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Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
News Behind the News
Le,ris Makes Labor History :. More
Coming Defiance Hurled

WAsHINGToN-John I. Lewis and the
United Mine Workers have been making Iaoor
history and political history at their convention
here They viii make quite lot more IN the next
few months. -,
When Lewis flung his final defiance in the
face of President William Green OF the Amer
ican Federation of Labor on the platform at
Constitution Hall the question was Whether tne
crafts union executives who dominate the a. r
of Is executive council would move TO eNpei
Lewis and his allies on the Commlttee LOT IL
dustrial ORGANIZATION before Lewis himself de-
cided to march his group out OF the federation
For the present. at least, strategy OF the N
surgents will be To let the council Try u 40 us
worst They cannot be expelled before the Iea-
.eration,sZ national convention in September.
though the council may move TO suspend their
charters.
The Lewis group-which includes Sidney
Hillman and the Amalganlated Clothing Work
ers. Tom Mcmahon and Francis German and the
United Textile Workers. David Dublnsky ana the
Ladies Garment Workers. Charles P. Howard ana
the Typographical Union. and others-beheYes
that the cause Of industrial unlonlSn Will De
stronger at the next federation convention than
it was in Atlantic City last year, when its side
polled more than third of the votes.
1t believes that the conservative crafts union
leaders will be unable to get the required two
thirds vote to expel the defiant unions.
Such failure, observers think, would mean
the beginning of the end of craft union domina-
ton and the assurance of ascendancy for indus
trial unionism.
In the meantime, Lewis and his alleS Will
undertake to convert other unions.
Not only will they defy the councils order to
dsband the committee, but they will widen the
breach still farther by aiding organization of
militant industrial union in the automobile in
dustry, according to present announced plans.
Members of the United Automobile Workers
are expected to unseat the officers forced on
them by the A F. of L., seek the Lewis commit
tees support. and merge with other unions now
in the automobile field. The U. A. has been for
hidden by the executive council to take in craft
workers
There IS no longer any possible doubt that
Lewis is out to capture leadership of the Amer
lean labor movement. He has established him
self as the most effective and forceful of labor
leaders. though Green is still the A. F. of L.
president.
Because a large proportion of labor's brains
and vigor, well the logic of labor history.
are on Lewis side, his achievement of undisputed
command probably will be only matter of time.
BY 1910, in the opinion of most labor stu
dents. there will be a strong labor party in the
political field and Lewis will be one of its lead
ers. Some Of the U. NJ. w. presidents friends
and admirers believe that he is thinking that
he may be the president candidate of that party
though there are many other outstanding pro-
gressves and radicals Who already are actively
planning for its organization.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Famous Sayings
LINCOLN

Though Lincoln is paid just tribute
elsewhere on this page, there is one
phase of this great man which COM
mands far too little attention. That was
his eternal sense of humor which pre-
vailed even in the face of serious diff
culties. Many stories are told of him,
but here is one which we have never
heard before and pass on for what it is
worth One day the French ambassador
(whom Lincoln disliked) found the pres
ident polishing his own boots. Mr.. Lin
colnl" exclaimed the ambassador. DO
you polish your own boots ," Lincoln,
without looking up from his work re-
piled yes. Whose boots do you pol
ish >"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Other Editors Say
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING
Riverside Daily Press

