. An advanced eligibil-
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
Don't Quote Me-
By United Press

WASHINGTON, Febi 19.-It was
mighty lucky for three young men
IN Sen. Huey P. Longs office that
the bomb sent the senator was not
in explosive condition.
When the postman brought in the
package, later found to contain a
crude bomb, one clerk picked it up.
He examined it curiously and asked
a second clerk:
What do you suppose is in this
boX?"
The second clerk strolled over,
lifted the package to his ear, and
shook it violently. He detected a
slight rattle.
Somebody is sending back ship
ment of eVery-man-a-king buttons, y
ne announced.
Il don't believe it, said clerk No.
/. He called clerk No. 3 into the ar
gument. After similar procedure
clerk No. 3 said he didn't know what
was in the package and suggested
that it be opened.
A moment later three very much
shaken young gentlemen recoiled in
terror when they discovered what
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
SNOW BIRDS

Uncle Wiggily was very kind to
the birds. especially in winter when
snow covered the ground. For then
the rabbit gentleman knew that it
was hard for the birds to find seeds
and crumbs on the ground. The
birds really couldn't do it for they
are not like chickens, that can
scratch.
So Uncle Wiggily, as 1 have told
you. had placed in one window
board with little roof over it to
keep off the snow and on this
board, every morning, the rabbit
gentleman placed crumbs and seeds
for the birds. He called this board
his feeding station'' and any of
you can make one outside your
window to feed the birds. If you
can't make a roof over the board,
brush the snow off as soon as any
falls SO the birds may see the food
you place there.
One morning after heavy fall of
snow, when Uncle Wiggily was put
ting out some seeds and crumbs for
his bird friends, one of them hop
ped close to the rabbit gentleman
and chirped:
"You aren't the only one who
has made a feeding station for us
this winter, Uncle Wiggily'
Don't Dare Take Food
els that so?' asked the bunny
gentleman. "Who else has a board
outside the window to feed you
crumbs and seeds, my little snow
bird?"
ooh, on the other side of the
wood, in real house lives a real
man, said the snow bird. He puts
seeds and crumbs and nice bits of
suet fat for us to eat. We would
love some of that suet fat to eat,
for it would keep up warm on cold
days. But none of us dares to take
anything from the man S feeding
station"
"Why not?" asked Uncle Wig
gily.
because the man has big gun
there near his feeding station, -
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19

was reported about $40 month
more than they would pay for the
same kind of quarters at home.
The seriousness of the situation
was illustrated by the plight of one
newspaperman who just had so
much to spend for furnished
apartment for himself and wife. The
couple are living in crudely fur
nished old barn. The place had
brick walls, candles for light and
iude hunks against the walls in
place of beds. 1t was the only thing
they could find in a month of
searching for the price they could
afford to pay.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
BEDTIME STORIES
By HOWARD =. GARRIs
Copyright 1884 BY Mcclure Newspaper synAicase

said little snow bird. "He wants
us to come close so he can shoot
u.s. -
"Oh, 1 can hardly believe that, .
said Mr.. Longears. 81 can hardly
believe that man who would be
kind enough to make winter feed
ing station for my bird friends
would be so cruel as to shoot a gun
at them when they come to his
window to feedo
"Well. if you go there you'll see
the gun, like a big, shining eye,
sticking out of the window close to
the board where the man puts the
seeds, the crumbs and the suet fat
we need so much to keep us warm, !"
said a Blue Jay Bird who was with
the others.
"Ill go take a look,' offered Un-
Gle Wiggily. "Perhaps you are mis-
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
CLEARS CONSCIENCE

SHELBY, O., U.P)-Five years
ago a package of peanuts was stol-
en- from w. w. Ellery's- grocery
here. A few days ago, Ellery re-
ceived a note, explaining, ~ stole
some peanuts from you five years
ago. Please accept this money-25
cent. God saved me and wish to
make everything right" The note
was unsigned.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
OYSTER CAUGHT RAT

SMITH CREEK, N. c. U.P)-Soon
after piling a dozen newly gather
ed oysters on the Kitchen floor of
his home here, j, A. Witherington
heard a peculiar noise. Entering
the kitchen, he found that an oyster
had caught a large rat by the tail.
The oyster and his captive were
placed on display at fish market.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
4 -1S
One Of them hoped close.

