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Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21

mediately takes on all the attributes of
the very dictatorship which it is fighting
to destroy. Democracy, for which the
war is being fought, ceases to exist for
the duration of the war.
1t may return after the war ends and
it may not If it does, the unbearable
discomfort of the postwar period is as
likely as not to kill it for good
We talk foolishly when we talk of a
new European war to preserve demo-
cracy. Democracy is like some other of
the worlds great dreams-it can be saw
ed in almost any way except by fighting
for it.
1t will survive, in the long run, if the
worlds great democracies can show that
this system of government gives the
ordinary mortal more happiness than
any other political system.
Which means, of course, that we in
America, today, are fighting for demo-
cracy in the only effective way that
that great ideal can be fought for.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
News Behind the News
The Labor Shortage Worry Nep
Dealers Wrinkle Br0rs - Story
Won't Stay Dozen

WASHINGTON. - Wide circulation of the
story that there's a labor shortage and that
private employers can't get workers because
citizens who otherwise would be available pre-
Deal propaganda more concern than any other
phase OF the Republican attack administra-
ton relief policies.
Vigorous attempts to knock down that story,
which has popped up in nearly every section of
the country have been unsuccessful WPA
officials expect it will be resoundng in their
ears with increasing force as the campaign
goes on.
The records available in Washington -
though of course the experience Of the in
divdual reader may conflict with this-indicate
that complaints to inability TO get workers
off WPA rolls have come almost entirely from
those who sought labor at low wages, long hours,
or BOTH
The significant thing about the whole story,
which neither side stresses, is that the United
States government is standing firmly behind
men and women who refuse to leave wPA rolls
to accept wages which WPA officials consider
less than fair.
Thus, in a sense the New Deal is setting
minimum wage standards for private industries
WPA surveys have shown that only three out OF
every hundred relief workers charged with re-
fusing private jobs had refused "unjustifiably,"
and the chief reason for the "juStifiable" re-
fusalS was low wages
The average WPA wage is AZ cents hour
which means $3.50 month, the average hours
per worker per month being l12.
In ClackamaS county, Ore, officials laid Off
200 workers to force them to take berry picking
or numbering jobs.
The Civic Council of the county protested
to Senator Charles McNary, Republican leader
in the Senate that the berry 'pickerS received
an average of only so cents a day and that
wood-cutterS being paid 50 a cord could cut
but two-thirds of cord day.
McNary asked WPA Administrator Harry
Hopkins for action. After investigation the
200 workers were replaced on the rolls.
Considerable publicity has been given
charges by lumber operator near Malone,
N Y, who asked for permission to bring in
$50 Canadians to peel pulpwood for him for
three months. This man said he couldn't get
WPA workers
WPA insists it investigates all such COM
plants. The Rev. Father Francis j. Haas OF its
labor relations section went to Malone to get
the facts.
Father Haas reported that he found 18
non-relief lumbermen had gone to this mans
camp. Some had returned the first day and
all had quit within five days
He says he also found: No limitation on
hours but working days of IL to IA hours plus
an hour going to the job and another hour
returning. Piecework rates which gave workers
from 81 to S1.50 day after deductions. Re-
quirements by the employer of at least years
experience.
"At fair wages and hours, there's no labor
shortage there" reports Father Haas
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
THERE'S NO DEMOCRACY
WHILE THERE'S WAR

