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'ever intended to make, or did
make, the three branches 'coordi.
nate to that extent"
Mr.. Warren proves by the rec.
ord that when the Framers of the
Federal Constitution provided for
the establishment of a Federal
Government with three indepen.
dent branches they had no inten.
ton of making them wholly in.
dependent of each other.
What the Framers of the Con.
stitution undertook to do was to
set up Government of checks and
balances, in the belief that "the
more checks there are to any gov
eminent, the more free will it's
citizens be-.
The President is not entirely In
dependent of the Congress in the
exercise of the appointing power
and the treaty making power.
The Congress is not entirely in
dependent of the President in the
exercise of its legislative power.
COURTS FUNCTION
When the Supreme Court de-
clares an Act of Congress uncon-
stitutional it does not set itself UP
as superior to Congress. 1t does
not even veto a Congressional
enactment.
In fact, as Mr.. Warren points
out, "the question of violation of
the Constitution does not arise
directly between the Court and
Congress, or between the Court
and the President. It only arises
in some suit brought in Court,
in which a plaintiff to the suit
alleges that he has a right against
the defendant based on an Act
of Congress or an action of the
President, and in which the de-
fendant alleges that e plaintiff
has no such right because the
Act of Congress or the presiden-
tiaI action was an infringement of
the Constitution; or else it arises
in some suit in Court in which
defendant bases his defense on an
Act of Congress or on Presi-
Dental action, and the plaintiff
alleges. that such Act or action is
no valid defense because it was
violative of the Constitution"
All that the Supreme Court
does in such case is to pass
upon the validity of the two con-
tentions and to determine
whether "the Act of Congress, or
the presidential action was or
was not in accordance with the
provisions of the Constitution"
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IN which prog
nosticationS are
made concern.
ing the COM
modify future
based on recent
developments.
Included in
its pages Is a
S t a t e m e n t
which might be
Of interest to
the a v e r a G e
housewife.
It reads:
Imports of
+ r e S h an d
f~4z@~ LAAR S,,~
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The Human Side of the News
Bu Eduin C.. Hill

secret service organization of
Crime, incorporated. It is the
most thorough-going under-cover
group of investigators ever organ
lied in the history of crime. Op-
Grating outside the law, with
nothing ruled out, these secret
service men carry on multifarious
activities in the interests Of one
big boSs-Crime.
THE backbone of these secret
service committees throughout the
country is always a trained detec-
tive. He may have been thrown
out of a police department or he
may have been a private detective
employed by one of several ma
tionally known detective agencies.
Such men are the Shrewdest in
the business. Unhampered by laws,
which they break with impunlty,
they can secure information where
it is seemingly an impossibility.
CRIME LOBBY
with unrestricted funds, they
can put a hundred or a thousand
men on a job, and send men to
far corners of the earth, buy in
formation, steal it or get it by
murder. Night and day the under
cover men for Crime, Incorporated,
are diligently gathering facts. Re-
ports are written out in the mlnut'
est detail by the operatives.
Frequently the secret service
activities on the surface, seem to
bear no connection with racketeer-
ing or anything illegal. They may
include the shadowing for months
of a pristine pure public official
or a report on the financial opera
tions of a reputable business con.
Germ. The operatives in most
cases don't know the reason for a
certain job. They are given their
orders and they carry them out.
Sometimes they are assigned to
shadow a member of Crime, In
corporated. Superracketeering can
not take a chance on the double
cross. At the slightest breath OF
suspicion against member OF the
crime combine he is Shadowed
night and day, his every move re-
ported"
And this is on the crime lobby
at Washington:
"Most impressive of these COM
mitteemen is the white-haired sep
tuagenarian whom knew IN
Washington, D. C. He is one or
the most interesting companions
with whom to sip a brandy I have
ever met. With a roSy-cheekeo
countenance and a robust constr
tuition, he probably will go on
about his strange business until ne
is 80.
"He can pick up the phone and
ask a dozen Senators and at leaS
a score of Congressman to com
up and see him for drink AMI
some poker-and they'll come
every one of them, nine and mint
tenths times out of an even 10.
Munitions men, power interest
and public utility leaders hav
propositioned him many times Z
come to their side as a lobbyis
But he is quite content to care to
the interests of Crime, Incorpe
rated, in the Nations Capital"
You can see a puddle and ste
around it. You can't see gern
Read Mr.. MONEYS book abol
the things you don't see.
And we'd better become
formed and heedful about GRIN
in a realistic way. This is
ominous book. but certainly
salutary one, if it gets the readiI
it deserves.
Copyright 1885, by King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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"cRIME. INCORPORATED"

