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Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
The Republican Viewpoint
EDITED BY
The Republican County Central
Committee

There has been some question raised con-
cerning where Governor Alfred NJ. Laha9h
stands upon the matter of education. Ihe
truth IS teachers and pupils IN ne puphc Schools
have real friend in Alf Landon.
Ii has been said that many schools were
closed in Kansas under his governorshlp. mat
carries wholly false impression. Under Gov
ernor Landon pupils in rural kansas ScnoolS
were taken from small schools of few taclllties
and placed in larger institutions where educa-
tional advantages were vastly superior The
schools were actually consolidated.
Under Governor Landon the conditions were
improved for the teachers The teachers re-
csive in salaries a greater amount OF the money
appropriated than they did before his aomlh-
iStration And. speaking OF the school budget
it should be borne in mind that Governor Ian
don has no more TO say about increasing or ae-
creasing the school budget than Governor Mer-
ram has IN our state.
However through legislation passed during
Governor Landons term. all schools are operated
more economically than before. as the Smallst
schools were combined. BY thus cutting the cost
of overhead in th,. schools it was possible TO
devote more Of the school budget to teachers
The result of this was that Kansas teachers
salaries represented more than 81 per cent OF
the school budget in 1885, whereas in 1857
teachers salaries represented less than oS per
cent.
In Kansas the teachers salaries were higher
in 1885 than they were in 1884, although ths
school levy in 1885 was 1882 per cent as against
4400 per cent IN lSof. dC-OAOAIlS " U-AO Wv
sion of audits and accounts Of the state OF
Kansas.
One outstanding Illustration OF Governor
Landons friendship for the teachers and the
public schools which he, himself, attended,
was his successful fight against Governor Harry
Woodring's amendment which would have cut
radically the levy for the schools.
Governor Landon also clsarly demonstrated
his friendship for the schools when he backed
the passage of the ReeS cooperative school
laws which equip weak districts to cooperate
in the education of children.
It should be remembered that not only has
no child been denied school privileges during
the extremely trying rural conditions which
have attended the depression but that school
facilities have actually improved under Cover
nor Landon.
close study of school conditions in Kansas
has been made because Of the loose statements
made by Roosevelt propagandlstS concerning
this matter in their endeavorS to discredlt the
Kansas Governor who, we are convinced Will
be the next president OF the United States.
We have no hesitation, with most compete
knowledge of the facts, in saying that Governor
Landon has done an extremely important work
in improving the structure of education in Kan
California educators who know the facts
must bear us out in these statements, and Cali
fornia parents who have taken the trouble to
learn of Governor Landon's attitude toward the
schools will share in this opinion.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
TEN YEARS AGO
October 7, 1926

Gridiron hopefuls being developed
by Coach r. M Armstrong will take
the field this afternoon for the first
game of the season. Their op-
ponents will be San Diego high
Junior Varsity.
Following is the roster of the
Central team
Centers, Poole and Hamilton;
guards, Devore, Flanagan and smith,
tackles, HickoX, Spence, Reed and
Callahan; ends, Valusek, Rinkleio
Schiltz and Hunt; quarterbacks,
Foss and Gillett; halfbacks, Byrd
Shawn, Dearborn, Nash; fulloacks,
Peters and Obergfelle.
Police are searching for the per-
son or persons who have been
poisoning dogs in El Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08

NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-Getting a
thin sheaf of new bills at bank
this morning tapped a favorite
musing that the sight of fresh,
clean money always inspires. What
will be its destiny? It's likely the
idea is to toss-back to that classic
of the grade school: The Auto
biography of a Penny
A $50 bill may. send some one to
a hospital, beaten up by thugs. 1t
may spread much happiness and, of
course, corresponding sorrow. 1t
may leave your wallet and in few
months. a soiled thing, be passed
across the bar of a Singapore dive.
1t may. launch a new life.
If some fellow in church tosses
crumpled bill on the plate 1 be-
gin to ruminate on where it has
been. And grow so unspiritlal as
to imagine, as it is tenderly car
ried toward the altar for benedic-
ton, many unchurchly ventures it
may have undergone.
Some time or other it may have
been encased in a perfumed silk
stocking in the form of a reward
for having smiled at some lascivious
old buzzard over cocktails. 1t may
have been part payment for mur-
der. Certainly nothing is truer than
money is the root of all evil.
90
Art so often pays discouragi:lg
dividends along with the pleasant
A fellow on one of the papers is
paid S100 week for doing thumb
nail sketches for a sports page
daily. The other day 1 bumped in
to a lad toting a.bundle of drawings
around to editors. He had landed
one sketch with a weekly in Phila
delphia after two years of trying
but the sale showed loss. He hao
spent S35 for postage and $40 for q
trip to see the lady editor Of the
funny page. gL
! TO
1t was foggy on the Drive this
morning and such weather COO
and muffled-gives dampish souls &
sudden spring. Liverpool weather
I call it. After such a summer
many Of US long to be where it is
splitting snow-to feel those icv lit
tie dots flick the cheeks. Or to
stroll mid the MOSES and ferns oi
a sunless glade. Say a ramble or
the centuries Of dead leaves that
carpet that heayily powered stretch
of Fontainbleau. a soggy stretch the
sun never reaches.
-.LOO-
Our housekeeper's 17-year- ole
son, Robert, an Unusually fine lad
made his first trip from home alone
recently, a bus journey to Augusta
Maine. His thrifty French mother
went with him to purchase his
tickets a few days before the high
adventure. Walking from the win
dow, he suddenly squeezed her arm
and gurgled ecstatically: Nothing
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
120-lb. Woman Gives
Burglar Knockout

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 8.
QU.P) - Mrs. Catherine Crutcher,
weight 100. kayoed unidentified
burglar, weight 1870, who thought
he would take her waffle iron.
Blows passed: Two-Mrs. Crutch-
er's right hit the 18O-pounder's
jaw, he hit the floor The would
be thief still was too dazed TO
give his name. Mrs. Crutcher would
not prosecute. Il settled the case
in the hallway" said she.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08