You can see all sorts of things in the
smoke that drifts up from the burning
cities and the battlefields of Spain these
days. They are dark and grsly shapes
most of them-things which, with bad
luck, may become part of the worlds
future one of these days.
So closely knit is the fabric of mod
ern society, so intricately involved are
the strains of cause and effect, that the
world may yet commit the mass hara-
kiri of a general European war because
opposing politicians in Spain took to
the gun and the knife to settle their dis
putes.
But of all the shapes which take form
over Spain, the most frightening is one
which is occasionally talked about seri-
ously by people who ought to know
better: the prospect that the surviving
democracies of the world-nations such
as France and England, and perhaps the
United States = may find themselves
fighting the great autocracies like Italy
and Germany to preserve the democratic
ideal in this world.
Even if the last war, with its legacy
of oppression and dictatorship, did not
remind us of the futility of fighting to
make the world safe for democracy"
a moments thought about the way war
is IOugnC nowadays OuSHt " w Ciio
trick.
The first person to get busy when war
comes in democracy is the censor. The
news columns of the papers are restrain
ed from mentioning this, that, or the
other bit of news.
Then the editorial columns are curb
ed; let the editor start denouncing the
war and pleading for peace, and he will
find himself in extremely hot water
with the government stocking the fires.
Freedom of speech goes simultane-
ously. You may be convinced that all
war is wrong or only that this particular
war is a frightful mistake; no matter,
if you air your views in. public, you are
more than likely to find yourself be-
hind the bars before you are week
older
Freedom of assemblage dies with
freedom of speech. Freedom OF move
ment also dies. The business man is
obliged to conduct his business to suit
the requirements of the general staff
the worker who strikes can be drafted
into the army; the ordinary citizen is
marked off to fight, whether he likes
the idea or not.
In other words, the democracy i'm
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
Democrats Attention

If you believe the time has come
to analyze the cost of government
in California from the ground up
and then cut away those portions
that we, can well do without;
If you believe the time has come
to make the State Of California safe
for the ownership of a home or a
piece of land on which the owner
can make a living and stay off the
relief rolls;
If you believe that I will kQA~
faith with you and pursue TIN
and other worth while things mef
toned in the campaign with deter
minatiOn, until results are obtained,
which 1 will do then cast your bal
lot for me on next Tuesday. For the
State Senate.
(Adv.) w. 1. STONE.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

road, the car was stopped and two
stick-up men flashing pistols jump
ed on the running board. Said the
chauffeur. Listen, fellows" this
puts me in tough spot. ! took
this car out tonight without the
boss's permission for a little drive.
That's my brother rin-law in the
back, out of job and discouraged.
just wanted to cheer him UP. We
haven't buck between us. If 1 get
caught at this 1 lose my job and
I've got a wife and four kids" The
thugs motioned him on with: 20.
K. Buddy" Rosenbaum was wear
ing several valuable pieces of jew
elry and carried a whopping roll OF
bills.
A police lieutenant tells me that
in case of a hold-u a good dodge
is to talk goofy as though you were
a nut. And a certain lady to whom
l relayed the advice observed: For
you that will not be strain"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
State of California, Department of
Public Works, Division of High

Public Works, Division of High
ways.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be re-
ceived by the Department of Public
Works, Division of Highways, at the
office of the District Engineer 1865
Harbor Boulevard, San Diego, Cali
fornia until 2 O'Clock p. m. on Sept.
l, 1886, at which time they will be
publicly opened and read, for per-
forming work as follows:
Imperial County, between l mile
east of Heber and miles east OF
Imperial (XI-Imp-201-AB), about
seven and sIx-Senths t76) miles in
length. gravel surfacing and liquid
asphalt to be-furnished and applied
Plans may be seen, and forms OF
proposal, bonds, contract and speci-
fications may be obtained at the
above address
No bid will be received unless it is
made on proposal form furnished
by the District Engineer. Each BID
must be accompanied by cash or a
certified or cashiers check made
payable to the Director of Public
Works for an amount equal to at
least ten per cent Q0%) of the
amount bid, such guaranty to be
forfeited should the bidder to whom
the contract is awarded fail to enter
into the contract.
The Department of Public Works
reserves the right to reject any or
all bids.
In accordance with the provisions
of Chapter 397, Statutes of 1881, the
Department of Public Works has as
certained the general prevailing
rate of wages applicable TO the work
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
MANY never
SUSPECT CAUSE
OF bACkACHES
This Old Treatment Often
Brings Happy Relief Of Pain