Plainly the newspaper is good advertising
medium, because, in the first place all these
who read at all read a newspaper some time
during the day. The 1000 and more English Ian
guage newspapers in this country have a total
circulation of more than 100000 readers daily,
more than 100000 papers bought and paid for
by people who read and demand the news of
advertising as well as the news of the world.
Newspaper reading is a fixed daily habit,
and few things are SO close to man or woman
as the particular newspaper Of their individual
choice, which they verify swear by.
The newspaper advertisement is set in an at
mosphere Of interest and action, among things
which have just happened or are just about to
happen. The do it now" impulse fairly throbs
cut by the advertisement set in such admos-
phere that is why in the alchemy of suggestion
the language Of the leaden type is Immediately
transmitted into the gold Of buying
The manufacturer who advertises in the
daily press helps the retailer who handles his
products. and the retailer who advertises in that
same daily paper has a strong and double pull
on the consumer.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-The cheat
ing at poker that recently rocked
the so called millionaires' club, the
Metropolitan, again reveals how
easily confidence men with yard
long records, may scale the bar
riers and mingle with the elect.
This $1,000 flim-flam happened to
balloon into headlines.
But rarely does such trickery
reach newspapers. Victims prefer
to pocket their losses rather than
be dubbed easy marks Since the
card sharks most fertile field, the
ocean liner, has been closed to
him by strict surveillance and
publicity he has turned to the tony
clubs.
His problem is to be sponsored
SO he can sit in at one of those
friendly but high play games
usually in progress at every estab-
lished social organization. Although
primed always to win, he lazes
along, winning a little, losing
little to get the lay of the land.
And win confidence.
Eventually, he jockeys the game
into table stakes, makes his clean
up and is seen no more. His is
safe skullduggery. He has been ac-
cepted as a gentleman by gentle
men and by the time his rascality
is realized he has made his killing
and bow. And has little fear of a
squaWk.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Stella Morris Wins
1st Divorce Decree

Interlocutory decree of divorce
was awarded Stella Mary Morris
from George Elmer Morris, accord
ing to papers filed at the county
clerks office Tuesday. She charged
extreme cruelty. Mrs. Morris was
permitted to resume her maiden
name, Stella Mary Kelly.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Negroes Ordered
To Stand Trial

BRAWLEY, Feb. 12-Leona1d
Jones and Charles Jackson, Negroes,
charged with robbery, were held to
answer in superior court at a pre-
liminary hearing held in Judge II. 3.
Griffin's justice court Tuesday.
They were charged with robbing
w F. Fuller CT so cents and a pocket
knife rs he was returning home from
work early one morning recently.
Bail was set at $1,000 each.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Z, 1896.

ONE of the most foolish things we Go
" is to set our great men of bygone
days high on pedestals, assuming that
because they were great and their times heroic
they knew nothing of the mistakes, misunder-
standings, and discouragements which are COM
mon today.
In no case have we done that quite as con-
sistently as with Abraham Lincoln; ana because
we have done it, it is hard for to realize exact
ly what the man had to face and how he had to
steel himself to finish the job history gave him.
We forget, for instance that there were
times in which the worst things that modern
political opponents have said about such present.
day figures as Hoover and Roosevelt sounded mild
by comparison with the things that said
about Lincoln.
We forget that he tried to steer a middle
course between the defeatists on one hand and the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

I saw a tall, regal, Ilka Chase
looking girl behind the Book In
formation Desk of a 34th street de-
partment store this afternoon wear
ing monocle. So far as 1 know
the only monocled working lady in
the town. Her accent was pleasant
ly Southern and manner gracious.
[ wanted to ask her about a swift
ly moving mystery story but a
glance at the monocle and switch
ed to a query about a work of
Santayana.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

arcn-radicals the other, and got literally damn
ed by both sides as a result
=
A Ii this is worth recalling, as his
"A birthday celebration arrives once
more. Thinking of him as a giant as
super-man, We overlook the fact that he was
human being like all other presidents, subject to
the same doubts, mistakes and criticism that they
all experienced.
And when we think of him in that way we
miss the very thing that made him great-the fact
that somewhere, in the depths of his own prairie
bred heart, he could find resources the strength,
the courage to carry on along the line he had
chosen, to rise superior to himself and the trou-
bles which assailed him. and bring the nation
through in shape to finish the great task which
destiny has laid down for it.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

POLAND e GERMANY
Now Poland and Germany are
squibbling about a Polish rail
road which Germany are using
but not paying for. And when
we are upon the Polish topic do
you knowing who done great
much of fighting for Poland dur
ing World War-When the geo.
graphy was juggled? 1t were
PadereWski-thOSe greatest piano
player and famously music, COM
poser! Paderwski not placing of
gun on shOulder-but he fight
ing for Poland in Geneva SO they
cannot squeezing Poland too thin.
When Paderewski giving beauti-
full cOncert-after the War-he
dumped the 0oX office on Poland
for widows and orphans of gone
soldiers. thinking we needing
few piano players like him in
America.
/ not knowing why my brains
went on Paderwski-maybe ii
are because | are taking piano
lesson on the saXaphone my
self.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

pipe-halted Like a flash the
barker was at his side. But he was
wanting a match. I watched 10
minutes and not a customer. An
hour later I repassed. The bus was
filling. The shills gone.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

