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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-04

Doctor Harry n. S. Jones en-
tertained with a dinner party
Saturday evening at the Hotel ID
Concha, for Harry Luethi, lawyer
of Miami, who is former resident
OF Key West The guests were
Elmer LightbOurn, Margaret
Duval, Maurice B. Rivas and Mr.
and Mrs. Jones.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-04

1S3S-Lawrence Barrett not-
ed actor. born n Paterson. - J.
Died March 20. 1881
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-04

Ten sacks of liquor were cap
tured by customs officers last
night after they had been thrown
from the deck of ferry boat
which plies between this port and
Havana. H. L. Kemp, one o. the
inspectors on watch, heard the
sound Of the falling sacks and
called other inspectors to his
assistance. The liquor was found
un:njured when it was fished
from the water.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-04

The two masted schooner Ma
dan, formerly the Island Home,
was last night seized by the Coast
Guard Cutter Saukee. On the YES
sci there was found large as
sortment of liquor. There were
1900 cases OF assorted drink
ables and 600 cases of alcohol
found on the ship.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-04

The state convention of the
Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks will be started tomorrow
morning in Fort Myers. Frank H.
Laid and C. Sam B. Curry, de-
legates from Key West left
several days ago to be present
when the convention opens.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Porter Hellings
gave a farewell dinner last even
ing to a party of friends before
their departure for a motor trip
to the west coast.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-04

Editorial comment: Much Is
being said about the evils Of big
business. The principal evil about
it to many of US is that we have
no stock in it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-04

An inspiring scene was witness
ed Easter Sunday morning at the
close of services in First Metho-
dist church when Rev. L. Munro
administered baptism to five beau
tiful babes before a congregation
of about 400 people the greater
number of whom were children.
Those receiving baptism were
Walter Arthur. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Connie Robertson; Betty
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-04

The Cutter Saukee returned
yesterday from Mobile where she
towed the captured Norma l.
Conrad, vessel which had on board
when taken, 400 cases Of liquor.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-04

This afternoon the last sad
rites will be said at 4:3O O'Clock
over the body of Carl E. Aubu-
chon, president of the Hotel La
Concha who died s o'clock last
Saturday night after a prolonged
illness. Death occurred in his suite
at the beautiful hotel which stands
as a monument to his memory in
Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-04

Subscribe TO The Ci.;zcn-2oo
weekly.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-04

They were cook books.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
The Republican Viewpoint
EDITED BY
The Republican County Central
Committee
POLITICAL PATRONAGE

Governor Landon outlined his ideas regard
ing political patronage in the following address
at PittSburg this week:
L know there has been patronage under all
administrations. No party has monopoly Of
virtue in this respect But never before has
distribution of patronage been organized into a
gigantic business conducted in government
buildings by cabinet office And this is not
good government.
And in this case the now threadbare excuse
of emergency does not hold water. The PresI-
dent should recall that the wilson admins
tration. of which he was member. actually
increased the percentage of those under the
merit system during one OF the greatest emer-
gencies We ever faced-the war
The army available for this adminiStra-
tons political machine is twice as big as the
regular army OF the United States. 1t is more
than twice the patronage that any president
has ever had in this country.
The increase. in the federal payroll as
result of this political army is more than $780,
100000 a year.
yet with all the expansion of patronage
Jobs what happened to the faithful civil Serv-
ice employees of regular departments? They had
their pay reduced and many were discharged
in the name of economy. And this is not GOOD
government.
THE net result has been that the proper
ton OF executive employees under civil service
has dropped from about so per cent in 1888 to
approximately 90 per cent last June. The prog
reSS of a quarter of century under five preS!-
dents has been loSt-loS in three and one-haf
years under one PRESIDENT president who
said only year ago: THE merit system has
been and will continue to be extended during
my administration"
For three and one-haf years both the letter
and the spirit OF the merit system have been
cynically disregarded. Government employees
have been forced into the ranks OF a national
political machine headed by the President and
his postmaster general machine organized by
the Presidents campaign committee. supported
off the public payrolls. and controlled by the.
Presidents power of appointment and removal
And this not good government.
Some of these agencies have immense pow
ers yet are responsible to no cabinet office.
They3 report only to the President or to some
independent agency.
In addition. under this administration, AZ
corporations have been created by congress or
incorporated under state laws.
Many of these are absolutely independent OF
congress. Many have the power to pledge the
governments credit without control by con-
greSs and can even compete with private busl-
ness. And this is not good government"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
News Behind the News
Election Talk In NeW York &. Plural
tiles Run into Figures e. LdHdOn
Needs The State