A lew ulOIlGIlS dSO GAA1S "AAVSA
suggested that New York's rack
eteering investigation would DO
we'll to quiz a few top-notch police
reporters. The idea was that
Bishop Manning, Judge Seabury,
Elihu Root, and others who are
worried about crime, lack personal
contacts in the crime world; that
Mr.. Dewey's investigators are apt
to be just talking to themselves
unless they find somebody who
knows racTeteering and who is In
formed, detached, hard-bolled,
honest and intelligent.
That means a police reporter
and nobody else. While nobody
has disputed me, I have become
more and more set in this idea as
the investigation gets under way,
and cite, as evidence, remark
able book just published this week
by Whittlesey House. 1t is Crime,
Incorporated" by Martin Mooney.
Readers will note that Mr..
Mooney is the New York American
reporter who was cited for con-
tempt and sentenced to jail for
refusing to tell the grand jury the
sources of information which had
put his newspaper quite a few
jumps ahead of the police in put
ting a finger on criminals. One
would suppose that the grand
jury would want to cooperate with
Mr.. Mooney rather than punish
him.
MYSTERIOUS WAYS
But the law moves in mysterious
ways. The higher courts will rule
on the citation for contempt. and
it will be a vital decision in its
bearing on a critical social func-
ton of newspapers in both inform
ing and helping to protect the
public. With the decision pend
ing. Mr.. Mooney has written his
book.
Crime gets into the blood-stream
of our national life. That's Mr..
MONEYS underlying theme. But
he doesn't elaborate this finding
in the lethal manner of the 12-
pound Chicago vice report. Here
is a swift narrative of facts and
concretions, and you don't have to
matriculate in sociology to under
stand it. This book explores that
shrouded No Mans Land where
legitimate" business and politics
touch fingertips with dressed-up
villainy, and where the latter
shades on down to the cruder
forms of mayhem, larceny and
homicide.
It eXciteS me a lot. Mr.. Dewey'S
investigators, no doubt, will turn
out a report so big pole vaulter
couldn't hurdle it. But Crime,
Incorporated" diShed up hot with
both authentic fact and idiom,
will keep you up all night. Here
are the main fields of racketeer-
ing as Mr.. Mooney stakes them
out:
Pinban games, policy or num-
ber games, race tracks, CONNER
cialized vice, loan sharks, night
clubs, unions and industrial shake
downs, real estate, hot ice (stolen
diamonds, stocks and bonds,
gambling (dice, cards, lotteries,
etc., produce and other foods,
garages and automobiles, gun
running, counterfeiting and mar
cotics.
Here is a flash on the elaborate
and highly Systematized organi-
zation Of the crime world:
Next in importa ice to the
New Projects Committee ts the
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ing the first eight months Of 1885
totaled 7,116,000 pounds COM
pared with $4,000 pounds i'm
ported during the same period in
1884. Canada and New Zealand
continue as the leading sources
of imports of fresh and frozen
beef, supplying 4,723,000 and g.
$4,000 pounds. respectively"
The tremendous increase in i'm.
ports, according to the depart
ment, was at the time when the
drought made its terrific encroach-
ment on herds in the United
States.
It is also indicated in this state
ment that the United States
S now receiving tremendous
quantities of canned beef from
South America although not so
long ago Chicago packers exported
millions of pounds of that COM
modify.
AS is indicated, in one year i'm
ports of fresh and frozen beef in.
creased almost seven m milli o n
pounds, which may be an indica-
ton that foreign producers are
receiving substantial benefits from
our policies regarding livestock
production.
PORK
Of equal interest to the house
wife will be the statement:
"The downward trend id hog
production which began IN the
fall of 1888 apparently ended in
the spring of 1885, and in 1886 and
1887 Supplies of hogs f o r
slaughter in the present market
ing year, which ends September
80, 1886, however, are expected
to be even smaller than the very
small supplies in the previous
marketing year."
This latter statement is followed
soon thereafter by the admission:
'The rise of more than 100 per
cent between the low price of No.
vember. 1884, and the high prices
reached in the summer of 1885
was relatively the largest advance
on record during a single hog.
marketing year and in actual
amount was only exceeded during
the war year, 1867, when prices
were at a much higher level"
It was during the year of down
ward trend in hog production that
prices scared.
Yet the department announces
that supplies Of hogs for slaughter
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No Foundation in Fact
BH James T. Williams, Jr.

