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Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-27
OH So./
says
FRANZ WAIANABE
by Ed HOLDEN
by Ed Holds N
FOOLISH

FOOLISH
1t are very too interesting to
study how many ways human
ity have discovered to be fool
ish. l can counting 81 ways 1
was foolish in past four months
;. goodness me how them New
Year Resolution have collapse!
1 are still throwing golf bats
when a bum shot making
still feel like throwing bottles
at Umpire because he make my
favorite Baseballer striking out
still thinking that elections
will changing anything. And 1
notice that many fellows are
still thinking that Whiskey and
Gasoline mix good. U. S. are
still purchasing pork from Po-
land and American pig farmers
are still upon relief.
Goodness me.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-27
Everyday Philosophy
SPEAKING OF FISH
HAROLD Z. DOTY
Pastor, First Baptist Church
Columnist for This Week

We notice that Philosopher Zinn is rejoicing in the
prospect of getting channel catfish planted in local
streams We are wondering just why the preachers of
the community have not had chance to put their names
that petition For of suspect that there is
no finer time place for deep and fruitful meditation
than by the side of stream with the cork bobng lazy
and the pole stuck deep in the muddy bank
What need in this age of speed is rest. Most
of too fast to think and really enjoy rest Resting
is thinking and thinking permits to compose our
philosophy of life.
A fisherman is a philosopher. Not all philosophers
fish, but insist that all fishermen philosophers
They must exercise patience and optimism They must
believe that the best ish) is yet to come and stand
the principle that history repeats itself 1t is grave
question these days whether need more philosophers
fishrmen We may be pardoned if we lean
little toward the fishermen.
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me as having the best time of any
pair. living jointly by their pen.
Overnight they may decide. say,
Australia would be dandy fun and
next morning they go up the gang
plank and away.
NJ was waving a figurative shilla-
lab again today about my clinging
to that disreputable house robe that
would despoil a rag bag A bargain
from the Burlington Arcade in %
Zebra striped. enormous patch pock-
cts, Coster buttons and shawl col
lar. shall resist abandonment to
the last cuff. In London that year
we saw the first time the comedians
Clark and Mccullough. In a revue
called "Chuckles" that was idiotie-
ally superb. It presage their first
hit few months later on Broadway
Clark was the first person I ever
heard called another a "twirp.'
90
Yesterday, en- passant. I decided
to drop in or rather up to Lowell
Thomas's 4lst floor salon In Radio
City to pay respects without ap-
pointment. My quest had some
thing of the humor of Leon Erroll's
wander for his train at the unfinish-
ed Grand Central in that scene in
the Follies. Biggities I'm the spire
are unlisted in the directory and the
doors are without names. After
several fumbling peekins I retreat
ed in confusion followed by a gent
with a derby and jutting jaw.
l asked a haberdasher about a
neckwear style l like-the stock He
has but a few customers for them.
All of the Long Island horsey set
wear them with their riding get
ups. Fulton Oursler and Grace
Perkins, married writing folk, strike
A Singer in that story chatter
writer's are peddling. Mrs. Harrison
Williams, celebrated for costumes,
took roup to Mexico City as guests.
One couple didn't like the hotel. took
a suite at another and departing
sent to the bill to their host. Right
ly she refused to pay. Grandma
had name for that type-"do-
less" Charles and Kathleen Norris
have rounded in at the Chatham by
motor from Palo Alto. Somerset
Vaughan recently acted as guide to
show Lady Mendle the Acropolis.
She gazed enraptured, then sudden
ly explained: Beige, my fayorite
color!"
was chirked by Richard lie Gal
lienne's sentimentality for the rue
Mouffetard in his From a Paris
Garret." One of the lost alleys, the
width of taxi, back of the Pan
theon. Jousty with commerce that
deals almost solely in sous. Smelly,
gray and dismal with pot-au-feu
poverty. Yet expressing the surpris-
ing charm of the mendicant who
suddenly reveals himself the lyric
poet. Villon loved Mouffetard.
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Mans Heart Skips
Beats-Due To Gas