NEW YORK.-New York with its AZ electoral
votes, is the biggest Of all the states and when
they talk election pluraitie5 IN the Empire state
they talk IN big figures
The popular vote probably will exceed 500O.-
900. And Democratic politicians talk Just as
glibly about plurality Of 100000 in New York
City as Republican politicians speak Of a mar
gin Of 100000 or 100000 upstate.
No one imagines that Lan5on could be elected
without carrying New York, although it is
easily conceivable that Roosevelt might One
interesting shift Of political opinion your cor
respondent notices after three-week absence
from the state Wheras big shots in both par
ties previously thought Pennsylvania more
likely to go for Roosevelt than New York they
now believe New York is better bet than the
Keystone state for the president
70
Regardless of the size Of Roossvelts New York
City plurality, il can be reported that although
nearly all purely rural counties upstate show
1892 there is an increase Of Roosevelt straw
votes wherever upstate counties Importantly
induStrlallzed.
Democrats will take ? to ] licking in com
munities where farmers predominant heavily,
but will hold down Landons upstate majority
by showing strength wherever industrial labor
is TO be found.
Al Democratic campaign headquarters, one
finds profound but unadmitted concern over the
Republican pay envelope propaganda which
seeks 10 make the contributory old age pension
plan and its employer-empioye assessment an
issue against the New Deal
II this propaganda is successful it may cut
into the pro-Roosevelt labor vote
New York City registration is about 100000
and upstate registration will be somewhere near
S.500000. The New York City increase is about
100000 and politicians agree that at least hall
oi Il was made without prompting by party
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
THE POST-PRESS

Published every Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Publishing Com
pany, 625 State street, Ell Centre,
California. as successor to the
Sunday issue of The Morning
Post and Valley Farmer, and the
Saturday issue of the Imperial
Valley Press.
Entered at FL Centre, California,
post office as second class mat
ter
Paul Jenkins, Publisher; George
Bennitt, General Manager; Rus
sell Bennitt. Secretary-treasurer;
Ed. Fitzhugh, Managing Edi-
tor.
Member California Newspaper
Publishers Association.
NJ. c. Mogensen e. Co, National
Advertising Representatives.
Subscription Rates: &c per copy
or, in conjunction with the Inn
perial Valley Press or The
Morning Post and Valley Farm
er. Per Month, Coo; Paid in
Advance: months. $1.65; 6
Months. S3.25; One Year. 5000.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

trvside. l looked over my own
bright iacketed array of books to-
day-so many with trashy titles ana
reeking of sex and perVerslon'
Heminewayish, OHaraish and Vim
cent Sheeanish-and recalled out
the dim past some volumes IN our
cherryWood book case. Among them. :.
Character by Smiles: The Royal
Faith of Life, The Story of Our
Country, Black Beauty, and A Lie
of Jesus.
A colored boy who preSides over
the hall of Riverside Drive apart
ment house where / waited the
other day capsuled the whole story
of our lands economic sliding when
he said that eight years ago when
ne came here from the West In
dies people in the building PAID
their rents without urging and they
raid from thre eto four hundred q
month. Nowadays the management
has to threaten possession to gel
$100.
Maritime musings: The Queer
Mary and the Normandie made
New York actually ship conscious
this past summer. The water
] fronts were crowded as each gal
leon slid majesically into berth
It strikes me that in the dash OF
the lines of the Normandie ana II
the more conservative profile OF the
Queen Mary one gets comparison
of the two peoples. Just as one die
in considering the rush, so gallop
ingly Gallo, of he Normandie tt
hang up a record and the more leis-
urely attempts SO admirably Albion
of the Queen Mary to beat it.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
Thief Has
Own Pocket Picked