taken, my birds. If it is a gun, of
course, 1 can't do anything about
it, for 1 can't talk to that man. -,
"Maybe you can throw snow
ball and break the gun and then
we could go get some of that love-
ly suet fat said a sparrow.
Mr.. LOngears Laughs
"I1l see," said Mr.. Longears.
Leaving the birds to eat at his feed
ing station, Uncle Wiggily put on
his snowshoeS and hoped through
the woods to the house where a
man had set a board outside his
window. And, truly enough, near
the board, was a great round, shin
ing eye like the end of a gun. But
as soon as he saw it Uncle Wiggily
began to laugh. He didn' throw
any SNOWFALL at it, though.
Quickly the bunny hoped to his
bungalow where the birds we're still
eating. "You need have no fears, -
laughed Uncle Wiggily. "That
shiny round eye you see isn't a gun,
1t is a camera the man has set up
at his feeding station to take pic
lures of you birds as you eat. Fly
there now and let him snap his
camera at you. 1t will not hurt
and it will be doing the man a kind
ness for the one he has done you -
Away flew the birds. At first
they we're timid. But when bold
Blue Jay flew down and picked at
the suet and when a man stood
near the window and snapped his
camera and when nothing happen
ed, then all the birds flew to this
new feeding station and had their
pictures taken.
And if the dog house doesn't get
proud and think it's a garage just
because an auto stopped in front of
it, I'll tell you next about Uncle
Wiggily and the brave tree.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
LOOPING OFF HEADS

1t certainly can't be any worse to be-
head two women than to put them to
death in the electric chair, but it seems
so to most of us. One can t help shud-
der when reading of the beheading of
two women spies by the German govern
ment.
In days gone by the eXecutioner Topped
off heads regardless of the sex of their
owners and little was thought about it.
Royalty as we'll as peasant felt the keen
edge of the axe, so that the execution of
two noblewomen is nothing new.
However, the world, at least the west
ern portion of it, has changed its view
point on women and rightly has placed
them on higher plane. We have been
educated to show them every Difference
and protect them. In this, at least, the
world has grown better.
1t is not for nation that has hanged
women and electrocuted them, to cast
aspersions upon a nation which beheads
them. Yet we need not be ashamed of
a feeling of repulsion when reading of
the German execution. 1t savors too much
of brutality, whether it is or not, and one
can be delicate even about such thing
as taking human life.
Herr Hitler may not properly be open
to censure for not committing the SEN
tence of these two women spies but he
certainly has not improved his standing
before the rest of the world by permit
ting it.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
TOADSTOOL VICTIM DIES

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19. W.H -
The deadly toadstool, often mis-
taken for the delicious mushroom,
had claimed a third victim here to-
day.
Albert Tatum, 30 died last night
of toadstool poisoning following a
dinner at the home of Mrs. Bertha
Mill, February Z. His wife, Mary Ia
tum, 25, died Sunday. Mrs. Mill was
the first to succumb following the
dinner at which four other persons
were stricken.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Press, Incy 625 State street.
FL Centre, California. w. G. Costello, business
manager. Telephone 26, business office; 700 edi-
torial department. Full leased wire United Press
Associations.
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Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
February 10, 1915

The condition of the roads lead
ing into Ell Centre is such that ev-
cry business man should stand up
and howl
Miss Garnet Jackson, milliner,
has just returned from a buying
trip. Miss Jackson believes she has
captured the correct conceits.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19

Permits for grazing 125000 sheep
and $4,000 cattle on the new Mojave
grazing district were issued at Bak-
ersfield recently. -
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19

With 100000 acre feet in the Ex-
chequer reservoir on January 81 it
should be full before the irrigation
season begins.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19

If the Hauptmann jury does go in for
vaudeville, we for one would be willing
to pay two bits to see that hefty woman
Juror do a shuttle dance.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19

Having disposed of the gold clause
matter we can now proceed to prepare
for the opening of the baseball training
season.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
TEN YEARS AGO
February 10, 1925

j. S. Carmichael left last night
for Los Angeles to attend a road
meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
they had been shaking.