In their insidious assault upon
the American system Of govern
ment the Radicals, in recent
months, have brought against
the Supreme Court Of the United
States allegations that have no
foundation in fact.
Because they are well aware
that the Supreme Court Is in
deed "the keystone Of the arch"
Of the American system the
Radicals think that by discredit-
ing the Court they can shake
loose the keystone. This is their
way of undermining what can
not be directly overthrown."
One of the allegations made by
the Radicals in both Houses of
Congress is against the exercise
by the Court of its constitutional
power to pass upon the validity
of Acts of Congress.
This the Radicals insist makes
of Congress an inferior branch
of the Government and destroys
it's independence as one of the
three coordinate branches.
This charge is not new, as
the Supreme Courts distinguished
historian, Mr.. Charles Warren,
points out in his revised and en-
larged edition of his Illuminating
book on Congress, the Constitu'
ton, and the Supreme Court"
MISUNDERSTANDING
Old as is this allegation against
the Court it is none the less un
founded and Mr.. Warren tell:
why.
1T proceeds" he says, from a
complete misunderstanding OF
fundamental principles Of the
American Constitution. When We
speak Of the three coordinate
branches of the Government, if we
mean by coordinate that the
Congress, the Executive, and the
Judiciary are each complete
governmental body exercising its
own peculiar functions, we ust
the word accurately.
"If on the other hand, we mean
by coordinate that each of the
three branches of the Government
is completely independent OF the
other, and not subject to be at
fected in any way by the other
which appears to be the mean
ing of those who attack the Court
on this score-"then it is entirely
untrue that the Constitution was
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those strong, silent sphinxes,
who seem to be saving their
voices, like a prima donna, and
never speak around the house
except in gruntS.
But many a marriage might be
preserved by the freezing process,
if it could be developed to the
point where husbands could be
frozen and de-frosted-by just
turning a switch!
Copyright. 1888, by KinE Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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FROZEN HUSBANDS

What has become Of that Cali
fornia scientist who claims that
an animal or even a human being
can be frozen stiff for days or
weeks at a time, and then resuS-
citated, just like a cold,storage
egg?
Hasn't he demonstrated his
theory on any Hollywood beauty?
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The Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

} in the present marketing year,
which ends September 80, 1886,
are expected to be even smaller
than the very small supplies Of
the previous marketing year.
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Determined Peace

The tribute which Americans today pay to those who
served in the World War is coupled with determination
that again shall the United States be lured into
sending its sons to foreign battlefields.
The observance of Armistce Day this year finds the
enmities and jeaousies of European nations at peak
They have apparently forgotten or disregarded the
lessons of the war which ended this day in 1918.
Not so the United States.
As the leaders of our country stand at the Tomb
of the UnknOwn Soldier here at Arlington they
realize that they speaking for nation that re-
members all too IUeU hOLU it led into the con-
fIict; hOIU its sons fought and died; and hOW the
idealism which led the nation on lUas promptly
junked IUhen the guns ceased firing.
NEVER AGAIN
This country wants and WILL HAVE PEACE.
Not the peace of the craven but the peace of an hon.
orable nation moving about its concerns seadfast
to its purposes and confident Of its ability to with
stand attack.
THE COURSE OF PEACE WHICH AMERICA PUR-
POSES HEREAFTER TO TRAVEL CANNOT BE
WALKED BY THE DEFENsELEss.
It cannot be followed by the unwary.
For if we are without adequate defense there will be
nations which will attempt to FORCE war upon
And if we are not on the alert there will be nations
which will seek by INTRIGUE to lead US into war.
The present troubled condition of Europe is being used
by some nations as trap within which they would en-
snare the United States
They would have us forsake our policy Of avoiding
entangng alliances and would have pledge partici
patton in the ambitious schemes which fomenting
trouble.
Unfortunately too, there are some among our
ODn citizens whO, nsIed by naOuthings about peace
1UOuId send our country into cOmpGcts Whtch in
the end could mean nothing but IUar.
One excursion into Europes military affairs should be
enough to convince that have nothing to gain but
much to lose through such participation.
THE GRAVES OF ARLINGTON AND OF OTHER
CEMETERIES BOTH HERE AND ABROAD TELL
US TODAY WHAT WE STAND TO LOSE IF WE
YIELD TO THE BEGUILINGs OF EUROPEAN DIP
LoMATs OR TO THE ESTABLISHMENTS OF THOSE
WHO TELL US THAT WE CAN HAVE PEACE WITH
OUT DEFENSIVE ARMAMENTS.
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IMPORTED BEEF