w. L. Adams was bloated so with
gas that his heart often missed
beats after eating. Adlerika rid
him of all gas, and now he eats
anything and feels fine. Clements
Drug Store.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-27
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
d. q y
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, April 27.-In the
manner of Arnold Benefits journal:
An esteemed fellow litterateur, out
of Manhattans plushy alcoyes,
writes me vividly of his reactions to
what he calls HoliyWood's perpetual
Halloween party. He departed from
there overnight with all yestigeS of
sanity gone.
He admits it was his initial visit
and that Gene Fowler publicly de-
nounced him as one of the pleasure
mad Worldlings who give the cinema
capital a bad name. But he points
with scorn to certain dizziness that
has affected a civilization turned,
he declares, suddenly jimcrack.
There are, for instance, Nunnally
are blue suede. That Joel Sayre
has just taken his six-year- -old
daughter into old Mexico in hope
of a ringside at a revolution. And
that William Faulkner has develop
ed sudden passion for going on
pig shoots.
Also there is Frederic March who
has gone precious and talks Proust
between scenes and there's a dish
called Hard Boiled Eggs Gloria
Swanson. Furthermore he swears
the balcony in a scene ready to be
shot appeared rs feet off ground.
He suspects they are going to shout
Wherefore art thou?' from fire
ladders.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-27
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
ApriI 27. 1921

Fire of undetermined origin at
an early hour this morning threat
ened for a time the destruction of
the big agricultural implement
house of the II. p. Fites company
at 425 Main street.
The Imperial County Y.W.C.A.
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CONTEST OF PROBATE OF
WIFI

CONTEST OF PROBATE OF
WILL
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
In the Matter of the Estate OF
JACOB E. BRANDENBURG,
Deceased.
LAURENCE CURLETT,
Contestant
All heirs of Jacob E. Branden-
burg, Deceased, and All persons
interested in the Will of said
Decedent,
Respondents
CITATION
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA TO JAMES ia
COB CURLETT, ANNIE BRAN
DENBURG and GEORGE BRAN
DENBURG, to ALL PERSONS IN
TERESTED IN THE WILL OF
JACOB E. BRANDENBURG, DE-
CEASED, AND TO ALL OTHER
HEIRS INCLUDING MINORS AND
iNSSnhI T. CJN 10, Wf1EftE EfC ftEi-
SIDING, GREETINGS:
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED
that Laurence Curlett, Nephew of
said Jacob E. Brandenburg, Deceas-
ed, has filed herein written grounds
of opposition to the probate of
document, heretofore received here
in as the last will and testament of
said Jacob E. Brandenburg, deceas-
ed.
YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND
DIRECTED to appear before said
Court and plead to said written
grounds of opposition and contest
in accordance with the provisions
of Section $40 of the Probate Code
Of the State of California, within
thirty (3O days after service of this
Citation.
WITNESS. the Hon. v. N. Thomp-
son, Judg of the Superior Court
OF the State of California, In and
for the County of Imperial with
the seal of the Court affixed, the
9th day of February. 1886.
EDWARD H. LAW,
tSEAIO Clerk.
BY G. w. HINDERKS,
Deputy.
Mo 10 % 30-A6 13 20 27
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e-Minute Test Answers

/. Gorillas. chimpanzees. gibbons
and orang -outangs.
?. Turkish straits connecting the
Aegean sea and the Sea of Mar
mara.
3. On the right. or west, bank
of the Mississippi.
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BAG
One-Minute Test

One-Minute Test
/. Name the four orders of an
thropoid apes.
?. What territory is known as
the Dardanelles2
3. On which bank of the Mis-
sissippi river is st. Louis. Mo, Sit
uated?
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Intend To Wed-Gervacio Borun-
do, %, and Carmen Estrada, %. re-
Gently filed notice of intention to
wed. The young people are resi-
dents of Calipatria.
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Hints on etiquette

There is no rule of etiquette
against calling on new neighbors.
However. the friendly gesture
should be made only after you are
sure the family is settled in its
new quarters.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-27
Today's Horoscope

Persons born on this day are apt
to make sudden and unexpected
changes in employment and gen.
orally succeed in the new one.
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the other mans troubles affect them,
thy will have advanced a long way to-
ward true democracy.
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In a postscript re adds: Don't
let anybody tell you about the quiet
elegance of all Hollywood parties or
how no film player ever steps out
any more. They don't when shoot
ing scenes but when they let go a
few could show many of us thing
or two even in Jack Bleek's Herald
Tribune bar" Then he tells of just
returning from a party that ran 30
hours straight and some of the de-
tails he doesn't care to set down
on his chaste Corona. But one gath
ers it combined all the salient fea-
lures of the Beaux Arts Ball, Har-
lem drag, Guy FaWkes day at Leon
and Eddie's and Armistice Day in
a madhouse. There were oyertones,
too, of Race Night at New London,
Cynthia Whites Webster Hall Pr
ate Rout and the Fall of the Alamo.
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Words of Wisdom

