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Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
GOVERNMENT SPENDING,
WAGE BOOSTS AND INITIATION

Three items in the news are interest
inc when taken one with the other.
The federal administration promises
a graduating decrease in government eX-
penditures.
Steel corporations and other great
companies have increased wages to the
highest levels in history, but predict
corresponding increases in steel product
prices.
Roger Babson, noted economist, pre-
diets initiation IF government spend
ing is not curbed.
An ANALYSIS of the news fails to bring
out any disturbing points. The admin
istration will be helped in its announced
proram by the very fact that workers OF
the nation are receiving higher wages,
and that more of them are being en-
ployed. Federal expenditures will not
be so necessary Babson's fear of IN
flation was based on the eff, which
logically should be removed.
Chief reason for the wage increases,
which total many millions of dollars, IS
the corporate rush to avoid heavy tax
penalties on undivided surplus under
the recently enacted revenue law. The
same reason will tend to hold prices
lower, in ratio, than wages. Wage IN
creases will not be wholly offset by price
increases, condition which might tend
toward initiation.
The increased buying power repre-
sented in the wage increases will do
much to speed up consumption, and so
speed up production. Greater produc-
tion employs more men.
1t is not only the government that is
spending-and therein lies the most en-
couraging news of many months.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
A FRUIT TRAMP
VIEWS UNION LABOR

mo there amt going TO be no lettuce
strike in Imperial Valley this year"
Nonchalant under couple of faded
blue shirts and soiled tan jacket, the
speaker was in deadly earnest. Sharp
blue eyes flared wide open for minute
"We got beat too bad in Salinas" he
stated
He was not talking to a stranger, but
to a man who was sub-edltor on
newspaper where he was an office boy
ten years ago. His words carried con-
viction, Just as they carried conviction
ten wears ago when he announced that
gentleman was waiting outside who look
ed as if he might be pretty angry about
something. The only difference was that
now he is a fruit tramp; then he was an
office boy.
Why did they get beat in Salinas?
Well, it was matter of the difference
in unions. If it were craft union, now,
it would be different. You take the
printers union. 1t takes quite few
years to get to be a printer. You can't
learn the job in one day. That is why
YOU can't go out on the street and pick
up somebody to fill printers job if he
quits.
1t is not that way in the fruit business.
Sure, there IS certain amount OF SIKH
in trimming and packing-but it doesn't
take five or six years to learn it. You
can take almost any faI mer from the
middle west, and in a few hours teach
him to do a passable job of trimming
and packing. And there are lots of
people looking for work. A lot of them
do not care whether they belong to the
union or not
1t would cause you quite bit of
trouble, you see, to replace a skilled crew
but you can fill your lettuce sheds with
laborers in a few hours, whether the
union says so or not.
Why did the Salinas strike last so
long?
Well, there's San Francisco right close
by. It's pretty strong union town, and
the boys got lot of help. They know
they couldn't get it in Imperial Valley
no chance. Sure, they planned originally
to strike in the valley this winter. Only,
II ruined all that when they got beat in
Salinas.
Well" he said, glad | saw you.
Gotta be gittin on"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
CERTIFICATE OF BUSINESS
Fictitious Firm Name


The undersigned do hereby certi-
fy that they are conducting a
plumbing business at Ell Centro,
California, under the fictitious firm
name of Fite- -Manley Plumbing
Company and that said firm is COM
posed of the following persons,
whose names and addresses are as
follows, to wit:
Ben Crosse Fife, 653 Brighton Ave.
Ell Centre, California.
Forrest Wilson Manley, 1905 Len
Rey Ave, Eel Centro, California.
Witness our hands this 7th day
of November. 1886.
BEN CROSE FITE
FORREST WILSON MANLEY
State of California;
)ss.
County of Imperial)
On this 7th day of November, A
D., 1886, before me, j. Henderson
a Notary Public in and for said
County and State, personally ap-
peared Ben Crose Fite and Forrest
Wilson Manley, known to me, to be
the persons whose names are SUBJ
scribed to the within Instrument
and acknowledged to me that they
executed the same.
In Witness Whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in
this certificate first above written
j. HENDERSON,
Notary Public in and for said Coun-
ty and State (N9-16-23- 800
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
THE BUENOS AIRES
PEACE CONFERENCE