they had been shaking.
The bravest of the trio finally GIN
gerly picked up the package and set
it down just outside the door of
Longs office. That protected Longs
office all right but if the missive
had exploded, there probably would
have been considerable damage to
the office of Sen. William E. Borah,
next door, and the senate station
er's store just across the corridor.
Restoration of the five per cent
government pay cut April l is view
ed in Washington as somewhat of a
mixed blessing. The clerks will be
glad to have the money but are
afraid that rent raises and other
price increases will cost them most
if not all of the five per cent.
Some congressman would like TO
do something abcut the rent situa-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
TUESDAY 1895

SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier
per month, SIS cents; by mail so cents per month
in advance Entered at El Centre California, post
office as second-class matter. Member California
Newspaper Publishers Association M. c. Mogen-
son, national advertising representatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19

Something tells us the nation is just
starting on another wild orgy of stock
kitinp
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19

What the supreme court means is that
a dollar by any other name is just as
sweet.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19

Rep. Everett NJ. Dirksen, Rep0
Iowa, took survey of congressman
and their clerks. He found their
rent averaged s81 a month which
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
February 10, 1920

Mrs. McCorkle of San Diego is the
house guest this week OF Mrs John
Howard.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19

Friends of Mark Washburn were
glad to see him on the streets to-
day, following a severe illness.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-19

S. w. Dunaway returned last
night from San Diego.
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TWO GROUPS WILL
Be PARTY SPONSORS

Ladies Society of the indianapolis
Maennerchor and the chorus mem
bers will join in sponsoring a card
party and dance Saturday at
the Academy of Music. The dance
will be from 8 to l in the Kneipe
and will be in charge of the enter
tainment committee, Franz Binnin-
ger, E. H. Mueller, Frank Kosh-
mider, Walter Heitkam, Otto Ehr-
gott and William Noelke.
The card party, from to 10, will
be arranged by the society leaders,
Mesdames Charles Kistner, Isaac
Born, Addison Coddington and Will
liam Noelke; Misses Emma Minter,
Mary Eymann, Marie Leppert and
Lena Schramm. They will be as
sisted by MesdameS Otto Buesching,
Franz Binninger, Theodore SCHUYLER,
Fred Pintzke, E. H. Mueller, Wal
ter Heitkam, Otto Ehrgott and
Frank Koshmider.
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Personals

DR.. and Mrs. Louis Burckhardt are
spending a week with Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick A. ingalls,, Pebble Beach,
Cal. Mrs. ingalls, formerly was Miss
Margaret Donnan.
The Rev. Edna F. Mauzy and
Mary Allen have returned from a
motor trip to Nashville, Tenn, and
Atlanta, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. v. R. McQuilkin and
children, Jean and John, have re-
turned from California and are Wis
iting Miss Katherine Kruge, Wood
ruff Place.
Miss Ruth Bybee NIilliken arrived
Saturday from New York to be
maid of honor at the wedding of
Miss Rosalind Holloway and Griffith
John Henninger Saturday. Miss
Milliken will be a guest of Miss
Holloway during her stay in the
city
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In the Realm Of Clubs