The first years of man must
make provision for the last.-John-
son.
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Looking Backward
What The Press Files Tell of Imperial Valley This
Date in Past Years

Is now preparing for its 1921 sum-
mer camp. 1t Is not decided
whether it will be held at Hipass
or Live Oaks.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-27
TEN YEARS AGO
April 81, 1926

Mexicali's city council has au-
thorized the construction of a $5O,-
600 municipal theatre, according to
an announcement made by Mayor
Alfonso Valencia
Bill O'Brien constable at BraW-
ley had announced himself a cam
didate for reelection. Bill has a
host of friends throughout the val
ley. He has made an efficient
constable and has given much of
his time to police duties in addi-
Il onto civil matters brought be-
fore him.
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How To MANAGE OuR PoLrrioa, LIVES
BY
Col. ARTHUR w. LlTTL=

have invited my support or coopera-
ton.
l tell you of these things because
they concern you very closely. They
moan relatively but littie to me per
sonally, Tor fifteen yeses my friend
ship with your group has been recog-
nized repeatedly at election time.
There is prejudice against your group.
Sometimes, u9der my suggestions, you
have accomplished things politically.
To those who harbor class or racial
prejudice my influence is hardly a
thing to be encouraged-my reputa-
ton is not a thing to be built up.
Do you Ee@in TO 500 the point?
Now I,oYer,hcr Bird hagins to loom
in all is alarming significance.
Tie Republican parry unGer Lincoln
came mo being rs the champion OF
flman rights. E.e are on the defen-
s.ve today. however. charged by our
Glvcrsaries as having G%egenerated into
being II Pay chiefly concerned in
National affairs with the champion
shin OF pro erty r.. s..
That accusation is untrue and
therefore Unfair.
Throughout the twelve years of Re
publican rule since the War, however,
the Republican party has made some
very serious errors-some of them
shameful errors.
No admission of these errors was
ever made to the public by any
official of the Party, however, and
so | repeat what l have said eonsis-
tently for the past two years, all over
the country, our defeats of 1930-'32
and "a were neither undeseryed nor
unexpected.
Our failure to confess took away
u right to expect 70 siyeness took
away the faith of six million Republi-
cans. OF that six million the eolored
group constituted about one half.
For many months political analysts
have been saying that to win in 1896
the Republican party would have to
%recapture the coloreG vote.
About May 1st of this year one OF
the most important members of the
National Committee (no, neither Mr.
Hilles nor Mr.. Howard) talked with
me about the colored vote.
The gentleman admitted the impor,
lance of the colored vote to victory
and he even went so far as to suggest
the possibility of my being the key to
the problem. Then he said
Colonel Little, for the sake Of
getting along in our conference, let us
assume that you are-the key. Now
we must bear in mind that under the
Roosevelt administration the colored
people have been getting plenty Of
pork chops and getting them regularly
Now, how would you so about getting
them back into the Republican party
What would and could you offer then
better than the pork chops they arr
now enjoying?'
l stared at the National Committee
man; and was silent so long that h
repeated his question.
Then I said Mr.. Blank, you ar
not going to be able to understand m.
response to your question. You vii
probably just write me down as
crank. Ny feeling of respect and Cd
miration for the eolored group, AM
Of affection for many Of the indiyid
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To the Colored Group of America,
Greetings:
In my address TO you of last week
or my report as | chose to call
it sketcheo, as briefly as / could
consistent Wit my desire to let you
know as much as l known general,
of the e. ante If the past two and Il
quarter year covering political phases
of my relationship with the colored
group.
This "Par Two" is designed to
paint the picture of the relationship
between the two leading parties and
the "Colored Voters of America
from the days of the Hoover campaign
of 1923, through tho Hoover campaign
of 1882, and since then up to this date
the campaign of 1896.
We may summarize: In 1923 Mr..
Hoover won by about six million
plurality. The colored group was
pith him.
In 1882 Mr.. Hoover lost by about
six million plurality. The colored
group was against him.
In 1896 the eolored group has not
yet taken as L..
And for the 1896 campaign, up to
October 20, l ,dyise you to follow the
pleading of Captain Sigsby, of the
battleship klAINE fame, after his
ship had been ink in the harbor of
Havana, Cuba, and-"Suspend judg-
ment."
l have already referred to my book
FROM HARLEM TO THE RHINE.
l have sent hundreds of copies to your
leaders in religion, education, fra
ternalism and politics.
1t is my hope to be able, through
cooperation with the colored press,
and the circulating and reference Ii
braries of the country, to make avail
able to you all the record of your
brothermen who volunteered to serve,
and who did serve, in the World War,
II make the world safe for Democ-
racy."
BY that process l hope to succeed,
also, in introducing myself to you
or to those of you with whom l am
unhappily unacquainted. As our
lawyer friends would say I am going
through the process of qualifying my
self a witness.
Many white newspapers of great
circulation, during the past two years,
were fairly consistent in ignoring my
speeches as a Republican.
My speeches have been quoted from,
however, without quotation marks, in
editorials and in other mems speeches.
My phrases have become Of common
campaign usage-without quotation
marks.
My candidacy for a place on the
National ticket was, in the white
press, for the most part ignored. BY
some, it was ridiculed, upon the
grounds that I was not nationally
known. I feel, with Confucius, II am
not concerned that I am not known
] seek to be worthy to be known"
All the work I have done IL poll.
ties during the past two years, and
more, has been done in the effort tc
help preserve the Republic. At Least
ten of the active or receptive eandi
dates for the COP. nomination, per.
soaally or through representatives
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to give me any further consideration
in this proposal-because, ] tell you
frankly, that l should never be willing
to approach my friends of the Colored
Group on any such basis"
At Cleveland, Ohio, on the 9th of
June, the Republican National Con-
v%ention was called to order.
For the better part of the week
preceding the National Committee
had sat in consideration of the respec-
tive claims of eontesting delegations.
A number of judgments gave dissat-
isfaction to the colored group as
sembled.
Your group was impressively and
eourageously represented in Cleveland
by a splendid and capable assemblage
of leaders.
The Committee on Credentials-in.
Guiding in its membership DR.. Leroy
Buady, Roscoe Conklin Simmons and
I believe, Robert r. Chureh-reYerseC
a number of decisions of the Nationa
Committee in the delegation contests
At least two large and determined
mass meetings of protest over tn
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What of the Two Major Parties?
The Shame of "Pork Chops"
No More Slavery.
Lac sEcc:.o ca FoUR LETTERS