A term much in vogue among po-
Utiral commentators IS smear. Il
iSnf a pretty word at best, and
when used To describe the process
of beittling people 1t is positively
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

If a proposed ordinance passed
by the Brawley city council today
is adopted, having in ones posses
sion a recipe for making home
brew" will be an offense punish
able by a Jail sentence of not
more than six months or by a fine
of 500 or both.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Is YEARS AGO
February IL, 1921

Imperial Irrigation directors to-
gether with director from the Mu-
tual Water companies, will make
a special trip over the leVees to-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

Prof. F. T. Bioletti, head of the
division of viticulture of the Uni
Versity of California, will be in
Imperial Valley Monday, February
IA.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
10 YEARS AGO
February IL, 1926

Fred Nebel-Thau of this city
was an added feature on the radio
program broadcast last night over
station XIII, Los Angeles. Fred's
program was in the interest of the
1926 lettuce campaign.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

Young movie producer sets trans
continental air record, aided by super
charging device" Oh yes. We've seen
those things in taXicabs.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Today's Horoscope

Persons born on this day are inn
pulSive, psychic. intuitiye, wit b
a thoroughly developed tendency
toward rule and authority.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

Answers to Foregoing Questions
l. Fourteen.
2. THE Gold Bug.
3. Plutarch, first century A. D.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

There will be meeting of the
board of directors of the Farm Bu-
reau this morning at the Barbara
Worth hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

Horrible thought: In another
month if things keep up the Lind
bergh case is likely to become a
Dreyfus affair.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

And in another department store
no reason for not saying Gimbel's
is about the prettiest eyeful here
apouts, running an elevator. She
vas operating the last one on the
right in the rear of the store, if a
movie scout hasn't already caught
her.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

Many local people are planning
to attend the Eucalyptus farm CEN
ter meeting tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Words of Wisdom

Susceptible persons are more al
fected by a change of tone than by
unexpected WordS.-George Eliot.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Everyday Philosophy
BY REV. L. X. LATIMER
Pastor. State Street Christian Church

nnsers are modern day thought Each week IN this
member the Ministerial Alliance presents ms
s which we will interesting to our readers Ed Noe9s
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Correctly Speaking

A quotation of verse occurring N.
a prose composition should begin on
= new line.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

City Marshall McFadden left this
morning to deliver o. H. Cobb SEN
fenced for burglary to San Quen-
tin.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
GRAB BAG

How many lines are there in a
Sonnet2
The plot of what famous short
story by Edgar Allen Poe hinges up
on the deciphering of 4 code?
Who was the most distinguished
biographer of antiquity?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

Salesmanship was the subject of
an interesting talk yesterday by
Neil Hickox at the weekly lunch
con of the Ell Centro Rotary club.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

The literary agent George Bye
acted as escort for Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt when she attended the
weekly luncheon of the Dutch
Treat club recently. They decided
to walk from a midtown office
building to the lunch. And since
then over the same route Bye is
saluted by every cop. They think
he's Secret Service man.
It strikes me the most disheart-
ening of the ballyhoo jobs is that
of trying to fill a sightseeing bus
especially during an evening of
nasty weather From a protecting
doorway in the 40's, I watched a
leather lunged barker set his net
for the catch. His old lady shills
had taken their seats and were
knitting. Fast car going right out
Chinatown, the BoWery and the
lower East Side" he intoned, pac-
ing to and fro in clever caracoling,
watching the throngs hawk like
for any blurt of indecision. SNarms
passed Only one-a wanderer with
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
L ki g
B a C k W ar d
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
20 YEARS AGO
February IL, 1916

Applestill and Cook have leas-
ed the Palace theater and tempor-
arily will close the Tulane theater.
T. Boswell of Seeley will soon
leave with his family for South
America.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