Nations of the peaceful half of the
globe, the Western Hemisphere, will
send delegates to Buenos Aires in South
America Dec l for the Pan-American
Peace Conference, climax of century
of diplomacy aimed at keeping peace
on our side of the world. 1t is quite
fitting that President Roosevelt should
plan to attend.
War, as it is known in the other hem-
isphere. has not been the lot of the Pan
American countries. The Bolivian war
of two years ago was the nearest ap-
proach. Otherwise, good will has been
the byword of the nations-a good will
exemplified in the relations between the
United States and Canada and the Unit
ed States and Mexico. Any step to per-
petuate this feeling is one which is its
own Justification.
1t NAV be too much to hope that the
Old World will take to heart the ex-
ample set by the nations on this side
of the globe, but it is not too much to
hope that the western nations will con-
tinue always to march toward the un-
derstanding which makes border for
tifications unnecessary.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
Other Editors Say
ANOTHER ROOSEVELT RECORD
(The Phoenix Gazette)

There is one feature of the recent general
election that many will overlook Heretofore
there has been a strong disposition on the part
of the electorate to vote against someone 1t
seems to be an innate trait of many voters
that they get more satisfaction out of voting
against" man or issue.
When the Roosevelt ticket was swept into
office by the great landslide of 1892, millions
went to the polls not to vote for Roosevelt but
10 scratch" Hoover. 1t was a negative elec-
ton through and through.
Probably never before has there been an
affirmative" turnout such as the one of last
Tuesday. Here was an opportunity for the
electorate, always so eager to vote against
a candidate, TO scratch" to its hearts content.
There were many excuses advanced by
the Republicans for negative" vote this time.
None of them would take" it seems and,
strange to record, the negative" vote Of 1882
seems to have turned into affirmative"
expression probably never equalled in the coun-
try's history.
by hundreds Of thousands of first-tine voters
owed debt Of gratitude to the man in the
White House News columns were filled with
stories of aged persons, some Of them bed
ridden marking a ballot for the first time.
They never had been inspired, during a long
lifetime TO put in vote FOR anyone. There
were hundreds of thousands of young men and
women first-tine voters, who were spurred by
a civic duty TO mark an affirmative vote
Roosevelt undoubtedly was elected the first
time by negative" vote, but no one was
kept in office by more remarkable "affirma-
tive" demonstration the part of the elec-
torate ann4ksakAx
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
News Behind the News
Wisdom Behind Whiskers No
Political Parties Left The C0ui-
try Through With Labels

WASHINGTON Senator James Hamilton
Lewis of Illinois. whose celebrated pink whiskerS
will be white if he doesn't do something
about them, is one of the wiser old birds in
American politics
After extended travel about the country and
in his own state of Illinois, the senator gave
voice 10 what many other politicians have been
thinking, follows:
There are no political parties in America The
country is done with labels
There are political organizations, organiza
tions in behalf of candidates. But the people
are not influenced by political programs and
will vote according to the personal principles
enunciated by the candidates.
"AI of the talk of the country, its welfare
and Constitution is interesting to intelectualS but
to the ordinary citizen the question is which of
the doctrines preached by the president of the
United States and the governors of states best
serves his business and the personal interests of
his family.
we have entered a new era. The liberal will
60 in one direction with other liberals. The con-
servative will join the conservatives of his
neighborhood.
"Whoever is elected president will find a new
political alignment neither Democratic nor Re-
publican party, but economic and financial
everything on business basis and not political
abstracts"
Few who paid any attention to the campaign
will dispute jim Ham,
Already the insiders in the administration
asking one another who will be the crown
prince"
They figured all along that if Roosevelt were
reelected he would be in position to name a
candidates to succeed him in 1910, whereas in
case he were not elected he would either seek
the presidency four years hence or else be in
position to exert great influence toward nomin-
alton.
Whether there will be three important parties
in the field in 1910 whether the contest will
be confined to a conservative Republican party
and liberalzed Democratic party is good for
an evenings argument In Washington any old
time.
There are those who feel that the most i'm
portant progressive politicians and labor leaders
are too individualistic to stand together for new
parry.
but recently the two men who have seemed to
command the most 1910 support among those
around Roosevelt have been Secretary of Agri-
culture Henry Wallace and Senator Robert M.
La Toilette of Wisconsin.
OF course the old-line Democratic politicians
are for the most part thinking in other directions.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
INBREEDING IN
CATTLE HERDS
EXPERIMENTED
BY Ed HOLDEN

