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Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07

WAsHINGTON.-Unlike AAA and NRA the
Guffey Coal Act probably Will be killed by the
u. S. Supreme Court before the country has a
chance to learn how it would work
The court has paralyzed enforcement of the
act in advance AS the tribunal is constituted,
practically everyone is convinced, it won't stand
for much of that ambitious plan for rehaolhta-
ton and sterilization of the coal industry.
Encouraged by fate of other New Deal legis-
lation coal operators-among them Andrew Mel
lon and his intereSts-have obtained injunctions
in federal district courts relieving them from
penalties provided for failure to go in under the
coal code provided by the act.
Minimum price fixing based on costs, is the
backbone of the whole scheme. And the National
Bituminous Coal Commission hasn't been able
to fix prices, knowing that the act would break
down at once when the operators protected by
injunctions cut their prices below those fixed
No one saw any point in going before the
court with such mess on public view.
That's why it's so likely the Guffey Act will
never have a tryout.
Some lawyers think only parts of the act
will be tossed out by the court Others say that
if the majority line Of reasoning in railroad
cases is followed, the act will survive intact.
They doubt. however. that the present maj
GRITTY will follow precedent.
The old supreme court room in the Capitol
is being kept open and unchanged a shrine for
visitors to look at
Prior to 1859. when the court took it over
it was used as the Senate chamber. Some of the
greatest debates of the WebStr Clay Calhoun
period echoed through its confines and
it's this early history, rather than the courts
occupancy, which is given as the reason for its
preservation as something extra-special.
half-forgotten incident of recent senator
ial history has been recalled here in trying to
explain why Senator James P. Pope of Idaho
tried to break up the munitions investigation
committee. 1t was Senator Pope who, with Sen
ator George of Georgia, walked out on the COM
mittee and threatened to resign as a protest
against conduct of the inquiry.
You may remember that Senator Pope went
abroad last year and sounded off so sensationally
as to European politics and European American
relations that Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin
introduced a resolution of censure. The resolu-
ton was buried but among those who voted for
consideration Of it was Chairman Nye of the
munitions committee.
Nyes vote is said to have ranked with
Pope, all the more because he had bowed to
Nye on the matter of the committe chairman
ship to which Pop was technically entitled. When
Nye voiced his famous charge that Woodrow
Wilson had "falsified, Pope was one of the
many eager to leap upon the North Dakotan
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
THE POWER
OF EXAMPLE

In a recent issue of this newspaper
appeared the report of an attempted
uprising at Alcatraz prison in San Fran
cisco bay, and in another issue, more re-
cent, was a picture of the interior of the
cell in which lived Richard Loeb. MUIR
derer now murdered. There is a striking
contrast between the two types of penal
treatment which each represents Loeb,
a llfe-timer was allowed the privileges
even to the point of an office and canary
birds in his cellroom. His prison, it is
save to assume, was about average. On
the other hand Alcatraz is the modern
Devils island in that it represents the
firmest modern-day form of criminal
treatment. Alcatraz contains only such
incorrigible criminals as have not be-
haved themselves elsewhere, and Uncle
Sam, always having a way of getting
what he goes after, has intended that
there shall be no relaxing of the method
ical and strict rules governing her Al
institution. There was no opportunity in
AlcatraZ for prisoners to make a break.
All that the uprising consisted of was
prisoners stamping feet and dropping
their tools in sulky mutiny against the
prisons firmness. They wanted loose
system of prison operation such as many
other wardenS have been bluffed into
living But not so Alcatraz In short or
der, the "hard boiled" inmates were NOV
ing docilely about their jobs. Leaders
are on bread and water in solitary con-
finement. Through the underground tel
egraph system of crimes "grapevines"
the word spreads that no prisoner in
any federal penitentiary should make
any false moves if he wants to keep out
of Alcatraz 1t is having a very benefit
cial effect. BY power of example, Al
catraz will do more to stop crime than
a thousand special officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
No. 1904