original and appealed decisions of the
delegate contests, presided owe by
Dir. Bundy, undoubtedly had a lot to
do with the appointment of such a
strong colored representation on the
Committee on Credentials.
Undoubtedly, also, the demonstra-
ton of colored organizing strength
had a lot to do with the breakdown
of the Old Guard solid front in the
%reoTganized National Committee.
The primary fight records of Ohio,
Illinois and New York. indicating
the ability of the colored group to
combine in opposition to Senator
Borah, played its part in putting the
rulers of the convention in a frame of
lind to placate the colored delegates.
! i so-apparently with concessions
to Ne colored group exceeding any-
thins known in recent years, with
harmony and patriotic feryor in the
air, the convention came TO order.
And now, my friends of the Coiored
Group of America, here's what l want
to talk to you about-seriously.
The speakers at the Republican
Convention mace much of tie usurpa-
ton of power by President Roosevelt
and his aides and rightly did they
do so. Constant and proper denuncia-
ton was aimed at Congressman for
yielding their rights and duties, as
direct representatives OF the citizens Of
their districts, yielding them to the
orders or sinister influences of a Presi-
dent and his Cabinet members with
d%ictatorial leanings.
Viewed in the light of what hap
pened-how consistent were those dele
gates who made those speeches?
Speakers made much of the subtle
as well as the cTdGe Gisaolcssies &C
the party in power and its officials of
many ranks.
But these same sneakers failed to
acknowledge and ask forgiveness for
comparable lapses from TIE STRAIGHT
and narrow" of our own former OH
Gals high in the seats of power.
Tea Pot Dome was out of sight as
completely as if all of its skeletons
had been buried at the bottom of one
of its oil wells.
Tax outrages were freely con
demned Tax dodgers were not ever
referred to.
These errors of omission and com
mission will not be overlooked during
the campaign by the Tammany can
didate.
Now, my friends, make no mistake
about this. My criticisms are not the
criticisms of -captiousness, nor of per
sonal disappointment. They are the
same criticisms and suggestions, and
even pleadings, that I have been max.
ing for almost two years. And "un.
known as I am those speeches were
delivered before State Legislatures
innumerable Rotary Clubs, veterans
groups, fraternal organizations, Young
Republicans and Farmers Union con
v~entions.
Our country is in a terrible plight
today.
President Roosevelt, who depends s,
much upon emotionalism and senti
mental expression for his self aggran
dizement, has played upon you n o
the dirtiest political tricks In all his
AtOry.
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MRS. SCHUYLER
SAYS
Starvation Through Ignorance