can happen now, Mother, for have
my tickets" OF course, nothing
happened. How could anything
happen to the sublimity of such
faith?
Roberts bus left at midnight. His
first trip He could eat only few
scattery bites for dinner. So eager
was he to be off he was at the de-
pot at 10. And next morning the
mother murmured bit trembulous-
ly something like this: Should I
never see him again, I would be
comforted always by the glow of
happiness that lighted his face as
the bus with lurch numbered off
into night" What many of us would
give to recapture the thrill of that
first trip alonel.
Midtown bus depots lollop with
feverish activities, somewhat like
a jumpy neWs-reel, at midnight
The clearance hour at most termin-
als-especially for long Journeys.
ollC vi lilC Siil cii NAi
gagingly pert Bette Davis looking
sprite, arrived in pinky pajamas.
The informality is marked in con-
trast to train travel. Seat neighbors
begin to talk at once. Comfortable
established folk with homes and
jobs to go to. People with the
Oriental indifference to time. Peo-
pie who are not clawing for some
Walloping idea to change the world.
90
OF all the rich, beautiful Ameri-
can heiresses, Doris Duke seems to
take 10 the role most becoming
ly. A tall, marbly blonde, she con-
trolls one of the largest fortunes
She likes athletics without stress
ing a booming outdoorsiness. And
she Stunned all the European hand
kissing exquisites to marry an
American boy. Girls in her position
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. g. WP)-
Wallace Smith, stocky screen scrib-
bier currently taking bows for Gay
Desperado," is worrying himself TO
a shadow because he can't under
stand the sign language" OF pic
ture making.
i've been trying for seven years
to figure it out" he complained,
land still everybody seems to get
it but me- AS far as I'm concerned
it's still just double talk. 1t goes
like this:
We're all sitting around table
in a story conference, see, when the
main guy gets up and says some
thing like this Gentlemen, we
have here six substantial characters
but no plot. Our problem is to ar
rive at plot through characterize
ton
Nov what do you suppose that
means? It's was over my head, but
everybody else mods, so I let it CO.
not wanting to appear stupid.
Then the feller continues: First,
let us consider the character An
derson." Are you all thinking An
derson?" Good. 1t seems to me
he should be like this'-and the
guy makes pointed gestures with
both hands.
ME" said Smith, "I don't savvy,
but another guy gets up and says
No. decidedly, I thing he should
have more of this'-and snaps his
fingers.
No gentelment,' says another
I thing we'd be wrong there. We
mustn't let Anderson be too much
like this and he waves his arms
upwards in sweeping movements.
Il still don't know what we're
talking about" said Smith, but
at this point the main guy usually
says: We'll, this much is certain
that this story has many ramnifi-
cations which will have to be
thought out Then we all go to
lunch.
That ramnifications gag is the
only one I know 1t means the script
is lousy and we're going to throw
it away and start over again"
"Well, that sounds like story in
itself. Why don't you write it?'
someone asked Smith.
"Too late" rejoined the scenarist.
i've just finished it."
Seems Smith has done Holly
wood play which may appear on
Prna IuaV this winter
Lilly Pons and hev musical director
fiance, Andre Kostelanetz, are max
ing a scrapbook to end all scrap
books. Daily Pons airmails strips
of film from the rushes to Kost-
elanetz in New York, and each
weekend he flies back to Holly
wood with them where they paste
the slips in book together.
Miriam Hopkins will sail from
England on the Queen Mary" Oct
IA, she advised her studio by trans
atlantic telephone Hopkins has
just finished picture for Alexander
Korda. She goes into 1.-The Wo-
mans Touch" here about Nov. l.
90
Polo-playing James Gleason has
Hollywood puzzling about that new
rundown liniment" he says he has
| invented. Gleason solemnly Swears
it will revolutionize the ache and
pain business, and has convinced
Big Boy Williams, Jack Holt and
zasu Pitts. But, on the other hand,
there are those who say the Glea-
son panacea is pain, ordinary horse
liniment, ana that the whole thing
is an elaborate rib.
-OO-
Among those inventors is Skater
Sonia Henie, who has designed a
new style figure skate, shorter than
her foot and much lower than the
ordinary blade. Henie pronounced
them a success after a workout
on Fox ice. She explains her turns
and curley-cues will have to be
| snznzHn
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
Imperial Valley Press

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Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
TWENTY YEARS AGO
October 7. 1916

w. E. Seig, who is about to har-
vest his cotton in this locality, an
nounced that he expects to harvest
at least three bales to the acre from
his so acre tract.
Mrs. Alice Richardson and her
sister, Mrs. c. T. Newman OF Los
Angeles, are guests of Mrs. Riley
of the Princes hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
HAPPY RELIEF
FROM PAINFULe
BACkACHE
Caused by Tired Kidneyc

Many of those .gnawing, nagging, painful
are often caused by tired kidneys-and may
be relieved when treated in the right way.
The kidneys are Natures chief way of taking
excess acids and poisonous waste out Of the
blood. Most people pass about pints day or
about pounds of waste.
II the Is miles of kidney tubes and filters
don't work well, poisonous waste matter stays
in the blood. These poisons may start nagging
backaches, rheumatic pains. lumbago, leg pains.
ling. pufiness under the eyes, headaches and
dizziness.
Don't waitl Ask your druggist for Doan's
Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40
years. They give happy relief and will help the
Is miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous
waste from the blood. Get Doan's Pills.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
No More Moths!

A cheap, easy and entirely effect
i've way to protect your clothing
blankets, furs. etc, from destructived
moth pests is to sprinkle yourN
clothes. closets and chests literally
with BlHACH.
BUHACH is sure death to insect
pests. But it's guaranteed safe for
human beings and pets, and it pos
itively won't injure your garments,
Leaves no disagreeable telltale odor
best protection against moths that
you have eVr tried In Handy SITTER
Cans lbs up at all Drug, Grocery,
Seed stores and Pet shops. adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08