Many sufferers relieve nagging backacha
quickly, once they discover that the real
cause Of their trouble may be tired kidneys.
The kidneys are one of Natures chief
ways Of taking the acids and waste out Of
the blood. If they don't pass 8 pints a day
and SO get rid Of more than 8 pounds of
waste matter, your 10 miles Of kidney tubes
may need flushing.
If you have trouble with frequent bladder
passages with scanty amount which often
smart and burn. the 15 miles of kidney tubes
may need flushing out. This danger siI -
may be the beginning of nagging backs
leg pains. loss of pep and energy, getN0y
up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes.
headaches and dizziness.
Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills-used
successfully by millions for over 40 years.
They give happy relief and will help dush
out the 16 miles of kidney tubes
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21

health, and so he goes from one to
another at sometimes $50 a visit.
Stage stars. too, are among the
highly taut in constant shrink from
some affliction they rarely suffer
AL Jolson is one. Throat special
lists thrive on singers, etc. An old
French doctor who lived in the
Passy apartment house with me in
Paris once remarked on the sub
ject. "Hypochondria has one root
self indulgence. The laborer who
has to get up at daylight and work
until dark never suffers from it,"
90
q Joe Rosenbaumn, young grain op
orator, has a gger-minded chauf-
feur, who deserves whatever medals
they are passing out-if any-for
trigger thinking He's young
Frenchman named Leon and one
night some time ago was driving
his employer home from Philadel
phia. On a lonely stretch of the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21

of Nations.
Basis of the japanese plan for the
control of war, the statement ex-
planned, is the decentralization OF
world policing into regional agree
ments. This plan would pre-su
pose that the pacific countries ar
range among themselves for the
maintenance of peace in the far
east.
Takayanagi pointed out that re-
lations between the United States
and Europe will always remain es
sentially different from those be-
tween China and Japan.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
NEW WORLD PEACE MACHINERY ONLY
.BULWARK AGAINST WAR SAYS JAPAN

YOSEMITE, Calf, Aug. 20. WR)-
Japan is convinced that world peace
can be maintained only through the
construction of new peace machin-
cry, according to a press statement
released today by Professor Keno
Takayanagi of the Tokyo Imperial
university and delegate to the sixth
biennial session of the Institute OF
Pacific Relations.
This belief was described by the
Nippon delegate despite the with
drawal of Japan from the League
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY

No. 21O61
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
SAN DIEGO
In The Matter of The Estate Of
JOHN j. KREGEAR, also known
as j. j. KREGEAR, or JOHN KRE-
GEAR,
.s.--. ar~ Deceased.
TAKE NOTICE that the Admin
istrator of the above entitled Estate
will on or after September 4, 1885,
sell at private sale all the right, title
and interest of the above entitled
Estate in and to the following de-
scribed real property:
All that real property situated In
the County Of Imperial, State OF
California, described as follows:
Lots one Cd and Two ca ir
Block Seven CD of Burk Subdivi-
sion of Blocks Seven CD and
Eight (8) of Ell Centro Addition
No. l, City of Ell Centre, County
of Imperial, State of California,
as per map No. 70 filed in the Of
flee of the County Recorder of
Imperial County.
Bids or offers will be received at
Suite Sic Bank of America Building
San Diego, California.
Dated this 14th day of August
1885.
GEORGE w. FISHER,
Administrator of above entitled
Estate, In Propria Persona.
Aug 16-31 incl
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
One-Minute Test Answers

A compressed food used by Arctic
explorers. It consists of dried beef,
fat, sugar and dried currants.
2. A served ball that scores a
point without being touched by the
opponents racket.
j. John Philip SouSa.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21