No. 1904
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing APP
plicatiOn for Letters Testamentary.
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, In and for the
County of Imperial.
In the Matter of the Estate of
EDWARD EVERETT FORREST
Err, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a pc
tition for the probate of the will of
EDWARD EVERETT FORESTER,
deceased, and for the issuance Of let
tiers teStamentary, has been filed i'll
this court, and that Friday, the 2lst
day of February, 1896, at 200 o'clock
P. M, of said day, at the courtroom
of said court, at the Court House in
the City of Ell Centre, County of
Imperial, State of California, has
been set for the hearing of said pc
tition, when and where any person
interested may appear and contest
the same, and show cause, if any
they have, why said petition should
not be granted.
Dated February 5th, 1896.
EDWARD H. LAW,
Clerk
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy Clerk
(P6-17 inc)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-Thoughts
while strolling: Ed Hatrick always
looks as slick and successful as the
Blue Train. Never saw pipe Smok-
er hurrying. Beautiful lady: Mary
Roberts Rinehart. Top in over-Ni-
agara mustaches-Konrad Bercovi-
els. Funny word: Thwart. The
new N. B. c. chief, Lohr. is an Albert
Lasker protege.
So the Lindbergh exile has been a
Roman holiday for the British press
to hoot our criminal catchingl How
about their Jack the Ripper? Al
ways feel like tearing into one Of
those big pretzels on a stick Two
years ago in this column: "Blunder
radio overlooking Frank Fay.
Look alikes: Valentine Williams
and Charlie Falls. Nobody can look
so twittery as Queenie Smith. Or so
complacent as Max Gordon. What
giddyap in Glen McCarthy's voice
Renaissance note: The dressy Mrs
Harrison Williams in black sealskin.
When wider winged collars are
made, Tony Biddle will wear them.
Wilder Lane has a made order
name for her rural essays. Study in
perpetual motion: Bob Reud. Crack
after-dinner speech by H. G.. Wells:
Hollywood leaves me speeches."
And sat down.
TableauX: Broadway crowd NOV
ing sheepishly off when a Salvation
lassie passes the tambourine. King
pin of the snappy muffler wearers:
Osbood perkins. Memory: High
whale boned lace collars. Window
book display of Loves Essentials"
A hunk of moonlight and my either
are all I need
Now and then 1 drop around to
| see Dave Levy. He's the affable
manager of a flashy Broadway hab-
erdaShery and most of bis years have
been on that street. He was one of
the regulars at the old Palace Sum
day nights. Brushing disilluSion-
mentS of flagitouS rue so long one
might expect a cynical viewpoint.
He has seen what looks real gold
turn to brass with a few rubS but
his own faith is untarnished. He be-
lieves that if one really looks for
what his friend Damron Runyon
calls the real guys one finds them.
90
The amazing success of the round
and around song again convinces
Tin Pan Alley that the trick tune
with looney lyrics is the real money
maker And an overnight ride to
today fame. Yes, We Have No
Bananas!"-the famous Tad line
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07

that day. Perhaps the people
thought that he was having a
comfortable time up in the palace in
the midst of the famine yet he was
suffering all the time.
There is a good deal Of hidden
sackcloth around us. We pass peo-
pie on the street and they seem
happy, but if we could stop some OF
them and open the concealing gar
ment. we should find sackcloth be-
meath. Probably you would not have
to leave your street or block to find
instances of silent heroism. People
put up brave front, they carry on
Wnen things are desperately bad,
and they do not whine.
These wearers of sackcloth are
frequently those who present a
smooth exterior They are we'll
dressed, apparently prosperous, and
their faces give no sign. But behind
the mask there are the ashes of a
dead love, bitter disappointment,
or terrible ache.
In this state there is a man who
has been blind since childhood. He
was poor, but he won university
diploma, has supported himself by
his music and is now practicing law
He has talk which he is often
asked to give, in which he describes
the thoughts, feelings and make
shifts of blind person. 1t is of in
tense interest. He calls it, Behind
the Veil of Darkness. He never
complains or asks for special treat
ment because Of his affliction. Those
who know him sense the presence,
behind the veil of darkness, of a
very brave spirit.
When we see how some others
stand up to life and take the bitter
with the sweet, it helps us to hide
our sackcloth. Most of us think We
have to wear at least a little of il
now and then.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
Other Editors Say
WHERE WASTE LIVES
From The San Diego Union)