Secretary of Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace's department recently
issued a bulky tome entitled The
Agricultural outlook for 1885,"
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Or are they all Mae VESTS? And
doesn't he know what boon it
would be to the human race, and
especially to wives, if it could be
worked?
For instance, if a husband with
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OLD FAVORITES
In Flanders Fields
John MCCrde

In Flanders Fields John MCCTQe
In Flanders fields the poppes blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark place, and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below
We the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn sunset glow,
Loved and were loved and now lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
edders are nved to send to the editor their Sugges-
tionS of old tavortes among the poems for repnting in
this space
The Washington times., 1935-11-11

MONDAY NOVEMBER IT, 1850
n II Washington
G.. Editor
Dorsey Warfed c.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
NEWS OF M'CABE DISTRICT
Dorothy Paine. Staff CORRESPONDENT

ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Vellquette.
Elwood returned on Sunday, plan
ming to stop at Santa Paula and
spend a few days with friends be-
fore going to Davis.
Albert Steele is another from this
district who has been home with
his parents during vacation from
Davis college. Steele, however. Is
still here, planning not to return
to Davis until Thursday, January
10.
On Friday, January 4, Mis- Dor
othy Paine was the guest of Miss
Marie KnudSen in Ell Centro.
New Years dinner at the j. P,
LaBrucherie home was enjoyed by
the following friends of Miss Ros-
allie. Pete. and Mathew LaBruch-
erie: the Misses Sylvia Etler, Ethel
Dannenburg, Marie Knudsen, and
Allan Yourman of Calexico.
Mrs. John Wagner was a visitor
of Mrs. Nettie Myers and Mrs.
Fred Veliquette on Friday after
noon.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
ALL CREDIT TO THEM

Last week, in urging the cooperation
of all to make the Presidents ball sue
cess, this column stated charity knows
no creed, no racial barriers, no political
divisions, and it is the greatest of the
virtues
How true that is was brought forcibly to
our attention by an incident yesterday.
Two Mohammedan ranchers of the val
ley came to The Press office, and pre-
sented $30.25 to this publication, with
the request that it be turned over to any
charitable organization selected by this
paper, as donation from the Moslem
Association of Imperial Valley.
The visitors explained that the month
of Ramadan, in the Mohammedan calen-
dar, devoted to fasting and prayer, has
just been concluded. Donations were
given during the month by members of
the organization as their means afford
ed. None of them is rich and the ma
jority of the 60-odd members in the or
ganization are men of slim purses. The
money, in bills and small coins, was tied
up in a handkerchief carried by one of
the visitors.
As a result of the charitableness of
the Moslems, made possible by their in
dividual sacrifices, the Hpass Health
camp fund will be increased by the
amount of their donation, that disposi-
tion of the money being agreeable to The
Press and to the visitors.
Neither of these, incidentally, would
permit his name to be used in any ac-
knowledgement of the donation. "If
something must be said" the spokesman
declared, mention the organization but
no individual. We wish no personal pub
licity regarding the affair. If nothing
is said about it, we don't mind
The money will be used in the care of
Christian children. This fact, called to
the attention of the Moslem gentlemen,
brought smiles and the statement, "What
does it matter? If we can help anyone,
that is sufficient"
Before any such manifestation of true
charity any racial or religious barriers
are dissolved. The Press is not only
happy to record the splendid act of the
Mohammedan Association of Imperial
Valley, it feels justly proud in being
chosen by that organization to act as the
repository for its money pending pay
ment to the selected charity
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
UNCLE WIGGILY DRIVES
A NAIL