After eighteen years of inbreed-
ing in the Jersey cattle herd owned
by tn University Of California
College of Agriculture on the Da-
Wis campus; thirty-six of the bulls
resulting from this experiment
have been tried by dairymen III
the state. Twenty-three breeders
have borrowed bulls in the last
ten years to improve their herds.
The experiment, started by Prof
w. M. Regan and S. w. Mead OF
the animal husbandry division in
New Jersey, and moved to Cali
fornia when they Joined the staff
of the University of California,
is believed to have definitely fixed
production in the members of the
herd.
The bulls are moved from ranch
TO ranch, according to a program
made out years in advance, so that
eventually each bull will be bred
back to his own daughters, with
the result that the bulls are proved
not only for the transmission of
production factors and under a
variety or herd conditions, but al
so for hereditary defects.
In every instance, according to
Mead, the daughters of the bulls
have shown increases in production
over that of the dams, these in
creases in milk running from 104
pounds a year to 1,614 with an
average Of 889 pounds; increase
in butterfat has ranged from 43
pounds to 103 with an average OF
81 pounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO ASSESSMENT
TAX PAYERS
Imperial Irrigation District Asses

Imperial ITTiSdtlOn DlStTlcL fhSSeS-
ment For 1886 Now Due
OFFICE OF ASSESSOR AND
COLLECTOR OF PERIAL
IRRIGATION DISTRICT.
November /, 1886
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that have received the assess
ment books for the year 1886 and
that the assessment for that year
is now due and payable. The di-
rectors of the Imperial Irrigation
District have determined by resol-
ution that the said assessment
shall be payable in two INSTALL
mentS.
Pursuant to law and the said
resolution the said assessment le-
We'd within the said District is
due and payable on the first day
Of November, 1896. The first in
stallment thereof (one-half of said
asseSsmenD will become delinquent
at six (6:00 o'clock p. m, on the
last Monday in December, 1886
and unless paid prior to that time,
ten Q0@6) per cent will be added
thereto. The second installment
of said assessment (the remaining
one-half of the entire assessment
will become delinquent at six
(6:00 o'clock p. m, on the last
Monday in June. 1887, and unless
paid prior to that time, five go
per cent will be added thereto.
Said assessment will be received
at the office of the Assessor and
Collector of the said Imperial r.
rigation District located at l43
South Sixth street Masonic Tenn
pie Building) in the City of Ell
Centre, County of Imperial, State
of California, every day from the
date of this notice (holidays ex-
cepted) during legal business hours
WINNIE BARRY,
Assessor and Collector
| IN. 2-9-16 c)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
and lovely Phyllis Haver.


Prophecy: Early in May, 1918, at
a dinner at Roland Conklin'S IN
West Neck, L. l., arose discussion
over coffee cups among the 10
guests as to the duration of the
World war. 1t. was arranged for
each to write on slip the date OF the
wars finish-no ION or about" but
the exact day. Each put up $5
bill, the one coming nearest to take
the pot. The prophecies were then
read out and cached into a safe.
They ran from several months TO
four years-all except one, and 1t
winnowed a hearty round of laugh
ter. This was written by William
F'aversham, the actor. On his slip
was: November 11th, 1918" 1t
was a flash that came out of no
where as he picked up mis- pencil.
Thingumabobs: Jimmy Walker,
returned to law, is reputed to have
received some of the fattest re-
tainers of the year :. Duke Elling-
ton has the most luXuriously out
fitted apartment on Harlem's Sugar
Hill Natacha Rambova is re-
turning from War-torn Majorca to
try her luck with New York gown
shop again John Drinkwater,
English poet, has one meal Of fresh
oysters every season and goes to
bed for "a hours with the miseries
And it was Gene Crawley who,
stopping a staggering little snig-
glefritz in the Sutton Place area
the other mid-morning, inquired
why the shaver wasn't in school
Hell" was the reply, Il amt but
four"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
Deadeye Dick among rat sluggers.