NEW YORK, Aug. 21.-Thoughts
while strolling: Add minor urges:
To muss up Vincent Lopez's hair.
Memory: The Sunday school penny
tied in the handkerchief end. An
other goody, goody song for Bill
Fields's recovery is in order. The
Amos n Andy influence: An Aunt
Lillian Cafe.
For the Look the Same as They
Did Is Years Ago Club: Will Irwin.
Most abused institution in the
world today: Modern Business. No
body can make cartoon taxpayer
look so forlorn as Ding. Literary
innovation: Ben De Cesseres going
on a word jag.
Look Alikes: Sir Guy Standing
and John Masefield And Zazu
Pitts and Pauline Lord talk alike.
Those frisky brightly-lit gown shops
where the proprietress is called Ma
DOM" And in the back room al
ways squawking parrot. Cal Tin
ney, who writes yokel epigrams with
Bill Rogers tang.
Variety's twin photographers
Abel Green and Jack Pulaski
Largely responsible for that hilar-
ious lingo. And memorable head
lines such as "Rockefellers in Show
Bizr What's become of Dorothy
Parker's smart cracksl And Bing
| Crosby's beedle- -dee-bo. A mind
zepher would blow little Joe Weber
| away.
Outside of Maud Adams, no ac-
tress has maintained that atmos-
phere of cloister and hands-off
please like Lillian Gish. And not
many have the history of sports
at their finger tips like Frank
Menke. A reader telegraphs the
name Oscar means bounding war
rior. Pardon my bounce!
The rich young Billy Leeds is re-
putedly the most miserable of the
| hypochondriacs. The picture Of
health, popular with everybody anc
with a yacht on which he always
carries a trained nurse, country es
tates and a monthly income whip
pet could not hurdle, he is among
friends an arch apostle of gloom
Every month or so he toys with a
new and depressing vagary-Some-
times approaching appendicitis,
arthritis or some malingering NAL
ady even more hideous. He gives
~; triac n iy1fa tho
spirit of whoopla but more often is
dropping in a corner feeling his
pulse or trying to detect fever across
his brow. Like all so bedeviled, be
has his moments of realizing they
are foolish fears, but in a day or SO
slips back into the fog.
Temperament people, even
though in splendid physical condi.
ton, are reputedly the most easily
netted for hyochondria. Whistler
had his variety of pet ailments tina,
never materialized. So did Kipling
Frank Sullivan has them, and the
same fears have made James M
Barrie practically a recluse. There
| is comfort for those tortured in sta
tistics which show they SO often
outliye most of their fellowship
hunting new affliction to the last
lap.
90
"Hypos," the medicos call them
and they are an inexhaustible
source of revenue for high tariff
ed, Vandyked specialists of the
fashionable bouleyards For the
"hypo" is never satisfied with a
verdict. eSpeciallY il il is a bill OF
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21

The Russians best evidence that they
want a brotherhood of man was when
they started eating caviar themselves.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
GRAB BAG
One Minute Test

/. What is pemmican?
g. In tennis, what is service
ace?
8. Who composed the march
stars and Stripes Forever?"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
Today's Horoscope

Today's Horoscope
If your birthday is today, you are
apt to be a great reader, decidedly
scientific in tastes, and with a ver-
satility of genius that adapts you
to almost any calling.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
q on Sol FRANK
~ 9A'' WATANABE
zN< HOLDEN
AVIATION
BY ED HOLDEN

When were kid boy seen the Wright Broth
ers go flying through the air for ONE SOLID
type on front page of newspaper. Then some years
flip by and other aviator fly of the English
Channel Twenty miles! That mother front
page of newspaper tale in robust type. But now
of days when they fly to China newspaper hardly
speak word Pretty it will be disgusting
unless you fly to the moon for lunch. And little
Willie and Johnny will have airpanes strapped
on their back instead of books . =. they can fly
home for bread and jelly. Because bread and jelly
are always news event to school boy. From little
acorns grow.
Thank you please
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
Words of Wisdom

Whatever makes men good Chris
tians makes them good citizens
Daniel Webster.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
Famous Sayings

He used to say that it better TO have one friend
of great value than many friends who good for
nothing.-DiogeneS Laertius.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21
Hints on Etiquette

Hints on Etiquette
When a piece of lemon is served
with fish, it should be picked up
in the fingers and the juice squeezed
over the fish
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-21

"Hypos," the medicos call them,
and they are an inexhaustible
source of revenue for high tariff
ed, Vandyked specialists of the
fashionable boulevards. For the
"hypo" is never satisfied with
verdict, especially if it is a bill of
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-03-06
Flannels
Are Unearthed