YOU NEED influence to get your job. You
need influence to keep it, And if you don't pull
your weight politically you're out like light.
A public servant with almost 20 years on
a state payroll thus up his experience.
He is not completely pessimistic as to the future
of public service, for he has found many men
who struggled and still struggling to combat
tire handicap of patronage. But in telling this
familiar story he reveals why reform movements
and taxpayers strikes and organized drives TO
instin business methods into government rarely
last until the ink is dry on the election returns
The civil service system was designed to cor
rect all this, yet every California who has fol-
lowed reorganizations under the current admin
ist-atlon has seen how patronage rides over the
civil service barriers.
As this witness and many others testify, the
man who accepts place on the public payroll
is taught from the day he goes to work that he
is accepting favor-and is expected to return
it on demand not only to the man who got him
his job but to all that mans friends and in ad
dition 10 everybody who happens to belong OF
the same party. And with his mind and time
fully occupied with playing politics year
or, on occasion. three or four times year, he is
expected to make the taxpayers dollar do the
work of two--or three or four Every worthy"
cause expects him to shell out in the sweet
name of charity. Every time-killing friend and
acquaintance claims his full attention demand.
And in spite of it all most of us can point to
consplcuousy efficient individuals who have
served in public offices all their lives.
But the net effect of all this is waste of time
and money and the reputation fpublic service
That waste be ended in only one way by
scrappng the whole favor system, realizing that
the politician who gets a job for friend is dip
ping his right into the publc's pockets.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
L O O K n g
B a c k W a r d
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
20 YEARS AGO
February Z. 1916

Argyle McLachlan who has spent
the last few weeks in Victoria, Texas
has returned to his ranch headquar
tiers near CaleXico.
Clifford Coggins and j. F. Sey-
more, Jr. will represent the valley
at the waterways convention at Sar
Francisco, working for recognition
of the Colorado as one of the
streams to receive federal attention
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE BARBARA WORTH
COUNTRY CLUB

Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting of the members OF the
Barbara Worth Country Club, will
be held at the Club House on Mon
day, the 10th day of February, 1886,
eight o'clock p. m. of said day, for
the purpose OF electing officers ard
for the transaction Of such other
business as may properly come be-
fore the meeting.
All members are requested to be
present as matters Of Importance
VIII be discussed.
JUDGE r. D. McPHERRIN,
President.
A. H. KELLER,
Feb. 7-8-9-19) Secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07

Once upon a time there was an an
cient king whose city was besieged
and the people reduced to starva-
ton The king, walking through the
streets, came upon a woman who
had sacrificed her child for food
during the famine, and, in his agony
over the sight, tore open his robe,
disclosing sackcloth that he was
wearing next the flesh. The sack
cloth was the sign of his grief over
the sufferings of his people No one
knew he was wearing it until
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

No. $3.50
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
In the Matter of the Estate of
FRANK E. McCLELLAND,
Deceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Annie McClelland, the duly
appointed, qualified and acting adj
ministratriX of the estate of Frank
E. McClelland, deceased. will on or
after the 18th day of February,
1896, sell at private sale, to the
highest and best bidder for cash,
at the law office of c. L. Brown,
in Room 219, second floor Of Bank
of America Building, located at the
northwest corner of Sixth and
Main Streets, in the City of Ell
Centre, County of Imperial, State
of California, the following de-
scribed real property belonging to
the said estate:
Tract Forty-five (45 in Town
ship II South, Range 16 East,
S.B.M., together with all rights
and appurtenances thereto APP
pertaining.
Bids will be received by the said
administrative at said Room 219,
Bank of America Building, for the
said property up to and including
the 18th day Of February. 1886.
DATED: February Bird, 1885.
ANNIE McCLELLAND,
Administrative of the Estate
of Frank E. McClelland.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
Is YEARS AGO
February I. 1921