The Riddlers, after 40 years,
have preserved their enthusiasm
for puzzles. They meet monthly in
a midtown hotel - old men and
young, young girls and elderly,
school teachers, business men, etc.
They sit around a green baize table
working over letter divisions, an
agrams, Kings moves, cryptograms,
etc. Most of them are known by
MONS How dye do, Archimedes"
and Hello TWisto!' Their interest
is somehow touching and there's
a splendidly intimate fraternal
feeling without undue familiarity
a serenity and gentleness. How
the rocking world needs these
steadying qualities!
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

The private night watch in our
neighborhood, a ringer for BARNS
fathers larrapin "Old Bill" has the
friendly garrulity of the lonely.
Last night 1 mentioned one of the
current murder horrors. II notice"
he said, that the papers are all
mixed up about it." 1t beats Wooll-
colts "ink- stained Wretches.o
Evening star., 1936-01-11
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

Acknowledgement Appearance" /"
at 2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Loew's Fox-"Riffraff," at II am,
lao, 4:25, 7:05 and $50 pm. Stage
shows at 1885, $40, 6:25 and 9:05
pm.
Earle-"Mary Burns, Fugitive" at
II am, 1:35, Ais, and GAS pm.
Stage shows at 1880, 3:35, $40 and
pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"The Magnificent
Obsession," at 11:15 am, 1920, 1925,
$50, 7:35 and 9:40 pm.
Palace-"Tale of Two Cities" at
HIS am, ISL, 4;27, 7:03 and 9:39
pm.
Metropolitan Capt. Blood" at
1880 am. 2, 4:25, 6:55 and 9:25 pm.
Columbia-"In Old Kentucky" at
11:25 am, 1:30, 3:35, $40, TAO and
GAS pm.
Belasco-"La Maternelle," at 1905,
2:o4, 4:09, 6:o2, 8 and 10 pm.
Tivoli-"Annie Oakley" at 2, 4:05,
GOT, 7:50 and 9:35 pm.
Ambassad0r-"The Man Who Broke
the Bank at Monte Carlo" at 2:2o.
AIS, 6:10, 8 and Gas pm.
LittIe-"Death Takes q Holiday" at
II am, 1851, 2:33, 4:24, 6:l5, sos
and 9:S6 pm.
Evening star., 1936-01-11
COLOUR Movie
To Be ShO,Un to
WHdIife GrOup
22-Mie.Long Film, Will
Run IL Hours Daily
for FiUe Days.

A 22-mile-long, 24O-reel, 60-hour
movie. running continuously IL hours
a day for five days, will be shown in
Washington, February 81 in con-
nection with President Roosevelt's
North American Wildlife Conference.
This super-super movie, this small
boys dream come true, described by
the conference committee, in gen-u-
wine Hollywood style, as "the daddy
of them all"-shows every aspect of
game conservation. Still, says the
committee, "it represents only small
fraction Of the motion picture ma
terial available on the subject"
The showing will be ir the May
flower Hotel bell room, continuously
from 10 am. to 10 pm. and free Of
charge. In order that delegates won't
miss anything OF particular interest
to them, the % miles of movie will
be catalogued and delegates can come
a-running from the Government audi
torium, where the main conferences
sessions are to be held, to see some
episode which might appeal to them.
Evening star., 1936-01-11

rabble-disruptable persons" While
this extremely minor M-G-M classic
does not deal entirely with such, it at
least gives you fairly authentic record
of seamier seamen along the Pacific
Coast. Inspired by the strike that
crippled this waterfront many a moon
ago, Miss Frances Marion has ripped
out an implausible melodrama which
is probably the first poor script she
has ever turned out.
y X
VOU may detect what kind OF
yarn it is when we advise you
that the big moment comes when a
bunch of rats are let out of their
cage in a woman's prison, thereby
causing such screaching. yowling.
feinting and whoopla among the in
mates that ample opportunity is pro-
vided for Miss Harlow and two Of
her cronies to escape into the out
side world.
This bit of action is by far the most
dramatic scene-even if the rats are
no larger than mice. look a good deal
more frightened than the inmates and
skip and hop and jump out Of every
body's way at the exact instant when
they are meant, to be creating panic.
You will note one little rat. indeed,
which is having the time of its life.
Miss Harlow has reached this hor-
rid place for having taken the rap"
for her boy-friend, husband divorced
husband, and then husband again
one and all being Spencer Tracy. Mr..
Tracy, a braggart and waterfront
Evening star., 1936-01-11
Romance Is
Subs titute
For Psychic
Magnificent Obses'
sion" at Keith's Is
MelOdramatic.