kind words about crop insurance in time to
beat Landon TO il.
Al Smith hired radio time for his first
speech. Republicans say, only TO learn subse-
ouently that Roosevelt would have the same
period on another hookupZas if in an effort
to take AIS customers away
Finally there was Secretary Morgenthau's
effort TO make it appear that he had blocked
a Russian raid against the new Franco-British-
American currency stabilization agreement
which many others besides Republicans tend
TO regard as absurd-to combat the Red"
charges. asaa44..
All these things, according-to some Repub-
Icon strategists will tend to convince the voters
that Roosevelt Is just little bit too slick, as
compared with that honest, simple exponent
of old fashioned Amercanism, ALI Landon"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre
ByWHfioms

at this moment in the worlds his
tory can do much to aid the earn
est citizens working for a solution
Of that formidable problem called
Social Unrest. 1t takes only caper
or so by a foolish heiress to throw
the whole machinery out of gear.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08

Cutting room scraps: Storm warn
ings chased the Captains Coura-
geous" company in to Catalina .
Mr.. and Mrs. Fedro de Cordova
are parents of girl, their fifth
child . . George Rats next will
probably be Caviar for His Ex-
cellency" . c. Aileen Pringle signed
with B. P. Schulberg -. Lewis
Stone sailed for the Galapagos on
vacation in his schooner Serena"
Spanky Mcfarland celebrated
his eighth birthday
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
One.Minute Test Answers

/. A cup presented by Dwight
F. Davis in 1900 and competed for
annually by tennis teams repre-
senting contesting nations. Win
ners retain the cup for one year.
q No.
3. National Scout commissioner
of the Boy Scouts of America.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
Strolls Thru Hollywood

sharper fer film closbups than
standard skates allow.
DO
"Retribution" for his celluloid
"misdeeds' caught up with John
Milan, western heavy. First he
got shot in the check at close range
with a blank cartridge wad, then
he fell off his horse and was gallop-
ed over by a cavalcade of film out
laws. He wasn't hurt.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell Of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
THIRTY YEARS AGO
October 7, 1896

Mrs. w. D. Carey and little
daughter returned home from their
summer outing W. d. met them
at Old Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Cannon are
visiting in Los Angeles.
Leroy Holt and family returned
to Imperial after an extended stay
in Los Angeles and the east.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
Chew, Sing or Laugh
without "Denture Static :

fortably by FASTEETH for "a
hours every day don't reveal the
fact that you wear false teeth. No
betraying denture static from loose
plates. mumbling, kissing, lisping.
clicking or popping out. FAS-
TEETH. the new improved powder,
is alkaline to prevent sore gums,
burning. bad breath. Tasteless.
Not gummy. Get FASTEETH at
any drug store. When mouth It's
sues change, see your dentist. adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
Hints on Etiquette

A man or boy should never use
colored stationery, and it should be
Of a large size than that usually
used by women.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
Tadays ; Horoscope

Persons born on this day have
marked idealistic tendencies and
are very loving and true.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
Words of Wisdom

A great man is made up Of quail
tiles that meet or make great oc-
asions.-LoWell.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
BAG
One Minute Test

!. What is the Davis cup?
2. Is any president buried west
of the Mississippi river?
3. Who is Dan Beard?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08
The Democratic Viewpoint
EDITED By 2
The Democratic County Central
Committee

Tuesday we cited the fact that the in
come of American farmers increased from S4,-
337 600 900 during the last year of Mr.. Hoover5
administration, TO S6,900000,000 in 1885 under
Mr. Roosevelt Today we want to discuss some
of the reasons why the farmer had reached
such low estate in 1888.
Every man who cultivated the soil during
the II years of the so-called Republican pros
perity which extended from 1921 to 1888 knows
that the farmers did not share in that pros
perity While stock markets were booming and
industry and finance were high in the saddle
the returns of the farmer were gradually shrink
ing until at the close of the Hoover admins
tration the average farmer was hardly able to
meet his taxes and mortgage payments. Farm
holdings had Shrunk 20 billions in value and
literally thousands of farm owners We're III
rags and tatters
Why did this happen? Why were the pros
perity dollars all going to the stuffed shirts
in the offices and banks while the farmer
could hardly exc out a living?
The answer is found very largely in the
Republican tariff measure which erected 50
high a barrier in favor Of the products of the
factories that foreign countries had not the
credit with which to buy the products of Amer
ican farms
To understand this situation fully, it is
necessary to realize that for many decades the
American farmer has been producing more than
the American market would consume. His
surpluses were sold abroad-and SO long as
there was a foreign market for his extra prod
ucts he got relatively high prices.
But foreign countries cannot buy Amer
lean sgricutual products unless they can sell
to this country some Of their manufactured
output Without expors they have no money
to pay for imports.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08