Spade Burns, motor cyclist, who,
endeaVored to establish a record
run between Ell Centre and San
Diego, failed to beat the record of
Roy Artley, which is two hours and
40 minutes, and returned to this city
last night with a sprained ankle.
Burns cycle collided with a Ford
car on Mountain Springs grade
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
10 YEARS AGO
February Z IQo6

BY defeating the Standard Oil
team at Imperial yesterday the r.
rigation District baseball team
clinched the pennant in the I'M
peria Valley winter league, Nor
risette and Wakefield worked for
the Standard Oil Will. Sierk and
Horton performed for the district.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
FAUSTINO DAVILA
HELD TO ANSWER

Faustino Davila, charged with I'M
lawful possession and unlawful sale
of Indian hemp, was held to an
sWer in superior court when he was
brought before Judge j. E. Simpson
in Ell Centre justice court Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07

named a committee pledged to pick
an "unfettered unhampered ma
tional delegation free to work Ior
the best interests of the country
and the party"
Appointment of the committee
was described as "a statewide
move to britg about complete
harmony in Republican ranks lor
the presidential campaigning.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07


song writing such fascinating fal-
bala for so many is that such Tor
tunate composers are almost lnVar-
iably recruited from ranks OF the
unknown.
There was a time when I used 10
knock around with the tune max
ers. And the lyricists. Not since
have I run across more agreeable
companions. Two are gone-Grant
Clarke and Ballard Macdonald.
Some of the swiftest banter ever
heard was Clarke's. Many gags at
tributed to his intimate. Wilson
Miner, were his. Macdonald lacked
the trigger touch in talk but could
write the most amusing letters one
could possibly receive. I never met
gloomy song writer. They are us
ually bubbly with conviction the
tune they are composing is a smash.
And Walter Pater once wrote: ITO
live on the edge of high hope in only
imagined expectancy is about as
near heaven as we get in this con-
sciouSnesS.'
For a time, too, I did a bit of
gong clapping for a music publish
ing house and spent an hour or so
a day in the try-out rooms of those
made-over brown stones. Perhaps
a dozen pianos would be humping
away in the stall-like spaces, a
jangle that would drive most folks
mad Harry Won Tilzer had just
been eclipsed by Irving Berlin as
king Of the popular song, and love-
able Charles K. Harris, was still
venerated for giving the nation his
After the Ball" The song plug
gers, too, were a rare study in high
pressure enthusiasm and adept il
exploiting the newest slang of the
day.
Just as everybody some day trie;
to write a novel, SO is the writing
of a song inevitable. My effort triec
to halo the Ohio river with the same
Sentimentality that Paul Dresser
achieved with the banks of the Wa.
bash. And just about then "Tht
Beautiful Ohio" waltz came out anC
made a sucker out of me again.
My diSrespectful taxi driver, pass.
ing an extravagant waist-deep Sc
Of whiskers on East 59th street, re.
vealed his midwest origin. Will
thumb-jerk toward the foliage
he turned and observed: The max
ings are there, buddy, for a swell
meadow lark pie
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
Answers to Foregoing Questions

/. The old Ottoman empire.
Nicholas I, Gar of Russia, origin
ally applied the term to the Tur-
kish sultan.
2. Lace. and its manufacture.
8. The interrogation of the light
of the sun by the intervention of
the moon between it and the
earth.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
GRAB BAG

What was meant by the express
sion, THE Sick Man of Europe?
With what product are all these
names chiefly associated: Valen-
ciennes, Cluny, Chantilly, Mechlin?
What causes an eclipse of the
sun?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
Republican Chief
Names Committee

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7. UR)
Earl Warren, chairman of the
California State Central committee
of the Republican party, tonight
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07

Hereafter, if anyone disapproves of
the statement that farmers will not be
paid for not planting crops, it will be
only because Of the double negative
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07

Persons born on this day like to
engage in great undertakings, but
somehow the results are not big
enough for their desires or eXpec-
tations.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
Famous Sayings