All of sudden Uncle Wiggily
hoped out of the easy chair
where he was reading the paper.
" What s that2" the rabbit gen
tleman asked his wife, who was
mending holes in some of the bum
ny children IS stockings.
"Wfat's what?' Mrs. Longears
wanted to know.
"That knocking at the kitchen
door, said Uncle Wiggily II
heard a pounding or knocking noise,
I hope it isn't any of the Bad
Chaps trying to get in"
Nonsensel laughed the rab-
bit lady. "You think too much
about the Bad Chaps
"Well, they think too much
about me- said Uncle Wiggily.
"But what was that knocking
noise. my dear?"
Just Nurse Jane driving a
nail" said Mrs. Longears. 'You
know Santa Claus brought Nurse
Jane lovely picture of cabbages,
turnipS and lettuce for Christmas.
Our inuskrat lady housekeeper
wants to hang the picture in her
kitchen, 50 she is driving nail in
the wall to hang the picture on. -
Nurse Jane Cries
Just then, all of a sudden. the
pounding noise was heard again
and also another sound It was
Nurse Jane crying:
"Ouchl Ouchie! Bouchie >
"What happened" asked Uncle
Wiggily, running out to the kitch-
en-.
He saw Nurse Jane dancing
around on one leg, her long tail
tied in a knot. and Miss Fuzzy
Wuzzy was holding one paw in her
mouth. On the floor was the ham
mer and a nail.
What's the matter, Janie?"
asked the rabbit gentleman.
"Oh, I hit my paw instead Of
hitting the nail on the head" said
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS

struetlve instruction aside from their
school work, is as important as doing
the same thing for boys Much atten-
ton is given to the needs of the boys.
and rightly so, but the girls, particularly
IN our isolated community, are equally
entitled to consideration
The Camp Fire Girls organization
provides girls of growing years with the
means for finding carefully supervised
recreation, instills in them the sound
principles of democracy by placing all
members on an equal footing, teaches
them self-reliance and self-confidence.
1t does not create ''tom-boys;" neither
does it produce what might be termed
"sissies" for want of better word.
Training in the Camp Fire Girls or
ganiZation seeks to produce that finest
of al creative works, wholesome girls
who are adequately trained and prepared
to face the battles of life; stressing the
high desirability of that modesty which
the world expects to find in women and
yet recognizing the fact that careful and
competent instruction is to be preferred
to ignorance dictated by prudishness.
The Camp Fire Girls organization
merits the fullest cooperation and sup
port of this community. The women who
are unselfishly giving their time to lead
ership in this fine work are making
splendid contribution to making the fu-
ture womanhood of Imperial Valley all
that we hope and expect it to be.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
BED time STORIES
BY howard T. GARRIS
tCopyHghL 1884 by Mcclure Newspaper syndioateI

Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy. "Ouch, it
hurtSi' "a
Oh, Wiggy! Why didn't you
put that nail in the wall for Nurse
Jane?" asked Mrs. LongearS.
'eThen she wouldn' It have hurt her
paw
'fShe never asked me to drive
the nail said the bunny gentle
man.
81 thought you were busy or were
going adventuring," said the musk
rat lady, still sucking her paw.
"Oh, I have time to drive the
nail so you can hang up your
Christmas picture. - said Mr.. Long
ears. kind like and considerate.
"Then please do,'' said Mrs.
Longears. "Nurse Jane and I
want to go shopping You drive
Imperial Valley press., 1935-01-08
A TRIBUTE

We believe few residents of this COM
munity will find fault with us for paying
well-deserved tribute to one who today
finds himself private citizen, after
spending almost a quarter of a century
in the service of this county
We refer to Judge |. Mayfield, pioneer
justice of the peace, who relinquished
that office yesterday
Throughout the long period of his SER
vice, Judge Mayfield made an enviable
record for devotion to duty and integri-
ty. At times those having relations with
his office may have disagreed with his
decisions, yet none could ever challenge
his sincerity or disinterestedness in Civ
ing them. They were always predicated
on what he believed the law dictated to
him.
BY the will of the people, Judge May
field has given up his office. 1t was the
same will of the people which put him
there, and it is their right to say that he
shall serve no longer. In accepting their
decision graciously and without rancor,
he only adds to the respect which the
citizens of this community have for him.
We feel certain his fellow-eitizens have
the fullest good wishes for his future in
whatever capacity he may decide to en-
gage