On the lower East Side is type
known as the Delaney Street Dude.
Delaney is the Ghettos 5th avenue
the opulent boulevard of the
promenade. The D. S. D. is the
1896 Shiek-the oily-haired lad with
hucklety-buck clothes whose patron
Brummel is George Raft. He spends
much time and money in the barber
shops to be Tossed up for conquests
for he is definitely ION the make"
The venerable, bewhiskered patri-
archs with calm m-as-custard express
Sions sit in hall chairs gazing upon
this strange new upshoot of their
race with old world astonishment.
AS though intoning: Your ways are
not my ways, etc"
Personal nomination for an artist
who has out distancet all the i'm
personators-Sheila Bareett.
Central Park West from Colum-
bus Circle to West 72d street in it's
pavement paradeS reveals many
notables who live in the area. Jack
Dempsey may be pushing a pram
toward the park mall for his after
noon Siesta. Fannie Hurst is one
of the strollers with several dogs on
leash and perhaps her milk white
cat. Bugs Baer may take time
from his typewriter for a joust at
the art ambulandi and pull at a
meditatiye pipeful. Howard Chand-
Ter Christy and his terrier are also
frequently etched in the area. And
Ethel Norman, the torch singer,
Graham Cootes and Billy Seeman
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
Editor, The PoSt-PresS,
DEAR SIR:


DEAR SIR:
MERE WOMAN, finding her sensbilites
hurt by recent political advertising, takes the
occasion to berate the men of Imperial Valley
as "infantile, childish and moronic," and Won
ders if Imperial Valley men will ever grow up.
She makes it plain too, that she has not lived
in the valley all her life.
Well, neither have nine-tenths of the peo-
pie here.
Her name was withheld but it is a good
guess that she belongs to at least two book
Of the month clubs and discusses the more
abundant life" with fulsome enthusiasm She
very probably has lively contempt too, for
all that is bourgeois with the correct French
pronouncation) That means that she prob
ably belongs to the category which considers
it the smart thing to discount the community
in which it lives as middleclass and ordinary.
Good Lord, Woman! Life is pretty ordi-
nary thing-we all have it-and when it ceases
to be ordinary the persons to whom you want
to cling are the with their feet pretty close
to the ground and their understanding pretty
firmly grounded on the basic qualities And
where can you find those more than in un-
hidden emotions of boyhood?
know that one man of whom you say
when will he grow up?" has travelled through
all the countries of Europe, consorted with royal
ty, and come back to an Imperial Valley ranch
content to be basically human. I, for one, hope
he and others like him never grow up" They're
much more dependable as they are.
MERE MAN.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-Diary: An
autographed cpy of 1dwal Jones's
little Chinese brochure. And Wash
Young barged in moment, as al
ways bright with philosophic cheer.
And Verne Porter came by with
CANNON of literary folk. So to the
Waldorf across the way to break
fast with Harry Silvey.
Home and found H. T. Webster
had forwarded an offthe-record
Mark Twain hilarity, which I wish
I might print. And Don Rose over
in Philadelphia asked me to pen a
little panegyric for a collection of
Jay. E. Houses columns in book
form, which am happy to do, he
being a rare favorite.
Dinner and talked to Dick Ber-
lin, newly home from quick dash
to Europe. And back stage to see
Joe Laurie, Jr, who won critical
raves in Kenyon Nicholson's rowdy
hit. So across town and pumped
into Bob Hague and Mary Lewis,
window shopping. Thence abed,
brave rain falling.
90
Slugging is one of the rough and
ready diversions of the gamins who
make their playground along water
fronts. The sluggerS tie a rock to
the end of thin rope and swing
ing it lariat fahion are able often
with deadly precision to nail enor-
nous rodents that come out of rot
ting dock crevices for food. There
is extra excitement, too, in the fact
that wounded wharf rat will often
turn on tormentors and fight. Many
are the size Of full-grown guinea
pig. Al Smith, as a boy, was a
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
The Peoples Voice

The editor disclaims responsibility for opt-
Mons and statements expressed in this column
and retains the privilege of summarizing COM
munications of more than $50 words No con-
tributions will be acceptable unless accompa-
MED by the name and address of the writer
which, If desired, will be withheld from publ
cation.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
GRAB BAG
One Minute Test

l. When does the United States
governments fiscal year end?
2. Distinguish between timber and
lumber.
3. What is an iSthmuS?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
TOday's Horoscope

If your birthday is today you
may be a greater reader, but your
taste does not run toward the friv-
olous literature Of the day. You
like to read books that deal with
the deeper things of life.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
is SERVING SENTENCE

William Simpson, "a, is serving a
60-day senence in the Imperial
county Jail after sentence was
passed by Judge John B. Baker in
Imperial justice court. The charge
was vagrancy.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
Hints OH Etiquette

Canapes served with cocktails bel
fore a meal are eaten in the fingers.
When they are served at the dim
ner table, however, one should use
a fork.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
FILE NOTICE