TOLEDO, O., Oct. 81. UP)-James
Plowyer, 72, known by many aliases
to the police of as many cities in
the world as notorious pick poe
ket, appeared in police court today.
The upshot of the trial was 10
day Jail sentence for HaHzel Hill,
29-year- restaurant employe.
The Black Prince accused her of
picking his pocket of $40. -...
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

Imperial Valley lay sleeping
Like Sphynx in the Wondrous West
The clouds like white benediction,
Were blown from the Land OF the BleSt
The land was lifeless and thirsty
Where the black buzzard lived his lust
The Dream of Golden Empire
Lay hidden in drifting dust.
The white clouds cried out, Water,
The sand dunes cried, Il thirst"
The sad winds whispered, Lonely"
The mountains said I'VE are cursed"
When out from the Land OF the Morning
Rode the brave Pioneer thru the West,
He looked not toward the Pacific
He saw not the bleak mountain crest,
The Pioneer saw not the white cloud
Of Fear go winding its way,
Nor the Buzzard of Death in the desert,
He saw there was gold in the clay.
Thru his vision the water came gliding
To mate with the suns brightest BEAM
Giving life to the sun golden Valley,
Tho at first it was only dream.
Then the Poetry of Progress was spoken
BY the sound of the spade and the ploW,
And the Dream of the Golden Empire,
Becomes the Reality Now;
To the Voice Of the Music OF water
Nature herself must bow.
Here the ALL AMERICAN CANAL
Thru the fields of abundance flow,
Where golden grain now is growing
Where grapes and pomegranetS grow
The Boulder canyon is bringing
This Eden larger to flower,
Like Horn of Plenty outpouring
The golden gift of her power.
The desert delta is blooming
Like rose in the sweet southern cnme'
A Land for the Lovers of Beauty,
Hail Imperial Valley Sublime,
The Health and Wealth OF Natlon,
The Greatest Garden of Time.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

NEW YORK, Oct. 81. - They
were discussing Gilbert and Sulli-
van and their deserved triumphs at
the Keats Speeds the other eve
ming. " And one Savoyard observed:
ITO think those two geniuses split
over a S14 red carpet I knew
they had differences, but not eX-
actly what Or do | know the COM
mentator was correct.
But 1 do know the figurative S14
red carpet is the rock upon which
many talented associations ar e
smashed. Among the superSensi-
I've one thing serves as we'll as an
ether SIS excuse for the tempest.
For instance: 1.-TWO artists who oc-
cupied the same studio in Barrow
street for IL years in harmony.
In that calm that is the vortex,
the temperamental tornado struck.
One was reading the others morn
ing paper when the latter came out
of the bath for breakfast. A furry
! became so tense they stood poised
with upraised chairs. They never
spoke again, despite reconciliation
efforts of friends.
Nerves are a deal like fiddle
strings. They need a good letting
down-or re-stringing-noW and
then. There's a high voltage fel-
low, Hendrix Van Loon, as 1 re-
member. who, when taut, motors to
tiny fishing village, buys a tin
of sardines and crackers and wand
ers out on pier end to MUNICH
and reflect. He goes back to his
job refreshed
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

How, then, to explain the Digests figures?
There's only one answer if you agree that
they're wrong, and that is the manner in which
they are obtained In other campaigns a cross
section Of any representative group Of people
came pretty close TO showing the national Senti-
ment. In this campaign there IS a striking
difference The toilers Of America prac
tcally one hundred per cent for Roosevelt The
industrial captains, finansiers and the so-called
white collar groups almost unanimously
against him-not for Landon, but against Roose-
welt.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

This year strange thing has occurred. The
Digest figures indicate the election Of Alf Lam
don. Not even the most optimistic republican
leader would dare such forecast except for
the purpose of keeping up the show OF con-
fidence until after election, and yet the Digest
predicts his election by a comfortable margin
Even the publishers of the magazine seem to
doubt their own figures and yet there they are,
big as life
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