I remember that wise friend of mime did usually
say, That which is everybodys business is nobody's
business. ,-Izaak Walton.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07

Theft of 158 bathtubs in Chicago is
perhaps the first instance of the under
world beating the police to a cleanup.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
Words of Wisdom
Totiay's Horoscope

Thought once awakened does not
again slumber.-Carlyle.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
Correctly Speakine-

The relative pronoun which
should not be used referring to a
whole statement if that statement
contains nouns to which the pro-
noun may be enormously referred.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
The Peoples Voice

Letters should be limited to $50 words
on problems rather than personalities No
letter will be published unless the name of the
writer is known to the editor
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
Everyday Philosophy
By THE REV. IRVING T. RAAB
Pastor, First Presbyterian Church

leaders modern thought Each week in this
the Ell Centre Ministerial Alliance will present
which know will interesting to readerEd Note
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07

Famous last words: Looks like rain,
Ell, Duce?"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07

made a huge fortune as did The
Last Round Up And what makes
song writing such fascinating tal-
bala for so many is that such for
tunate composers are almost invar-
iably recruited from ranks OF the
unknown.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07

Emperor Selassie's ambition is to
wear blue serge suit" Isn't there one
available, since the umpire over there
switched to the straitjacket?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
News Behind the News

Death Before Life For GHffey Coal
Act =. Supreme Court Acts Before
hand More IRjHnctiOHS :.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-07
DISTURBING DISCLOSURE
Bakersfield Californian

The public will be disturbed and, doubtless
so will the administration at Washington over
the revelations following an Investigation of the
administration of SERA in California during the
past year. Scrutiny of the payrolls discloses that
OF 10 relief executives 20 were receiving from $40
to SIPS a week; II were paid from $50 to SO pr
week and eight received from $50 to s57 Every
high salaried member of the vast force employed
by the government to care for the relief work
in this state had a boost in wages in March, the
increase being anywhere from SIPS to $40 per
week. And unbelievably, despite the already high
salaries that were being paid, the average in
crease to these administration officials was 1854
a week. In most instances no greater response
billtles were placed upon the beneficiaries and
there was no additional work to justify the
larger compensation; the money was just SHOW
eled out to them at the dictum of some patron
age agency. And so it was that dollars that
should have gone to aid the unemployed dropped
into the pockets Of administrators.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-27
BUSINESS PREPARES
To BATTLE new TAX
Opposition Centers on
Profit Tax Proposal.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 27-Or-
gained business and the New Deal
were at odds again today over Presi-
dent Roosevelt's S799, 100000 budget
balancing tax program.
Prompted by a Republican call
for pressure on Congress for re-
vision. representatives of organized
business assembled data for open
hearings starting Monday before
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee.
Opposition was conferred upon the
corporate tax revision intended to
tap corporation SURPRISES for ma
jor portion of new revenue to fin
ance the farm program and bonus
payments. Farm organizations also
may oppose the tax bill.
House Democratic leaders pre-
dicted that despite the expected
opposition a bill would be drafted
along lines recommended by the tax
subcommittee and that it would go
through the House without change.
AS tentatively drawn the bill calls
for tax on undisturbed corporate
earnings and a 'windfall' tax on
uncollected processing taxes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-27
CHILDREN'S CAMPS
TO Be OPEN JUNE IS
Sub Marginal Land to Be
Used in Ventures.

Two camps for underprivileged,
undernourished children and one
camp for All Club groups located
on sub-marginal ground are to be
opened June Is, Paul Brown, Ma
tional Park Service regional direc-
tor, announced today.
The All Club camp and one for
underprivileged children are to be
on the 5500-acre project near YER
sailles, and the other camp is to be
on government property near Win
amaze. Mr.. Brown said.
The Versailles project calls for an
expenditure of 1925 900 and 90
Works Progress Administrator
workers, and the Winamac project
calls for $4,000 for development
and $4,000 for purchase of the
land and 400 to 600 WPA workers.