EVEN to an observer who has not
- read Lloyd C. Douglas popular
novel, Magnificent Obsession." it is
evident that something happened to
the tale in its transcription to the
Universal photoplay, which opened
yesterday at R-K-O Keith's Theater.
There is moving drama in the basic
theme, but the film seems never quite
to come of.
This theme of Mr. Douglas novel
the thesis that by helping others, keep
ing the fact that the aid has been
given strict secret. and refusing to
allow the favor to be returned, one
will establish contact with a power
which will enable him to have any
thing he desires-must have been de-
veloped more tellingly en- the printed
page than it is here by the cinema, for
the book to merit the discussion it has.
The pointing of this moral of
psychological development of char
acter is, of course, a rather large
assignment for a motion picture. 1t
is difficult to make it convincing and
it is easy for the film to lapse into
slightly maudlin preachment of a
philosophy of living which the players
themselves aren't quite sure they be-
lieve.
What has happened in this film, 1t
seems, is that the adapters and the
director have chosen the easier path
and pointed their attention upon the
love story of Bobby Merrick (Robert
Taylor) and Helen Hudson Qrene
Dunne), the lass to whom he brought
first trouble in large doses and then
happiness. They have, in this man
ner, made an entertaining tale of a
lovely romance, with a share Of melo-
drama and considerable suspense, but
they seem to have missed the point
they could have established more
definitely.
This magnificent obsession" of DR.
Hudson's-hS complete devotion oi
his life to establishing contact with
this cosmic poWer-is not given the
attention the argument for such 8
theory would seem to merit: Tht
gaining of infinite power through Civ.
ing freely to others is much more
interesting topic of discussion thar
the tale of young fellow who fel
in love with a girl and chased hel
for years until he caught her, aftel
being responsible for the accident
which caused her blindness. Further
more. there is lot Of comedy by
Charles Butterworth and some BY
Henry Armetta, which, while it's good
could be dispensed with in the inter
ests of Magnificent Obsession."
Miss Dunno gives a sensitive per-
formance and Robert Taylor, opposite
her. is both handsome and adequate
Ralph Morgan, Betty Furness ano
Sara Haden also do some fine work
and Arthur Treacher gets in a few
digs now and again. John M. Stah
directed. The dramatic love story
these people have made is very good
perhaps, but their combined efforts
with the magnificent obsession'
theme have done little other than
arouse desire to read the novel to
find out what Mr.. Douglas really said
H. M
Evening star., 1936-01-11
WILL ROGERS PICTURE
EXTENDS ITS STAY HERE
"In Old Kentucky" Takes New
Interest, at Columbia, From
Actors Realism.
THOUGH, according to the box Of

THOUGH, according to the box Of
flee, movie goers demand glamour,
1t seems a little strange that the two
cinema personalities whom we loved
best-Marie Dressler and Will Rog-
ers-should be remembered for their
essence Of reality.
Rogers film "In Old Kentucky
continues at the Columbia. and this,
being the third week it has been post
humously unreeled, makes a unique
page in the annals of motion pictures.
The film has less logic than wit.
but is good entertainment,
The feud is between the Shattucks
and Dorothy wilson's family. Rogers,
amid much hilarity, straightens every
body's sense of values, including the
sheriff's.
Charles Sellon plays the myopic
"grampuh" Of the Wilson damsel and
usually pops up where nobody wants
him-except the audience.
At any rate, Dorothy's beautiful
animal, Greyboy, gets his muddy
track and wins the handicap; Doro-
thy and Russell Hardie discover love,
or whatever it is, and Rogers is taught
to tap by his lackey, Bill Robinson.
Rogers, of course, compensates for
some of the trite situations, and the
picture is his. despite the fact that a
large portion of the footage is de-
voted to the other members of the
cast. M. w.