Mrs. Richard Winery will report
current events.
FRIDAY
Mrs. Clifford Wagner will dis
cuss Contemporary Poetry" and
Miss Hilda Stewart will talk on
Thomas Hardy at a meeting of the
indianapolis Woman's Club.
Irvington FortnightIy Club will
elect officers at a meeting with Miss
Martha Cunningham, 81 Lyman-av,
hostess. Covered dish luncheon will
be served.
Entrees and Salads" will be dis
cussed by Miss Stena Marie HoI-
dali at $50 at the Irvington Pres
byterian Church as the next in
series of classes on technique of
cookery sponsored by the Irving
ton Union of Clubs.
SATURDAY
Hostesses for a meeting of the
Saturday Afternoon Literary Club
will be Miss Anna CASTOR and Miss
Anna Meier Mrs. Lucy Ward Had
ley and Mrs. Edna Higgins Hicks
will present a program on Susan
3 Anthony and Carrie Chapman
Cat
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haVior of the two women simply
illustrates the difference between
good breeding and bad.
n
Dear Jane Jordan-I am young
girl of %, married a man of 40. Dur
ing our courtship he was very at
tentive and thoughtful, always con-
sidering me first. We went to shows
regularly and he seemed to enjoy
them, but now all he does is talk of
his work. All hear is cinders here
and cinders there until 1 feel as
though I were tending a furnace for
my living. He treats me now as
though I were a piece OF personal
property to be at his disposal at all
times, and he is very hateful when I
mention any entertainment of any
sort.
There is a young man living down
the street who is %. I enjoy talk
ing with him occasionally. My huS-
band wishes me to stop speaking to
him. This seems childish to me,
but he has threatened to harm this
boy and he has never been anything
but a friend He is about the only
understanding person I have found
do not care to lose this boys
friendship, but as 1 am to become a
mother, l can not afford to make
my husband angry. CHILD WIFE.
Answer imagine that all your
friends and relatives told you be-
forehand that this difference in
ages would result in exactly what
you have described. But you
wouldn't believe them. You
thought that man of 43 would
continue to play the benevolent
father to a girl of %. But you
find that he is grown up afte~ all
and must think of business if he
is to support you and your child.
His attitude must have been
equally fatuous. He thought that
marriage had the power to make
a woman out of a child overnight
and resents the necessity of en-
tertaining a young and fun-lov-
ing woman. The child in you at
tracted him in the beginning.
Now the same quality bores him.
At his. age he needs a helpr1eet,
not a pet. Nevertheless, he has
not done his part toward making
your marriage a success, and
neither have you. You will have
to grow up faster. He will have
to play with you sometimes.
Otherwise, you're headed for the
rocks.
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Po1Oer of Suggestion Causes Difficulty


Il Colorado figs California other delac
ocaies)
neghboring
table He duplicates the regular epidemic
fish
On occasion French Canadian priests bound for the
Chicago the
little English
swamped for
ham
Mr. Shife there great change in what being eaten these
standardized
cereal. toast and coffee combination overwhelming favore
old of lamb
we'll the lead"
of
fashioned
baked potato, rapidly dipacng
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BRIDE-TO IS
HONORED GUEST

Mrs. E. E. Schnitzius, Mrs. R. j.
Maddux, Misses Margaret Brady and
Adelyn Phillips were hostesSes yes
terday afternoon at a shower and
bridge tea in the Silver Cup tea
room in honor of Miss Laurel Ruth
Daugherty, who will be married to
Robert B. Lutz on March 2.
Guests will be Mesdames Claude
Daugherty, Cyril Harvey, Michael
Lutz, John Craig, R. I. Brady, Will
liam Livingston, Vernon Overmyer,
Paul Shearer, Robert Watson, Hill
ton Mendenhall and E. E. Shannon;
Misses Lorene Lutz, Merle Garner,
Ann Myers, Evelyn Pinnick, Louise
Smith, Betty Myers, Marie Pinnick
Catherine Drake, Mable Garner and
Reba King.
Miss Ann Myers, assisted by Mrs.
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Wellesley
Luncheon
Scheduled
Mrs. w. J. E. Weber to
Be Hostess Next
Monday.

Luncheon meeting Of the Indiana
Wellesley Club will be held next
Monday at the home of Mrs. w. j.
E. Weber, 1850 N. Pennsylvania-st.
Mrs. Francis Dunn, president, will
be in charge.
Miss Dorothy Knisely and Mrs.
Karl Rooms have been named as
hostesses for the meeting at which
arrangements will be discussed for
a tea to be held soon for prospective
Wellesley college students.
Proceeds from TINS luncheon and
other monthly luncheons are used
by the club for it's student aid fund.
Announcement is made that Mrs.
John Clark is winner OF a recent
campaign held by tie club 10 sell
magazine subscriptions. Proceeds
from the campaign also are to be
used for the student aid fund which
is maintained to aid students Ell
rolled in the college in completing
their college work.
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Dining Car Efficiency Explained

ME housewife, called
l.
fol- persons ~ '
measuring
miniature
Railways points pride
efficiency
task perform stop-Watch
The usual kitchen staff consists of dhwasher second cook
chief
work for Is before the
washers
different that
n dining