Selma, Ala-The nationwide
hunt for old-fashioned "red flan'
nels"-more often talked about
then seen, ever in the old days
has brought four pair to light here.
A downtown store has it's only
pair on display in a show window
and residents of this deep South
city stop to stare as they trudge
through snow-lined streets, almost
as rare in this section as the Grim
son-tinted undergarment.
A crowd marveled at the dis
play, a veteran railroad man con-
fessed he had one pair on and two
more at home.
'I've always worn them in cold
weather." he said. "But don't put
my name in the paper-Hl need
the other two pair, and some Of
my friends might try to borrow
them if this cold wave keeps up
A recent survey Of Eastern and
Middle Western communities where
red flannels once were as common
as ham and eggs, revealed a national
scarcity of the articles.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-03-06

mothers to ''sleep soundly" through
the pains of childbirth and to awak-
en- refreshed"
After realizing he had been de-
feated by nature, DR.. Howard F.
Kane, the university's professor of
obstetrics and co-discoverer of the
anesthetic, apoligized.
"1'm sorry. We've done every
thing we could" he said, adding
that once before he and his asso-
ciate, Professor George B. Both,
also of the university, had been
similarly fooled.
The new anesthetic is a mixture
Of paraldehyde and benny alcohol.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-03-06
Stays Away And
Ruins Demonstration

Washington - A long-planned
childbirth demonstration at George
Washington university was ruined
recently when the babies failed to
arrive as scheduled.
Four hundred surgeons and ply
sicians, some of them noted OBJ
stetricians, gathered in the theater
clinic ct the university's medical
school for the event, but nothing
happened.
Seven babies were due to arrive,
but mother nature had other ideas.
The scientists had come to wit
ness a demonstration of a new
esthetic which is said to allow
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-03-06
Lady's Painful Trouble
Helped By Carduii

Why do so many women take Car
dui for the relief Of functional pains
at monthly times? The answer Is
that they want results such as Mrs.
Herbert W. Hunt, of Hallsville, Texas,
describes. She writes: my health
wasn't good. I suffered from cramp-
ing. My pain would be so intense 1t
would nauseate me. I would Just
drag around, 50 sluggish and do
less.' My mother decided to give me
cardui. I began to mend. That tired.
sluggish feeling was gone and the
pains disappeared. I can't praise
Cardui too highly because I know
it helped me-" -. If Cardui does not
help YOU, consult a physician.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-03-06

0Buy In "Greater Salisbury.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-03-06
125 Millions
Will Be Spent
Survey Reveals Nation
Wide Program Design
ed to Make Travel
ing Safer

Chicago-A hundred and twenty
five million dollars worth of acci
dent prevention will be built in.
to the nations highways this sprin,
and summer, a survey has been dis.
closed.
Uniting in the countrywide eff.
fort to cut down motoring deaths
Federal and State governments have
earmarked one fourth of the cos,
Of a record road Improvement pro
gram to safety measures.
Of an estimated total expendi-
ture of co. 900, 900, $125 ,ooo,-
900 will go toward cutting down
automobile crashes by:
Eliminating railroad crossings.
Installing warning signals at dan
ger points.
Widening shoulders" of high
ways.
Broadening or eliminating curves
Leveling concrete headwalls of
culverts.
Increasing highway widths.
Flattening slopes.
Laying dustless road surfaces.
Increasing sight distances, to re-
move mental as we'll as physical
hazards of motorists.
Several states planned highway
safety programs along particular
lines. Pennsylvania will paint yell
low lines through the middle of
mountain roads to guide drivers
through heavy fog. Indiana will
divide traffic lanes on the Lincoln
highway from Merrilville to Scher-
erville. Oklahoma will survey traf-
fic conditions on all main arteries
as groundwork for accident preven-
ton. Alabama's roads will be pa
tro1led by a new 74-man highway
patrol. West Virginia will reor-I
ganize and increase it's road patrol.
will require safety in
spection of all autos and trucks.
may bar cattle from the
road.
Biggest contributor to the con-
certed safety effort was Texas, with
an $11,ooo,o 900 outlay. Illinois
was second, with $1o,3o7,1S4.
Thirty-six states estimated their to-
tai would be 100000 900, with the
Federal Embarrassing elimination
program boosting the same aggre-
gate to 1925 100000.
The same Sc states reported they
would spend for all highway i'm