Experienced politicos predict the reelection
of President Roosevelt with vote that may
approximate that of 1882. Eastern newspapers
violently anti-Roosevelt, are beginning to con-
cede his election while the betting odds on Wall
Street which are seldom wrong on this type of
gamble, are far and away in favor Of the demo-
cratic nominee
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

Speaking of fiddle strings the
bull fiddlers in orchestra pits have
interested me. They seem the most
complacent of musicians. While the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
Thought for the Day

Why do We these things? We also are men of like
passions with you, and preach unto you that ye
should turn from these vaniteS unto the living God
which made heaven, and earth and the sea and all
that are therein.-Acts 14:15.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
3 OH sez f RANK RAJ
w. BY Ed HOLDEN A
ADVANCING
BY Ed HOLDEN

When l a kid boy in grammar school :. we
used to having marble games. 1t with little
nails stuck in board and the marbles went
scampering down the board bouncing on them nails.
1t were silly if a MAN found playing those game.
But that all change now the men play 1t and
the kids are not allowed Us foolish kids were play
ing that marble game for the fun. But now 1t are
BUSINESS with racketfu of money. So guess the
kids of nowadays have got to stay with simple things
like horseing
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
LETTERS OF ADMIN1STRA-
TION WITH THE WILL
ANNEXED
No. 2704

NO. HtUf
90
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, In and For the
County of Imperial.
In the Matter of the Estate of
ALBERT STEPHAN ROGERS,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that RUEL
H. LIGGETT has filed with the
Clerk of this Court, a petition, pray
ing for Letters of Administration
with Will Annexed, of the estate of
Albert Stephan Rogers, deceased.
and Friday, the 9Th day of Novem-
ber, A. D., 1886, at 2 o'clock p. M.
Of said day, at the Courtroom of
the Court of Ell Centro, in the Coun-
ty of Imperial, has been set for
hearing said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and show cause why the said
petition should not be granted.
Dated October 20, 1886.
EDWARD II. LAW,
Clerk.
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy
| (SeaD (O20-N2)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
The Democratic Viewpoint
EDITED BY
The Democratic County Central
Committee
FROM WHERE 1 SIT

Perhaps the most discussed feature of the
present political campaign, outside the actual is
sues themselves is the Literary Digest poll. In
years gone by this magazine has been able to
predict with uncanny accuracy the trend of the
vote and has come within one per cent of re-
vealing the sentiment in every state in the union
as officially recorded on election day.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

And how the tastes Of literature
have changed since Whittier was
writing his Snowbound up there
along the bleak New England coun-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
BAG
One-Minute Test

l. What tropical tree is OF i'm.
portance for food, furniture and
shelter to the native of India and
China?
2. Name the famous stone which
figures in the coronation of Brit
ish king.
3. Does United States citizenship
automatically confer on one the
right to vote? .ss.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
Horoscope for Sunday

Horoscope for Sunday
If your birthday is Sunday, you
may be daring, reckless and sub
iect to moods of great depression
You are apt to let the little irrl-
tations of life cause you much mis-
cry.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

I do not subscribe 10 the idea that the Di-
geSt has sold out" although this has beer
advanced by many as the explanation In tht
first place the Digest itself could not afford such
a move no matter what the price.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

The Digest ballots in years gone by, have
been sent to a group which on those occasions
represented a cross-section of the nation. Sent
to the same group this year they do NOT reach
a croSS-section.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

The veteran iconoclast Poultney
Bigelow, usually checks in from his
annual scout to Europe with some
thing ironic about the state Of AM
erica. His most recent blast was
that our land had become just a
glorified night club. He suggested
the gals side-track their silk stock
ings and high heels and go back
to the dairies. Men past 60 have
scant tolerance for red fingernails,
endless cigaret smoking and var
ious curls and twists burned into
beautiful locks at the beauty shops.
Or eyebrows completely plucked or
altered to suggest an imported Die
trich. After go the male turns to
simplicities-say the peach blown
Danish girl fresh from the leaS of
her native shore without one whit
of paint upon her skin, kohl under
eyes and with eyebrows the Creator
parceled out.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

clarinets and flutes labor feverish-
ly through many notes, the bull
fiddler gazes out ever the audience
with calm-the while proceeding
unhurriedly with his see-saW
vroomph, vroomph, vroomph. I
have heard bull fiddlers have fid-
dies cached in convenient places
over town to avoid long hauls in
fulfilling engagements 1t would
not seem to make much difference
which bull fiddle a fiddler uses. To
most it is just SO much noise, yet a
most important integral of orches-
tration.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
TOday's Horoscope