Starvation Through Ignorance
Scarcely a day passes that some
very prominent person does not
die. The amazing thing about this
Is that so many are just middle
aged or younger. They have reach
ed the top Of their profession and
so have evedything to live for, yet
they make their exit. The loss of
prominent middle-aged folk is par
ticularly hard on an impoverished
minority group. For it has taken
such a tremendous sacrifice and
struggle for them to reach the top
and it's all over in a day. This
represents. a1(sng other thinli,
great economic waste.
Food Faddism Paved
Way TO Biochenistry
Not so long ago anyone who did
net eat the traditional meat-bread-
and-potato diet of the average
American was promptly labeled a
food faddist' and dismissed as
slightly off. But science which had
investigated every other angle of
human life could not continue to
ignore the very obvious connection
between diet and disease. Long af-
ter the libeled food faddist had
discovered that whole grains and
raw salads gave one a pronounced
feeling of health, the food chemists
came along and by extensive ami
NAL experimentation, proved that
prolonged storage, refinement or
heating changed the chemistry of
food and modified or entirely de-
stroyed it's value to the human
body. Food that has been thus pro-
cessed cannot support the body
in health. Sherman of Columbia
called a diet of correctly proper
toned, vitalized fobd, a protective
diet because a properly nourished
body is the best protection against
disease.
Many Schools of Diet
The food faddist tried many diff
ferent kinds of diet. They went all
the way from the McFadden delft
cation of whole wheat, (which at
one time was believed to cure all
ills)' to the milk slippers, spinach
applers to the present-day health
cocktail addicts. Each cult, posi-
tive of it's own superiority, scream
ed abuse at the others. The Veget-
arians dragging in ethics to sup
port their theory, saw a direct con-
nection between meatless menus
and spirituality. While the naugh-
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thy meat-eaters yer profoundly
contemptous of the moral vegeta-
tors. The average citizen, seeing
so much contradiction, stuck to his
meat : bread-and potatoes though
perhaps not with profit. For al
though these cults have all been
wrong in specific ideas, in general
they were travelling in the right
direction. They were, at least, on
the scent of a mbmentous discov-
cry. Every scientific authority now
gives biochemistry credit for MAX
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would die of acidosis, and not go
to heaven either, because God never
meant us to eat our broher ami
mails. l once talked to a righteous
leader of a meatless flock in Los
Angeles, who became indignant
when I pointed out that a Hindu
scientist had discovered plants al
so fool pain and hence that the
tender-hearted garden addicts were
undoubtedly causing much sorrow
in the Vegetable Kingdom.
Most people will call themselves
vegetarians are not that at all.
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uais was born and developed In com
radeship on the battlefields of France.
| have lain in shell holes with them,
seeking shelter from enemy gun fire.
| have had them drink out of my
canteen. l have drunk out of their
canteens. l have been splattered with
the blood of a comrade, shot beside
me. l have closed the eyes of anothsr
eomrade, in death. l have received
the sacred messages for wives and
mothers and sisters, from heroes who
were dying.
Il have associated with colored men
and women for fifteen years in com
munity work, for good citizenship, in
welfare work, and in church WORK.
i cannot bring myself to believe
that they appraise their great rights
of American citizenship in terms of
PORK CHOPS. And, if the great
party of Abraham Lincoln has brought
itsc'f to the pass of v%aluing the Col
ored Group of America, in such =
light, then, I'm going to ask you no
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Republican generals are optimistic in public-but insiders
say that all isn't cheer and laughter when they meet in private
The party has just emerged from the leanest three years in
its history. It's local organizations are in almost incredibly bad
shape in many states, and they can't be built up to the desired
level in the few months remaining before November. And the
Democratic machine never funetioned more smoothly ard eff
fciently than it is now functoning.
On top of that, recent polls-such as the Institute of Public
Opinion 's-show that Landon sentiment-whch reached its
peak at convention time-is weakening, that Roosevelt is lead
ing and is tending to slowly increase his lead.
Reports say oval Street betting odds are l%engthening
IN favor OF Roosevelt.