Higinio Meza, 56, and Refugia
Flores, 80, Brawley residents Sat~
urday filed notice Of intention
wed.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
One-Minute Test Answers

One-Minute Test AnSWerS
/. June 80.
2. Timber is natural trees, while
lumber is wood cut from trees.
3. A narrow body of land con-
Meeting two larger bodies.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
Words of Wisdom

One today is worth two tomor-
roWS.-FTanklin.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-09
Thought for the Day

saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their
lives, and in their death they were not divided
II Sam. 1928
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Former White House
Hostess at National
Symphony Orchestra

Mrs. WOODROW WILSON was
A'A among those attending the con-
cert of the National Symphony Or
chestra, DR.. Hans Kinder, conduc-
tor, yesterday afternoon in Consti-
tuition Hall. In spite of the downpour
of rain late comers were no more
than the usual number, and the audi
ence was large and appreciative.
though there was much disappoint-
ment at the absence of the soloist,
Lotte lehman, who is i'll.
The Soviet Ambassador and Nine.
Troyanovsky were in their box. and
Lady Marler, wife of the Canadian
Minister also had box. entertaining
guests, as did Miss Mabel Boardman.
Miss Elizabeth Patterson was hostess
in her box to Miss Fanny Lay, Miss
Carlile Porter and Miss Harriet Wins
low, niece Of the hostess.
Mrs R. H. Dunlap occupied the
box of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bruce
Howe and had with her Mrs. John
Bolt. Gen. John Beaumont and Mr..
Paul Wilstach.
Among others at the concert we're
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Lammot Belin. Mrs.
Hugh Campbell Wallace. Baroness
Korff and her son. Baron Korff; Mrs.
Ann Archbold. Miss MORA Arch
bold, Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, Miss
Anne Carrere. Miss Stellita Staple
ton, Mr.. and Mrs. Jouett Shouse, Mrs.
George Douglas Morrison. Mrs. Harry
N. Cootes and her son. Mr.. Merritt
Cootes; Mrs. Samuel A. Kimberley,
Miss Anne Touhy and Mr.. Edward
Potter
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Residential Social News
DR.. and Mrs. Grosvenor Entertain at
Dinner at Wild Acres.

York to Join Mr.. Thomas at the Cor
nish-Arms Hotel for pre- Christmas
visit.
Mrs. C., C. Marbury will have as her
guest for Christmas and the holidays
her granddaughter, Miss Mary Stew
art Pollock. who is a student at Stuart
Hall in Staunton, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. William T. Harris and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Jordan have gone
to Florida to spend the Winter at
Lake Worth.
A reception in honor of DIR. Edward
Hughes Pruden, new pastor OF the
First Baptist Church, and Mrs. Pruden
was held at the church last evening
Immediately after the installation
service.
In the receiving line with DR.. and
Mrs. Pruden we're the moderator OF
the church and Mrs. E. Hilton Jack
son, DR.. and Mrs. H. w. o. Millington
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Rowley, Mr.
and Mrs. Jordan R. Bentley, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sterling Hardy, Mr.. and Mrs
James L. Russell, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
w. Clark and Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis F.
Colbert.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hart Bien OF
Harrison street. Chevy Chase, have re-
turned from New Orleans. San An
tonic and Mexico City. In Mexico
City they we're joined by Mr., and Mrs
Meade Robinson Babcock OF Louisville
XIV. with whom they toured Mexico.
Evening star., 1936-12-17
Benefit Concert
For Mount Holyoke

Under the auspices Of the Mount
Holyoke Alumnae Association, the
Mount Holyoke College Carol Choir
will appear in q concert Of Christ
mas carols in the auditorium of the
National Press Club on Saturday eve
ming.
The choir, under the direction Of
DR.. William Churchill Hammond, Is
composed Of 100 girls selected from
the Junior and senior classes. The
choristers opened their season this
year with their traditional concert In
Holyoke, Mass, on December 8. On
December II they sang in John Han
cock Hall in Boston and on Decem-
Der 13, in Chaplin Auditorium at the
college. On Friday the group will
give its twelfth annual concert in
Town Hall In New York and will come
to Washington for the concert the
next evening.
Patronesses for the event include
Mrs Roosevelt and, in addition to
those previously announced. Mrs. John
J. Myers, Mrs. Flora McGill Keefer,
Mrs. Eugene Stevens ard Miss Louise
Blodgett.