Prince Otto has waited so long to be-
come ruler of Austria he is beginning
to think he is only Per-Hapsburg.
A San Francisco sailor has lifetime
collection Of old ropes. He must have
saved all of his Christmas cigars.
o. AEl1
The viol player of the Philadelphia
symphony is transferring to the st.
Louis symphony. Maybe he can double
at first bass for the Cardinal baseball
team. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-08

Among those inventors is Skater
Sonia Henie, who has designed
new style figure skate, shorter than
her foot and much lower than the
ordinary blade. Henie pronounced
them success after a workout
on Fox ice. She explains her turns
and curley-cues will have to be
Evening star., 1936-10-23
did not result irany permanent bitter

did not result irany permanent bitter
ness.
Left to himself following his resig-
nation from the Ford company. Mr..
Couzens found management OF his
affairs together with his public ser.
vice apparently sufficient to occupy
all his energies. He had established
q bank and was q director In many
other enterprises.
Mr.. Couzens' first public ONCE was
that Of street railway commissioner
Later he became police commissioner
and then mayor Of Detroit. It was a.
street railway commissioner that he
conceived the thought Of municipal
ownership Of the city's street railway
system. and it was under his ad-
ministration as mayor that the city
finally took over the privately -owned
traction system.
Until he became police commits.
sioner. Mr.. Couzens never had been
in q police station. He even had to
ask what q handbook" was. Yet -
police commissioner, he was respon-
sible for the elimination Of organised
vice in Detroit.
When In November. 1922. after Tru-
man H. Newberry had resigned from
the Senate, MIR. Couzens was appointed
to succeed him. it was over the protest
Of Detroit civic leaders who argued
with Gov. Alex j. Groesbeck that Mr..
CouzenS value to the city as mayor
was Of paramount importance.
In the Senate he soon brought down
upon himself criticism from various
quarters by coming out for modification
Of the Volstead act. To the storm of
protest he replied with numerous
speeches advocating "old- fashioned
beer"
Then followed the controversy with
Secretary Mellon that brought sharp
words on both sides. It continued
after Mr.. Couzens was elected in 1874
to serve the full term, and probably
Evening star., 1936-10-23

making Henry Ford the most famous
industrialist in the worlds history,
for hard work had turned his hair
gray before he was 40.
An interesting phase Of the Couzens
career was written In his own flnan-
cial affaiis as they developed with
the Ford Motor Co. When Mr..
Couzens started as secretary Of the
company his salary was put at 5000
a month. After Mr.. Ford had pur-
chased the Malcomson stock. In 1906.
thus obtaining majority control. Mr..
Couzens was made q director and
treasurer to succeed Malcomson.
A few months later Mr.. Couzens
wrote Mr.. Ford asking for an increase
in salary. So
II think you are fully conversant." "
he wrote, with the amount OF Work
and responsibilities involved In my
work, and particularly during the last
year as well as the present time; also
that the compensation is not in ac-
cordance with what others IN Ike
positions In other companies are re-
ceiving. You said ! should receive
$4,000 per annum and an amount
on each car sold" He asked 30 cents
on every Model N" sold, and 50 for
every * Model" delivered.
His request was granted. A year
later the salary was increased to
SIS, 900 year. and in January. 1908.
stockholders voted to increase Ford's
and Couzens' salaries to SIS. 900 year
each. When Mr.. Couzens left the
company in 1915, following the dis
agreement with Mr.. Ford. his salary
was $l50,000 q year.
IT had disagreed with Mr.. Ford's
utterances on finance, unpreparedness
and about everything else Of late" he
was quoted as saying. II was quite
willing to work with Mr.. Ford, but
not for him."
The split, though final, seemingly