IOudy7S HOROSCOPE
A person whose birthday is 10,
day is apt to be very critical, bul
extremely sensitive to criticism OF
himself.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

One-Minute Test Answers
|. Bamboo.
2. The Stone of Scone.
3. No, the right to vote is grant
d by states.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

Hints on Etiquette
Women should wear gloves to
formal dinners and take them OIL
at the table.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

Words of Wisdom
Humble things become the hum
ble.-Horace.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

My guess is that they're as durnfounded at
they're stuck with the figures The method
has always worked right before and they can't
understand why it isn't working now. They
can't call it off-can't admst that the system
is wrong until the voters Of America prove it
on election day. The thing just doesn't apply
this year as Will be generally known a week
from today And the Digest shouldn't be criti-
cZed either-its just one of those years that's
exception TO all previously established rules
even that of the Digest poll
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

workers Upstate registration was increased Is
to 20 per cent not quite so spectacularly.
Republicans say the voters turned out
TO repudiate the New Deal Democrats say the
big registration means that labor, Negroes
new voters Jews, and old people interested in
social security will support their party ticket as
never before.
The fact that New York and cities throughout
the state have registered big is generally taken
as favorable 70 the Democrats Rural registra
ton can't yet be calculated.
Republicans lean heavily on Al Smiths in
iiuenee ia the city. The extent TO which Al
has swaysd voters is just a big question mark.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
ODE TO IMPERIAL VALLEY
By WARREN STONE
(All Rights Reserved)

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Evening star., 1936-03-08

The night was dark, the wind from the south.
Hour after slow hour they proceeded so,
the tenseness growing as the time passed.
Grim thoughts filled every mind. How far
ahead was the other train? Was Will Dallas
riding toward it. or did he lie dead on the
prairie somewhere, his gay tongue stilledo
And the girl, Caution
The stars of the forepart of the night gave
way to those of the latter part A vast and
lovely Milky Way stretched across the heav
ems. Children slept in what might be their
last repose False dawn came dim around
them. The pale grass cleaned. And Captain
Silard gave the word to halt.
The double lines of wagons drew into their
accustomed oval, each pair of fore wheels
locked against the hind ones ahead. The oxen
we're unhitched and tied inside across the gaps
between the wagons, their outward sides
covered by every conceivable shield their
anxious owners could manage to hang on
them Patiently the tired animals stood their
very bodies a part of the close bulWark of
protection against the unseen enemy.
Trunks we're hauled out and placed be
meath the wagons. small openings left between
them. Tables that served as tail-boards were
unhinged and set up against the inside wheels.
Before the short dark came again, Captain
Evening star., 1936-03-08

Silard had under his command fairly i'm
pregnable fort manned by men and women
whose courage was their greatest asset. He
walked about among them, giving word of
approval here, of advice there, and his face
was calm behind its thick brown beard His
only sign of suffering was the pale lips that
had always been so red.
Another man walked, too. among his people,
talking as he walked. This was the Reverend
Asa Harple, his Book open in his hand He
could not see to read its worn old print, but
he knew its contents almost word for word,
and now he called aloud to all with rare
perception of the common need. 1t was not of
good works that he spoke. nor of service in
the Lords temple, nor of the letter of the law.
Rather he spoke of mans love for his fellow
man. of the strong arm of the righteous, and
of that other life to which they might all be
called so soon.
Come We! Come We! Come ye!' called the
preacher in his deep voice that was like the
bells of churches back in the ordered country
they had left Come unto the Lord. Search
your hearts. my brethren.
Lay your souls open to His light. Let US
make our peace with God. Where you lie
with weapons ready is as good an altar as any.
Pray as you load. If any hold a grudge